OECD/NEA Workshop on

Approaches to Estimation of the Costs of Nuclear Accidents

General documents

• Agenda
• List of participants

Presentations

Introductory session

• NEA and NDD Activities – Ron Cameron, Head of the NEA Nuclear Development Division
• NEA study on Cost of Nuclear Accidents, liability Issues and their Impact on Electricity Costs – Marco Cometto and Alexey Lokhov, NEA Nuclear Development Division

Session I: Appraisal of existing studies on the cost of TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima

• Consequences of the Three Mile Island Accident – Jack DeVine, Sellafield Ltd
• Consequences of the Accident at the Chernobyl NPP – Volodymyr Berkovskyy, Radiation Protection Institute, Ukraine
• Estimation of Accident Risk Cost of Nuclear Power Plants – Yoshihiro Nagaoki, AEC, Japan

Session II: Methodologies of estimation of costs of nuclear accidents

• The Risk of a Nuclear Accident – Pierre Picard, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Nuclear Accident Cost Assessment: ASN Approach – Jean-Christophe Niel, ASN, France
• IAEA Activities Related to the Estimations of Nuclear Accident Costs – Eric Williams, IAEA
• Considerations in Assessing Potential Cost Impacts Associated with Nuclear Accidents – Ralph Andersen, NEI, United States
• Methods and Results of Assessing Energy-related Severe Accident Risks – Stefan Hirschberg, PSI, Switzerland
• Assessment of Direct and Indirect Economic Consequences of Nuclear Accidents: Models and Case Studies – Eduardo Gallego Diaz, Universidad de Madrid, Spain
• The Cost of Nuclear Accidents – Patrick Momal and Ludivine Pascucci, IRSN, France
• Quantification of Health and Environmental Impacts of a Nuclear Accident – Thierry Schneider, CEPN, France
• Consideration of Economic Consequences within the NRC’s Regulatory Framework – Alysia Bone NRC, United States
• Aspects of Assessing Consequences of Nuclear Accidents – Vladimir Demin, NRC “Kurchatov institute”, Russian Federation

Session III: Discussion on the cost categories (direct, indirect, induced) and perspectives of their evaluation

• Cost Categorisation Suggested in the Previous OECD/NEA Study (2000) – Marco Cometto and Alexey Lokhov, NEA Nuclear Development Division

Contacts

Last reviewed: 18 June 2013