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More evidence of disproportion, more need for Value for Money

19 April 2010

 As part of its broad experience of nuclear operation and regulation in the UK, IDM has for many years had an interest in the proportionality of regulation, particularly in the field of radioactive discharge reduction.  In particular, while regulation has always been tasked with ensuring that the cost of further reductions in discharges should not be at disproportionate cost to the detriment avoided, many worked examples tend to show that this balance is often not being achieved.

A presentation by Gregg Butler at the Nuclear Environmental Discharges Conference (NEDCON) in Harwell, makes the point that the influence of cost and cost benefit varies greatly across the range of policy and regulatory situations, and makes the case that, in these straightened times, this uncertainty in value for taxpayers money should no longer be tolerated.

 
View the Presentation as a pdf here