Coping with a big nuclear accident: Closing papers from the NREFS project

Ten key papers from the project were published in a special issue of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 112, Part A in December 2017.

• P.J. Thomas. Quantitative guidance on how best to respond to a big nuclear accident
• I. Waddington, P.J. Thomas, R.H. Taylor and G.J. Vaughan. J-value assessment of relocation measures following the nuclear power plant accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi
• I. Waddington, P.J. Thomas, R.H. Taylor and G.J. Vaughan. J-value assessment of remediation measures following the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accidents
• D. Yumashev, P. Johnson and P.J. Thomas. Economically optimal strategies for medium-term recovery after a major nuclear reactor accident
• S.F. Ashley, G.J. Vaughan, W.J. Nuttall and P.J. Thomas. Considerations in relation to off-site emergency procedures and response for nuclear accidents
• S.F. Ashley, G.J. Vaughan, W.J. Nuttall, P.J. Thomas and N.A. Higgins. Predicting the cost of the consequences of a large nuclear accident in the UK
• I. Waddington, R.H. Taylor, R.D. Jones and P.J. Thomas. J-value assessment of the cost effectiveness of UK sheep meat restrictions after the 1986 Chernobyl accident
• William J. Nuttall, Stephen F. Ashley and Raphael J. Heffron. Compensating for severe nuclear accidents: An expert elucidation
• P.J. Thomas. Age at death from a radiation-induced cancer based on the Marshall model for mortality period
• P.J. Thomas and I. Waddington. Validating the J-value safety assessment tool against pan-national data

Other Journal Publications

• Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Sizhe Zhang and William J. Nuttall, Strategic real option and flexibility analysis for nuclear power plants considering uncertainty in electricity demand and public acceptance, Energy Economics, 64, pp. 226-237 (2017)
• Thomas, P. J., 2016, Measuring risk-aversion: The challenge, Measurement, Volume 79, pages 285–301
• S.F. Ashley, W.J. Nuttall, and R.J. Heffron, The present status of nuclear third-party liability and nuclear insurance in Heffron R.J. and Little G.F.M. (Eds) Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and US – A Reader. Edinburgh University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-7486-9679-6 (2016)
• Raphael J. Heffron, Stephen F. Ashley and William J. Nuttall, The global nuclear liability regime post Fukushima Daiichi, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 90, July 2016, Pages 1–10 (2016)
• Thomas, P.J. and Vaughan, G. J., 2015, Testing the validity of the “value of a prevented fatality” (VPF) used to assess UK safety measures, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Vol. 94, pp. 239 – 261
• Thomas, P. J. and Vaughan, G. J., 2015, Pitfalls in the application of utility functions to the valuation of human life, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Volume 98, Pages 148–169
• Thomas, P. and Vaughan, G., 2014, Explaining Perceived Inconsistencies in “Stated Preference” Valuations of Human Life, American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, Vol. 4, No. 9, 442-473
• Malcolm Grimston, William J. Nuttall and Geoff Vaughan, The Siting of UK Nuclear Reactors, Journal of Radiation Protection, 34 (2014) R1–R24
• Collins, D., and Thomas, P., 2014, Measuring Gross Disproportion in Environmental Precaution to Establish Regulatory Expropriation and Quantum of Compensation in International Investment Arbitration, European Journal of Law and Economics, 41(3), pp. 621-639

Conference Papers

• Thomas, Philip, 2016, Socio-technical management of big nuclear accidents, 2nd International Conference on Risk Perception, Communication and Ethics of Exposures to Ionising Radiation (RICOMET 2016) , Bucharest, Romania, 1 – 3 June
• Thomas, Philip, 2014, The J-value Framework for determining best use of resources to protect humans and the environment, First International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICONS-2014), February 4-7, Kalpakkam, India – invited lecture
• W.J. Nuttall, Managing Nuclear Risk: Liability and Compensation, Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum: The Future of Nuclear Energy in the UK, 20 May 2014 – proceedings pp. 47-49 (2014)
• Thomas, P. J., 2013, The importance of risk-aversion as a measurable psychological parameter governing risk-taking behaviour, Proc. of the 2013 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium Measurement across physical and behavioural sciences, 4-6 September, Genova, Palazzo Ducale – ITALY. Journal of Physics:Conference Series 459
• Thomas, P. J., 2013, Methods for measuring risk-aversion: problems and solutions, Proc. of the 2013 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium Measurement across physical and behavioural sciences, 4-6 September, Genova, Palazzo Ducale – ITALY. Journal of Physics:Conference Series 459
• Simon French, Nikolaos Argyris, William J. Nuttall, John Moriarty, Philip J. Thomas, The Early Phase of a Radiation Accident: Revisiting Thinking on Evacuation and Exclusion Zones, Proceedings of 10th ISCRAM Conference (paper 255) (2013)

Parliamentary Presentations

On Wednesday 11th March 2015, Prof. Philip Thomas, Prof. William Nuttall, Dr Paul Johnson and Dr Ian Waddington spoke before the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy at the UK parliament.  Here are their presentations:

• Philip Thomas – Coping with a big nuclear accident
• Ian Waddington – J-value results on countermeasures after a big nuclear accident
• Paul Johnson – Applying optimal decision-making techniques to design the best counter measures
• William Nuttall – Modelling the consequences of a hypothetical large nuclear accident in the UK
• Philip Thomas – Summary and conclusions