Health Risks of Energy Systems

Wolfram Krewitt, Fintan Hurley, Alfred Trukenmüller and Rainer Friedrich

Risk Analysis, 1998, vol. 18, issue 4, 377-383

Abstract: Health risks from fossil, renewable and nuclear reference energy systems are estimated following a detailed impact pathway approach. Using a set of appropriate air quality models and exposure‐effect functions derived from the recent epidemiological literature, a methodological framework for risk assessment has been established and consistently applied across the different energy systems, including the analysis of consequences from a major nuclear accident. A wide range of health impacts resulting from increased air pollution and ionizing radiation is quantified, and the transferability of results derived from specific power plants to a more general context is discussed.

Date: 1998
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