Workshop on Approaches to Estimation of the Costs of Nuclear Accidents

The workshop was held at the NEA Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 28-29 May 2013, and gathered nearly 30 invited experts from 10 NEA member countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom), Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Commission.

The participants, representing nuclear regulatory bodies, safety assessors, economists, radioprotection and industry communities, shared their experience regarding the consequences of nuclear accidents, with particular focus on costing aspects. The workshop was organised into the following three sessions:

Appraisal of existing studies on the cost of the accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi;
Methodologies for estimating the costs of nuclear accidents; and
Discussion on the cost categories (direct, indirect, induced) and perspectives of their evaluation.

Programme

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

Contact

NTE-Web@oecd-nea.org

When?

28 - 29 May 2013

Paris, France