HEALTH AND SAFETY: PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE SATELLITE POWER SYSTEM (SPS) AND OTHER ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
Bioeffects Seen
L.J. Habegger, J.R. Gasper, C.D. Brown · 1980
Finding
When the systems are compared directly by total quantifiable deaths per year, systems in a more advanced stage of development generally exhibit higher impact or risk levels. The usefulness of this straightforward comparison, however, is limited by the uncertainties of poorly quantified or unquantified impacts. The quantified impacts of the terrestrial photovoltaic system and the satellite power system are more uncertain than those of the coal and light water reactor systems.
In their words
“When the systems are compared directly by total quantifiable deaths per year, systems in a more advanced stage of development generally exhibit higher impact or risk levels. The usefulness of this straightforward comparison, however, is limited by the uncertainties of poorly quantified or unquantified impacts. The quantified impacts of the terrestrial photovoltaic system and the satellite power system are more uncertain than those of the coal and light water reactor systems.”
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L.J. Habegger, J.R. Gasper, C.D. Brown (1980). HEALTH AND SAFETY: PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE SATELLITE POWER SYSTEM (SPS) AND OTHER ENERGY ALTERNATIVES.
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@article{health_and_safety_preliminary_comparative_assessment_of_the_satellite_power_syst_g7207,
author = {L.J. Habegger and J.R. Gasper and C.D. Brown},
title = {HEALTH AND SAFETY: PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE SATELLITE POWER SYSTEM (SPS) AND OTHER ENERGY ALTERNATIVES},
year = {1980},
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