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There is a growing recognition of the desirability in public policy making regarding a cutoff standard of insignificant risk to base this on reference values of common use that roughly characterize the levels of individual risk that are regarded as sufficiently negligible not to merit additional personal expenditures to reduce them further. According to Clarke of the U.K. National Radiological Protection Board, there is a widely held view that few people would commit their own resources to reduce an annual risk of death of 1 chance in 100,000 and that even fewer would take action at a chance of 1 in 1 million per year of exposure to a given hazard.1
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Spangler, M.B. (1987). A Summary Perspective on NRC’s Implicit and Explicit Use of De Minimis Risk Concepts in Regulating for Radiological Protection in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. In: Whipple, C. (eds) De Minimis Risk. Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5293-8_12
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