Notes - Risk Analysis of Alternative Energy Sources
回应了Miller Spangler关于核电站风险感知与风险分析方法评估的观点，认为将公众态度转化为专家语言有助于理解风险，并建议在能源决策中采用外行陪审团方式。
The author explores two points raised by Miller Spangler in a January 1981 issue: public perception of risks involving nuclear power plants relative to those of conventional plants and criteria for evaluating the way risk analyses are made. On the first point, he concludes that translating public attitudes into the experts' language of probability and risk could provide better information and understanding of both the attitudes and the risks. Viewing risk analysis methodologies as filters which help to test historical change, he suggests that the lack of information favors a lay jury approach for energy decisions. Spangler responds that Congress is an example of lay decision making, but that a lay jury, given public disinterest and polarization, would probably not improve social justice on the nuclear issue. 5 references, 4 figures. (DCK)