Social-economic aspects of radiation safety

Among the many scientific, technical, and social problems which nuclear power in the past century has encountered, the most significant are economy, safety, and public acceptability. The possibilities of increasing the economic efficiency by using boiling water vessel reactors with natural coolant circulation, the need to take account of not only the dose but radiation intensity when estimating biological effects of irradiation, and the problems of insurance for compensating radiation harm to the health of workers in nuclear cycle enterprises and the population nle discussed. 2 figures, 17 references.