1. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Reactor Safety Study, NUREG-75/014, WASH 1400 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975); K. Shrader-Frechette, Nuclear Power and Public Policy ( Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983 ), pp. 84–85.
2. 2. Union of Concerned Scientists, The Risks of Nuclear Power Reactors, a Review of the NRC Reactor Safety Study WASH 1400 (Cambridge, Mass.: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1977); Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group, Nuclear Power: Issues and Choices (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1977); this report was funded by the Ford Foundation and carried out by the Mitre Corporation; R. M. Cooke, “Risk Assessment and Rational Decision,” Dialectica 36:4 (1982): 334.
3. See note 2.
4. See Cooke, “Risk Assessment.”
5. For this and other decision rules, such as minimax regret, see M. Resnick, Choices ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987 ), pp. 26–37.