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Over the past two decades a number of government agencies in the United States have faced increasing public scrutiny for their efforts to address the wide range of potential environmental issues related to Cold War legacies. Risk-based ranking was selected as a means of defining the relative importance of issues. Ambitious facility-wide risk-based ranking applications were undertaken. However although facility-wide risk-based ranking efforts can build invaluable understanding of the potential issues related to Cold War legacies, conducting such efforts is difficult because of the potentially enormous scope and the potentially strong institutional barriers. The U.S. experience is that such efforts are worth undertaking to start building a knowledge base and infrastructure that are based on a thorough under standing of risk.
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Bley, D.C., Droppo, J.G., Eremenko, V.A., Lundgren, R. (2003). Risk-Based Ranking Experiences for Cold War Legacy Facilities in the United States. In: Bley, D.C., Droppo, J.G., Eremenko, V.A., Lundgren, R. (eds) Risk Methodologies for Technological Legacies. NATO ASI Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0097-0_6
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