Risk assessment on Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator

Risk assessment on Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator contains a structured risk assessment of a plan to build a MSWI in Hämeenkyrö. There will be a public vote related to a city planning decision: whether the municipality should plan an area for the plant or not. The vote will be held in November 19, 2006.

This risk assessment consists of several pages:

• Risk assessment on Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator (this page)
• Hämeenkyrö MSWI risk assessment: Fine particles
• Hämeenkyrö MSWI risk assessment: Dioxin
• Hämeenkyrö MSWI risk assessment: Indicators
• Hämeenkyrö MSWI risk assessment: Miscellanous

Objective

RA of Hämeenkyrö MSWI

Focus:	Health risk assessment related to the effects of the planned MSWI plant in Hämeenkyrö. (draft) D↷
Scope:	Health of the population in Hämeenkyrö especially, and in Southern Finland in general. The scope contains a) the background risk due to the key emissions and b) the incremental risk due to the building and operation of the MSWI. Time scope: next 20 years (draft)D↷
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General variables

Optimizing rules

Optimizing rules

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Description:	Optimizing rules, general (disagreement) Utilitarian optimizing Egalitarian optimizing Elitist optimizing
Inputs:	Kyro gas power plant, fires on landfills (Depending on the scope: MSWI in Hämeenkyrö, waste transport, biofuel power plant)
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Precautionary principle

Precautionary principle

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Description:	Precautionary principle (disagreement) PP based on expected value, general PP based on worst-case or another 'conservative' scenario, general PP applied to emissions of municipal solid wasti incinerator (MSWI) in Hämeenkyrö
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Intake fraction

Intake fraction

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Description:	Intake fraction (disambiguation) iF based on measured concentration fields iF based on exposure monitoring iF based on shortcuts
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Background incidence rates for selected diseases and causes of death in Hämeenkyrö

Background incidence rates for selected diseases and causes of death in Hämeenkyrö

Focus:	Background incidence rates for selected diseases and causes of death in Hämeenkyrö
Scope:	General population considered. Year 2005 if statistics are available. Cardiovascular mortality. Total cancer mortality.
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Population size in Hämeenkyrö

Population size in Hämeenkyrö

Focus:	Population size in Hämeenkyrö
Scope:	Year 2005.
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Result:	10227
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Background incidence rates for selected diseases and causes of death in Hämeenkyrö

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Background incidence rates for selected diseases and causes of death in Hämeenkyrö. General population considered. Diseases include cardiovascular mortality and total cancer mortality.

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What do you need to know in order to understand the other attributes of the variable? (This may include references to relevant literature)

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A draft model:

<anacode>

var total_mortality:= Variable:Population size in Hämeenkyrö*0.01 1/a;

var cardiovascular_mortality:= total_mortality*0.5;

var cancer_mortality:= total_mortality*0.2

</anacode>

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# cases/a

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Cause

• Total mortality: 100
• Cardiovascular mortality: 50
• Cancer mortality: 20