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 mortality rates for selected causes of death in Hämeenkyrö

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

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If the average life expectancy is 100 years and the age groups are of equal size, the background mortality is 0.01/a. In Finland, life expectancy is shorter, but on the other hand, older age groups are larger than younger, and therefore 0.01/a is a resonable approximation. About 50% of all deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases and ca. 20% due to cancer.

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A draft model:

<anacode>

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

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

Population size in Hämeenkyrö

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Population size in Hämeenkyrö for selected years.

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For year 2005, the information is found from Wikipedia. [1]

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Comes directly from external source.

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Year

• 2005: 10227