HPA-RPD-046 -COCO-2: a model to assess the economic impact of an accident

Synopsis

COCO-2 is a model for assessing the potential economic costs likely to arise off-site following an accident at a nuclear reactor. COCO-2 builds on work presented in the model COCO-1 developed in 1991 by considering economic effects in more detail, and by including more sources of loss. Of particular note are: the consideration of the directly affected local economy, indirect losses that stem from the directly affected businesses, losses due to changes in tourism consumption, integration with the large body of work on recovery after an accident and a more systematic approach to health costs. The work, where possible, is based on official data sources for reasons of traceability, maintenance and ease of future development. This report describes the methodology and discusses the results of an example calculation. Guidance on how the base economic data can be updated in the future is also provided.

Additional information

In addition to a PDF of the above report, the following supporting files are available for download in compressed ZIP format

English Land Use data (ZIP Archive, 20.7 MB)
Scotland & Wales GVA and Building Capital (ZIP Archive, 17.4 MB)
England GVA and Building Capital (ZIP Archive, 31.1 MB)
Scotland & Wales GVA and Building Capital (ZIP Archive, 17.4 MB)

The data are in the form of maps composed of 1 km grid squares in ESRI shapefile format with the attribute information for each grid square held as an entry in the associated dBase table of each map. The COCO-2 report provides descriptions of the supplied data together with information on the original data sources and the methods used to produce the maps.
An Excel spreadsheet with copies of Tables 15, 17, 21, C2 and C3 from the report is also available for download (Excel Spreadsheet, 30 KB)

Last reviewed: 6 November 2009