March 1, 2025
SCOPE (Structuring Choices for Outcomes, Priorities, and Envelopes) is a structured decision framework designed for regulatory commissions and multi-stakeholder policy decisions. It supports interactive weight exploration — allowing decision-makers to understand how their priorities map to outcomes across a range of plausible futures.
This framework is particularly relevant to nuclear regulatory decisions, where the stakes are high, the uncertainties are deep, and the range of affected stakeholders is broad. By making the structure of decisions explicit, SCOPE creates space for genuine deliberation rather than procedural compliance.
Forthcoming in Risk Analysis.