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Assessment of accident risks US commercial NPP (1975)
| Author | US NRC |
| Date | October 1975 |
| Classification | 3.01.0.20/08 (UNITED STATES - SAFETY) |
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From the publication:
Foreword This is the final report of the Reactor Safety Study "An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants," prepared under the direction of Professor Norman C.Rasmussen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The work, originally sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, was completed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission which came into being on January 19, 1975. A draft report was published in August of 1974 and was circulated to obtain comments from a wide variety of people and organizations. Comments were requested from other agencies of the federal government, environmental groups, groups critical of nuclear power, lawyers representing environmental groups and industry, and industrial organizations representing reactor manufacturers, architect engineering firms and electric utilities. In addition to this distribution, many requests for the report were received from other individuals and organizations. A total of about 90 letters of comment were received which were very helpful in the preparation of this final report. A new Appendix XI has been added to the report to indicate the study's responses to the comments received and the resulting changes made in the final report. The Reactor Safety Study was performed, as described in Chapter l, by an ad hoc group of people initially assembled by the Atomic Energy Commission to do an independent assessment of potential accident risks in U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. When the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was created in January of 1975 the work continued under its auspices with renewed re-emphasis on the independent nature of the study group. The study group wishes to thank all those who contributed to the support of the effort and the technical work as well as those who commented on the draft report to help improve the quality of the final version.
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