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1986 Nuclear power safety report (1987)
| Author | Public Citizen |
| Date | September 1987 |
| Classification | 3.01.0.20/27 (UNITED STATES - SAFETY) |
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Summary of Findings This study is the latest in Public Citizen's eight-year series of annual reports on nuclear power safety. In this review of the safety record of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants in 1986, Public Citizen looks at a number of measures of nuclear power safety. These include: ** The worst accidents of 1986, ** Licensee Event Reports (LERs -- i.e. reported plant mishaps), ** SCRAMS (i.e. emergency plant shutdowns), ** Security breaches (i.e. vandalism, sabotage, drug use, and unauthorized intrusions at reactor sites), ** Systematic Assessments of Licensee Performance (SALPs -- i.e. management ratings), and ** Fines levied against the operators of nuclear plants. The information presented in this report is derived from various Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) documents, including the reports utilities are required to file with the agency, documents the NRC submits to Congress, and materials obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 1986, accidents, near-accidents, emergency plant shutdowns, and instances of inept management occurred daily at the 100+ nuclear power plants located in 37 states across the country. Overall, the nuclear industry's safety record was comparable to its record in 1985 which has been characterized by members of Congress and the NRC itself as nuclear power's worst year on record since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.
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