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Assessment of Emergency Core Cooling Systems (1974)
| Author | Ford, Kendall |
| Date | 1974 |
| Classification | 6.01.3.10/27 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - REACTORS - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
FOREWORD
In January 1972 a public ("rulemaking") hearing began concerning the Atomic
Energy Commission's policy regarding important reactor safety devices --
emergency core-cooling systems (ECCS). The AEC set up a hearing board, composed
of AEC employees, to take the evidence offered by the "participants": the AEC
Regulatory Staff, the four U.S. reactor manufacturers, a consortium of eighteen
U.S. utility companies, and the Consolidated National Intervenors (CNI). This last
organization consisted of sixty citizens' groups from around the country concerned
with reactor safety. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Cambridge, ,Mass.,
served as the technical arm of CNI.
The ECCS ru1emaking hearing can surely be regarded as a watershed event in the
history of AEC reactor safety policy. No prior public hearing had ever been held that
allowed public investigation of AEC safety policy and of the manner in which the
AEC had made its policy decisions. To facilitate a review of the enormous hearing
record -- 20,000 pages of transcript of oral testimony and an equivalent amount of
written documents -- the Union of Concerned Scientists has prepared this assessment
and interpretation of the ECCS rulemaking proceeding.
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