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NRC Staff Evaluation of General Electric Company Nuclear Reactor Study (1987)

Author	US NRC
Date	July 1987
Classification	6.01.3.20/24 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - REACTORS - PRESSURIZED WATER (PWR) / BOILING WATER (BWR))
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ABSTRACT

In 1975, the General Electric Company (GE) published a Nuclear Reactor Study, 
also referred to as "the Reed Report, " an internal product-improvement study. 
GE considered the document "proprietary" and thus, under the regulations of the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), exempt from mandatory public disclosure. 
Nonetheless, members of the NRC staff reviewed the document in 1976 and 
determined that it did not raise any significant new safety issues. The staff also 
reached the same conclusion in subsequent reviews.
However, in response to recent inquiries about the report, the staff re-evaluated 
the Reed Report from a 1987 perspective. This re-evaluation, documented in this staff 
report, concluded that (1) there are no issues raised in the Reed Report that support 
a need to curtail the operation of any GE boiling water reactor (BWR); (2) there are 
no new safety issues raised in the Reed Report of which the staff was unaware; and 
(3) although certain issues addressed by the Reed Report are still being studied by
the NRC and the industry, there is no basis for suspending licensing and operation 
of GE BWR plants while these issues are being resolved.

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