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"Rasmussen Report" is demolished by Unionof Concerned Scientists
| Author | FOE |
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| Classification | 6.01.3.70/09 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - RISK ANALYSES / RISK PERCEPTION) |
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The Nuclear Blowdown "Rasmussen Report" Is Demolished By Union of Concerned Scientists The three-year, $4 million Reactor Safety Study (WASH-1400) initiated by the Atomic Energy Commission and published by its successor, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is shown to be fatally flawed in both design and execution. Internal AEC documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom ofInformation Act plainly reveal that the study was deliberately skewed to reach a predetermined conclusion: that the chance of a serious accident at a nuclear power plant is "negligible." If the Nuclear Establishment had been confident that an independent and honest investigation would prove reactors safe, it would have served its own interests best by sponsoring an independent and honest investigation. By resorting instead to a biased, self-serving, methodologically shoddy safety study staffed largely by AEC/NRC personnel and carried out at AEC/NRC headquarters, the Nuclear Establishment emphasized a horrifying fact: that the safety of nuclear power plants is unproven, if not unprovable. In the pages that follow, Blowdown prints excerpts from the Union of Concerned Scientists' careful dissection of the Reactor Safety Study-the study that nuclear proponents inside and outside of government cite as "proof" that your chance of dying as a result of a reactor accident is less than your chance of being hit by a meteorite.
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