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A history of Federal Nuclear Safety Assessments: Fram WAS-740 through the Reactor Safety Study (1976)

Auteur	Daniel F.Ford, UCS
Datum	1976*
Classificatie	3.01.0.20/31 (VS - VEILIGHEID)
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A History of Federal Nuclear Safety Assessments:
From WASH-740 Through the
Reactor Safety Study

INTRODUCTION

This report provides a capsule history of the principal official studies, including the 
Reactor Safety Study (RSS) that have been carried out by the federal government to 
determine the hazards associated with commercial nuclear power plants. Basic source 
material for this chapter consists of voluminous files of Atomic Energy Commission 
(AEC) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) internal documents obtained by 
the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) under the Freedom of Information Act. 
These records, totalling more than 50,000 pages, allow detailed examination of how 
these official studies were organized and directed, how they approached and resolved 
basic technical problems and how fairly their results were presented to the public.
The U.S. nuclear power program has long caused some degree of public anxiety about 
the risk of catastrophic accidents. While public opposition to nuclear power, at least 
in the early years of the program, was very limited, the AEC was always concerned 
that in the right circumstances public opposition could become epidemic.

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