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Fission Stories. Nuclear Power's Secrets (2000)

AuteurD.Lochbaum
Datumfebruari 2000
Classificatie 6.01.3.00/22 (VEILIGHEID - ALGEMEEN)
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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

This book is a sequel to The Nugget File, a collection of summaries for nuclear 
power plant 'near-misses' published by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) 
in 1979. Much has happened since its publication. Dozens of nuclear power plants 
began operating during the 1980s and 1990s. More than a dozen plants have 
permanently shut down years before the end of their 40-year licensed lifetimes. 
Between birth and death, many plants experienced 'near-misses.' Unfortunately, 
not all of the experiences missed by enough. Three nuclear plants have since been 
featured on the cover of TIME magazine - Three Mile Island after its reactor core 
meltdown in March 1979, Chernobyl after its reactor explosion in April 1986, and 
Millstone after its regulatory meltdown in March 1996. This book picks up where 
The Nugget File ended.
The stories in this book include information drawn from the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission's (NRC's) files, but they also rely on material from media articles, utility 
company reports, and personal experiences. The author worked as an engineer in the 
nuclear power industry for seventeen years, most of that time at operating nuclear 
plants, before joining the UCS staff. Information sources are cited so that the ardent 
reader can find out more about an incident than can be presented in these abbreviated 
stories. The references also enable the skeptical reader to verify that the incidents 
really did happen.
Why was The Nugget File written and now updated? Because the US nuclear industry 
has plenty of secrets. Trade secrets allow nuclear fuel vendors and service companies 
to retain their competitive advantages. Security secrets enable nuclear power plants 
to maintain their guard against terrorist acts and internal sabotage. Those are 'good' 
secrets. The industry also has 'bad' secrets about safety levels at nuclear power plants.

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