A Reliability Review of the Reactor Safety Study.

Milton Kamins

Expert InsightsPublished 1975

On August 20, 1974, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) made public 14 volumes of the [Reactor Safety Study: An Assessment] [of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial] [Nuclear Power Plants]. The AEC took two years, and a reported $3 million dollars, to complete the study. It allowed the public 60 days to comment on the report. The Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists formed a Joint Review Committee to evaluate the study, and published, in November 1974, a [Preliminary Review of] [the AEC Reactor Safety Study]. The comments of a number of researchers in the field of reliability appeared therein, and have been augmented here. Those comments call attention to severe shortcomings in the treatment of reliability in the [Reactor Safety Study]. 25 pp.

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  • Year: 1975
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  • Document Number: P-5413

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Kamins, Milton, A Reliability Review of the Reactor Safety Study. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1975. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5413.html.
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