Author(s): Gronlund, Lochbaum & Lyman (2007)
A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Addresses safety, nuclear proliferation and terrorist attacks, nuclear waste disposal, and nuclear reactor design.
A report from David Lochbaum from the Union of Concerned Scientists about year-plus outages at nuclear power plants, including an evaluation of the NRC’s performance.
The NRC’s Reactor Safety Study (RSS) was published in 1975, and was used by the Federal government as definitive proof that nuclear reactors were safe to operate. In 1977 the Union of Concerned Scientists published this independent evaluation of the NRC’s study, which challenged the NRC’s position.
Just two years later in 1979 the Three Mile Island nuclear plant melted down and changed history…
Daniel Ford, former executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains what happened at Three Mile Island, including the development of the plant, the causes of the accident and how it was handled, who and what is to blame, and what Three Mile Island means to the future of nuclear power.
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