... reactor safety—and, in particular, the risks and consequences of major accidents. We ourselves have been skeptical of industry and government assurances in this area. We continue to be. The following special report, Capitalizing on the ...
... reactor development program: 1. Selection of the Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco, California, by the AEC Idaho Operations Office to perform major construction work on the first reactor to be built at the Commission's new Nuclear ...
... reactor for the foreseeable future.1 He directed federal agencies to expand their investigation of "alternative" nuclear reactors and fuels, an ironic twist from the point of view of those who have pressed for investigating alternatives ...
... reactor fuel could have melted in the most serious possible kind of nuclear accident. The fast startup at the L reactor was ranked number one of the "top ten" mishaps in a compilation of the 30 most significant reactor incidents in a ...
... reactor containment building. The containment. Reactor containment buildings are both massive and well-equipped (Figures 1 and 2). Most are designed to withstand internal pressures of three to four atmospheres and may maintain their ...
... reactor is shown with its emergency core-cooling system. The ECCS is designed to prevent catastrophic overheating of the reactor core in the event the core suddenly loses its coolant water because of the worst accident conceivable ...
... reactor was invented to make the other 99 percent of natural uranium available for energy production by converting uranium 238 into plutonium 239 in the reactor core and a uranium "blanket" around it. The spent fuel and blanket would ...
... reactor accidents, involving both privately licensed reactors and reactors constructed under government contract. These measures were incorporated in the Committee bills, S. 4112 introduced by Senator Anderson and H.R. 12050, introduced ...
... reactors. At the Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, construction has started on the building to house the experimental breeder reactor (EBR), the first major reactor in the high neutron energy range; the core is being fabricated at the ...