History of the NRC

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

While "poking" around the NRC Web site I found "A

Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-1999" at 

http://www.nrc.gov/who-we-are/short-history.html



The section of BRC is interesting

http://www.nrc.gov/who-we-are/short-history.html#Below%20Regulatory%20Concern





--- Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> wrote:

>     No. 04-002  January 12, 2003

> 

> NRC HISTORIAN WRITES PERSPECTIVE ON

> THREE MILE ISLAND INCIDENT, 25 YEARS LATER

> 

> 

> J. Samuel Walker, historian for the Nuclear

> Regulatory Commission (NRC), 

> has written the fourth volume of the agencys

> history, Three Mile 

> Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective.

> 

> The book, published by the University of California

> Press, is expected 

> to be available in bookstores in time for the 25th

> anniversary of the 

> Three Mile Island accident on March 28, 2004. It is

> available now for 

> advance purchase at http://www.amazon.com exit icon

> and 

> http://www.barnesandnoble.com exit icon .

> 

> The book considers the issues surrounding nuclear

> power in the 1970s as 

> a prelude to focusing on the days when the event

> unfolded, March 28 - 

> April 1, 1979. During that time, a combination of

> equipment failures and 

> operator error led to a partial melting of the fuel

> in Unit 2 of the 

> Three Mile Island complex. Of particular interest

> are sections covering 

> the evacuation recommendation for pregnant women and

> preschool-age 

> children, as well as concerns over a buildup of

> hydrogen in the damaged 

> reactor.

> 

> This was the most serious accident in the history of

> commercial nuclear 

> power in the United States. Walker also covers both

> the immediate 

> aftermath of the accident and the investigations

> into possible long-term 

> effects.

> 

> [Three Mile Islands] results suggested that

> nuclear proponents had 

> underestimated the risks of a major accident at a

> nuclear plant in the 

> United States, Walker writes, and nuclear critics

> had overstated the 

> likely consequences. The accident prompted

> wide-ranging reforms that 

> increased safety at U.S. nuclear plants, but TMI

> also significantly 

> eroded public confidence in plants abilities to

> operate safely, Walker 

> concludes.

> 

> Other volumes on the history of the NRC, also

> written by Walker, include 

> Controlling the Atom, Containing the Atom, and

> Permissible Dose.

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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