Re: History of NRC

["E. Slaggie" <ELS@nrc.gov>]

For the  history of the AEC and the NRC by the NRC historians, see

 Mazuzan and Walker, Controlling the Atom, The Beginning of Nuclear Regulation 1946-1962,
University of California Press 
 
  and

J. Samuel Walker, Containing the Atom, Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971,  University of California Press. 1992

For the history of one particular, more recent regulatory episode in NRC history, see
Joan Aron, "Licensed to Kill?  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant," University of Pittsburgh Press 1997.  (The treatment is quite even-handed, despite the lurid title.)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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