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United States Atomic Energy Commission : Theoretical Possibilities And Consequences Of Major Accidents In Large Nuclear Power Plants

U. S. Atomic Energy Commissi, Washington, DC, 1957

This is a photocopy of a typed manuscript and has been two-hole punched and placed in an indexed pressboard binder separating out Appendix A through Appendix I. The study begins with a 4 1/2 page letter addressed to Honorable Carl T. Durham, Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, by Harold S. Vance, Acting Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission. The Study itself follows and is 32 typed pages, followed by appendices A to I. Vance has not signed this photocopy version. A study of possible consequences if certain assumed accidents, theoretically possible but highly improbable, were to occur in large nuclear power plants. More than two score leading experts in the sciences and engineering specialties participated in this study. All technical phases of the project were performed by a study team composed of staff members of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, with assistance of consustants and others from elsewhere. Principal contributors were: Dr. Clifford K. Beck, Dr. Frederick P. Cowan, Mr. Kenneth W. Downes, Project Director, Dr. Joseph A. Fleck, Jr, Dr. J. B. H . Kuper, Mr. James McLaughlin, Mr. Irving Singer, Mr. Maynard Smith. From Wikipedia article: WASH-740, "Theoretical Possibilities and Consequences of Major Accidents in Large Nuclear Power Plants" (also known as "The Brookhaven Report") estimated maximum possible damage from a meltdown with no containment building at a large nuclear reactor. The report was published by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) in 1957., 4to, Very Good with no DJ

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