Risk Assessment Review Group report to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [PWR; BWR]
The Risk Assessment Review Group was organized by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 1, 1977, with four elements to its charter: clarify the achievements and limitations of WASH-1400, the ''Rasmussen Report''; assess the peer comments thereon, and responses to those comments; study the present state of such risk assessment methodology; and recommend to the Commission how (and whether) such methodology can be used in the regulatory and licensing process. Areas of study include: risk assessment methodologies; statistical issues; completeness; the data base; and the WASH-1400 assessment of the damage to human health from radiation after a postulated accident. Specific items discussed include: Browns Ferry; common cause failure; human factors; format and scrutability; the peer review process; earthquakes; risk perception; allegations by UCS concerning WASH-1400 treatment of quality assurance and quality control; current role of probabilistic methods in the regulatory process; acts of violence; ATWS; influence of design defects in quality assurance failures; and calculation of population doses from given releases of radionuclides.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA). Ad Hock Risk Assessment Review Group
- OSTI ID:
- 6489792
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG/CR-0400; TRN: 79-004042
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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