Reactor Safeguard Committee

Indeed, since the 1950s, the US Reactor Safeguards Committee , set up by the Atomic Energy Commission with the task of defining the guidelines for nuclear safety, had indicated that, for a non-contained reactor, an exclusion distance (without resident population) should be provided. This distance, R, had to be equal, at least to that given by Eq. 1.1. 

In discussing the original Reactor Safeguard Committee s early work. Teller told of the concern over evaluating the hazards of reactors ... 

The first Reactor Safeguard Committee had been created in 1947 to examine each government reactor and to advise the Commission on their hazards. Since atomic scientists recognized that the danger of a... 

After passage of the Price-Anderson Act in 1957, which required the Reactor Safeguards Committee to review each reactor application, the committee often directed its attention to site considerations. In the fell of 1957, for example, it reviewed an application for a small, sbcty-megawatt thermal test reactor planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at a site three miles from Sandusky, Ohio. The Safeguards Committee reluctantly endorsed the site but indicated its concern by suggesting that a less populated one would have been preferable. ... 

The Fomm ended its stormy session after passing several resolutions supporting further research and symposia on the problem and encouraging both the AEC and the Reactor Safeguards Committee to prepare more guidance. But the industry group specifically resolved that it was too early for the Commission to issue any firm and definitive rule gov-... 

Reactor Safeguard Committee—Advisory panel of outside experts established by the AEC in 1947 to evaluate safety aspects of reactors. Its functions were assumed in 1953 by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. 

Reactor Safeguard Committee established to advise the Commission on the hazards of reactor operation. Industrial Advisory Group appointed to investigate peaceful uses of atomic energy. 

AEC merged the Reactor Safeguard Committee and the Industrial Committee on Reactor Location Problems into the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (Safeguards Committee). 

AEG issued first construction permits for two large-scale nuclear power facilities—Consolidated Edison s Indian Point plant and Commonwealth Edison s Dresden reactor. Safeguards Committee sent cautionary letter to the Commission on the PRDC reactor. 

WASH-3 (rev.)/ "Summary Report of Reactor Safeguard Committee," 31 Mar. 1950, AECVNRC. 

Minutes of 2d Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting, 1-3 Nov. 1957, ACRS File, AEC/NRC. An excellent discussion of early reactor siting from the point of view of a Safeguards Committee member is in E>avid Okrent, Nuclear Safety The History of the Regulatory Process (Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1981), pp. 12-56. 

Minutes of 13th Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting, 8-10 Jan. 1959, ACRS File, AEC/NRC. 

Environmental Subcommittee meetings, 8 Apr., 23 Aug. 1960,25th Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting, 5-7 May 1960, ACRS File, Appendix B to AEC-R 2/19, AEC/NRC. 

Minutes of 31st Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting, 12,14 Jan. 1961, ACRS FUe, AEC/NRC. 

Minutes of 33d Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting, ACRS Files, W. Kenneth Davis to Price, with enclosed redraft of site criteria, 6 June 1961, in AEC-R 2/32 (8 June 1961), AEC/NRC. 

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