Release of Safeguards Committee

McCullough conferred by telephone with the far-flung part-time Safeguards Committee members, who collectively agreed that the requested reports should be given to the Joint Committee. A majority felt, however, that release of their proceedings should not become a customary practice. The survey of the Safeguards Committee bolstered the Vance-Fields position and persuaded the Commission to release the reports. ... 

Harold Price and Clifford Beck also wanted such guidance. Spurred on by the Safeguards Committee recommendation. Beck s staff developed a set of site-evaluation factors to discuss with the advisory group. Beck and Price hoped eventually to produce a dnift rule that could be released for public comment. In January 1959 they began the first formal attempt to evaluate sites by means of a published set of fectors. 

This requirement developed as a result of various considerations. In late 1960, the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards proposed a rather specific criterion—no lethal doses at the population center for the worst conceivable accident (an uncontained meltdown as considered in WASH 740). This philosophy was reflected in the statement of considerations which accompanied the interim version of the site criteria released in March 1961 ... 

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