WASH-740 report, Atomic Energy Commission

Comparative Risk-Cost-Benefit Study of Alternative Sources of Electrical Energy, Report WASH-1224, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1974 Nucl Sa 17(2), 171 (1976). 

Bair, W. J., Richmond, C. R. and Wachholz, B. W. (1974). Radiological Assessment of the Spatial Distribution of Radiation Dose from Inhaled Plutonium, USAEC Report No. WASH-1320 (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington). 

Postma, A.K. and Zavadoski, R.W., Review of Organic Iodide Formation Under Reactor Accident Conditions in Water-Cooled Reactors, Atomic Energy Commission Report, WASH-1233, (1972). 

You don t need to be reminded of the most recent nuclear accidents, principally Fukushima Daiichi in Japan in 2011. After the Three Mile Island accident in the late 1970s, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission developed WASH 1400, The Reactor Safety Study. The WASH 1400 report laid the foundation for the use of probabilistic risk assessments (called probabilistic safety assessments in Europe). According to Henley and Kumamoto (1991), probabilistic risk assessment involves studying accident scenarios and numerically rank[ing] them in order of their probability of occurrence, and then assess[ing] their potential consequence to the public. Event trees, fault trees, and other risk-consequence tools are applied in developing and studying these scenarios. These techniques are extremely useful for the engineer but very expensive. The nuclear industry has been the leader in probabilistic safety analyses. 

Fig. 12.8. Simplified event trees for a large loss-of-coolant accident (from Reactor Safety Study, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report WASH-14CK), 1975).

United States Atomic Energy Commission, Theoretical Possibilities and Consequences of Major Accidents in Large Nuclear Plants, USAEC Report WASH-740, USAEC, Washington, D.C. (1957). 

Summary Report of Reactor Safeguards Committeey U.S. Atomic Energy Commission report WASH-3 (1950). 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Regulatory Staff, "Technical Report on Anticipated Transients Without Scram for Water-Cooled Power Reactors," WASH-1270, September 1973. 

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