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...Atomic Energy Commission's study on reactor safety seriously underestimates the hazards of nuclear reactor accidents, the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists and the Sierra Club said in a joint report presented to the AEC on Friday...
...report, prepared by Henry W. Kendall, professor of Physics at MIT and Sidney Moglewer, an operations research analyst with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, charges that the risk of a reactor accident in the early 1980s is over 400 times greater than that predicted by the reactor safety study, which was released in August...
Congress will consider the AEC study when it debates the renewal of the Price-Anderson Act. The Act, which expires in 1977, provides for the Federal government to assume limited liability for reactor accidents...
While U.S. energy requirements can be met by conventional fossil fuels, research and development of alternative sources-solar and thermal energy and the like-should continue apace. Development of the fusion process should be given top priority as a replacement for the breeder reactor, which employs the riskier nuclear fission process...
Even before nuclear power turned the propeller once, alarms sounded. The reactor shields were leaking minute amounts of radioactivity...