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...report on nuclear safety authored by members of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) asserts that the Rasmussen Report, released in 1975 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), contains substantially understated assessments of the safety of atomic power...
...Douglas W. Cooper, assistant professor of Environmental Physics in the Faculty of Public Health, who served as a consultant to NRC, said yesterday, "Subsequent analysis of the Rasmussen Report showed that it would, if anything, overstate the results of a nuclear accident...
Cooper added, "One example would be meteorology, where they had to take one out of the 20 worst possible weather situations rather than the average of weather conditions for the report...
...They can furthermore choose a reactor which is near a large city and a day when the wind is blowing towards the city," the report said...
...report also said "there may be a 1 per cent chance of a major accident that would kill nearly 100,000 persons. Most of the victims would die of cancers caused by exposure to damaging levels of nuclear radiation...