Nuclear Regulatory Commission Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1988: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, February 5, 1987, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 362 pages |
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Page 347 - The risk to an average individual in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant of prompt fatalities that might result from reactor accidents should not exceed one-tenth of one percent (0.1 percent) of the sum of prompt fatality risks resulting from other accidents to which members of the US population are generally exposed.
Page 38 - XSNM-805 meets all the standards relevant for issuance under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Reorganization Act...
Page 140 - TMI, we must not assume that an accident of this or greater seriousness cannot happen again, even if the changes we recommend are made. Therefore, in addition to doing everything to prevent such accidents, we must be fully prepared to minimize the potential impact of such an accident on public health and safety, should one occur in the future.
Page 19 - Although such investigatory methods raise serious policy questions as to the de facto independence of the Federal regulatory agencies, it seems doubtful that they raise any constitutional issues. However, when such an investigation focuses directly and substantially upon the mental decisional processes of a Commission in a case which is pending before it, Congress is no longer intervening in the agency's legislative function, but rather, in its judicial function. At this latter point, we become concerned...
Page 346 - Societal risks to life and health from nuclear power plant operation should be comparable to or less than the risks of generating electricity by viable competing technologies and should not be a significant addition to other societal risks.
Page 2 - The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, assign the Nuclear Regulatory Commission important responsibilities.
Page 44 - Between fiscal years 1981 and 1987, research funds have been reduced by more than 50 percent. The completion of large research projects and joint programs with other parties have helped mitigate the effect of these reductions. However, the Commission is concerned that our capability to deal with future nuclear power plant problems will be greatly impaired by continued erosion of our research program funding.
Page 132 - The bottom line is that, given the present level of safety being achieved by the operating nuclear power plants in this country, we can expect to see a core meltdown accident within the next 20 years and it is possible that such an accident could result in off-site releases of radiation which are as large as, or larger than, the releases estimated to have occurred at Chernobyl.
Page 41 - As a result, the workload of the NRC has shifted from evaluation of construction permit and operating license applications to the regulation of a maturing operational industry.
Page 20 - ... decisional processes of a Commission in a case which is pending before it, Congress is no longer Intervening in the agency's legislative function, but rather, In Its judicial function. At this latter point, we become concerned with the right of private litigants to a fair trial and, equally important, with their right to the appearance of impartiality, which cannot be maintained unless those who exercise the judicial function are free from powerful external influences....