Reactors at the Savannah River Plant: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, February 29, 1988, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 52 pages |
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Academy of Sciences Action Planned.-Concur advisory agree Ahearne aquifer Armed Services ARY OF CONGRESS budget Chairman clean cleanup commitment committee CONGRES CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contaminated core damage Current Status decision decommissioning defense facilities Department of Energy DOE facilities DOE's Du Pont Environment environmental ES&H February February 12 GAO REPORT GAO's going Hanford Hanford site hazardous wastes JAMES EXON KASPAR LIBR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS meeting ment monitoring Morgan nah River National Academy nuclear deterrent Nuclear Facilities operating power levels oversight percent plutonium Pont power limits Price-Anderson Act problem production reactor question radioactive Recommendation.-The report contained reduce power response safety and health SARS Savannah River Plant Savannah River reactors Secretary of Energy Senator EXON Senator GLENN Senator QUAYLE Senator THURMOND South Carolina Spencer staff standby Status of Action.-Closed subcommittee Summary.-GAO was requested temperature Thank things tion Title.-Nuclear tritium water reactor
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