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Pages 199-202

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From page 199...
... This will allow assessment of the risk inherent in emapoladug the behavior of short-length (139 fuel specimens upon which the Radiation tests program Is almost exclusively to be based. This risk assessment will indicate the number of demonstration plants of increasing core size that will be needed to prudently reach prototype design conditions.
From page 200...
... mctions would parallel those of the National Transportation Safety Board The stated bases for the Committee's conclusion are that the establishment of such an entity would enhance safety and public acceptance because, among other thing, it would facilitate a determination of the ARC staffs role in contributing to accidents. To think that the establishment of such an aca dent-review body would have a significant impact on safety or public acceptance of nuclear power is naive in the extreme.
From page 201...
... Second the Committee's report should, in my view, contain a strong recommendation for tl~e enacunent of legislation, along the Idles of the legislation put forward recently by the Administration in connection ninth its National Energy Strategy, which would minimize the possibility of a postconstruction heanag in cases where a combined construction permit and operating license had been issued. One of the major obstacles to continued nuclear power development In the United States has been the failure of NRC's licensing process to provide utilities and investors with requisite levels of certainty that a completed plant will be allowed to bed commercial operation on schedule.


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