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From page 75... ... GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH The majority of the nuclear safety research funded by the federal government is sponsored by the NRC. Statutory responsibility for the NRC's research program, funding for which in fiscal year 1986 will be about $108 million, resides with the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Read the entire page →
From page 76... ... Between 1975 and 1981, contracts awarded to Idaho quadrupled, in step with the overall quadrupling in current dollars of the NRC research program, which by 1981 had risen to $209 million. Five years later, however, these trends were completely reversed. Read the entire page →
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From page 80... ... As other projects and contractors were being cut back, Sandia's share of the NRC research program climbed to 20 percent. Table A.4 indicates that despite severe fluctuations in NRC funding over the agency's first decade, the pattern of NRC contracting -- the percentage of research allotted to government, universities, and the private sector -- has remained fairly constant; the vast majority of NRC funds continue to go to federal laboratories. Read the entire page →
From page 81... ... Table A.5 shows how DOE intends to allocate the $182 million available in FY 1986 for civilian nuclear R&D and how this sum is meant to be distributed among the five programs within the department devoted to that effort (Light Water Reactor Safety and Technology; Regulatory Development; Plant Performance; Advanced Converter Reactors; and Technology Development) Read the entire page →
From page 83... ... LOFT cleanup; international nuclear policy and program; nuclear/fossil power plant economics, costs; economic regulation; institutional issues; constructibility; safeguards; research/test reactor fuel demonstration "Includes the following divisions under the assistant secretary for nuclear energy: LWR safety and technology; regulatory development; Plant performance; and advanced converter development. -- Potentially applicable either to current or future reactors or to both. Read the entire page →
From page 84... ... , but it assumes that the amount is relatively limited, particularly when compared with the amount of R&D sponsored by reactor vendors or the electric utility industry. Architectural engineering firms also conduct some nuclear research, some of which is safety research, but the committee estimates the level of safety research by architectural engineering firms at less than $10 million. Read the entire page →
From page 85... ... Aside from the vendors, the principal sponsor of nuclear safety research in the private sector is EPRI, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. EPRI was formed by the electric utility industry in 1972. Read the entire page →
From page 86... ... If one looks at the overall trend in constant dollars, spending went up until the late 1970s and has been decreasing since then. Table A.8 shows actual expenditures by EPRI's Nuclear Power Division in 1985 both in terms of the type of research conducted and the sector of the contract research community that performed it. Read the entire page →
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From page 88... ... The NRC, on the other hand, provides the least support for nuclear research whether performed in the universities or in the private sector, and whether on a percentage or total dollar basis. The utility industry sponsors and conducts research through several additional mechanisms. Read the entire page →
From page 89... ... ^Unidentified contracts minus reductions from previous years commitments. steam generator performance and stress corrosion in boiling water reactors -- is managed by EPRI; but it is funded and has its agenda set by a utility Owners Group, which consists of a group of utilities in partnership with one or more reactor vendors, foreign utilities, or industrial firms, depending on the research area. Read the entire page →
From page 90... ... One is a component failure reporting data base, and the other is an engineering data base. This information is not only valuable for member utilities to determine histories of particular types of equipment, but also serves as the data base necessary for finding accident precursors and for doing statistical treatments included in probabilistic risk analyses. Read the entire page →

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... GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH The majority of the nuclear safety research funded by the federal government is sponsored by the NRC. Statutory responsibility for the NRC's research program, funding for which in fiscal year 1986 will be about $108 million, resides with the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

Appendixes Pages 75-90

Appendixes
Pages 75-90