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Nuclear reactor safety—the APS submits its report

JUL 01, 1975
Although the study group notes that power reactors have an excellent safety record, the group recommends additional studies beyond the scheduled research programs to achieve the needed level of confidence.
Harold W. Lewis

On 28 April at the Washington meeting of The American Physical Society, the results of a year‐long study of light‐water‐reactor safety were released. The study group, consisting of a dozen physicists, chemists and engineers, was chaired by Harold W. Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara; it reported to the Physical Society Council through a Steering–Review Committee consisting of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (chairman), Hans A. Bethe, and Victor F. Weisskopf. The study was jointly financed by the former Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation.

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Harold W. Lewis, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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