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Reactor Safety Study: An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants [NUREG-75/014 (WASH-1400)]

File Title Date
Appendices III & IV
  • Failure Data (Appendix III)
  • Common Mode Failures — Bounding Techniques and Special Techniques (Appendix IV)
October 1975
Appendix V
  • Quantitative Results of Accident Sequences
October 1975
Appendix VI
  • Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences
October 1975
Appendix VII – X
  • Release of Radioactivity in Reactor Accidents (Appendix VII)
  • Physical Processes in Reactor Meltdown Accidents (Appendix VIII)
  • Safety Design Rationale for Nuclear Power Plants (Appendix IX)
  • Design Adequacy (Appendix X)
October 1975

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