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Lesson One:
General design similarities in terms of
containment and safety systems exist
Chernobyl-4 and many U.S. nuclear power
between
plants,
particularly boiling water
reactors.
These
similarities should be considered in reassessing the
vulnerability of U.S.
nuclear power plants to
serious accidents.
The need for such a reassessment
is
particularly great for pressure
suppression
containments.
Lesson Two:
Catastrophic
reactor accidents
resulting in very
are possible in U.S. reactors. Such accidents might
be caused by inherent design deficiencies, lack of
construction quality, human error, external events L
large releases of radioactivity -
sabotage, or multiple causes.
emergency planning efforts
consider such serious accidents.
New York State
should explicitly
Lesson
Three:
Both
the early and long-term
radiation consequences of
a serious reactor
accident
can
be partially mitigated with an
effective
regional emergency plan which provides for a variety
of protective measures, including an extension of
the current ten
and fifty-mile
zones.
emergency
planning