NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

THE STATUS OF NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY

JANUARY 22, 23, 24, AND 28, 1974

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PART 2: VOLUME I

Phase IIb and Phase III Hearings

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JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

MELVIN PRICE, Illinois, Chairman

JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island, Vice Chairman

CHET HOLIFIELD, California

JOHN YOUNG, Texas

TENO RONCALIO, Wyoming

MIKE MCCORMACK, Washington

CRAIG HOSMER, California

JOHN B. ANDERSON, Illinois

ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho

MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico

HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington

STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

ALAN BIBLE, Nevada

JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico

GEORGE D. AIKEN, Vermont

WALLACE F. BENNETT, Utah

PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado

HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee

EDWARD J. BAUSER, Executive Director

GEORGE F. MURPHY, Jr., Deputy Director

JAMES B. GRAHAM, Assistant Director

ALBION W. KNIGHT, Jr., Professional Staff Member

RANDALL C. STEPHENS, Professional Staff Member

NORMAN P. KLUG, Technical Consultant

LAWRENCE F. ZENKER, GAO Consultant

CHRISTOPHER C. O'MALLEY, Printing Editor

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CONTENTS

HEARING DATES

Tuesday, January 22, 1974 [Phase IIb; Phase III begins p. 53].

Wednesday, January 23, 1974....

Thursday, January 24, 1974.

Monday, January 28, 1974_.

OPENING STATEMENTS

Price, Hon. Melvin, Chairman, Joint Committee

Energy

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125

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1, 53, 125, 345, 469

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WITNESSES

HEARING OF JANUARY 22, 1974

Case, Edson G., Deputy Director, Directorate of Licensing..
Doub, William O., Commissioner....

Kouts, Herbert, Director, Division of Reactor Safety Research_
Ray, Dr. Dixy Lee, Chairman__-

Rowden, Marcus A., General Counsel.

WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS

HEARING OF JANUARY 22, 1974

Kendall, Dr. Henry W., Union of Concerned Scientists/Consolidated Na-
tional Intervenors_.

69

Ward, John E., Chairman, Committee on Reactor Licensing and Safety of

the Atomic Industrial Forum....

54

HEARING OF JANUARY 23, 1974

Carl, Mrs. A., research director, Lloyd Harbor Study Group....
Cottrell, William B., Nuclear Engineer and Director, Nuclear Safety
Information Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory__
Favret, Lou, vice president of Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Divisions, ac-
companied by John MacMillan, general manager of the Nuclear Power
Generation Division, Lynchburg, Va.; George Edgar, attorney, law firm
of Morgan, Lewis & Bockins; Dr. Donald Roy, head of Fuel Engineering
Department; and James Mallay, Manager of Licensing----
Inglis, Dr. David, professor of physics, University of Massachusetts, rep-
resenting Friends of the Earth.

Lawson, C. George, Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory_

Rittenhouse, Philip, Oak Ridge National Laboratory--

306

308

Prepared statement..

310

West, John M., operations vice president, Nuclear Power Systems, Combus-
tion Engineering, Inc_____

336