[SystemSafety] Historical Questions

[John Downer]

Hi
>>> .
> 
> Well as far as i know, prior to WASH1400 there has been WASH740:
> 'Theoretical Possibilities and Consequences of Major Accidents in Large
> Nuclear Power Plants'
> published in 1957 
> 
> WASH1400 was then one of the replacements...

I think WASH1400 was a very different approach to WASH740 (in that it was PRA based) and was the precursor to pretty much all modern reactor assessments. (There's been a bunch since WASH1400, the NRC tend to fund a new one whenever Price-Anderson comes up for renewal.)
John


> Kind Regards
> Tim
> [1]http://www.dissident-media.org/infonucleaire/wash740.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards
> Tim Schürmann
> 
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