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Several years ago the Nuclear Regulatory Commission started a research program known as the “State of the Art Reactor Consequence Analyses,” or SOARCA, which I discussed in a post on April 6. SOARCA’s mission is to assess the consequences of “severe accident scenarios” at nuclear power plants that might release radioactivity into the environment.

UCS has long been concerned that the NRC imposed constraints on the SOARCA program that would significantly skew its results to ensure an outcome suggesting the public has little to fear from severe nuclear plant accidents. . .

http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear?utm_source=SP&utm_medium=more&utm_campaign=sp-nuke-more-direct-3-24-2011