Assessment of the accident in the Harrisburg Nuclear Power Station. 2nd interim report to the Committee of the Interior of the German Federal Parliament

The report falls under the following headings: summary and main points of interest; introduction; description of the events at Harrisburg (description of the power station; sequence of events; safety assessment of the course of the accident; release of radioactive substances into the surroundings; monitoring of the surroundings; disaster protection planning); re-examination of the safety of German nuclear power stations based on current analyses of the Harrisburg accident (re-examination of nuclear power stations already in operation; results of the examinations carried out so far; re-examination of nuclear power stations for which no operating licences have yet been granted; conclusions for monitoring of the surroundings; conclusions for emergency protection planning); classification of the Harrisburg events in risk considerations and the wider social context (considerations on risk; the risk of nuclear power stations in the wider social context; optimization of technology and the wider social context; the possibilities of further reduction in the residual risk of nuclear power stations and for improving the consensus of opinion both nationally and internationally on the subject of nuclear power station safety); the repercussions of the Harrisburg accident in other countries up to the time of writing (Belgium, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Holland, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, USSR). (U.K.)