[en] Immediately after the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident, the US utility industry asked the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to set up a Nuclear Safety Analysis Center (NSAC) charged with analyzing the accident, deriving lessons to be learned from it, and performing other safety-related functions. Financed by industry subscriptions and staffed with a nucleus of EPRI employees, with loaned employees from utility companies, reactor manufacturers, national laboratories, and other industries, NSAC now has 35 to 40 professionals. The NSAC's present program is a natural outgrowth of its TMI investigation and involves: evaluation of significant plant operating events; nuclear power plant experience case studies; response to regulatory issues; generic safety studies; technical and operating information clearinghouse; and strategic analysis. The NSAC is fulfilling a need that probably existed in the industry for many years before the TMI accident and is expected to exist indefinitely