ACRS Subcommittees Meet to Discuss Nuclear Reactor Safety

Summary

The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) held a joint meeting of its subcommittees on materials and metallurgy, thermal-hydraulic phenomena, and reliability and probabilistic risk assessment to discuss reactor safety, with the revised agenda focusing on key issues.

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