NRC Safety Research Program and Obama Open Government

Tomorrow I will send the following to Idaho's Senator Risch.

Dear Senator Risch:



Please encourage the NRC to now release SECY-12-0013 to the American Public. Details are below:


NRC recently published the ACRS review of its research program. There are leads to closed material. Here is the identification of the ACRS open report:


REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THE NRC SAFETY RESEARCH PROGRAM


NUREG-1635, Vol. 10 APRIL 2012 ML12094A142


And, here is an example of the closed performance of Obama’s "open" government:


From Page 83 0f 84 of ML12094A142 (Page 71 of the report):


Reference 2.


Memorandum to the Commissioners
from R. W. Borchardt, Executive Director for Operations,


Subject: SECY-12-0013,


“Agency Long-Term Research Activities for Fiscal Year 2014,"
(Official Use Only Document - Sensitive Internal Information - Limited to NRC unless the Commission Determines Otherwise)


Very likely, a wide assortment of insiders has access to SECY-12-0013 (including the twenty foreign governments that NRC has enrolled in its Severe Accident Research Program). The American Public should also have access to this. Furthermore, interested Americans should be encouraged to participate in suggesting the scope of the NRC research activities. For example, my PRM-50-76 has been in the hands of NRC since MAYDAY 2002; nevertheless, NRC ignores the dangers to the American Public of zirconium oxidation and hydrogen release during loss-of-coolant accidents.




Robert H. Leyse