A perspective on the debate.

The article offers a report relating to the American Physical Society's reactor safety study. It states that the study reveals that a nuclear reactor core meltdown accident followed by a major release of gaseous and volatile fission products to the atmosphere could cause severe consequences. The research reviewed the calculations made in the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Reactor Safety Study, using the same assumptions, that two omissions in the calculations made in the AEC study had resulted in an underestimate of the average number of deaths from their reference accident by one or two orders of magnitude.