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Report to The American Physical Society of the study group on radionuclide release from severe accidents at nuclear power plants

Richard Wilson, Kamal J. Araj, Augustine O. Allen, Peter Auer, David G. Boulware, Fred Finlayson, Simon Goren, Clark Ice, Leon Lidofsky et al.

Richard Wilson

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Kamal J. Araj

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Augustine O. Allen

  • Shoreham, New York 11786

Peter Auer

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850

David G. Boulware

  • University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Fred Finlayson

  • Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, California 90009

Simon Goren

  • University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Clark Ice

  • Aiken, South Carolina 29801

Leon Lidofsky

  • Columbia University, New York, New York 10027

Allen Lee Sessoms

  • U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520

Mary L. Shoaf

  • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Irving Spiewak

  • Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Thomas Tombrello

  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Herbert S. Gutowsky

  • University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Andreas Acrivos

  • Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Herman Feshbach

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

William A. Fowler

  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, S1 – Published 1 July, 1985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.57.S1

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