[en] It is the Central Electricity Generating Board's view that nuclear power is a safe technology and, on reasonable hypotheses, a sound economic investment of national resources. This booklet, based on a talk to members of Parliament in October 1981, sets out the reasons for this. The proposal to build a pressurized water reactor at Sizewell (Sizewell-B) is set in the historical and economic context of the overall energy policy. It acknowledges that public acceptability and the strategy for developing nuclear power in this country are the main problems facing the CEGB's nuclear policy. The Sizewell-B public enquiry is seen as a chance of gaining public confidence in the decision-making process associated with nuclear power. (U.K.)

[en] In an effort to upgrade outdated instrumentation and to take advantage of current and imminent technologies the Nuclear Chemistry Division at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is about to undertake a major upgrade of their low level radiation counting and analysis facilities. It is expected that such a project will make a more coordinated data acquisition and data processing system, reduce manual data handling operations and speed up data processing throughput. Before taking on a systems design it is appropriate to establish a definition of the requirements of the facilities. This report examines why such a project is necessary in the context of the current and projected operations, needs, problems, risks and costs. The authors also address a functional specification as a prelude to a system design and the design constraints implicit in the systems implementation. Technical, operational and economic assessments establish necessary boundary conditions for this discussion. This report also establishes the environment in which the requirements definition may be considered valid. The validity of these analyses is contingent on known and projected technical, scientific and political conditions

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[en] In 1984 the future of nuclear energy in the UK was undergoing its severest examination to date, the Sizewell 'B' inquiry. Since then, the inquiry has closed in March 1985 after a record 340 days and the Inspector Sir Frank Layfield has prepared his exhaustive report. The report published in January 1987 recommended that consent for Sizewell 'B' should be granted. After debate in both Houses of Parliament the Secretary of State for Energy granted consent on 12 March 1987. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate followed with the site licence on 4 June 1987. This endorsement, made against a background of public concern in the wake of the Chernobyl accident in April 1986 and the drastic fall in world fossil fuel prices, allowed the Central Electricity Generating Board not only to start on the construction of Sizewell 'B', but to plan for a future in which nuclear energy has an important role. These plans are reviewed against the background of the current UK energy scene. (author)