A summary and recommendations chapter is provided at the start of this report. Where the book covers ground that has already been covered by others, we have also used published books and materials as cited in these works. We have also used official historical accounts of the development of nuclear energy and of the history of the Atomic Energy Commission. For basic nuclear engineering information, we have used the textbooks, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering by John R. Lamarsh and Nuclear Chemical Engineering by Manson Benedict, Thomas H. Pigford, and Hans Wolfgang Levi. Unless otherwise stated, statistics on electricity costs, energy supply, and energy use are derived from the Historical Statistics of United States from Colonial Times to 1970 and from various issues of the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Units are metric, unless otherwise noted.
In order to avoid confusion between these acronyms, we used the acronym NRC-NAS for the latter, and the acronym NAS to refer to studies by the NAS committees.