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398Brittle Power49 DCPA 1973.50 Nelson 1971.51 Lerner 1981:46.52 Dircks 1981.53 Even if shutdown and cooling systemsare still operable, the operators may be unableto prevent a meltdown if their instrumentshave failed, since they will have no way ofknowing internal conditions, valve and pumpstatus, etc.54 Lerner 1981a; Energy & Defense Project1980:305.55 Dircks 1981.56 Ibid. Preliminary results will become availablein mid-1982. The research project, involvinga variety of government and industrial contractorswith EMP and nuclear engineeringexpertise, initially applies only to a particulardesign of pressurized-water reactor. For this reason,and because such analyses are extremelycomplex and subject to many fundamentaluncertainties, the NRC study, however carefullydone, is unlikely to prove definitive.57 Broad 1981 a.58 Clark & Page 1981:30.59 E.g., Wagner 1977.60 E.g., Turner et al. 1970.61 RAND 1980:12.62 Kupperman & Trent 1979:5.63 Eschwege 1974:2; Subcommittee onEnergy & the Environment 1977:204.64 Rosenbaum et al. 1974:S6623; Cochran1977.65 Office of Technology Assessment 1977:197.66 de Leon et al. 1978:42.67 Ibid.:19.68 Ibid.:vi.69 Ibid.:12; Burnham 1975:57–59.70 Burnham 1975:59.71 Prugh 1981.72 Ibid.73 Los Angeles Times 1981h.74 de Leon et al. 1978:13ff; Bass et al.1980:17.75 de Leon et al. 1978:14.76 Bass et al. 1980:17.77 de Leon et al. 1978:13.78 Satchell 1973.79 Comptroller General of the U.S. 1977:8.80 Editor & Publisher 1980.81 New York Times 1980b.82 Comptroller General of the U.S. 1977:9.83 E.g. New York Times 1979a.84 Boston Herald American 1980. Similarly, aftereighteen security guards at the Surrey reactorran afoul of rules against marijuana (ElectricalWorld 1981a.) a bag of it was found in the controlroom (Los Angeles Times 1982f.), but the utilitycould not determine which of a hundredemployees was responsible.85 Smith 1978:Encl. 2:App. J #8.86 Emshwiller 1980a:13.87 Comptroller General of the U.S. 1977:15.88 Beard 1981.89 New York Times 1979b.90 Jenkins 1975a:14.91 Burnham 1975:69.92 Aspin 1975.93 Jenkins 1975a:14.94 Aspin 1975.95 Kupperman & Trent 1979:56; Gervasi1981:249.96 Burnham 1975:69.97 Kupperman & Trent 1979:83.98 Jenkins 1975a:1399 Kupperman & Trent 1979:30–31. Similarantiaircraft and antitank missiles were recentlyseized from Red Brigades terrorists (Los AngelesTimes 1981I), but three days later a RedBrigades team took two sixty-millimeter mortars,two bazookas, various machine guns, andso forth from an armory (ibid. 1982j).100 Jenkins 1975a:14.101 Kupperman & Trent 1979:55.102 Walker 1981:41.103 Jenkins 175a:14.104 Ibid.105 Los Angeles Times 1980e.106 Guardian 1975a.107 Bass et al. 1980:25–26.108 Evening Standard 1976.109 Kupperman & Trent 1979:5.110 Evening Standard 1976; Ottawa Citizen1976.111 Kupperman & Trent 1979:65.112 Ibid.113 New York Times 1977b.114 Pike 1972.115 Burnham 1975:50.116 E.g. Powell 1971 (reprinted 1980).117 Los Angeles Times 1981gg, ee.118 Burnham 1975:49.119 de Leon et al. 1978:35.120 Cooley 1978.