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Appendix E Sample Questionnaire on Nuclear Safety Research 217
218 1. In your view, which of the following constitute "nuclear safety research": (a) research supporting the operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants (b) research in support of licensing (c) research to reevaluate existing regulations against new criteria (d) research on new designs (e) research to extend the life of existing reactors (f) basic research (g) other (please specify) 2. What safety research of this kind are you engaged in? 3. What nuclear safety research are you planning to undertake that you are not now doing? 4. How is your research divided between short- and long-term research? What is the purpose of your research? 5. In general, what safety research should be done; who should do it; who should use it; and who should fund it? 6. What safety research now being done should be brought to closure?
219 7. Do you believe that research responsibilities are properly allocated within the NRC? within DOE? within industry? If you do not, how might they be reallocated? 8. What are your views on the current state of cooperative government-industry research in this country? 9. How effectively, in your judgment, does this country integrate safety research done abroad? research done by U.S. industry? research done by government? research done in the universities? 10. What is your view of the quality of nuclear safety research currently being done? ll. How do you view the performance of the United States in replenishing the pool of scientific talent available for conducting research in nuclear safety? 12. To what extent does the federal government have a responsibility for sustaining the technical community engaged in nuclear safety research? 13. What constraints impinge on nuclear safety research? 14. What recommendations do you have for improving nuclear safety research?
