RT Journal
A1 Mitka M
T1 NUclear reactor risk assessment
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD July 11
VO 308
IS 2
SP 123
OP 123
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.7530
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.7530
AB 
Sen Barbara Boxer (D, Calif) and Rep Edward J. Markey (D, Mass) released a Government Accountability Office report (http://tinyurl.com/c999e8h) that found that although the NRC, since 1986, has repeatedly endorsed the use of probabilistic risk assessment (a comprehensive risk assessment method looking at all potential causes of an accident for any particular hazard), it has not required any reactor operators to use it. Boxer and Markey noted that 8 nuclear reactors are in the seismically active West Coast and about 27 are near the New Madrid seismic zone in the Midwest.