1980 - NRC Special Inquiry on TMI (Rogovin Report)

This is the Rogovin Report. Mitchell Rogovin led the NRC special inquiry of TMI. The work of the Special Inquiry was not intended to duplicate the efforts of the President's Commission on The Accident at Three Mile Island. It was designed to enable the NRC to fulfill its regulatory responsibilities by achieving the fullest possible understanding of the accident, both from a technical point of view and from the

standpoint of how the NRC's own regulatory processes functioned. Recognizing the potential conflict of interest problems involved if the inquiry were directed and undertaken solely by NRC staff, the Commission in mid-June 1979 contracted with our law firm, Rogovin, Stern & Huge, to conduct the inquiry, specifying that it would have full independence in carrying out the work. Neither the law firm nor

any of its members had any prior involvement with nuclear energy issues.

The fundamental conclusion was that the problems were not rooted in technical issues but actually in management of complex systems.

There are two volumes in this report:

Volume I - Three Mile Island: Narrative of the accident

Conclusions and Recommendations

Volume II

Part I. Pre-Accident Licensing and Regulation Background

Part II. The Accident and It's Analysis

Part III. Response to the Accident

The webpage link is to the NRC Backgrounder file with summary and useful links.

The file link is to a directory of these files.