NUMARC

The NRC has not incorporated any of the points raised by NUMARC in the draft of the final rule.

Even if a bomb somehow were able to shake the reactor, the probability that every redundant safety system feature would become disabled is remoter still, notes Ron Simard, director of industry relations for the Nuclear Management and Resources Council (NUMARC) in Washington, D.C.

Before sending out letters, however, the NRC ran the idea by NUMARC, the industry's main lobbying arm.