The Environmental Information System Office (EISO) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provides information support for researchers and administrators involved with energy and environmental policy and progress. Multiple EISO activities for various governmental agencies have resulted in establishment of compatible data bases concerned with energy environmental information, methods for effectively developing these, development and computer display of numerical daya summaries, and reports evaluating published information. Direction is provided by continuing dialogue between users and information system staff.

Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composites (CFCC) are a new class of materials that are lighter, stronger, more corrosion resistant, and capable of performing at elevated temperatures. This new type of material offers the potential to meet the demands of a variety of industrial, military, and aerospace applications. The Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) has a new program on CFCCs for industrial applications and this program has requested an inventory of all federal projects on CFCCs that relate to their new program. The purpose of this project is to identify all other ongoing CFCC research to avoid redunancy in the OIT Program. The inventory will be used as a basis for coordinating with the other ongoing ceramic composite projects.

If there is one question which concerns members of the general public most about generating nucioar power, it is the question of risk. Proliferation, resource availability and all the other matters which are treated in this and previous symposia, are of interest to the general public, but probably only in a limited way. As a result, I will discuss the important topic of risk to human health in this presentation. One of the key questions in discussing the risks associated with nuclear power or any other energy system is, compared to what? That is, it is not too useful to say that there are so many man-days lost or deaths per megawatt-year, because that number will not mean much to many people. We gather most of what we know about the world in comparing things or ideas. So it is with risk. The risks we calculate mean most when they are compared to other risks. This paper is divided into two parts. The first part is based on a study (1) done previously, comparing the risks of 11 different anergy systems, including light-water nuclear power. The information presented in Ret. 1 is brought up to date as necessary.