Dr. Richard E. Webb


His Background, list of his main Writings & Publications
constituting his main Works, request for support, and a preview of a future paper.


Webb's Background(1) (The List of Writings and Publications follows.)
 
1. Doctorate (Ph.D.), Studies in nuclear reactor physics and engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1972. His doctoral dissertation treats the subject of explosive power transients (nuclear explosions accidents) in liquid metal cooled, fast neutron, plutonium breeder reactors - popularly called "fast breeder reactors".
2. Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 1962.

3. Commission, U.S. Navy (Line Officer), U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island, May 1963. Achieved the rank of Lieutenant.

4. In the Navy served four years in the Division of Naval Reactors, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1963-1967, on the Staff of Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover with the following responsibility and training:

a. Responsibility as the cognizant (junior) engineer for the nuclear reactor part of the Shippingport Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), which was the first civilian nuclear power plant in the United States. The Division of Naval Reactors was given the responsibility to develop the first civilian nuclear power plant for the United States, drawing on much of the naval reactors technology. The Shippingport PWR went into operation in 1957.

b. Bettis Reactor Engineering School, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, 1965 (awarded the certificate of successful completion). The Bettis Laboratory, operated by Westinghouse under contract with the AEC, Div. of Naval Reactors, is a prime Naval Reactors laboratory and developed the Shippingport reactor and roughly half of the naval reactor designs for the U.S. Navy.

c. Reactor systems training (self-conducted) at the U.S. Navy's D1G and S3G prototype reactor plants at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in West Milton, New York (1966). The Knolls Laboratory was operated by General Electric Company under contract with the AEC, Division of Naval Reactors.

5. Associate Engineer (designated Reactor Engineer) at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Station - a prototype boiling water reactor owned and operated by the Consumers Power Company - Charlesvoix, Michigan (1967-1968). Resigned, in order to pursue studies of the hazards of nuclear power plants.
6.  Offered a Position in the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Program Planning Office, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, January 1968, but declined the offer, in order to study for the doctorate in nuclear reactor physics and engineering.
7.  Webb made his doctoral (graduate) studies of nuclear reactor physics and engineering at Ohio State University, Department of Nuclear Engineering (1968-1972), in order to be educated and skilled to make his own scientific investigations and evaluations of the accident hazards of nuclear power plants, including all types of nuclear reactors, and be completely free and independent of government control, and not dependent on any assessments of the nuclear accident hazards, and the hazards of nuclear radiation, issued by the United States Government's nuclear establishment, and also be fully qualified to make scientific reviews of any matters found in the scientific and technical literature relating to evaluating the nuclear accident hazards, including any analyses of the nuclear hazards issued by the nuclear industry and the Government's nuclear laboratories and other offices. His doctoral dissertation presented theoretical calculations evaluating some effects for possibly augmenting the potentials for explosive power surges in fast neutron, plutonium breeder reactors in other words, nuclear explosions.
8. His studies at Ohio State University also included studies of United States constitutional law mainly, the Constitution of the United States in relation to both the domestic and foreign affairs of the United States (e.g., the Vietnam War).

His constitutional law studies in respect to the domestic affairs of the United States were originally undertaken to pursue the question, Who should make the subjective judgments about the reliability of certain reactor safety systems functioning properly in a particular reactor system fault which judgments determine the specific set of reactor accident possibilities which are to be officially analyzed and evaluated in providing for "safety systems", and those accident possibilities which are not to be evaluated, because of judgments that their probability of occurrence is remote, hence are to be regarded as "incredible", hence are to be disregarded? To pursue this question, it was natural start by comparing the Atomic Energy Act of the United States Congress the statutory basis for the United States Government's development of nuclear power plants with the Constitution of the United States.

The question arose in Webb's nuclear engineering studies at the start of his doctoral research concerning the nuclear excursion dangers of the fast breeder reactor, and was related to his threshold question: Is it unreasonable to assume that two highly reliable (by design), independent, automatic, fast acting reactor shutdown systems should fail upon a reactor system fault (such as a loss of coolant flow disturbance) in a liquid metal cooled, fast neutron, plutonium breeder reactor (LMFBR)? Such assumption would have to be made, in order to postulate the conditions for a runaway nuclear fission chain reaction occurring, the explosion hazard of which would be evaluated. Webb soon found in his initial studies of the United States constitutional law with regard to the Atomic Energy Act that that federal law is unconstitutional. (He then wrote and issued in the year 1969 his treatise, The Unconstitutionality of the 1954 Atomic Energy Act.) Whereupon, Webb determined that it is necessary that all serious nuclear accident possibilities in nuclear power plants must be analyzed and evaluated for their risks of occurring and their potential harmful consequences for the public health and safety, including his first project (his doctoral research project): to evaluate the possible explosive power transients (power excursions) in fast breeder reactors, which he regarded as the most serious of the accident hazards of nuclear power reactors hence, the proper place to start his scientific investigations of the nuclear accident hazards. The constitutional law question which he had posed was then naturally extended to the question, Who should decide the public policy issue of the safety of, and necessity for, nuclear power plants?

His constitutional law studies at Ohio State University also covered the subjects of the war-making and treaty-making powers (the making of war alliances and the conduct of foreign negotiations) assumed and exercised by a succession of Presidents of the United States in the 20th century, with immediate concern for the Vietnam War, and the rights of the United States Senate to determine the United States policy in the peace negotiations, as well as the unconstitutionality of the United States war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. His first study of the treaty-making power was published in the Ohio State Law Journal as a "lead article," titled, "Treaty-Making and the President's Obligation to Seek the Advice and Consent of the Senate with special Reference to the Vietnam Peace Negotiations," Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1970).

He also drafted two United States Senate resolutions which were introduced in the Senate by Indiana Senator Vance Hartke, and designed to reassert the Senate's power and responsibility in determining the United States policy in respect to foreign negotiations, including nuclear weapons, and more immediately at the time, the Vietnam peace negotiations (Senate Res. 156 in 1970, 71, or 72, I cannot recall which year now, and a revised, improved resolution submitted later). However, the Senators did not support the resolutions, according to the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, J. William Fulbright in a debate with Senator Hartke on the Senate floor (recorded in the Congressional Register). The peace negotiations then failed to produce peace, and the Congress then ended up cutting the money funds for the war, in order to stop it.

Webb also prosecuted a law suit on the Vietnam War, Richard E. Webb v. Ambassador William J. Porter. Mr. Porter was President Nixon's personal representative at the Paris Peace Talks, but who was appointed without the advice and consent of the Senate. The law suit was later extended to include Henry Kissinger, as he also was conducting negotiations with North Vietnam representatives, without the advice and consent of the Senate for his appointment. Webb has submitted to the United States Courts a series of briefs which treat the matter thoroughly. The U.S. Courts, including the Supreme Court, refused to adjudicate the constitutional law issues of the suits. Webb claimed that the unconstitutional acts of the President endangered his safety and that of his family with the possibility of nuclear war growing out of the Vietnam War a war with the Soviet Union, besides the anguish of the killing going on in that war, caused by the unconstitutional acts of the Executive.

Webb also in 1972 sued the Atomic Energy Commission in the case Richard E. Webb v. the United States Atomic Energy Commission, on the claim that the Atomic Energy Act is unconstitutional, and that the nuclear power plants which were then just being constructed would endanger him and his family. However, the United States Courts, including the Supreme Court, refused to adjudicate his claims, despite the fact that Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution requires that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution! His only recourse was to publish a book of his analysis, and appeal to his fellow citizens his book, four years later, The Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants was the result (see below).

9.  Researched the accident hazards of nuclear power plants, and also constitutional law, since 1970 in full time (parallel) research, including:
a. Post-doctoral studies of nuclear reactor hazards and constitutional law at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Indiana University (1972-1974).

b. Completion of post-doctoral studies of nuclear hazards and constitutional law in the Department of Physics and the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (1974-1976). Dr. David R. Inglis, a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Massachusetts, and one of the original forty physicists who developed the first atomic bombs at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, obtained a position for Webb at the University of Massachusetts that enabled him to continue his work. (Dr. Inglis authored the book, Nuclear Energy: Its Physics and its Social Challenges, Addison-Wesley publishers, and the book, To end the Arms Race, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, among many other publications. He made the first public proposal for a nuclear weapons test ban. Dr. Inglis also served as President of the American Physical Society for two terms. At Los Alamos, Dr. Inglis was the editor of all of the technical/scientific reports of the several sections of the laboratory during the development of the atomic bombs, and made the calculations (predictions) of the energy yields of the uranium-235 and plutonium bombs. Therefore, he was interested in Webb's work, especially Webb's calculations of the nuclear explosion potentials of the fast breeder reactor. Dr. Inglis was the only scientist, and the only university or college professor, to respond to Webb's Proposal for a Post to teach physics, plus perform research in the fields of the nuclear accident hazards and constitutional law a written proposal (essay) that was sent to about fifty universities and colleges in the United States.) The product of his research at the University of Massachusetts was his treatise, The Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants, published by the University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst) in 1976, upon the recommendation of Dr. Inglis.

Also, taught an academic course in Constitutional Law at the University of Massachusetts. The last chapter of the book Accident Hazards is titled, "Who Should Decide?," and gives an analysis of the Atomic Energy Act with respect to the United States Constitution a short basic proof that the Act is unconstitutional, for the purpose of promoting a full review of the Constitution in relation to nuclear energy. The professor of Legal Studies at the University recommended the publication of the chapter on constitutional law.

c. Research of the matter of the hazards of nuclear waste disposal (high level radioactive waste), 1977, and issued a treatise evaluating these hazards and the magnitude of the potential volume of nuclear waste disposal. Also in 1977 initiated calculations of the nuclear explosion potentials of the SNR-300 fast breeder reactor that was under construction in West Germany.

d. In 1978 Webb made calculations of the heat-up of spent fuel rods in loss of cooling accident conditions in spent fuel storage basins in a nuclear power plants conditions that would likely occur in a severe reactor accident, and discovered that the zirconium-clad spent fuel rods would likely overheat and ignite in a deflagrating zirconium fire, releasing into the atmosphere up to twenty time more long-lived cesium radioactivity, and also possibly strontium-90, and plutonium, than could be released into the atmosphere from a reactor eruption. The reactor eruption alone would be catastrophic over a geographically widespread land area of the order of 200,000 square miles!

e. Involvement in the Three Miles Island nuclear reactor accident in 1979 (the accident began on March 28). Webb gave technical advice six days into the accident on a critical decision on cooling down the destroyed reactor core, which advice was followed, which helped to avert a reactor eruption. See Webb's TMI Essay addressed "To the People of the Area of the TMI Nuclear Power Plant," the Transcript of Audio Tape Recordings that record his involvement, and other items (Nos. 10, 15, 24, and 40 in the List of Writings and Publications.)

Also, on the morning of the second day of the accident, around 10 a.m., Webb by telephone alerted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) its Emergency Operations Center to inquire into the status of the "core thermocouples" devices for measuring the temperatures of the water coolant at the outlets of the fuel assemblies in the reactor during normal reactor operations in order to assess the nuclear fuel conditions inside the reactor. Evidently, after Webb's morning telephone call into the Emergency Operations Center, the Center obtained core thermocouple readings (data) from the TMI site. In the early afternoon of that second day of the accident, those core thermocouple data were given over to the NRC's Dr. Roger Mattson for an evaluation. Dr. Mattson was then chief of the NRC's division of Nuclear Systems Safety, and who up to that time was ordered by his superiors not to be concerned with, nor to spend any time on, the TMI accident situation, but instead to devote his time to preparing a report for the Congress about the nuclear power plant design features with respect to possible earthquakes. The NRC's assessment of the TMI accident given to the Pennsylvania Government authorities on the first day of the accident, and through the evening of the first day, was that the accident was not very serious.

However, the core thermocouple data were recognized by Dr. Mattson as alarming, indicating as they did, extremely high temperatures in the reactor core, and therefore, indicating that the core was destroyed, and so the reactor was in a much more dangerous condition than had been officially estimated and reported earlier. (Years later it was determined that about half of the reactor core melted, a condition for a potential catastrophic steam explosion!) Mattson's evaluation of the thermocouple data and his intense discussions with the B&W reactor vendor who designed the TMI reactors, which discussions carried over to the next morning non-stop (without sleep), caused the NRC and industry engineers at the TMI-2 reactor to be extremely careful in handling the crisis, and probing the reactor conditions and taking actions efforts which prevented rash actions that could have worsen the conditions and thereby produced a catastrophic reactor eruption.

f. On the first evening of the TMI accident Webb became, in effect, an emergency consultant to the Secretary of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, which consultations lasted for two weeks, and also Webb was consulted by an official of the Governor's Science Advisory Council of the State of Pennsylvania Government in connection with and during the critical phase of the Three Mile Island accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979. Webb has since thoroughly investigated the accident and has issued several treatises and reports on the subject. See items Nos. 10, 15, 24, and 40 of the List of Writings and Publications below.

g. Consultant to the town of Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, New Jersey, investigating the accident hazards of spent nuclear fuel storage at the Salem pressurized water reactors (Westinghouse designs), 1979-1980. Webb participated in the NRC's licensing proceedings on the subject of spent fuel storage a license application to pack more spent fuel in the storage basin, since there were no radioactive waste disposal facilities that could accept the spent fuel rods that were being regularly removed from the reactor in periodic reactor "refuelings." In those proceedings Webb submitted several treatises on the matter: one evaluating the potentials for spent fuel heat up and fire following a reactor accident; and another treatise which proved that the TMI accident was a "Class Nine Accident," meaning that the reactor safety systems were not designed to control safely the mechanical disturbance that started that accident.

Webb's Class Nine Accident treatise demonstrated that the TMI accident was one of the accident possibilities of the class of reactor accident possibilities which the Atomic Energy Commission, later the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, had before judged to be "incredible" and therefore, judged the risk of their occurrence to be acceptably low, or remote. Prior to Webb's submission of his "TMI Class Nine Accident" treatise the Executive Director of the NRC had declared in a letter addressed to the United States Congress that the TMI accident was a "design basis accident" that is, a "Class 8 accident," which would mean that the safety systems at TMI were designed to control the accident that happened. Thus, the NRC executive director had asserted in effect that the TMI safety systems functioned as designed to prevent a catastrophic reactor eruption. However, after Webb's submission of his "TMI - Class Nine Accident" treatise in the Salem spent fuel licensing proceedings, the NRC reversed their assessment, and submitted to the Salem proceedings a response to Webb's treatise, conceding that the TMI accident was a Class Nine Accident. The official giving the response was Dr. Roger Mattson. It all means that it was essentially LUCK that averted a reactor eruption during the TMI accident, in addition to the strenuous efforts of the reactor engineers and technicians at the site and in the offices of the GPU, B&W, and NRC.

h. Member of the official West German Government investigation of the explosion accident hazards of the SNR-300 fast breeder reactor, 1981-1982: Research Group Fast Breeder Reactor, Risk oriented Analysis of the SNR-300 (Forschungsgruppe Schneller Brüter, Risikorientierte Analyses zum SNR-300, Max Planck Institut für Physik), Munich. Continued research of the nuclear explosion potentials of the SNR-300 reactor in 1985; and discovered atomic bomb size explosion potentials. Submitted a report of this research, including the calculations, to the licensing authorities in West Germany. The West German Government authorities subsequently decided not to operate the reactor, after it was built and ready for fuel loading.

i. Continued research of the accident hazards of nuclear power plants, including fast breeder reactors (nuclear explosion potentials), light water reactors, the British type gas-cooled reactors, and the Soviet's RBMK-type Reactors (Chernobyl type), 1982-present. Before the Chernobyl accident of April 26, 1986, Webb investigated the June 1985 loss of cooling reactor mishap at the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant, and issued a report. That reactor came close to an explosion in that mishap, as is demonstrated in his report. Also, Webb issued a draft treatise on the core meltdown and explosion hazards of light water reactors (LWRs).

j. Investigated the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the spring and summer of 1986 (the accident began on April 26, 1986), and issued a report of his investigation dated August 1, 1986, two months before the Soviets released their report. (See the list below.) Webb then went to Europe on September 1, 1986, to promote his analysis of the Chernobyl accident, and to investigate the accident further. He obtained the Soviet Report of the accident, and paid special attention to the estimates of the amount of radioactivity released and the reactor power excursion that occurred. Prepared a second addendum to his Chernobyl report, but deferred that work in order to investigate the nuclear excursion accident hazards of the British gas-cooled reactors, which are similar to the Chernobyl RBMK in certain respects.

k. In one year research (1987-1988) discovered nuclear explosion hazards of the British Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGRs). Issued a treatise, The Nuclear Explosion Hazards of the British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs). A report of this scientific discovery is given in the British magazine New Scientist, October 22, 1988, the lead story "This Week."

l. Participated in the British Government's Hinkley Point 'C' Public Inquiry, October 1988 - December 1989, which investigated various matters (e.g., safety) concerning the planned construction and operation of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) station at the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. Submitted evidence in these proceedings on PWR and AGR accident hazards, cross-examined officials, and underwent cross-examination. Near the end of these proceedings the British Government cancelled their plans to construct the PWR station at Hinkley Point, and three other such stations. Made additional research of the steam explosion hazards of core melting accidents in water cooled reactors, and reactivity accident hazards of PWRs and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs), and other topics in connection with the Hinkley Point Inquiry proceedings. Issued a treatise on the unstable power oscillation that occurred at the LaSalle BWR near Chicago in 1988.

m. Made further research in 1989-90 into the potential reactivity effect of "neutron streaming" in nuclear excursion accidents in fast breeder reactors, and developed a possible mathematical solution to the problem of evaluating the reactivity potential by this effect - an effect which conceivably could have a large catastrophic effect (nuclear explosion). This was undertaken because of the hazards of the operating fast breeder reactor in northern Scotland and the possibility of the SNR-300 fast breeder reactor in Germany being put into operation. However, this research was set aside, in order to prepare a second book on the nuclear hazards for the public, and to resume work on developing a mathematical analysis of the cancer mortality statistics of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors and radiation workers, to evaluate the effect of nuclear radiation causing cancer disease at low dose (see the next item below). Also raised the matter of the nuclear explosion accident hazards of the British fast breeder reactor in the Hinkley Point Public Inquiry. The British Government has since announced that it plans to close down this reactor, and the German Government has announced its decision not to operate the SNR-300 reactor.

n. Undertook a mathematical analysis of the cancer mortality statistics of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors, and the Hanford radiation workers, to determine whether or not nuclear radiation causes cancer at "low" dose, and if so, the magnitude of the effect: the so-called "risk coefficient" - the additional probability of cancer death per unit dose of nuclear radiation. (Began this work in 1984 and worked intermittently until 1990, then worked full time on this problem from 1991 to February 1993.) This work was supported in part by the Schleswig-Holstein Government in northern Germany. Issued a three-volume treatise of my analysis, plus a forth unfinished draft, plus a series of reports. Had postponed this work in February 1993, in order to undertake a further and thorough scientific investigation of the Three Mile Island accident of March 28, 1979. However, in February-May, of the present year 2000, Webb has resumed his statistical analysis research on the "risk coefficient", as part of his current research (near completion) of the health hazards of nuclear radiation.

o. Resumed constitutional law studies in October 1990, particularly concerning the war-making power under the U.S. Constitution, following the blockade of Iraq in August 1990, and issued a treatise on the subject (see below). This work spanned the period October 1990 to April 1991.

p. Made additional studies and analyses of the hazards of catastrophic steam explosions in reactor core melt accidents in water-cooled reactors, plus the question of harm to the human body due to low dose of radiation.

q. Re-investigated the March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, and other topics, including an analysis and evaluation of the radioactivity releases into the atmosphere during the Three Miles Island nuclear accident, the radiation dose levels in the TMI area due to those releases, and the extent of harm by the public's exposure to the radiation emissions of the accident. Have prepared a treatise evaluating the radiation doses which the inhabitants around the Three Mile Island nuclear plant likely received, or possibly received, as a result of the TMI accident. This treatise critically analyzes the official U.S. Government's "Radiation Protection Standards," and the official investigation of the TMI accident with respect to compliance or non-compliance with these standards. His research included development of mathematical theory of gamma radiation physics for calculating the radiation dose to person exposed to a passing radioactive cloud, as in the TMI accident, including body tissue doses, besides the air dose outside the body, and for calculating the energy spectrum of the gamma photons. The theory permits a calculation of the radiation doses using a small personal computer without resort to extremely expensive "Monte Carlo" calculations that employ large "main frame" computers of a nuclear laboratory for long computer running times (several days times). Webb has prepared the material for a full treatise on the TMI accident; but has had to defer the work to take up pressing matters.

r. Made a mathematical Analysis of the Birth Statistics in Bavaria before and after Chernobyl, and discovered statistical indications of deadly harmful effects of nuclear radiation at low doses - increases in the still-birth rate in 1987-1989 in Bavarian due to the Chernobyl radiations exposures in Bavaria, which suffered substantial levels of nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Issued in 1995 a four volume treatise that represented the complete details of the original analysis. The Bavarian Government in September 1994 had published a report giving the official statistical analysis, made by the German federal Office of Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, BfS), which concluded that there were no detectable effects of the Chernobyl fallout in Bavaria on the health of child birth. However, Webb treatise included a critical review of the BfS analysis, proving that the analysis was not sound. Later in 1996-1998 further work was made, and a further report/treatise was issued, dated March 4, 1997, and later a draft treatise, July 31, 1997 that extends the work. The Bavarian Government then re-opened its investigation, following Webb's statistical analysis and his critical review of the BfS analysis, and commissioned two pairs of experts in mathematical statistics to review the BfS analysis and Webb's analysis, and two other statistical analyses. The expert commission from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Freiburg, in their report dated May 1998, concluded that Webb's statistical analysis is "solid," and they confirmed Webb's results by their independent calculations. The matter is on-going. Webb has issued a 15-book treatise in June 1998, and is presently in Bavaria to complete the whole work, and prepare for publication a scientific article on the subject.

s. In 1994 Webb undertook research into the biological and health effects of nuclear radiation, to assess the extent of the human harm from one rad dose of nuclear radiation. Discovered that the health effects of nuclear radiation (and X-rays) are far more serious than the radiation biology and radiation protection establishment have heretofore reported (see Section V of his TMI essay, addressed To the People of the Area of the Three Miles Island Nuclear Power Plant listed below.) Also, he made further analyses of the nobel gas radioactivity releases in the TMI accident, and has prepared a follow-on report, but which has had to be deferred.

t. Resumed his studies of constitutional law when he learned of the United States bombing attacks in Yugoslavia in September 1995.

u. Investigated the critical reviews of his analysis of the radioactivity releases in the TMI accident which the TMI company, General Public Utilities, submitted to the United States District Court in Pennsylvania, and the Court Judge's decision pronouncement that Webb's analysis is "scientifically unreliable" a proceeding in regards to Webb's work which Webb was not informed about. See his TMI essay addressed "To the People of the Area of the Three Miles Island Nuclear Power Plant," as listed below.

v. In December 1996 Webb returned to the United States, settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in order to prepare for a set of law suits to recover damages for the injuries (defamation) he has suffered as a result of the Court proceedings just mentioned. This work included additional studies of constitutional law, needed to determine his rights to protect his reputation by legal action, and the proper rules of proceeding and rules of evidence in the United States Courts under the Constitution. He has made a thorough critical review of the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, taking for a specific case for study the matter of the prosecutions conducted by the Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr, and the Impeachment and Trial proceedings involvement President William J. Clinton. See items Nos. 46 and 47 of the List of Writings and Publications below. In Webb's view, those proceedings were not unrelated to Mr. Clinton's unconstitutional actions to make more war in Iraq and Yugoslavia, which was a factor in motivating Webb's study of the matter of the Independent Counsel's prosecutions and the Impeachment and Trial proceedings.

w. In the period 1997-1999 Webb has also further investigated the Three Miles Island nuclear accident, and made further discoveries about the accident which so far have not been documented, such as the discovery of the dangers of "going water solid" in the reactor system during the accident, including the possibility of a Chernobyl-like nuclear excursion (reactor explosion). Also determine that the real lessons of the TMI accident have not really been learned. Also, discovered significant above-normal numbers of infant deaths in Dauphin County the county in which the TMI plant is located upon a mathematical analysis of the official Pennsylvania Vital Statistics, and issued a report. The report was submitted to the Secretary of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and included a critical review of the official Pennsylvania Government's analysis of the statistics on child birth in the area of the TMI plant following the TMI accident.

x. In 1996-1999 Webb made additional, and extremely thorough studies of constitutional law in regards to both the domestic affairs powers and foreign affairs powers assumed by the United States Congress and the President, with immediate focus on the additional war-makings of the United States Government: renewed bombing attacks against Iraq, and Yugoslavia. Wrote up additional treatises on constitutional law, and has nearly completed a set of papers for taking legal action with regard to those attacks. But had to defer the work for a lack of a home in which to live. Returned to Germany in August 1999, in order to survive, being offered an apartment to live and continue his work. It has not been possible for Webb presently to survive in his home country, and be critical of the United States Government's assumptions and exercise of unconstitutional powers, mainly, powers to make wars and alliances on behalf of other nations or peoples, powers to develop nuclear energy, and other unconstitutional assumptions of power that have so seriously affected the life of our country, and other nations; especially, when the United States District Court Judge in Harrisburg has acted to destroy his reputation, and unjustly so! See his essay on TMI and his essays on the Constitution of the United States, some of which appear on the Internet with this summary of Webb's Background and List of Writings and Publications.

y. Presently Webb is residing in Bavaria, completing his statistical analysis research of the harmful effects of nuclear radiation, and his studies and physics analysis of the action of nuclear radiation on body living tissue electron track calculations; coulomb scattering of electrons, photo-electron interactions, cloud chamber evidence of such interactions, &c., for calculating the fraction of body tissues cells hit, and consequent damaged (mutated) by energetic electrons at a certain radiation dose energetic electrons produced by the absorption of gamma radiation photon energy in the body tissue, when exposed to nuclear radiation. Webb's statistical analyses cover (1) the official Bavaria statistics on still births and infant deaths for the period 1980-1993, to assess the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear fallout in Bavaria, which was relatively high in southern Bavaria, (2) the official Pennsylvania statistics on infant deaths for Dauphin and York counties of Pennsylvania for the period 1970-1989 made for assessing the possible harmful effect of the Three Miles Island nuclear accident of March 28, 1979, and (3) the semi-official cancer mortality statistics of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors, to assess the cancer death "risk coefficient" of nuclear radiation exposure. Preparing a scientific article for publication of his statistical analyses and physics analysis, the object of which is to assess the health hazards of nuclear radiation.



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A List of R.E. Webb's Writings and Publications
constituting his Main Works(2)
 
1. Some Autocatalytic Effects during Explosive Power Transients in Liquid Metal Cooled, Fast Breeder Nuclear Power Reactors (LMFBRs), doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 1972. (For the record Webb declares that his analysis of autocatalytic reactivity effects that is given in his dissertation is not adequate; though that analysis served to demonstrate the necessity to account for these effects in any evaluation of the nuclear explosion potentials of fast breeder reactor accidents. See the items Nos. 12 and 28 below which discuss Webb's later research in regards to "neutron streaming" reactivity effects.")

2. The Unconstitutionality of the 1954 Atomic Energy Act, 1969.

3. Statement on the Explosion Hazards of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor published by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, United States Congress, in September 1972, Committee Print - The LMFBR Demonstration Plant. This congressional document concerned the U.S. Government's plan, which has since been discarded, to build the a LMFBR demonstration reactor, the Clinch River Breeder Reactor.

4. The Explosion Hazards of the Liquid Metal-Cooled, Fast Neutron, Plutonium-Breeding Reactor (LMFBR), printed by Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, July 1973. Contains a section on the "Unconstitutionality of the Atomic Energy Act." This report gives a point-by-point refutation of the Atomic Energy Commission's comments on Webb's statement on the explosion hazards of the LMFBR.

5. The Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976). Includes as its final chapter the author's analysis of constitutional law with respect to the U.S. Atomic Energy Act - the chapter titled "Who Should Decide?

6. The Vietnam War and the Responsibilities of Congress, published Summer 1967, Charlesvoix, Michigan.

7. "Treaty-Making and the President's Obligation to Seek the Advice and Consent of the Senate with special Reference to the Vietnam Peace Negotiations," Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1970).

8. Grounds for the Impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon - a legal analysis. Also published in the Indiana University student newspaper, The Daily Student, 1973 (School of Journalism)

9. Presidential War-Making, Nuclear Weapons, and Unconstitutional Government (a detailed outline of a treatise), 1983.

10. "Analysis of the Accident at Three Mile Island," a chapter published in the book, Nuclear Lessons, by E. Hogan and R. Curtis, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1980.

11. An Inquiry into the Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal (1977) - an analysis of the hazards of nuclear waste disposal, including geologic disposal and surface storage.

12. The Nuclear Explosion Potentials of the SNR-300 Fast Breeder Reactors at Kalkar, West Germany- a series of ten treatises on this subject (1977-1984).

Of special importance is the final report of this series, which was presented to the West German Government, the Minister for Research and Technology, and to the Kalkar reactor licensing authority of the North Rhine-Westfalia Government, and which reports on Webb's discovery of atomic bomb size nuclear explosion potentials of the fast breeder reactors, and the SNR-300 reactor in particular. (The report is to be given a restricted distribution for obvious reasons.) One of the theoretical developments which was made in the course of this research relates to a mechanism called "neutron streaming," and more specifically, the second type of neutron streaming that is treated in Webb's doctoral dissertation, having to do with a "planar gap" through the reactor core (postulated to form during a core meltdown, as assumed in the official hazards analysis for the EBR-II experimental fast breeder reactor). For the record, Webb asserts that the treatment of the gap neutron streaming given in his doctoral dissertation is not adequate. He has developed an improved, more accurate mathematical theory for calculating the effect, which figures in the calculation of the atomic bomb size nuclear explosion potentials of the fast breeder. This particular development needs to be published in a nuclear engineering journal. However, the work had to be deferred in order to take up more pressing work, such as the occurrence of the Chernobyl accident, that happened three weeks after Webb submitted his report on the atomic bomb size explosion potentials of the SNR-300 reactor.

13. Calculations of Spent Fuel Heat-Up following Loss-of-Cooling in the Spent Fuel Storage Pool at Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant, Red Wing, Minnesota, June 27, 1980.

14. The Potential Harmful Consequences of Catastrophic Accidents in Nuclear Power Plants, 1980, and published in the reports of the official, West Germany Government study of the SNR-300 accident risks, "SNR-300 Risikoorienterte Analyse," April 30 and November, 1982. This treatise is mainly an application of atmospheric dispersion and fallout theory to estimate the potential size land areas of serious air and soil contamination from radioactivity releases in nuclear reactor plant accidents.

15. Analysis of the Three Mile Island Accident and the Implications for the Reactor Accident Hazards in General, September 1982, which is a full treatise, including a critical review of the official studies of the accident (draft manuscript). This report is supplemented by my March 10, 1989 "Evidence" submitted in the Hinkley Point public inquiry (see below) and in my Three Mile Island Accident "Transcript" (see below).

16. The Likelihood and Potentials for Catastrophic Reactor Accidents, draft manuscript, December 1982, which analyses the probability of accidents and the potentials for explosion and fission product release in light water reactors.

17. Catastrophic Nuclear Accident Hazards - A Warning for Europe, August 1984.

- Supplemental Analysis of the Potentials for Nuclear Reactor Plant Eruptions, Light Water Reactors, May 1985.

- Addendum, April 12, 1986: Atomic Bomb Size Explosion Potentials a summary of my analysis (discovery) of atomic bomb size explosion potentials in the SNR-300 fast breeder reactor.

18. Catastrophic Nuclear Accident Hazards and Unconstitutional Government (unpublished manuscript, May 1984) - similar to Webb'sWarning for Europe (No. 17 above), only written specially for the American situation, including a voluminous chapter on U.S. Constitutional Law, and including a critical review and evaluation of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's evaluation of the potential magnitude of fission product release in "degraded core accidents."

19. The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: A Summary Analysis of its Cause and Consequences, with a Comparative Analysis of the Accident Hazards of the Western Reactors, August 1, 1986. (Extracts of this report were published in the British journal The Ecologist, Vol. 16 No 4/5 1986; though it should be noted that the editors changed without Webb's permission and knowledge a key section of his report which presents his evaluation of the possible numbers of cancer deaths arising out of the Chernobyl. The problem was corrected by R.Webb's letter to the editor in the following issue of The Ecologist.)

20. Democratic and Constitutional Principles Reviewed and Asserted - a lecture given at the Anti-Atom International Conference in Vienna, September 1986.

21. The Nuclear Explosion Accident Hazards of the British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs), June 1988.

22. An Analysis and Evaluation of the Accident Hazards of, and the official Safety Arguments for, the Sizewell-B Type Pressurized Water Reactor proposed for the Hinkley Point Reactor Site in England, March 10, 1989 (corrected for typing errors, November 20, 1989) - Evidence submitted in the Hinkley Point 'C' Public Inquiry.

23. Boiling Water Reactors: Reactivity Accidents and Unstable Power Oscillations, August 15, 1989.

24. The Three Mile Island Accident - Transcript of Excerpted Telephone Discussions and Radio and Television Reports, giving an audio account of the TMI Accident and R.E. Webb's involvement in the accident - his efforts to advise the authorities in a critical decision on the method for cooling down the destroyed reactor core, plus narration and a Sequel. (September 23, 1989, revised slightly March 1990).

25. Analysis of the February 11, 1990 Loss-of-Power (Loss of Reactor Cooling) Mishap at Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Plant and its Implications - a Further Assessment of the Hazards and Risks of Catastrophic Accidents in the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors in Great Britain, May 6, 1990.

26. A draft treatise titled Refutation of the Statements of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority - UKAEA/Dounreay - Denying the Credibility, Competence, and Integrity of Dr. Richard E. Webb with regard to his Analysis of the Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants, and in particular the Nuclear Explosion Hazards of Fast Breeder Reactors, such as the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) at Dounreay and the SNR-300 in West Germany. This treatise will be enlarged to include the results of R.E.Webb's current research into the question of the reactivity effect of neutron streaming as a possible mechanism for nuclear explosions in the fast breeder reactor.

The work for the completion of the treatise had to be postponed, in order to pursue a series of other matters, from 1990 to the present (March 2000).

An important part of the research concerns a thing called "neutron streaming" in the sodium coolant flow space between the fuel rods in a fast breeder reactor in that part of the reactor core in which the sodium coolant has been blown away in an overheating fault (called "coolant voiding"). This form of neutron streaming is also treated in Webb's doctoral dissertation, besides the "planar gap" mechanism of neutron streaming mentioned above (see item 12 above). For the record Webb declares that the theory or method which he devised for his dissertation for evaluating this kind of neutron streaming is not adequate, namely, the method based on the theory of neutron streaming by Behrens, as is given in the book The Physical Theory of Neutron Fission Chain Reactors [or Reactions], by Weinberg and Wigner, University of Chicago Press. One result of the work has been to devise a way to obtain an estimate of the neutron streaming reactivity worth by means of a rigorous neutron transport theory calculation, without having to assume a theory which relates the neutron diffusion coefficient to the mean square distance of neutron penetration in a medium. That way is to assume an idealized reactor consisting of an infinitely long series of equally spaced, identical circular slabs of fissionable material, fixed on a common axis, and a gap between each slab, to take full advantage of symmetry in the calculation. The calculation for this system remains to be made.

27. The Risks of Catastrophic Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants, a paper for the Conferència Catalana per un Futur Sense Nuclears, Barcelona, Spain, 25 April 1990

28. Technical Questions on the Accident Hazards of Nuclear Weapons, 1985, sent to the U.S. Department of Energy, which contains an analysis of the accident hazards of nuclear weapons, and of the two major nuclear weapon accidents, Palamaros, Spain, and Thule, Greenland. This treatise also proves that most of the plutonium of the several nuclear bombs that exploded in those accidents has not been accounted for in the so-called "clean up" work (decontamination work) performed at each accident site.

29. Analysis of the Constitution with respect to the Authority to make War and Alliances, and the Employment of Force against Iraq by Presidential Acts, January 11, 1990 with an Addendum on the January 12, 1991 use-of-force resolution of the U.S. Congress, and Supplement dated April 6, 1991.

30. Unconstitutional Government - A Sketch of a Constitutional Analysis with respect to Domestic and Foreign Affairs, May 1984, revised August 1990. Includes the introduction "Unconstitutional Government in America."

31. A Mathematical Analysis of the Cancer Mortality Statistics of the Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors and Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Installation - An Evaluation of the Probability of Cancer Death by Exposure to Nuclear Radiation at Low Dose. May 1991. Includes five Addenda (June 1991 - September 1991), plus a sixth Addendum in preparation. Submitted a series of reports of the progress of the work to the Government of Schleswig-Holstein, including Webb's finding that the semi-official cancer mortality statistics of the atomic bomb survivors issued by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, an institution supported by the United States Department of Energy are unreliable. For one, there is great uncertainty in the actual radiation doses received by the individual survivors.

32. The Matter of the Planned Use of Mixed Plutonium Dioxide-Uranium Dioxide Nuclear Fuel in the Gundremmingen Reactor, July 11, 1991. A supplement, dated January 1994, has just been finished and will be issued, titled: The Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants in Germany, and the Use of MOX Plutonium Recycle Fuel in the Gundremmingen Boiling Water Reactor - Comments, Questions, and Proposals, supplementing my July 1991 MOX Paper.

33. The Reactor "Safety Container" of Nuclear Power Plants in Germany, November 23, 1991 (revised) with "postscript" dated November 20, 1991. This paper is a critical evaluation of the official "German Risk Study" - the official analysis of the accident risks of nuclear power plants in Germany, particular the pressurized water reactors.

34. "Der 'Sicherheitsbehälter' von Kernkraftwerken," an article published in the Umwelt Zeitung Starnberg in December 1991.

35. Analysis of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident with respect to the Release of Noble Gas Fission Product Radioactivity into the Atmosphere, June 19, 1993. This Treatise includes a section: "Mathematical Model of the Release into the Atmosphere of Noble Gas Radioactivity in the Three Mile Island Accident," and an Errata and Supplement, dated June 19, 1993.

36. Affidavit, June 4, 1993, submitted in the present legal proceedings before the United States District Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, concerning the March 28, 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, unit 2 reactor. This affidavit critically evaluates the analyses of noble gas radioactivity release in the Three Mile Island accident issued by the company owning the reactor, plus summarizes my own analysis.

37. An Assessment of the Public's Exposure to the Nuclear Radiation from the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident of March 28, 1979 A Preview Short Synopsis, Affidavit, August 1, 1994, submitted to the U.S. District Court in Harrisburg in the Three Mile Island legal proceedings. This affidavit gives a preview of Webb's assessment of the public's exposure to nuclear radiation from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

38. Preparing a report giving a comprehensive analysis of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. This report includes an assessment of the harm caused by nuclear radiation exposure and the associated scientific uncertainties.

39. Four-Volume Treatise, Statistical Analysis, which presented Webb's original mathematical analysis of the birth statistics in Bavaria for the period before and after the Chernobyl nuclear fallout in Bavaria, made for assessing the effects of the fallout on the public health. The Treatise includes a critical review of the official statistical analysis of still births and infant deaths in Bavaria following the Chernobyl radioactive fallout in Bavaria made by the Federal Office of Radiation Protection Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) plus a letter to the Bavaria ministry for the Environment (Dr. Eder), dated 17 June 1996, regarding "BfS's Statement of Position on Webb's Statistical Analysis on Human Health Effects of the Chernobyl Radiation in Bavaria."

40. A report on the Three Miles Island nuclear accident, titled: To the People of Area of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Concerning the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident of March 28, 1979: The Impact of the Nuclear Radiation Emissions on the Health of the People in the Area of the Plant, and the Rights of the People in this Regard; and the recent Judgment of the U.S. District Court (Harrisburg) of a TMI Controversy which relates to this Matter, and which involves this Author, September 12, 1996. The table of contents of this report is given below:


Table of Contents


I. The Author's Background and Research
3
II. The Author's 1976-79 Warnings of the Nuclear Accident Hazards. And then, the TMI Accident happened!
5
III. The Author's Involvement in the TMI Accident
6
IV. The Author's Assessment of the Radioactivity Releases into the Atmosphere; and the Consequent Radiation Exposures suffered by the TMI Area Residents. 
8
V. Damaging Action of Nuclear Radiation on Body Tissues (Health Harm); "Radiation Protection Standards;" and the Rights of the People to Protection from Radiation. 
15
VI. The District Court's Ruling regarding the Credibility of this Author's TMI Accident Analysis. 
27
VII. Concluding Remarks (The Perspective on the Constitution follows.)
34
VIII. Constitutional Law and our Nuclear Hazards Predicament - a vital Perspective 
37


41. Letter to the Secretary of Health, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 14 January 1997, presenting Webb's statistical analysis for infant deaths in the area of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, and his critical evaluation of the official statistical analyses issued by the Department of Health concerning the effects of the radiation releases in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident of March 28, 1979.

42. Refutation of the Bavaria State Government's Position Statement regarding R. E. Webb's Statistical Analysis

- Calculations of Significant Increases in Still-Births and Infant Deaths in Bavaria following the Chernobyl Accident: Statistical Indications of Deadly Harmful Effects of the Radioactive Contamination in Südbayern from Chernobyl; including Proof that the official Epidemiological Investigation of the Effects of the Nuclear Radiation from Chernobyl in Bavaria on the Health of the Children of Bavaria - the official Analysis of the official Bavaria Statistics on Still Births and Infant Deaths made by the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, under the Bundes-ministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz and Reaktorsicherheit, and published by the Bavaria Staatsministerium für Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen, in the Report Säuglingsterblichkeit und angeborne Fehlbildungen in Bayern nach dem Reaktor-unfall in Tschernobyl, which finds no statistical Evidence of adverse Health Effects of Chernobyl in Bavaria -is Unsound and Contrived!
March 4, 1997. (103 pages plus appendices)

43. Preview Report Harmful Effects of the Radioactive Fallout in Bavaria from the Chernobyl Reactor Eruption of April 26, 1986

A Mathematical Analysis of the Official Statistics on Still Births and Infant Deaths in Bavaria and other Parts of West Germany (1980-1993). This is a preview of a multi-book treatise on this subject to be issued soon. This 15-book treatise includes among other topics, a book, titled:

Critical Review of the Article "Perinatal Mortality in Bavaria, Germany, after the Chernobyl Reactor Accident," by B. Grosche, et al., Federal Office of Radiation Protection, German Government (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz), published in Radiation Environment Biophysics, Editor, A. M. Kellerer, Vol. 36 (1997), pp. 129-136.

A list of the 15 books is attached to this List of Writings and Publications.

44. Preview of Webb's Critical Review of the Report: Prüfauftrag zu den Untersuchungen über die Kindersterblichkeit in Bayern nach dem Reaktorunfall von Tschernobyl Stefan Wagenpfeil and Albrecht Neiß Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie der Technischen Universität München, 9 July 1998.

45. The Nuclear Reactors used in Japan, United States, Europe, and Britain are much more hazardous than the Chernobyl RBMK reactor type. An essay dated May 29, 1998, issued at the request of the public television of Japan.

46. A Treatise on United States constitutional law, titled:

"A Critical Analysis of the Independent Counsel Statute; the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; the Federal Rules of Evidence; the executive Powers assumed by the Supreme Court, and its Chief Justice; the Proceedings of the civil Suit Jones v. Clinton, in the United States District Court, Arkansas; the Supreme Court Opinion in Clinton v. Jones (1997); the Powers of the Independent Counsel under the Ethics in Government Act; the Independent Counsel's Referral Report submitted to the House of Representatives; the Impeachment of President William J. Clinton by the House of Representatives; and the Conduct of the present Senate Trial of the Impeachment with respect to the Constitution of the United States."

47. PETITION concerning the Senate Trial of the Impeachment of William J. Clinton President of the United States, submitted to the Presiding Officer of the Senate Trial, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, with attention to the Secretary of the Senate and the Senate Parliamentarian.

48. Sections of a Webb's developing full treatise on the CONSTITUTIONOF THE UNITED STATES as follows:

a. The Supreme Court opinion in U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. The doctrine of inherent powers of the United States Government with respect to "international relations," reviewed and refuted.

b. The Supreme Court opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland The doctrine of implied, incidental powers by the necessary and proper clause, refuted.

c. The General Welfare Clause.

d. All the Wars, Alliances and Confederations made and entered into by the United States Government are, and have been, unconstitutional. A full treatise proving that the Constitution does not vest in the United States Government any power to enter into alliances with foreign nations: that the power to make treaties granted by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution does not confer any power to contract alliances!

The treatise on the United States Constitution will treat just about everything of importance; such as the United States Government's assumptions power to acquire territory (e.g., the Louisiana Purchase), the United States Banking System erected by the United States Government, including the Federal Reserve System and the National Banks, and Alexander Hamilton's Report on the Public Credit, &c.

49. Papers constituting the Plaintiff's Declaration in Webb's planned law suit against President's Clinton and Bush for having made unconstitutional wars in Iraq and Yugoslavia, under preparation.
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Webb is currently residing in Germany, in order to complete his statistical analysis work. He plans soon to return to America as soon as possible, and resume his main line of work. See his Advertisement concerning the U.S. Constitution, and his Proposals for an Urgent Book on the Imminent Dangers of Catastrophic Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants and for Continuing Research and Major Undertakings to Promote the Public Safety in regard to the Nuclear Hazards, and his essay on Three Miles Island. These and several other writings have been placed on the Internet: http://www.technidigm.org/c5001/tmi.htm

Webb welcomes support!



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Attachment follows.

Titles of the preview copy of
the several Books comprising
Webb's forthcoming Treatise
which was sent to the StMLU by Federal Express
from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (airway bill #400-4773-6555),
due to arrive at the StMLU on July 6, 1998.

These Books are not in the finished form (see note on page 2 bottom.)


Preview Report (finished printed version, dated June 17, 1998):

Harmful Effects of the Radioactive Fallout in Bavaria
from the Chernobyl Reactor Eruption of April 26, 1986
- A Mathematical Analysis of the Official Statistics on Still Births and Infant Deaths in Bavaria and other Parts of West Germany (1980-1993).
Book I: Critical Analysis of the new official Statistical Analysis and Evaluation, made by the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) and the Bavaria Environment Minister, Dr. Thomas Goppel (StMLU), and communicated on May 20, 1997, to Mr. Hans Kolo, deputy chairman, Bavarian Parliament's Environment Committee, pertaining to the BfS/StMLU Epidemiological Investigation of the Effects of the Chernobyl Radioactive Fallout in Bavaria on the Health of Child-Birth New BfS Calculations of "p-Values" made in response to Richard E. Webb's Criticisms of the original BfS Statistical Analysis, given in the September 1994 BfS/StMLU Report.
Book II: Analysis of the Statistics on Still Births in Bavaria using the Mathematical Theory derived by R. Webb Proof of Statistical Indications of Deadly Harmful Effects of the Chernobyl Radiation in Bavaria.
Book II.A. Critical Review of the SAS Theory Comparison of the Exact Theory with the SAS Theory.
Book III. The Assumption of an Extra Variance reconsidered.
Book IV. On Causation. Plus Book IV.A., Book IV.B., and Book IV.C., constituting three appendices on Causation.
Book V. The Formulation of the Appropriate Scheme for a Definitive Statistical Analysis for Causation: Statistics Type, Number of Observation Windows, Duration of Windows, the Statistical Basis for the Estimate Function Q(t) of the Normal Probability of Death, &c.
Book VI. The Reliability of the Statistical Analysis Calculations (The Soundness of Probability Theory)
Book VII. Critical Review of the Article "Perinatal Mortality in Bavaria, Germany, after the Chernobyl Reactor Accident," by B. Grosche, et al., Federal Office of Radiation Protection, German Government (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz), published in Radiation Environment Biophysics, Editor, A. M. Kellerer, Vol. 36 (1997), pp. 129-136.
Book VIII. Critical Review of the Article "Perinatal Mortality in Germany following the Chernobyl Accident," Authors, A. Körblein and H. Küchenhoff, published in Radiation Environment and Biophysics (Vol.36, 3-7; 1997, Editor, A.M. Kellerer)
Book IX. Letter to Dr. R. Rost, Bayerischer Landesamt für Statistik (Bavaria Statistics Office), Munich, on the subject: Serious Discrepancies in the Statistics on Still Births and Infant Deaths for the Years 1980-1993, affecting an Evaluation of the Health Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Fallout in Bavaria. (By mistake the whole copy of this letter (really a treatise) was not sent to the StMLU. The missing pages of in the back part of the letter/treatise was not sent a mistaking in assembling the photocopying.) 
Request an Investigation and a Report.
Book X. Major new Development by Richard E. Webb: Evaluation of Monthly Rates of Still Births: Indications of Semi-Permanent Injury and also Germ Cell Injury, by means of a refined mathematical theory, containing radiation dose-response relations. The theory is described in Book XI. The Refined Theory.

     This set of books are [were presented] for preview, and are not totally finished. Most of the books have been read after printing, but with many pen-and-ink changes added. These are marked "finished," even though they require a final printing. Several of the books still need to be read (after being printed by the computer printer), and corrected for any errors, and insertion of any needed graphs, and are labelled "unfinished." These are Book VII, the critical review of the Grosche, et al, article, Book X, and Book XI on Major Development and The Refined Theory, and the last 1/3 of the Book VIII on the Körblein and Küchenhoff article (the first 2/3's about have been read and corrected).


Note, 28 March 2000: This treatise is presently being completed, including some revisions and extensions, to present Webb's final statistical analysis.

1. * This summary of Webb's Background may not be complete, meaning that some works or projects which he has undertaken may have been overlooked, when composing this summary; but he has endeavored to give a full description, though he cannot devote the time presently to ensure that all work is covered by this summary.  Date: 28 March 2000.

2. ** This list may not be complete, as there is no time at present to take a full stock of his past works, to ensure completeness of the list.

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