This report provides an assessment of safety management, safety review, and safety methodology employed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and private contractors. Chapter 1, "The DOE Safety Framework," examines safety objectives for production reactors and processes to implement the objectives. Chapter 2, "Technical Issues," focuses on a variety of potential vulnerabilities to severe accidents including acute aging phenomena, evaluation of potential accidents, power operating limits, confinement systems, and the treatment of radioactively contaminated liquid effluents at the reactors. Chapter 3, "Strengthening the Technical Basis of Reactor Safety Management," identifies ways in which the DOE approach to management of the safety of the reactors can be improved. Each subsection consists of conclusions and recommendations. Over 500 documents are listed in the bibliography. Appendices include a task statement; a list of documents about power operating limits; technical discussions on confinements, aging, effluents, cermet fuel, hydrogen generation during accidents, and the DOE safety system; safety-related provisions; and an introduction of committee members. (YP)