Word: controllable
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Some of the report's toughest language is aimed at the ''understaffed and conceptually weak'' training of the control room operators at T.M.I. There is an indirect accusation that such training may be even more deficient elsewhere in the industry. The T.M.I, operators, the report notes, scored higher than the national average in the NRC licensing and operating examinations. Nonetheless, in these tests, ''emphasis was not given to fundamental understanding of the reactor and little time was devoted to instruction in the biological hazards of radiation. The content was left to the instructors...
This new czar of nuclear regulation would be required to improve greatly the training of all nuclear power plant control room operators. The commission also wants the control rooms to be redesigned, claiming that ''problems with the control room contributed to the confusion during the accident.'' At present, NRC is continuing to license control rooms with ''outdated technology...
...fighters of the 8,000-man Air Force detachment, were put on a "defense condition 3" level of alert, two notches below a red alert. The Pentagon sent the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk toward a South Korean port and rushed two Airborne Warning and Control planes to the area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged the Chinese and Soviets to use their influence to restrain North Korea. Washington also warned North Korea that the U.S. would "react strongly in accordance with its treaty obligations to any external attempt to exploit the situation...
...moment, Washington was being careful not to respond with a hard-sell counteroffensive of its own. Rather, at the December NATO meeting the allies also plan to introduce an arms-control proposal of their own for limiting medium-range weapons. The judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted...
...should write the opinion of the court and provide the reasoning behind the decision. If he is in the minority, the most senior member of the majority assigns the task. According to former Supreme Court law clerks, Burger has, at times, held back or switched his vote to keep control of the opinion assignment, a practice the clerks call "phony voting." Burger regularly dismisses such assertions as fables. In fact, his colleagues generally believe that either the Chiefs lapses into indecision are just that, indecision, or he misunderstands or forgets what the consensus of the majority is. Even...