Word: cool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stealing a jump on the President, Senator Edward Kennedy conducted his own hasty investigation. His Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research summoned, among others, NRC Chairman Joseph Hendrie. Irritated by Hendrie's unflappable, all-too-cool testimony, Kennedy complained: "I would think you would have a greater sense of anxiety than you apparently...
...scientists." He claimed that the lobster shifts in the control room were especially inexperienced. "They are usually kids, guys in their twenties who took a course on reactor operation and still have to look in the instruction book all the time," he said. "You should have at least one cool head around...
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...determined until both the final outcome and the precise causes of the failure at Three Mile Island are known. By the company's own version of events, there were at least five equipment breakdowns?of valves, pumps and fuel rods. Moreover, the engineers should have been able to cool the reactor to a safe level within twelve hours. Only after the reactor core has fully cooled and the abnormal radiation levels within the container building have been reduced will investigators be able to pinpoint the sequence of mechanical failure, as well as any human mistakes that might have been made...
...Despite the low cadence, the boat still moved. The crew played it cool--that's what they're supposed to do," coach Carrie Graves said yesterday...