Word: error
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania clearly demonstrates the combination of design flaws, technical mishaps, and human error that can cause a catastrcphic reactor accident. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the reactor's design was ineffective in containing radioactive water; safety and monitoring equipment failed to perform properly when called upon; plant operators apparently forgot to turn on important safety valves deactivated two weeks before the accident and twice turned off the reactor's emergency cooling system prematurely...
Perhaps the most outrageous example of human error occured when operators inexplicably started up the Vermont Yankee plant with the lid off the reactor's containment vessel...
...error in the eight brought Ed Skribiski home with the fourth UMass tally, and Harvard loaded the bases in the month only to come-up runless...
...enough to make you quit. And there's always the extra pressure of a Harvard tradition of winning, and your own getting used to winning." Hap Porter adds, "I resign myself. There's an immense amount of controlled energy about to be released--but also immense room for error...
Correspondent Strobe Talbott's analysis that "the basic trouble seems to be that Jimmy Carter ... is still unable to project a sense that he is in control of events" indicates that Mr. Talbott has accepted the essential error of the present Administration: image rather than reality is all important. The truth is that Mr. Carter is not in control of events...