Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, The New York Times reported that a government inspection file outlined problems in the Three Mile Island plant long before the March 28 accident. The report singled out the same valves and cooling system apparatus that failed during the accident. The NRC inspection even cited "personnel error" as a problem, but no action was taken. Instead, Metropolitan Edison pressed for the scheduled December 30, 1978, date for full-power operation of its reactor--to gather precious federal tax depreciation gains...
MANY SCIENTISTS contend that nuclear power never can be made acceptably safe. Other experts assert that reactors are already safe enough, or at least reasonably close to such a level. But even if reactors are safe, the admittedly ever-present risk of human error may prove reason enough for serious objection to and possibly abstention from use of nuclear power...
Gast's replacement on the hill, freshman Bob Adrion, faired even worse. His first pitched sailed wild and allowed Bingham to score, and his next few pitches resulted in a sacrifice, a Joe Wark double, a two-base throwing error, and ultimately, a 6-1 deficit...
Meanwhile the batsmen had come through to tie the game in the top of the sixth. After Burke St. John reached on an error and Joe Wark walked, junior Bobby Kelley banged a double into right center field to pull Harvard within to one. Mike Stenhouse then scored Kelley with a single to right to make...
...students who discovered the mistake, Eileen M. Sweeney '82 and Karen E. Rochlin '82, said yesterday Dingman reassigned them from Kirkland House to Leverett House, their original first choice, after he recognized the error...