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...industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...
Another fear is that the work will fail to address the deeper problems that some say plague the report...
...like today’s rites—to convince ourselves that there exists some continuity between our world and the world that came before. But when the world as we know it shrinks away and leaves in its place a vast fog of uncertainty and instability, our traditions fail us. The bells ring hollow...
...Harvard does a very good job making ordinary things fail-safe,” Rosenblum says. “If you think that genuine academic advising is important, putting together a program that makes intellectual sense, making sure students don’t miss courses that they’re interested in...it’s difficult to make that fail-safe...
...Those who fail to do so are liable for any fraudulent charges and would be charged accordingly,” Snyder writes in an e-mail. “Customers are urged to monitor their accounts closely, and to report any suspicious charges immediately...