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...itself, says the Kemeny report, reacted to the Three Mile Island mishap ''in an atmosphere of uncertainty,'' and took actions that were ''ill-defined...
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...
...nuclear power is to retain any future at all, however, the plants must be made safe and the public convinced that the industry and its regulators have learned the lessons of T.M.I. The Kemeny commission report is especially disturbing. Beyond its specific criticisms, it suggests that the trouble with nuclear power is people...
...other hand, nothing in the Kemeny commission's conclusions suggests that the problems of safety are insurmountable, and the scorching tone of its criticisms ought to convince a public grown justifiably suspicious of nuclear reassurance that this report is no industry whitewash...
Indeed, the Three Mile Island accident has prompted some finger pointing that nonetheless indicates salutary soul searching. Says the NRC, in a report of its own: ''Everyone connected with nuclear power technology must accept as a fact that accidents can happen. Operations personnel in particular must not have a mind-set that future accidents are impossible. The experience of Three Mile Island has not been sufficient to eradicate that mind-set in all quarters, and the effects of that experience will fade with time. We have no easy answer to suggest, but attitudes must be changed...