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...were for the overall conclusions of a scathing report on the accident at Three Mile Island that was issued last week by a presidential commission headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny. The panel called the accident "inevitable" and said it was caused chiefly by inadequate training of the plant's operators and poor supervision by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report criticized the industry and its regulators for being too concerned "with the safety of equipment, resulting in the down-playing of the importance of the human element...
...lessen the danger of future accidents, the commission recommended that plant operators be held to stricter training standards and that future plants be built far away from major population centers.* The commission also urged that the NRC be replaced by a nuclear czar appointed by the President. This recommendation set off a sharp debate. NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford contended that a single administrator would do nothing to improve the Government's regulation of nukes. Said he: "This is not a meat-inspection program." Replied Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Kemeny commission member: "The NRC is a headless agency that...
...business at the exchange went on as usual. Nonetheless, the antinuclear forces claimed a partial victory. "We've sent a message to the country," insisted Edward Cyr, 23, of Boston, as he tossed leaves, symbolizing nuclear waste, from inside a 10-ft. paper model of a nuclear plant cooling tower...
...Topeka plant was not an anomaly. Others in the U.S. and Scandinavia have also suggested that blue-collar workers may not be as incompetent as is traditionally presumed. Their knowledge and motivation can dramatically improve a company's financial health...
Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, said a State Department official phoned him on Wednesday. Wilson, who is the chairman of a Massachusetts committee now investigating the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, said the evidence he has seen "seems to be fairly convincing" that the September 22 event was a nuclear explosion...