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PIERCE stuck open, and some steam generators boiled dry within minutes. Today, operators drill to handle multiple failures, and all 2,500 licensed reactor operators in the U.S. have gone through the sequence that occurred at T.M.I. In Soddy-Daisy, Term., an annual two-week refresher course covering multiple breakdowns is offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Emphasizing Theory. The Kemeny commission found that training did not pay enough attention to the theory of how the system worked. One mistake of the T.M.I, operators, for example, was their failure to realize that hot water in the reactor core boiled into steam because of the loss of pressure during the accident. Says Toscas: "We're planning to add much more study of the basic theory of heat transfer, fluid flow, water and steam theory-all the stuff the operators flew right by before and which normal operating conditions don't require...
...calm the spirit, Byron suggested, apply "rum and true religion." Alas for Georgian simplicities. The rum has turned to water, the religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal...
...with America, with its institutions of democracy and justice. He does not see the ultimate goal of any social movement, taken to its wildest extreme; he does not feel the urgency to change--the fire in the streets. Viorst is content to believe that the Movement ran out of steam and conviction--and something to complain about...
...stand up to him, but don't fight," says Bramson. His advice: look Sherman straight in the eye, call him by name and state your disagreement with defusing phrases such as "in my opinion," and "it's my judgment that ..." Then let the tank blow off some steam. Says Bramson: "Sherman tanks are experts at escalating. If you fight you lose...