RE: Errors in NRC TMI Factsheet

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

On 9 Mar 2004 at 10:24, Doug Aitken wrote:



> So in this instance, I am afraid that the honest answer would be "Yes,

> we got lucky. But we understand what happened and can incorporate this

> into future design to improve overall safety."



I agree with Doug,



Lessons Learned from the accident showed that we were "lucky". The 

response to the accident demonstrated the need for better 

communication, better procedures, better training and a better 

understanding of the very systems that individuals operated.



At TMI there were no real significant adverse effects, other than 

emotional stress (which is still not desired), but no major health 

implications or damage to the environment, due to human factor 

failure, where workers simply did not believe their instrumentation, 

and did everything they could to circumvent what the safety systems 

were trying to accomplish. Chernobyl was quite different. There 

humans did everything to cause a major disaster, knowingly 

circumventing every safety procedure.



The two accidents were quite a different animal.



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