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about the legal status of safety rules.”
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Licensees were not alone in seeing an
increase in the number of requirements imposed upon them. Design engineers
were making more and more demands on operators. The human and
organizational aspects that determine the operation of plants were absent from
the prevailing policy on the construction of technical facilities. The significance
of these aspects would be revealed by the
Three Mile Island
accident.
3. THE THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The
Three Mile Island
accident in 1979 was a partial nuclear meltdown.
Following the accident, Presi ...