A Look Back at Three Mile Island
The presidential commission investigating the Three Mile Island accident learned that the problems rested with people, not technology.
President Carter followed by John Kemeny, whom Carter appointed to head the commission investigating the accident. Kemeny was a noted computer scientist (he codeveloped the BASIC programming language) and administrator (he was then president of Dartmouth College), but had no particular background in nuclear power and admitted in his essay for TR that the appointment surprised no one more than himself.
Credit: Library of Congress
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