Dark Horses

True to the promise of this column’s title, I present herewith the darkest of all dark horses from the recent publishing season: The Accident at Three Mile Island, the report of the President’s Commission on TMI (Government Printing Office, $5), which turns out to be a venture in subdued iconoclasm.

Most of the publicity surrounding the report of the Kemeny Commission— so named after President John G. Kemeny of Dartmouth College—has focused on its criticism of procedures at TMI and snafus at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which first permitted, then compounded, the Three Mile Island mishap. These comments seem quite valid, and may be read with profit by the general public as well as the regulators to whom they are addressed.

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True to the promise of this column’s title, I present herewith the darkest of all dark horses from the recent publishing season: The Accident at Three Mile Island, the report of the President’s Commission on TMI (Government Printing Office, $5), which turns out to be a venture in subdued iconoclasm.

Most of the publicity surrounding the report of the Kemeny Commission— so named after President John G. Kemeny of Dartmouth College—has focused on its criticism of procedures at TMI and snafus at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which first permitted, then compounded, the Three Mile Island mishap. These comments seem quite valid, and may be read with profit by the general public as well as the regulators to whom they are addressed.