been known to be vulnerable since one thousand nine hundred seventy two declared by the atomic energy commission affirmed again by the nuclear regulatory commission in one thousand nine hundred six is vulnerable to failure and so any number of events in earthquake which could lead to a fire or of or just a fire initiating from worker error like a candle which started the browns ferry fire in one thousand nine hundred seventy five and actually fukushima almost had another name and it could have very well have been browns ferry after a fire there cut out all of the cooling systems to the browns ferry units and we narrowly escaped a core melt accident at a vulnerable reactor system like the smart one and last fall was not fort calhoun that we had a flood floodwaters came within a few inches of shutting down the well we're right now where we're following the fort calhoun facility it's it's a pressurized water reactor so it's not a fukushima design but you know the vulnerability. that's in this in her. danger in in all nuclear power plants could play out in any number of disasters this point for exam

then he went into the atomic energy commission when they were hiring at oakridge, and became involved in a lot of political and oficial issues there, which had not been his field before. he was a pofessor of english literature. and then after the war, they moved him and our family up here and he worked for the a.e.c. here in washington. so my childhood was spent mostly in tennessee, then in this metro area up through the early 1950's. >> the reason i ask that, your mom was a classic scholar. >> yes. she studied greek and latin at the university of mississippi, which is where my father met her. he had been teaching there. and asi say, she's 86 years old e's still very active. she lives out hr in lou din county in virginia. and i talk with her many times the course of doing this book about spects of classical history and english history, of which she's quite a fan. so in both -- and both of my parents, and in each, his and her own way, contributed to this book. >> some of these names, you know just before we went on, that i had to reach way back to the early days of education when you a

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