In-class discussion date:  08/23

Topic: Three Mile Island incident.

Preparation: You are required to research the listed topic and get ready to share your findings and thoughts on the topic.

 Try to answer the following questions:
 1. Why did the incident happen?
 2. Was it human or computer issue? Was the incident preventable?
 3. What would the system designers have done to prevent such incident? Why didn't they do that?
 4. What would the operators have done to prevent the incident? Why didn't they do that?
 5. What would you do differently if you were:
     a. The system designers.
     b. The operators.
    are your answers realistic? Why / why not.