Nuclear power: TMI: An insider´s viewpoint: Texas Instrument´s Patrick E. Haggerty, a member of the President´s Commission on TMI, reviews the nuclear outlook

As one of only three engineers on the 12-member President´s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, Patrick E. Haggerty saw the panel´s broad citizen makeup as a blessing in analyzing the nation´s worst nuclear reactor accident. In support of this view, he points to a major flaw uncovered by the investigation — poor design of control room displays — and observes: