BAD HARDWARE WEEK

"So people were out scavenging batteries out of cars and trucks," says Lake Barrett, a retired nuclear engineer who led the Three Mile Island cleanup. He says that workers brought those batteries into the control rooms, "wiring them with hot wires to the instrumentation to try to determine the water level in the cores, and to control the pumps they had."

BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Couldn't expect that, being so close to the ocean ?