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Thirty-five years ago, a GE engineer told company officials the design of their Mark 1 reactor had a potential containment flaw, a warning which is now proving correct.
Dale Bridenbaugh was known as one of the “GE Three,” a group of top engineers at General Electric that pointed out safety flaws in the Mark I reactor- the same model being used at the Fukushima site. He tells host Bruce Gellerman that more could have been done to prevent the crisis in Japan.