October 15, 1999

For a Scholar of 'Normal Accidents,' Risky Activities Bring Danger and Data

By D.W. MILLER

It was in the summer of 1979, says Charles Perrow, while he was vacationing in upstate New York, that he began having nightmares about nuclear meltdowns.

After agreeing to advise the federal commission investigating the March 28 accident at Three Mile Island, the Yale sociologist recalls, he spent weeks reading

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