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Chernobyl goes critical. Three Mile Island barely escapes a similar fate. The unhappy bottom line is that you can never plan for everything.
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic Titanic] is the iconic symbol of disaster. It was considered to be unsinkable despite obvious design flaws that were only admitted retrospectively. They combined with initial human error before and after the collision to create a full-fledged disaster. New year's Day 2017 Britain's [http://www.channel4.com Channel Four}] broadcast new evidence revealing the ship also had a spontaneous coal fire raging for three weeks.<ref>http://www.channel4.com/programmes/titanic-the-new-evidence</ref> <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/31/huge-fire-ripped-titanic-struck-iceberg-fresh-evidence-suggests/</ref>
=== Titanic’s Sister Ship the Britannic ===
=== Italian Liner Andrea Doria ===
By the end of World War II the lessons of the Titanic had been institutionalisedinstitutionalized. Hundreds of thousands of people were crossing the oceans safely in passenger liners.
Yet on July 25, 1956 at 11:10 pm, disaster struck again. The Italian liner Andrea Doria was inbound for New York. The Swedish liner Stockholm was outbound for Sweden. Both ships were travelling at excessive speed in dense fog because fast crossings were a competitive advantage. As a precaution, the captain of the Andrea Doria ordered all watertight doors closed.
