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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:55:21 -0600, John Savard wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:05:36 -0700, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
> 
>>And it is rarely the engineers who do this.
> 
> Although sometimes they're pressured to put a different hat on in order
> to sign on when others do it.
> 
> Yes, Morton Thiokol, I'm looking at you and remembering the Challenger
> disaster.
> 
> John Savard

A famous example of engineering foresight is the resolution of 
the Xenon poisoning incident that spoiled the startup of the first
industrial-scale nuclear reactor.

https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p4s36.html