Furthermore, this long-term return, high risk, engineering-lead venture, was financed by - wait for it - the City.

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Peter Bradford, a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, said the accident exposes shortcomings in risk analysis as well as engineering.

WSJ: Nuclear Industry Likely to Reassess Safety Systems

Graduates in recent years, for example, seem to have accepted far too readily the notion that clever financial engineering could somehow abolish risk and uncertainty, when it probably made things worse.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter