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The '''Davis-Besse''' incident (2002) was a near-catastrophic nuclear accident in which boric acid corrosion ate a football-sized hole through the [[Reactor Pressure Vessel|reactor pressure vessel]] head of a [[Nuclear Power|nuclear power]] plant in Ohio, United States. The plant's operators and the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission|Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] had missed the warning signs for years — a failure of institutional vigilance that occurred twenty-three years after [[Three Mile Island]] and demonstrated that [[Normal Accidents|normal accidents theory]] remained as relevant as ever. The incident revealed not a technological failure but an organizational one: a culture that prioritized production over inspection, and a regulatory system that had not learned the lesson that structural vulnerabilities persist even when individual accidents are survived.

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