EPA advanced its independent review of mining in the region, releasing a comprehensive draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment that documents the devastating range of impacts of large-scale mining on the region and its communities -- impacts that, according to EPA, are likely to occur even if the project operates flawlessly, which no large-scale mine ever has.
Reactor operators say these will operate flawlessly for decades.
Despite the powerful solar radiation that has battered Venus Express, the craft has operated flawlessly since its launch in November 2005.
"The instrument operated flawlessly," said Wang.
That same software is operating flawlessly today on the space station.
The new epithermal neutron irradiation facility has operated flawlessly and met all expectations.
Outside, the concession stand selling Mandy Patinkin T-shirts and CD's appeared to be operating flawlessly.
John Spangler, a farmer in Marietta, Ill., and his wife, Holly, say CME has operated flawlessly through the many years they have traded corn and soy futures.
The differences in the level of training, for example, may explain why the same machines may have operated flawlessly in one district while malfunctioning in another.
"The tolerance for down time decreases, and people are increasingly expecting services to operate flawlessly 365 days per year," he said.
The satellite must withstand the explosive force of being rocketed into orbit, then operate flawlessly for years in the unforgiving environment of space.
