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simondotau 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Mistral OCR 4.1

Far worse than 70%. Chernobyl was a catastrophically flawed reactor design. Operators ran a badly planned safety test in which operators intentionally caused a dangerous state while key protections were disabled or bypassed.

sscaryterry 33 days ago [–]

Exactly, the intelligence/competence of the engineers running the plant had no actual bearing on the incident.

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