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Well, the operators did do everything to magnify the scale of the accident

The test itself was criminally dumb, even if the reactor was running nominally. The reactor was pushed so far out a normal working envelope it is a wonder no one though about resheduling The reactor design itself is just abysmal. [1]

While I personally doubt vodka was involved in that one, it would not be surprising. [2] Basically everyone apart from a goddamn trainee was drunk (as far as i remeber the story from when i first heard it)

Im on mobile, so i cant even read my own links (YAY "MODERB WEB 999.0) /rant

[1] https://books.google.pl/books?id=cuiZAgAAQBAJ&printsec=front... [2]http://rbth.com/politics/2015/02/27/total_ceos_plane_crash_d...




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