this might be a little off-topic, but I don't know where else to ask

i saw a video simulating the real time unfolding of the chernobyl disaster and it blew my mind how much the engineers ignored every warning and security measure possible

(yt link for those interested: https://youtu.be/WMr3-ShzB08)

why would they do this? i'm not a nuclear engineer, but i'd much rather risk my job, my career and leave millions of people without electricity than push the safety thresholds even by the tiniest bit. trying to look for explanations online leads to liberal, anticommunist bullshit like "russian incompetence" or "they wouldn't dare question the generals" or whatever. i want an actual, technical (and social) explanation without any liberal bias, which is why i'm asking it here

  • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    I also want add that Japan also had that one incident with Hisashi Ouchi in 1999, the guy was said to have one of the most painful deaths of any person ever.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      Hisashi Ouchi

      I never heard about him before so just read about, and holy shit, manually handling uranium by buckets is not something i would expect in 1999

      Ouchi was standing at a tank, holding a funnel, while a co-worker named Masato Shinohara poured a mixture of intermediate-enriched uranium oxide into it from a bucket.