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"and there is no incentive to do so. " Still, after the accident some of the engineers went for a literal suicide mission to open some ventil to make it all le
by hutzlibu 6y ago
"and there is no incentive to do so. "
Still, after the accident some of the engineers went for a literal suicide mission to open some ventil to make it all less catastrophic. And unlike the poor construction workers, who died, too, they knew what they were doing.
I doubt they did it just for the postmortal fame. Some people have actually moral standards and can stand by it, even if it means disadvantages.
- arethuza 6y agoWorth having a read of the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di... Entries like "received fatal dose of radiation during attempt to manually lower the control rods as he looked directly to the open reactor core."
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoAbsolutely, but the events are not comparable. Sacrafice at Chernobyl might save thousands, sacrafice at %xcorp% saves a fat bonus for the guy responsible for the whole mess in the first place!
- gryn 6y agoif anything saving that man's bonus, just mean that you endorse/enable such practices.
- macintux 6y ago> It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain in Eruption
- softawre 6y agoJust FYI, those 3 heroes didn't die right away like it hinted in the show. They lived normalish lives.
- arethuza 6y agoHBO Chernobyl makes it very clear that the 3 men survived for many years after the accident and that at the time the show was made 2 were still alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrVlyU3suk&t=132s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrVlyU3suk&t=132s Edit: Everyone at the time probably thought that they were being sent to their deaths so they were staggeringly brave - but that's not how things turned out.
- hutzlibu 6y agoI don't know the show you are talking about: I am talking about actual voluntary suicide missions in chernobyl, like Lelechenko, Aleksandr Grigoryevich: "in order to spare his younger colleagues from radiation exposure, he went through radioactive water and debris three times to switch off the electrolyzers and the feed of hydrogen to the generators, then tried to supply voltage to the feedwater pumps. " And he and others did pretty much die right away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster#Official_list_of_direct_deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...