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Being 70% as good in nuclear engineering sounds scary AF. How would you rank Chernobyl? Better or worse than 70%?
by dylan604 2mo ago
Being 70% as good in nuclear engineering sounds scary AF. How would you rank Chernobyl? Better or worse than 70%?
- lavieestdure 2mo agoBeing 70% as good does not mean causing accidents. Accidents are caused by systematic operational failures and fundamental design flaws.
- dylan604 2mo agoIf your employees are only 70% as good, as skilled, as knowledgeable while not knowing it, then you can absolutely kill a reactor just like Chernobyl. The overconfidence is what allowed them to put the reactor in the state they did and not realize the implications.
- hakunin 2mo ago70%… Not great, not terrible.
- simondotau 2mo agoFar 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 2mo agoExactly, the intelligence/competence of the engineers running the plant had no actual bearing on the incident.
- akie 2mo agoChernobyl was basically Russia then. The more honest comparison would be the numerous nuclear power plants in France.