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Phenotype posted:Yeah, it surprised me that the explosion literally happens in the first few minutes, especially when they're showing how the bureaucracy makes everything worse. I don't remember the entire story, but it happened as a result of a test they were performing (removing the control rods?) except that there were a hundred different factors that were off, and should have told them the test wasn't safe. But they went ahead with it anyway. The whole thing happened because they wanted to test whether it was possible to keep the water systems that cool the reactor online with the residual power of a turbine shutting down, to cover the minute or so of lag between shutting down the turbines and their emergency diesel generators turning on. There's a whole lot more technical reasons why that led to the accident but the lovely thing is that they'd done numerous tests like that before and the confluence of events meant that this time the reactor exploded. Interestingly enough it seems there's still debate about what actually caused the explosions. No one is entirely sure whether it was purely steam explosions or actually a combination of steam explosions and a supercriticality event like the demon core mentioned earlier.
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