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Yep you know better than the people who have the credentials you don't and the access to internal data you don't. I don't see what's holding you back from doing surgery, qualifications and context are no barrier to the application of your self-imagined expertise.

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I don't claim to know better. But restarting a $1.5B plant after 2 years of inactivity and having a worker fall into a vat of radioactive water and still being at 300 CPM after a decontamination procedure is not normal.

That'd be a very interesting statement if you were qualified to make it

What makes one qualified to make a statement?

Are you qualified to make the statement I'm replying to?

In technical fields: Accredited formal education, professional certification(s), and/or recognition from other experts in the field who have the same.

How do I know you're qualified to make that statement?

If I'm not, then we're not grounded in the same consensus-driven objective reality, making this conversation meaningless, and therefore not worth your time to reply further.

Phrases such as massive red flag and bureaucratic nonsense were claims you knew better.

Who claimed the event was normal? A worker falling in non contaminated water would not be normal. Many things are bot normal and not emergencies. False dichotomy and straw man are logical fallacies.

Were the plant cost and status meant to support your claim 300 counts per minute was a red flag? They appeared irrelevant.

> I don't claim to know better.

You very much do, if you're calling into question the statements in the article that it's fine.

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