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> It would take a whole lot more context to make this somehow comforting. :D

This is this fascinating 6 part documentary about the Chernobyl incident explaining how it was caused by bad control rods. But the main point is that control rods prevent the facility from going boom, so be glad it’s not the AmigaOS emulator on a NT machine handling it.

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LOL at “Chernobyl accident was caused by bad control rods”. This seems to imply other control mechanisms worked, when in fact plant engineers could not even monitor the plant operations. They had malfunctioning Geiger counters. Also - plant engineers had no idea how much water was flowing through the nuclear core cooler. Monitors for the temperature of before mentioned water did not exist even on a whiteboard.

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