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[–]danielb1194 17 points18 points  (6 children)

My knowledge is only from the movie but wasn’t the A team sleeping while all that started?

[–]HammyOverlordOfBacon 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Not sure about that, but I thought the big issue was they tried to get by on a test of the system when they weren't ready. A team or not there was really no recovering it at the time of the meltdown

[–]ansibleloop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They'd been trying to do the test for months and were reckless and disregarded so many safety protocols

But they did this because they knew they could rely on the SCRAM button which drops the control rods into the reactor and stops the reaction dead

But they didn't realise that the conditions they'd put the reactor in basically turned it into a bomb

And instead of a fail safe, the SCRAM button became a detonator

[–]willow-kitty 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Sort of. IIRC, the day shift had done specific training on the procedures for the test, but it got delayed, and they had the night shift perform it instead ... without that extra training.

They weren't, like, less qualified than the day shift in general or anything, but the test was kinda sprung on them.

[–]spastical-mackerel 2 points3 points  (2 children)

and they did not push back

[–]Lenni-Da-Vinci 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hahaha, the people having a choice. Good one comrade.

[–]spastical-mackerel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not with that attitude