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rangibaby
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See: Chernobyl
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tantalor
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Eh? The root causes of Chernobyl disaster were bad design and operator error. There were no ignored warnings.
khuey
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There were plenty of organizational failures in the design and conduct of the (failed) experiment which triggered the Chernobyl disaster.
zaarn
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IIRC the lead operator was saying "continue" despite several of the engineers at the consoles telling him that things where about to go nuclear.
LanceH
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Perhaps a strong culture of not raising objections?
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