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Vichnaya Pamyat

The Chernobyl Podcast

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The One Thing the Off Button Shouldn't Do, Right?

Most of the people on the in the plant didn't even know a test was happening, right? And as we find out later, what happens has never happened before. I mean, the computer did say to them, you should shut this reactor down. This is crazy. Well, exactly. So the no one had ever combined the following, turn off the pumps that send water in ri cor and also remove all the control rods entirely completely right,. with the exception of six out of whatever isniself. That in and of itself is reckless, right? Is reckless.

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