Про Чернобыль

[katenok]

Я одного не пойму - почему после взрыва на Чернобыльской АЭС, который был результатом грубых нарушений техники безопасности, все дружно стали бояться радиации и атомных электростанций, а не идиотизма и нарушений ТБ?

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[talash.livejournal.com]

Any sufficiently large system, be it a government organization, corporation or whatever will have such flaws as they are inherent to scale. Those flaws are happening all the time; they don't always lead to disaster-- and when they don't, they tend to repeat until they do. That Skyguide's traffic controller error, Challenger and Columbia disasters, fbi agents knowing about 11.9 but not managing to prevent it and Chernobyl are all results of the same type of human errors, which, unfortunately, will always be happening. The only difference is scale. Whereas all the other ones are local with a set amount of victims, Chernobyl affects all humanity and we're not even fully aware of all its effects.

"Safety Norms" are a good buzzword, but until such time when all organizations will have a good scheme to actually enforce them I don't believe there's going to be much benefit from them.

"not building any more nuclear reactors and gradually bringing existing ones to a shutdown" sounds to me as something which is much more realistic than proper implementation of such safety norms across government organizations.