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by orbital-decay 516 days ago
> The soviets did not fail to educate their workforce, the soviets intentionally left their workforce in the dark.

Yes, and guess who was behind that? This it not either-or. I'm already talking about that in 2, which is a high-level cause. Dollezhal's NIKIET specifically refused to admit their problems and sign the document pointing out RBMK's flaws, and got away with things like this multiple times. This was a consequence of a very few selected engineers and scientists having full carte blanche and basically acting as limited-scale politicians within their sphere of influence. This was not the problem of the nuclear industry in particular, this also applied to all critical industries like aerospace where the "chosen ones" immediately started fighting for their place under the sun, stalling their field.