Just read the book "Chernobyl". One of the major causes of the disaster was cost cutting due to "ticky box" quotas that the higher ups demanded be filled at all costs.
The designer of the reactor was too proud to admit that there was a risk relating to cooling when the main turbine was slowed below x amount of rpm. Interestingly the yanks had already solved this issue with their own reactors, but the soviots refused to use the trchnology out of pride.
Another great series is called "Das Boot" by Sky Bavaria. I named my 75 after that as it's full of water usually.
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