🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <442@unisoft.UUCP>, jef@unisoft.uucp (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> The 26 June 1987 issue of Science magazine contains an article by
> Richard Wilson called "A Visit to Chernobyl".  It's quite fascinating.
> I've typed in the abstract and some excerpts, and I have a bit of
> 
  .... 
> Commentary:  I found this article both enlightening and frightening.
> This was the first place I had heard specifics about the reactor's
> design instability.  It is hard for me to imagine how anyone could
> make such a STUPID mistake.  And then to find out that there are
> 15 more of these guys, and still more in the works...  Brrrr.
 
perhaps it is not a question of someone making a stupid mistake,
but of being able to report it, in a police state which
was trying to export such reactors (to the Phillipines), and
whose deputy foreign trade minister was Yuri Brezhnev (son of
the other Brezhnev). The real lesson is that a free press
plays a role in penalizing those who put such lemons on stream.