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Originally Posted by wodin
One variant of Murphy's law is "Any system designed to not fail, will."
An extension of that is "The probability of failure on any safety system is directly proportional to the potential damage caused by such failure.”
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Another reason, then: western reactors have strong containment vessels; the Soviet reactor did not, so when it went "bang" the entire contents literally went up in smoke through the roof of the building.