The whole show isn't like that, but it does try to show that so much of the issue was caused by a desire to be seen as infallible (of course the reactor design wasn't flawed, because the people's greatest minds worked on it, etc., etc.) and that was something that had to be dealt with atop the actual disaster.

Or 30, if you believe the govt. report.

They did finally fix the cause of the explosion in the other reactors of that design, remarkably many years later.

Nobody here will defend coal, but graphite-moderated reactors are not the tech you want to be defending.

That seems a tad unlikely.

Nobody here will defend coal, but graphite-moderated reactors are not the tech you want to be defending.

Exactly. And the reason we're stuck with 60-year-old reactor technology is...