>>12279536Try following safety procedures in the USSR
But no, the real answer is safety recommendations, mandates, whatever you want to call them can be ignored and all it takes for a human to ignore them is some other factor being scarier because the accident "probably won't happen".
Also yes, it wasn't a technical malfunction, but it was still an old, dangerous, and cheap reactor design and you never would have heard of Chernobyl if it was a better reactor.
