Also the primary function of the Chernobyl plant was not civilian energy production, but plutonium production for the military. Energy production was just a secondary benefit. The dangerous design choices were made for military reasons. Leadership and management positions at the plant were chosen because of their political connections. Due to the compartmentalization of information in the Soviet Union the plant engineers only knew how their own little corner of the plant functioned, not the whole machine. Very few people had the whole picture, and none of them were there. No one had learned a thing from previous events like the level 6 Kyshtym disaster, because in the Soviet Union everything was covered up. The Chernobyl disaster could only have happened in such an Orwellian society like the Soviet Union.
