{"id":228,"date":"2006-06-05T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/05\/chernobyl-caused-by-a-video-game\/"},"modified":"2006-06-05T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T19:32:18","slug":"chernobyl-caused-by-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/05\/chernobyl-caused-by-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl caused by a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a suprise check at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/gaming\/2006-05-29-nuclear-guard-game_x.htm?POE=TECISVA\">Three Mile Island nuclear power plant<\/a>, inspectors <em>found<\/em> a guard so deeply engrossed in his video game on a portable console that he did not see them come (and failed to answer to a security-related radio check call). Of course, the control ends in bad result (it was not the only case of insufficient job attention during the surpris check in a nuclear power plant infamous for having been the location of the second gravest nuclear accident after Chernobyl).<\/p>\n<p>Nobody accused the pilots of the Chernobyl plant of playing video games during the dreadful accident whose <em>anniversary<\/em> was celebrated last month. They probably did not have access to such a technology. So, I guess they were playing with the plant itself. What&#8217;s best?<\/p>\n<p>Side note: Video games are authorized by the administrative body controling American nuclear power plants (because of their specific mind-stimulating qualities). It may change soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a suprise check at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, inspectors found a guard so deeply engrossed in his video game on a portable console that he did not see them come (and failed to answer to a security-related radio check call). Of course, the control ends in bad result (it was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}