It all sounds like a muted cry for help that obviously can’t be made in a fully public way.
“It all sounds like a muted cry for help that obviously can’t be made in a fully public way.”
At the heart of the Chernobyl disaster was a bureaucratic manager who was being criticized by his management for not doing a particular safety test. They hadn’t done it because they had to keep running the reactor for power. He was going to squeeze the test in during a lull in power requirement, but that meant doing the test really fast rather than letting the reactor normalize. The operators tried to warn him and he beat them down, demanding that they cool the reactor quickly. When problems developed they tried to reinsert the rods, but couldn’t because the core had melted...distorting the shafts so the rods would not go down. The processes are non-linear which is why no one had ever done this before, but this guy had gotten into his position without the knowledge of how the reactor really worked. What the French are doing is trying to find their way around some similar guy who demands they keep raising power to meet the demands of his bosses even though there is a problem...that the manager probably does not understand.
Even after the disaster, the manager continued to believe nothing was wrong even though the area outside was covered with snowflake like fallout and a man sent to see came back and reported the building had been destroyed. The manager called everyone idiots. I’m afraid it’s a similar situation here. It’s probably too late to stop whatever is going to happen as it would require shutting down the reactor which is politically unconceivable.