The plausible deniability answer: Well, they were just restarting everything, and clearly they had some kinks to work out.
The tinfoil answer: Someone really didn't want those to start back up, did they?
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Yeah many of the safety systems just end up mitigating the damage and can't act fast enough to prevent every accident completely. I remember working on boiler controls and it had less than 7 seconds to try and shut it down from the time a problem was detected until rapid self-disassembly occurred.
or "There was a Rupture followed by an Exothermic Reaction"