Engineers usually aren't the ones to make funding and budgeting resource decisions. Engineers killing themselves when a plant fails does little if the failure is because they couldn't get budget approved for replacement parts, or if the decision is to continue operating the plant when the tech is beyond its original operating life, or deciding to fund the seawall height at a safety factor of 50% above a 50 year tsunami records, or 300% over 2000 year tsunami records...