Pfft, if you believe the official reports.

According to my fanfic, the commandant begged them not to do the test: "look at the butterflies, have we not enough energy on mother earth?"

"That's enough!" he cried, as they cranked the power ever higher, but the evil workers held him down and made him watch as it grew steadily unstable.

"Fear not, dear friends, for we can use our true and faithful kill switch" he offered, but the workers snickered, as that hope too was lost.

As the others fled the vicinity, he threw himself onto the reactor and screamed "Noooooo! Take me!"