That's the act of "bike-shedding", also known as Parkinson's law or the law of triviality - because business types cannot handle the complexity of the actual reactor's hardware, they have to spend large amounts of time discussing the specifications of the plant's bike shed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Law of triviality -- that's exactly it. I had come across the concept earlier but forgotten the name.
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