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Given that HL:Alyx had a budget that could afford quality assurance of literally at least one co-worker double-checking the textures and the consistently weird Combine terminology, seems more likely that it's deliberate. The story went through several abortive iterations before settling on the final one we see in the game, and one of those earlier drafts may have involved the player witnessing citizens in hazmat suits working in a reactor core?


Either way it's pedantic and not worth stressing over. If it really bothers people that much it can be changed later.