No.

Not just no, but hell the shitting fuck no.

He’s the asshole because he (a bureaucrat with NO experience with nuclear equipment) shut down a NUCLEAR REACTOR of unknown size, design, capacity, stability, etc, after being EXPLICITLY TOLD that doing so would cause massive damage to the city.

Even if he didnt believe the stuff about ghosts he DID know it was a GODDAMN NUCLEAR REACTOR.

Even if all the stuff about ghosts had been total bullshit, he’s STILL the bad guy. You do not just flip a switch and shut down a nuclear reactor like that. Do you want another Chernobyl? BECAUSE THAT IS HOW YOU GET ANOTHER CHERNOBYL!

The correct thing to do would be to have the ghost busters removed from the premises, evactuate a LARGE area around the fire house, and then have nuclear EXPERTS come in to assess the reactor, its capabilities, its design, its stability and so on, so that they could figure out the best way to decommission it.

Even on NORMAL nuclear reactors, you cant just shut it off. THAT IS WHAT CAUSES MELTDOWNS. There is a whoooooooole long-ass process to decommissioning a nuclear reactor.

Peck is the asshole because he was EXPLICITLY TOLD that flipping a switch on a NUCLEAR REACTOR (A nuclear reactor that he no clue how it worked mind you) would cause massive damage, and his electrician that he brought was ALSO saying he had no idea how this stuff worked and was acting scared as hell, and he STILL SHUT IT DOWN.

He literally walked into a room with a bunch of mad scientists with a nuclear reactor and a button marked “press here to destroy city” was WARNED that pressing it would destroy the city… and then PRESSED IT ANYWAY.

THAT is why he’s the asshole.