Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

power plant (both in terms of size and capacity), which is even described in the Apocalypse.

And the control system designed precisely for such cases, the control system was frozen up in any case – on top of everything the leaders of the experiment themselves, engineers, scientists, physicists, had turned it off earlier so that it wouldn’t get in the way of their plans. And so, with its back against the wall, with access to all emergency generators cut off – the two diesel generators as well as the two electrical transformers – the block, the reactor was stranded above the abyss without any energy except atomic energy. Without energy to stop, that is. And finally – sometime around 1:20 in the morning – finally when their hair began to stand on end because they realized that they were pulling the levers of a fuse measuring fourteen meters in diameter and seven meters tall, filled with toasty warm uranium – funny, hadn't they realized it before then? – no, apparently not, alas – then they simply threw up their hands and cried "mommy!" But mommy was nowhere to be found, so they pulled the fatal ES lever: "Emergency Shield." Which allowed the incompetence of the reactor's designer and builders to come into play. Because some of the control rods had somehow been installed incorrectly, but who bothered about that, anyway? And who would've thought that those rods would need to enter the heart of the reactor

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