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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