A SCROLLING DOCUMENTARY
The facility operated at nominal capacity for eleven years. Cooling systems circulated 48,000 gallons per minute through the primary loop. Control rods maintained criticality within 0.003% tolerance. Every reading, every gauge, every instrument confirmed a single truth: the system was performing exactly as designed.
CORE TEMP: 287.3°C | PRESSURE: 155.1 BAR | NEUTRON FLUX: NOMINAL
At 01:23:44, the primary coolant pump registered a 12% flow reduction. The control room dismissed it as sensor drift — a known calibration issue documented in three previous quarterly reports. The backup pump engaged automatically. For forty-seven seconds, everything appeared to correct itself.
The backup pump failed at 01:24:31. Core temperature rose 4 degrees in twelve seconds. The emergency shutdown sequence — SCRAM — was initiated automatically. Three of the five control rod clusters descended normally. Two did not.
The operators had seventeen minutes. They did not know this yet.
The containment vessel was breached at 01:41:09.
Radioactive material dispersed across 4,200 square kilometers.
Evacuation order issued: 134,000 residents.
The zone remains uninhabitable.
Concrete sarcophagus: estimated lifespan 100 years.
Plutonium-239 half-life: 24,100 years.
Nature reclaims what humans abandoned.
The reactors are quiet now.