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“Huh? What’s wrong with this?” asked the chief engineer, who was taking a look at the pressurizer and pipes.
Hideo could see the fear in the engineer’s face as he examined the nuclear plant.
“...”
Both of their hands trembled.
“It was 0.3 millisieverts just yesterday…” said the chief engineer.
“Rising this much overnight means…”
Hideo held his head in distress.
Just then, one of the lower engineers ran from the direction of the control room and shouted, “Sir! The pressure of the coolant pipe is strange!”
“The pressure?”
The chief engineer’s eyes glistened.
“How is it?”
“The pressurizer completely broke thirty minutes ago, so we inserted the shim rod to stop the reactor. But that usually doesn’t stop the reactor right away, right?”
“Probably. The nuclear reactor is already at very high temperatures, over two thousand degrees. We need to check the condition of the coolant in the pipes; if it starts to boil, the pressure inside the pipes will rise.”
“It was rising at a tremendous rate, but it just stopped.”
“What?”
“It’s rising steadily now…”
The chief engineer froze like a statue for a few seconds. A simulation was playing...
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