06-09-2015, 03:27 AM
(06-09-2015, 03:22 AM)Marxon Wrote:(06-09-2015, 03:07 AM)OdinYggd Wrote: Working at the control panels, Danu commanded the reactor to lower as many control rods as it could. But from what she could see of the damage, several of the rods were broken off or had mangled mechanisms from the impact damage.*the sheer mass of the shell plus the control rods bring the power down to 100% and the voice says*
She turns her attention to the shell, having been made of spent nuclear materials. As such it would be a pretty good absorber, but laying on top of the damaged reactor it might not be enough to stop the runaway.
Even though the reactor was on the verge of melting itself down, the room she was in seemed to get continually colder from all the escaped coolant.
Looking through some debris on the floor, she finds a length of pipe to use as a lever, and starts to pry on the shell to force it the rest of the way into the reactor chamber.
Reactor running at nominal levels.
WHAT?! Why is it still at full power? I swear if I ever find out who built this reactor I am going to put them inside one and let them sizzle.
Danu was kind of pissed now, this reactor was leaking coolant and even with everything she had managed so far was still producing its full rated output. There had to be another way- this reactor had to be shut down before the coolant supply ran out or it would burn clean through the hull of the ship and contaminate the entire village.
If this had been the designs she was used to, just lowering the rods would have reduced it to only a fraction of its power output and additional safety systems would have been activated by the leak to forcibly shut it down completely by injection of neutron absorbers into the coolant flow.
Somehow it seemed like that wasn't an option here, and the only thing the ship could do with the abundance of power being produced was invest it into terraforming the planet.
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