“The manual was written by people who thought the USSR would outlast the stars. We are beyond the manual.”
He pressed Enter.
Yuri didn’t answer immediately. He just pointed at the secondary monitor, which displayed a live geiger counter feed from the reactor sarcophagus, half a kilometer away. The numbers were normal. Boring, even. 0.25 microsieverts per hour. Background noise. Obnovite programmnoe obespecenie na HOT Hotbox
The Hotbox stopped screaming.