He had to balance the boron concentration against the rising heat. Too much, and the reaction would die, plunging the city into darkness. Too little, and the containment shield would become a memory.
"Pressure spike in the primary cooling loop," Elias muttered, his fingers flying across the console. He was running a specialized build of the station's software, an experimental "ISO" patch designed to squeeze 5% more efficiency out of the aging core. The internal log identified it simply as nucleares-v.1.0-tenoke . tenoke-nucleares.iso
"Elias, status?" the shift supervisor barked over the comms. He had to balance the boron concentration against