<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/64/Lena_Kristin_Holtzmann.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Lena Holtzmann</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Nuclear Reactor control room </td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Wing Commander Louise Cotter</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Bringing power to the world</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Finally some training that had been useful. Back on earth I had practiced this particular step a hundred times and then a hundred times more. I wasn't scared of radiation with these suits on and the machine alone and the rods alone weren't very harmful. Together though, they were quite powerful. Not enough to cause a disaster like Fukushima or Chernobyl or Hartlepool, which was caused by incompetence, but still enough to get a significant part of the crater contaminated. I wasn't incompetent though.<br/><br/>I opened the door with the code and stepped inside. Immediately I got everything in place to start up the power. Before I was able to lower the rods into the reactor I had to make sure all systems and backup systems were running and this would require a lot of power. This miniature version of a nuclear plant had it's own power supply as it would immediately drain the life support of all power once I flipped the switch. When I did, the lights sprang on, monitors sprang on and a small slot opened up. Above the slot was a warning red flashing light.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Operation Incomplete.</span><br/><br/>I smiled at it and turned around to the Commander.<br/><br/><strong>"I'd be honoured Commander."</strong><br/><br/>Carefully I lifted the rods in their led protection case out of the red box and placed them in the slot that had opened up. The case itself was now connected to what I called Robot-me. Robot-me would bring the rods to their final position in the core without me having to risk my incredibly sexy behind. I pushed down until I heard a click. That shut the slot off and with a pull of a level the process was started. The bottom of the led case was opened and the rods slid out into Robot-me's hands.<br/><br/>Because of the suit it was impossible for me to hold the rods myself but now with two joysticks I was able to control Robot-me from the safety of the control room. It was the only accessible part of the reactor. If I had to go inside the reactor itself, which I had to at some point to connect the power to the Nuclear lab, I needed permission from both Commander Cotter and Commander Versatile and at least one of them had to be in this control room to monitor me and shut the doors in case I would cock up. Which I wouldn't.<br/><br/>Carefully I guided the rods to their final position and lowered them into their sockets. By now the water was liquid again as we stored it in a tank on the outside of the reactor and I flooded the tank. When Robot-me was fully retracted I ran a final instrument check and set some parameters. The warning light was still emitting the red light.<br/><br/>I held my hand at a yellow button and looked at the commander Cotter.<br/><br/><strong>"Three, two, one.."</strong><br/><br/>I pushed the button and seconds later the reactor was starting up. Two minutes after starting up, the warning light sprung to green.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Operation Complete</span><br/><br/><strong>"All systems operational commander. We have power."</strong>