Meltdown by Laurence Creighton 1993

About the Story

It had been a routine flight - up until five minutes before the plane hit the deck - and as far as anybody at N.F.U.K. was concerned there had been no reason to fear a thing. After all, it was only a batch of "used" plutonium rods - on their way to be re-processed - and such a cargo had been handled hundreds of times before. In fact there were three more such trips planned for the coming week and none of them would be handled any differently to this one.

However, the plane hit the ground and wreckage was scattered far and wide - amongst it were the plutonium rods that nobody seemed to worry about. But worry they soon would, because unless the rods were recovered and sealed away in lead boxes, one thing was more than certain - that particular piece of "Mother Earth" would never one be the same again. Nor would any of the creatures or people that lived there!

Your task is to make your way to the "crash site" then, once there, search for and find the missing rods before they brought about a nuclear explosion. Time is of the essence as the rods went "critical" on impact and if their temperature goes beyond a certain point "MELTDOWN" will occur and a dreadful explosion take place. This explosion will most certainly kill tens of thousands and render the area contaminated for hundreds of years.

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