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JOSH, 40’s, a well-thought-of engineer, is asked by his keep company to audit a atomic Power plant in Russia. He’s loth to go, but when he discovers there has just been a minor temblor in the region he’s on the first plane out. The reason for his change of heart? His ex-wife, RACHEL, works at the plant, and his kids, DYLAN, 17, and CHERIE, 14, are living in the area. Upon arriving in Russia, he’s taken on a tour of the power plant by EMILIO, the director of the facility. He at long last meets up with Rachel, only to take in the cold shoulder. She’s busy checking the atomic core after the tremor, interested that there might be a leak in the coolant system that’s causation it to overheat. That night Josh studies the readouts from the plant and discovers an anomaly. The core does seem to be overheating. He goes Rachel’s flat with the figures in hand, but again receives a cold reception. Rachel takes the paperwork from him, but shuts him out in the cold. Literally. As he walks away Josh sees his kids up at the window, looking at down sadly. The next day Rachel packs the kids off to school, tells them that unluckily they likely won’t be seeing their father. He’ll be going as soon as the job is over. At the power plant, Josh tries to win over Emilio to shut down the nuclear reactor until they enquire the potential leak, but Emilio will hear null more about it. He ignores Rachel’s safety warnings and orders the engineers to take the plant to full power… Meanwhile, Dylan and Cherie arrive at the american language honorary society and talk about Josh. Cherie misses him, but Dylan puts up a front, pretence not to care. Cherie talks about skipping school and drift over to the Power plant to see him. Dylan warns her not to, but she’s headstrong. As soon as the coast is clear she sneaks out of class and heads down to the subway… Josh takes a group of engineers down to the atomic core to enquire the potential leak when…Disaster strikes…A monolithic EARTHQUAKE, 8.2 on the Richter scale rocks the Russian countryside. Small fires break out all around the plant’s atomic number 92 core, sinister to start a nuclear meltdown and cause an plosion ten times the size of Hiroshima… Cherie’s subway train rocks violently in the quake, before comely cornered when the tunnel entrances collapses at both ends … And then as cursorily as it began, the quake stops…And now the real stories begin… Josh discovers that the coolant lines were leaking and there is deficient water at the plant to help fight the fires. When Emilio tries to addition the coolant pressing he ruptures the main line from the artificial lake ten miles away. Now no water can reach the raging inferno… Dylan discovers that Cherie did indeed skip out of school, and now it’s his responsibleness to find her. He races through with the devastated streets on a borrowed motorcycle, trying to find a way in to the collapsed subway tunnels… Cherie extricates herself from the wreckage of the subway train and helps the other passengers caught in parlous situations… Josh finds himself locked in the containment area around the core when the plant’s reflexive safety measures snap into effect. He must use all his skill and inventiveness to find a way back to the surface. Time’s linear out as the core overheats… cerebration fast Rachel comes up with a solution: They could save the plant using the water from the reservoir. The only trouble is they’ll have to flood the subway system… And so begins a race against time as the core threatens to nuclear meltdown and Josh and Rachel fight their way into the subway tunnels, urgently trying to save any treed passengers, including their children. But Nature’s got one final surprisal for them…Another monumental QUAKE!
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