What happened?. The manager of the nuclear power plant asked. Some power cord failed. The issue was that the cooling system was off and the core was getting hotter. The hall was all hustle and bustle as if there had been a revolution. The head of the tech dept was struggling to take care of the situation. And he managed to get things back to normal. The alarm went off and everybody returned to the post. The general manager shook hands with the head of the tech dept, with the other hand he arranged his hair, and with the third one he pressed the button that turned on the plant.
(Translated by Andra Daiana Păuna / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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