The situation
Your starting point
The scenario begins in March 1986, with the site's four reactors operating alongside regional coal and oil support. The disaster takes all four reactors offline; the surviving units return at different times, while Unit 4 is permanently lost.
Your term runs through February 1991. This is a regional recovery model, with calibrated finances and support capacity rather than a reconstruction of the Soviet grid. Blackouts reduce your score without ending the run. Bankruptcy can still end it, and the damaged reactor carries an ongoing cleanup obligation.
The choices
What will you do?
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Restore what service you can
Use the remaining fleet and new construction to reduce shortages while surviving reactors are unavailable. There is room to continue after a blackout and improve.
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Fund an obligation that remains
Keep cleanup costs in your cash plan. The destroyed reactor cannot be sold to remove the liability, and restored generation does not make that expense disappear.
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Review recovery beyond the score
Track service, customer bills and emissions through the five-year term. The model's endpoint does not represent an end to the disaster's human or environmental consequences.
Put your plan to the test
How much service can you restore while keeping the recovery effort financially viable?
Build, watch what happens, and try a different approach. The grid is yours to run.
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Sudden Nuclear Shutdown
Your biggest reactor will stop producing power. It will stay offline for the rest of your term. Have something ready to take its place.
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Load Shedding
The coal fleet keeps breaking down. Diesel can cover some of the gap, but it cannot make the problem cheap to ignore.
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Hurricane Season
A storm can take several power plants out of service at once. Build a Puerto Rico grid with enough room to recover.
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