- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
lol well a reactor... how to put this... reacts. And that involves reactive material. So it would always be going - kind of like neuclar material is always spewing radiation and energy.
Heck, the reactor probably is neuclear, so when you blow up the coolant thingies, the reactor starts to overheat, and eventually reaches a critical temperature, at which point the walls are no longer able to contain any material - the equivilant of a meltdown. So basically it overheats, and at a certain temperature reaches a point whare the matter reacts violently and all at once rather than gradually, creating a BIG explotion.
So it's all modeled after a neuclear reactor, which does the same thing - you have the rise in tempurature, and eventually you reach a critical point, and once things go critical you end up with a meltdown - or in this case an explotion (I'm not sure how much of an explotion a meltdown gererates - whatever).