"Our cleanup operation is extraordinarily complex, dangerous, and slow. Large quantities of highly radioactive debris and molten fuel still remain! Once your heavy bombs fall, the immense explosive shockwave and earth-penetrating effects could very well completely destroy these already unstable barriers!"
Kenji Kobayashi took a deep breath, trying to make his voice sound more convincing, but the despair within it was impossible to conceal. "Even more frightening, beneath Fukushima's Geological Structure lies a crisscrossing network of deep groundwater veins! Like blood vessels, they connect the entire Honshu Island! If the explosion shakes core debris containing lethal Radioactive Material—especially long-lived isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137—into those veins, or carries them in with the groundwater... General, do you know what that means?"
He nearly exhausted all his strength shouting those final words. "It means the groundwater systems of the entire Kanto Plain, even all of Honshu Island, will be completely contaminated! Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe... the drinking water sources of all these cities will be rendered unusable! The lifeline of tens of millions will be cut off! It is not merely an economic loss—it is the severing of a nation's vital artery! The collapse of this entire island society! Was the lesson of your country's Three Mile Island, and our more than decade-long painful struggle in Fukushima, not warning enough? General, please reconsider!"
Silence filled the Command Center, broken only by the hum of the equipment.
Every officer's gaze was fixed on General Angelerra and Kenji Kobayashi.
The island nation's representatives were not worried without reason. The long shadow of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the potentially catastrophic consequences of groundwater contamination remained a focus of the international community's concern.
General Angelerra turned to face Kenji Kobayashi. His gaze was as sharp as an eagle's, without the slightest hint