Red North!
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CHAPTER 45
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The six men from Waxman Industries reported for mid-shift and went to their normal workstations.? On their first break, they all went up to the warehouse and met outside the back door, as agreed.? The warehouse distribution center main door was open 24/7 now, as workers were preparing for the upcoming refueling outage.? Maintenance technicians were frequently going in and out of the warehouse to collect parts.? But the six men weren't there to withdraw parts and didn't go through the main door.? Jansen had provided them with a key to the side door and a location where the Waxman Industries crates had been stored since before Christmas.
Using the key, they opened the door and quietly entered the remote corner of the warehouse.? Two of them stood lookout while the others went off in search of the crates.? It wasn't hard to locate them using the information they had.? Using several small tools they'd smuggled in hidden in their lunch pails, two men worked to open the first crate.? Inside, they found and pulled out security uniforms including the jackboots, black jumpsuits, black turtlenecks, and black hard hats normally worn by armed responders.? It didn't take them long to put them on.
The other two men opened another crate and pulled out M-16s and some Sig Sauer side arms, checked that the magazines were full, and pulled out the spares.? These weren't the weapons they would have preferred, but they were similar to the ones the real security force used, and they didn't want to stand out.? When the first two men finished dressing as security responders, each took a weapon and relieved the two lookouts so they could get dressed.? Meanwhile, the others were unpacking the explosives from the crates.? They didn't need to blow doors or breach fences, so they didn't need shaped charges or equipment necessary to penetrate a perimeter.? Their job now was to set the charges around the plant that could be remotely detonated later.
After they removed the explosives and detonators from the crate, they carefully packed them in satchels that looked like the backpacks so many plant workers carried to hold their personal belongings.? Their goal was to blend in as much as possible.? They were prepared to fight if necessary, but that wasn't their primary goal.?
Inside one of the crates was a small bag containing six plant badges/key cards with their names and pictures already on them.? Each man took his badge/key card and clipped it to a lanyard around his neck, like all plant employees' wore.? Different from the badges issued to them as contractors, these would allow them access to vital areas in the plant.? Rob had these programmed in advance after the men had been hired on in December.?
A separate bag that looked like it had just been put in there recently contained keys to locked high radiation areas inside the radiological controls area of the auxiliary building.? These areas contained highly radioactive systems not accessible to the general plant staff.? It took special monitoring and approvals to access these areas.? This was the one set of keys Rob had no control over-they were under the control of the health physics supervisor at Access Control.? Only Health Physics Department people-like Brenda Williams-had access to these keys.?
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