THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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toward the temporary safety of the power plant. "All the reactor-repair
robots are there; don't get /them/ on the warpath next."

Of course! There were always repair-robots at a power plant, to go into
places no human could enter and live. Behind the collapsium shielding,
they wouldn't have been activated.

"Let's have a look at them. What kind?"

"Standard reactor-servicers; the same we used at the administration center."

Matsui opened the door, and they went into the power plant. Conn and
Matsui put on the service-power and activated the two supervisors; they,
in turn, activated their workers. It was tricky work getting them all
outside the collapsium-walled power-plant area; each worker had to be
passed through by the supervisor inside, under Matsui's control. Because
of the close quarters at which they worked inside the reactor and the