24 (TV Series)

Day 4: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (2005)

Aisha Tyler: Marianne Taylor

Quotes 

• Curtis Manning : [Giving a briefing on a monitor with Secretary Heller present]  there are a hundred and four nuclear power stations in the United States: we just learned terrorists are trying to convert all one hundred and four nuclear cores into weapons

  Erin Driscoll : Give us the worse case casualty scenarios first

  Curtis Manning : This graphic represents a single meltdown scenario. Edgar, break it down for us

  Edgar Stiles : If we can't get control of the Override, it will shutdown the entire cooling system and the core will melt through the containment building. In the first three hours, the population within a ten mile radius will receive the highest doses of radiation. Most people will die within two days

  Curtis Manning : Most of these a hundred and four cities represent seventy five thousand people. Multiply that by a hundred and four, we're looking at 7.8 million causalities: that's conservative the environmental impact will also be catastrophic. Thirty miles in all directions of each plant will be uninhabitable for at least five years

  Marianne Taylor : Don't these plants have multiple security systems to prevent this kind of breach?

  Curtis Manning : They do, the Override's already deactivated them

  Erin Driscoll : And if we don't succeed, how long before these cores start melting down?

  Curtis Manning : Projections in the first radiation shockwaves: approximately three hours

  Erin Driscoll : Alright I want everyone here from COMM and Logistics to work on getting a handle on the software. The rest of you will handle support and conjunction with NRC personnel, let's get to work