The new receiving bank took its first warm flow on day1649.
Four Caldrin housings stood on the prepared seats. Their inspected ceramic faces, ordinary circulation loop, local trips, and removal clearances had survived the separate checks. Now the crews had to learn how the joined arrangement behaved under the modest flow they were actually prepared to receive.
Mara stood beside Nall.
Neri watched the supports from the safe side. Hend listened at the nearest bearing. The trainees held their own stations, not positions from which they could only watch experts work.
Iven waited outside the operating line.
The first rise moved through the bank.
Warm water entered. Heat crossed into the clean loop. The ordinary motor carried the circulation. The local gauge settled below the first marked limit.
At the downstream receiving point, the keeper acknowledged her own reading.
