Door shut down With a grating sound Group of men surrounded By complete darkness In the pale glint of the headlamps Grey concrete Structures peel from the twilight Into the heat A motionless cloud of dust forms a fatal mist Endless corridors, countless cables Power plant vascular system connect a variety of now Useless devices, shattered pipes Passage is blocked Interior rooms demolished In spite of the massive preparation The burden of inability Descended on them with the First step they did The whole previous life of the men Is left before the door lock Septum between before and now Dosimeter bawls "Get out of there!" The sense of duty towards humanity Leads them to move on Displays drop out X-values beyond all Under the gas mask they can hardly breathe Men of honor are afraid to stumble Mask begins to melt Crawl to proceed No one would come For corpse retrieval Trudge through the radioactive grit Buried under the sarcophagus Shattering streams of charged particles Creating fields with massive neutron activity Atom for peace Rest in dust Atom for peace Rest in dust Reactor core and surrounding areas were merged to one Foundation load exceeded reliable load by far The whole core energy penetrates to the outside Everything in the way is getting disintegrated Undead molten masses which no scientist knows Never seen by humanity now perceptible in the bodies Ancient horror settled in the ruin Reaching with his fiery breath For the hearts of men