Chemical engineers and particle physicists had been warning that the random combination of wildly accelerating, high-intensity radioactivity continuing to accumulate and accelerate in the small, enclosed Senate Chamber, combined with the environmental supersaturation of volatile gasses and high-temperature, high-density atmospheric pressures would not be sustainable – and had already been building for two prior sessions.

Forensic scientists will not be able to ascertain conclusively which floor debate finally set off the explosion, as the crater it left behind is likely to remain dangerously radioactive for at least fifty years.