Crisis: Reactor

You're hurtling through space at impossible speeds, and the ship's AI has put you in charge of the ship's reactor. You don't even know anything about reactors! Well, after taking a long and groggy look at the console, you're the only one standing between an unstable reactor and reaching your destination. Can you prevent reactor meltdown while a malfunctioning AI fiddles with controls?

Goals: What to Watch Out For

Here are the main 5 conditions to watch out for:

WIN: Your distance to home reaches 0.

LOSE: The reactor temperature exceeds the core melting point by too much.

LOSE: The core is completely waste.

LOSE: Your coolant supply is completely contaminated.

LOSE: The pressure exceeds three times the recommended 1000 MPa.

Reactor Basics

There's no time for everything and all of the details. Browsing through the manual shows a few things:

Reactor Power Sliders

These are the main sliders which put a load on the reactor. The higher the load, the more power the reactor will try to produce. You can see the amount of power each slider is using, as well as other power drains, to the left on the information terminal. 

Emergency Control Arm

To the right of the containment chamber, there are a few buttons to activate the control arm. Each consumes some power. Each does some good job, at the expense of the others. 

Button	Reduce	Increase
Fortify Core	Waste Mass	Core Temperature
Flush Coolant Pipes	Coolant Contamination	Waste Mass
Core Cooling	Core Temperature	Contamination

Pressure

Contaminated coolant leads to increased pressure. Raising the pressure lowers the effective melting point of the core. Keep the pressure near the recommended minimum 1000MPa.