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review panel that could not certify the risk statement without triggering Level Three liability.
Henry opened the file. Hospital district affected. Residential towers.
Elder care units.
Pediatric respiratory cases. He read the summary twice. “What’s happening?”
Jinji moved fast now, opening windows, pulling feeds, scanning logs.
“Transformer failure. They can reroute power from Sector C, but doing that increases risk there by point six percent.”
“So do it.”
“They can’t.”
“Why not?”
“Because the Grid Council has to certify that Sector C faces no meaningful risk.”
Henry stared at her. “But there is risk.” “Yes.”
“So they can’t say it.” “No.”
“What happens if they don’t reroute?” Jinji’s voice changed.
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