User blog comment:BlizzardOfOz123/BlizzardOfOz123 Idea Dump/@comment-71.45.159.24-20110502192521/@comment-3579040-20110506122918

It's actually only about seven years afer Lamb, and after the events of Minervas Den. When the Thinker went offline, everything controlling Raptures reactors went offline. The reactors are constantly kept cool by seawater, but the radiation wasn't contained. Any splicer who didn't die,or move, was mutated even more than splicing could ever have done.