Two chemistry professors are hard at work in their chemical laboratory.  The two people are head of Berkleys chemistry department and are on the verge of a break thought.  What they don't know is that the two are about to make a global disaster.  The chemical they are mixing are those that are supposedly the new source of power for the world.  A safe way to convert chemicals from state to state with massive discharges of energy that can be harnessed by the new collector they designed only a year before.  The two professors are so excited about their break through that they ignore the warning their computer is giving them about a power surge in one of their lab's wings, and before they know it the entire building erupts in an explosion causing the chemicals inside to create a radioactive toxin that spreads thought out the world destroying all life.
