Clinton, IL (DCSC News Service) – Exelon officials are pleading for calm as a General Emergency — the highest alert a nuclear plant can issue — consumes the Clinton Nuclear Power Station and begins to spill into the countryside around it. Local law enforcement is no longer asking for patience. It is asking for help. Reports of attacks by people suffering some unknown infection are coming in from the plant, from nearby homes, and from campgrounds along the lake.
Authorities confirm the trigger was radiological. During an unscheduled maintenance event, nuclear material escaped the containment building. Workers caught in the release did not simply fall ill. Within minutes they turned savage.
Plant emergency crews moved in to pull the exposed workers out. The workers met them with teeth and fingernails. DeWitt County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency spokeswoman Jane Jones said the injuries were ghastly — torn faces, shredded arms, bites driven all the way to bone. Then the rescuers stopped screaming and started attacking too.
Minutes after that, the plant’s armed security team was in it. Shots were fired. More help was called. It did not matter. Inside an hour, scores of the afflicted were roaming the buildings, and the people sent to stop them were joining them.
“We learned from someone who fled the scene that the Exelon security team shot an employee who was biting through a co-worker’s neck and tearing the flesh away,” Jones said. “They hit him dozens of times. He did not stop. He did not even slow down. That was when our source ran and did not look back.” Surveillance video, she said, shows scores more inside the plant. The cameras are still running. The people on them are not acting like people.
The dead are already in the dozens, and the plant fence did not hold the problem. DeWitt County Sheriff Jerry Law said deputies answering calls at residences and campgrounds near the station found the same thing waiting: the afflicted on the healthy, and the healthy not staying healthy for long.
“Only brain trauma stops them,” Law said. “A shot to the brain is the only thing we have seen work. A few residents dropped one with a baseball bat or a machete. I would not want one of these things that close to me if I had any other choice.”
City, county, and state officers are being overrun. The sheriff is urging the public not to panic — and, in the next breath, begging every firearm owner in the area to report to the DeWitt County Sportsmen’s Club range on Saturday, October 24, 2026 from 10a-2p, for assignments.
“Bring your rifles. Bring your pistols. Bring ammunition,” Law said. “Our people are being eaten alive out there. We need gun owners to stand in where law enforcement cannot be in two places at once.”
“It is time to shoot to restore law and order,” the sheriff said. “It is time to end this thing before it ends our families and our children.”
