Nuka - Cola plant The Nuka - Cola plant is a large , three - story factory building located at the southern edge of the Capital Wasteland . It is populated with Nukalurks , Nuka - Cola security protectron s , and radroaches . Layout . The building is divided into four sections : Research and development , Storage and mixing vats , Offices , and Factory floor . Research and development . The first section of the factory contains the R & D department ( the cell ' s name " Factory Floor " refers to the part beyond the locked door ) . Look up at the ceiling immediately after entering the lobby to see a hole and part of a filing cabinet with a " " in it . The terminals here contain some info on the development of Nuka - Cola Quantum and the difficulties ( or rather casualties ) that occurred in the process . There is an R & D safe here , that can be unlocked only with a key that is in possession of Milo , shipping foreman . The safe contains the Nuka - Cola Clear formula plus some random minor loot . The actual factory floor on the other side of the locked door can be reached by a detour through the rest of the building , starting with the door to the storage and mixing vats in the northwest . Storage and mixing vats . The storage and mixing vats section of the factory is partially flooded with glowing blue liquid . Presumably , it is water polluted with the strontium isotope used in the manufacture of Nuka - Cola Quantum . It gave rise to Nukalurks , a special mutation of mirelurk , which can only be encountered in the Nuka - Cola plant . In the room with two Nukalurks and the suspended protectron there is a " Welcome to the Nuka - Cola family ! " note on the desk beside a working automated maintenance terminal . The note is addressed to a new worker named Larry and contains his employee ID number that will be useful in the conversation with Milo later . It is dark and difficult to see against the green background of the desk . To continue on , look for a descending passage . It leads to the flooded radioactive area of the plant . The exit to the offices are located in the northeast part of the main open area . Pass the first set of catwalk stairs ( or climb them for some radioactive respite and to check for any enemies ) , and look for a second set of stairs off to the left as heading north . Beware the Nukalurks and the radiation . It is advised to take a dose of Rad - X and bring some RadAway . Follow the second stairwell around to the north east area and drop down to ground level to access the exit ( that is blocked by rubble at ground level ) . The other catwalks are all dead ends with no loot . Offices . In the offices section of the facility , there are two skill books that are found on the second floor : " Lying , Congressional Style " on top of a safe in the east part of the map in a small office , and a " Big Book of Science " in the room just north of Winger Mercier ' s corpse in the southwest corner of the map . A note can be found on the corpse regarding a contract to recover the uncompleted Nuka - Cola Clear formula . A Stealth Boy and an assault rifle can be found beside the corpse . There is a locked room here that contains four skeletal corpses and a note entitled " Help me " . The note is a short diary of a factory worker locked in the closet by Milo as a punishment for taking a prolonged break time . After a few days another worker had joined the prisoner in his misery , apparently for bathroom " misbehavior " . Body count shows that more were punished later . It is in the same room as the one with the massive hole in the ceiling . Factory floor . This is the area behind the locked door in the first cell . If the player ' s Lockpick skill isn ' t sufficient , the room can be accessed through the offices . In the bottom level of the factory floor , a friendly Mister Handy named Milo can be found . He is the shipping foreman , and in possession of the R & D safe key and the shipping computer password . The key and the password can be obtained either by introducing oneself as the new worker Larry and giving Milo his ID number , persuading Milo with high enough Speech skill , resetting him with the Robotics Expert perk , or simply killing him ( password is recorded on the holodisk , which causes a " PipOS Error - 26 : File Not found " for the image ) . The packing computer ( very easy ) is located on the factory floor level two rooms before the entrance to the offices . It can be used to manufacture 3 Nuka - Cola Quantums before the bottling line jams permanently . Appearances . The Nuka - Cola plant appears only in " Fallout 3 " .