San Arduinos Enrichment Center

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The logo of SAEC.

The **San Arduinos Enrichment Center** is a sprawling nuclear fusion research facility stationed in San Arduinos, New Mexico. Its coordinates are 32.75270255877529, -107.11396934880891. It is located near the **San Arduinos** gigacity in southwest New Mexico. The San Arduinos Enrichment Center is approximately 8560m (8.56km) deep underground.

**San Arduinos Enrichment Center** is mostly autonomous and most products are produced in the center itself. Though, other corporations, like Arduinos Nuclear Corporation and Northbridge Laboratories have a play in the Enrichment Center's operations. It is also possible the Central Intelligence Agency had stakes in the Enrichment Center's operations as well, as SAEC hosted the main MKUltra laboratory in New Mexico from 1964 to the end of the operation in 1973.

The facility's primary sector is Site Beta, designated as the "Operations Supercenter of San Arduinos". In terms of surface administration, SAEC has a small town located on the surface, along with the Armanias Communications Tower. There are also other facilities outside SAEC that are affiliated with the Enrichment Center, like the Lens Mainsite in Jokela, Finland, a cargo and processing facility in Lisbon, Portugal and a nuclear waste processing plant in Bucharest, Romania.

## Timeline of the Enrichment Center

### June 5th, 1959

Construction of the San Arduinos Enrichment Center begins in the far southwest region of New Mexico. Around 10km2 have been reserved as territory for the Enrichment Center's surface town.

### November 14th, 1959

The surface town of SAEC has been constructed, along with the surface administration offices.

### February 1st, 1961

The Quasar Combustion Reactor Mark I is installed.

### July 29th, 1961

Safety inspection begins as construction is finished.

### August 15th, 1962

Safety inspections are finished, and the Enrichment Center is opened.

### October 5th, 1963

The Central Intelligence Agency strikes a $157,000,000 deal with Lens Industries to repurpose the Tau-9 laboratory into an MKUltra human experimentation laboratory.

### March 6th, 1964

The deal is accepted. The Tau-9 laboratory is discontinued until further notice. The Enrichment Center is closed to the general public.

### 1964-1972

The Enrichment Center is used as an MKUltra human experimentation laboratory, and most research divisions of the Enrichment Center have been suspended.

### 1973

The MKUltra program is discontinued and the Tau-9 laboratory is reopened. The Enrichment Center resumes operations, but keeps the stricter security.

### March 9th, 1975

The Enrichment Center's administration changes, and Dr. Miles Rivera becomes the chairman of San Arduinos Enrichment Center. At this point, most of the Enrichment Center's problems begin.

### 1979

The Mark I of the Quasar Combustion Reactor is dismantled and the Mark II is installed.

### 1988

The Mark II of the Quasar Combustion Reactor is dismantled and the Mark III is installed.

### February 10th, 2001

The Enrichment Center is destroyed due to a QCR Mark III thermal instability and pressure overload.

## Locations

Below is a list of locations in the Enrichment Center, sorted from highest to deepest

### Site Alpha (550m)

Site Alpha contains the administrative meeting rooms and living quarters for employees, as employees are not allowed to exit the area during their time of employment.

### Lens Central Station and exit to San Arduinos (0m)

On the very surface is the Lens Central Station, the surface city and the exit to San Arduinos. Lens Central Station is the central hub in the train network interconnected with the rest of the facilities and affiliated stations. The surface city is a rural area for the employees of the Enrichment Center to reside in during their time of employment. The city contains a small grocery store, a bar, a few factories on the northern side, entrance to Site Beta and below, and the exit to San Arduinos. The exit to San Arduinos is meant for visitors only. Test subjects are to use the Lens Central Station to exit the Enrichment Center and must proceed to Lens Central Administrative Headquarters in Montreal, Canada and file an exit request from the testing program.

### Site Beta (-250m)

Site Beta is the administrative supercenter of San Arduinos, containing the meeting rooms and heavily guarded quarters, so the administrators of San Arduinos can live in secrecy.

### Site Gamma (-765m)

Site Gamma is the primary laboratory where most of the Amidium research and development undergoes. Even though Site Gamma is the primary laboratory of SAEC, the QCR is located deeper in the facility.