diff --git a/code/obj/nuclearreactor/nuclearreactor.dm b/code/obj/nuclearreactor/nuclearreactor.dm
index 646b89ec2b53a..1acaf558d2cfa 100644
--- a/code/obj/nuclearreactor/nuclearreactor.dm
+++ b/code/obj/nuclearreactor/nuclearreactor.dm
@@ -383,15 +383,15 @@
 
 		//determine how bad this meltdown should be
 		//basically this is a points system, more points = worser
-		//at 49 fresh melted cerenkite rods, this is 490 (feasible, but difficult). at 49 fresh melted plutonium rods this is 1274 (basically upper limit - it would insane to reach this without admemes)
-		//at 3 fresh melted cerenkite rods this is 30 (most common meltdown due to pipeburn)
+		//at 49 fresh melted cerenkite rods, this is 1080 (feasible, but difficult). at 49 fresh melted plutonium rods this is 3038 (basically upper limit - it would be insane to reach this without admemes)
+		//at 3 fresh melted cerenkite rods this is 60 (most common meltdown due to pipeburn)
 		//total sum of radioactive junk
 		for(var/x=1 to REACTOR_GRID_WIDTH)
 			for(var/y=1 to REACTOR_GRID_HEIGHT)
 				if(src.component_grid[x][y])
 					var/obj/item/reactor_component/comp = src.component_grid[x][y]
 					//more radioactive material = higher score. Doubled if the component is already melted.
-					meltdown_badness += (comp.material.getProperty("radioactive") + comp.material.getProperty("n_radioactive")*2 + comp.material.getProperty("spent_fuel")*3) * (1 + comp.melted)
+					meltdown_badness += (comp.material.getProperty("radioactive")*2 + comp.material.getProperty("n_radioactive")*5 + comp.material.getProperty("spent_fuel")*10) * (1 + comp.melted)
 					if(istype(comp, /obj/item/reactor_component/gas_channel))
 						var/obj/item/reactor_component/gas_channel/gascomp = comp
 						src.current_gas.merge(gascomp.air_contents) //grab all the gas in the channels and put it back in the reactor so it can be vented into engineering
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
 
 		logTheThing(LOG_STATION, src, "[src] CATASTROPHICALLY OVERLOADS (this is bad) meltdown badness: [meltdown_badness]")
 
-		explosion_new(src, current_loc, max(100, meltdown_badness*7), TRUE, 0, 360, TRUE)
+		explosion_new(src, current_loc, max(100, meltdown_badness*5), TRUE, 0, 360, TRUE)
 		SPAWN(15 SECONDS)
 			alarm.repeat = FALSE //haha this is horrendous, this cannot be the way to do this
 			alarm.status = SOUND_UPDATE