How was the Razorback able to restart its reactor?

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In S5:E5 the Razorback:

and in S5:E6 the Razorback:

My impression from the books was that once you have 'dumped the core' you had effectively left yourself drifting in space and had to await rescue.

jeffronicus · Accepted Answer

As executive producer/co-writer Ty Franck (co-author of the novels) explains on Twitter and on The Expanse Aftershow on YouTube, "dumping the core" means temporarily flushing out the hot plasma of the reactor:

"Inside the reactor is this big ball of super hot gas that the reactor
is running off of. Basically all you're doing is using the magnetic
system of that reactor to throw that ball of gas out of the back of
the ship, but that shuts the reactor down, too."

This is not a routine procedure because:

"...shooting plasma hotter than the sun out the back of your ship carries
certain risks to the structure, and even if it works, it means you're
doing a cold restart of the reactor, and that takes time."

How was the Razorback able to restart its reactor?

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