I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

At around 18:00 on the evening of the 13th, when Lin Ju was taking off on his Y-20 to return home, he could still see the spectacular mushroom cloud in the sky.

The second hydrogen bomb caused a 45-minute communication interruption on Yuanwang-7. This alone can confirm that the yield is definitely more than the declared 700,000 tons.

At the moment of the explosion, it was like a super sun rising from the ground with dozens of times the brightness. Even ships dozens of kilometers away were illuminated with long shadows, and the sky turned pale. one slice.

The resulting mushroom cloud even covered the sky in the distance, making the area gloomy and dim as if it had entered darkness early. It reminded people of storms at sea, and this was the scene in the center.

When communication was restored, they received a series of messages from China:

The first is the yield. A plane flew to the explosion area 10 minutes after the explosion and accurately measured the yield of the explosion to be as high as 1.25 million tons, which was 80% higher than the expected yield.

So what were the consequences of this explosion? The pilots who went to survey said that they could no longer find the landmark of Fukushima Power Station...

The first explosion had actually destroyed the geological structure of the nuclear power plant. The second blow was carried out before the residual heat of the first explosion had dissipated, completely collapsing hundreds of meters of land around the nuclear power plant, leaving only Descend into a bay with an almost perfectly circular outline.

And because of the high temperature and pressure during the nuclear explosion, the land on the cliffs around the bay was compacted so it was extremely flat. There was still a large amount of glass material remaining on the surface, which can be easily distinguished during aerial surveys.

If the radiation problem is not considered, then this will be a very good deep-water port...

There is no doubt about the cleaning effect. The unmanned ship that reached the radiation sea area the fastest collected some samples. After analysis, it was found that the short-term radiation value increased rapidly, but these were the residues after the explosion and would drop to normal levels within a few days.

The most worrisome contamination residue from the nuclear power plant is very small, which shows that the cleaning results of the No. 2 reactor core are also quite satisfactory.

A greater proportion of the power of the second cleanup operation was leaked, and initial guesses may exceed 900,000 tons, which is nearly 9 times that of the first one, which explains why it is much more spectacular when observed.

And this also has an unexpected effect: the residual radiation in the air has also been cleaned up to a certain extent.

Most of the power of the first hydrogen bomb was released underground, but it also destroyed a large number of sewage storage tanks built on the surface. Their spread would cause considerable pollution to the air and soil.

However, the leakage yield of the second hydrogen bomb is very high, which incidentally solves part of the residual radiation. This can greatly reduce the yield demand of the third hydrogen bomb, but I don’t know if Aramco is willing to do so.

As for the reason why the yield did not match the content of the notice, Lucia also gave an explanation: Their nuclear expert Anton Yelchin made a mistake in the design and has been suspended from work and will be severely punished.

This reason is by no means convincing. At least Lin Ju consulted a domestic nuclear equipment expert before getting on the plane, and the other person just said in a vague way:

"According to the personnel warning line drawn by the IAEA, the maximum controllable safety yield is between 1.2 and 1.3 million tons."

This made Lin Ju very doubtful about what Aramco would do. The first one was 340,000 tons, and the second one was 1.25 million tons. Will they accept the middle value of 1 million tons? This is highly questionable.

Obviously, because of the excess of the second yield, the cleanup operation has changed - or it has never been just a simple radiation cleanup plan.

Lin Ju, who vaguely felt that the development of the situation was beyond expectations, chose to return to China without hesitation, and there was no telling what would happen again.

Also returning are most of the base employees and executives. They cannot stay outside for too long. Anyway, they have witnessed two nuclear explosions. It is not a big deal if they don't watch the third one.

As soon as Lin Ju landed in the capital, he heard Ami's reaction.

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"We severely condemn Lucia's unprofessional, imprecise, and irresponsible behavior. This false reporting and concealment seriously threatened regional security and increased the potential danger to residents in the radiation zone.

This unprofessional behavior also directly led to the casualties of a pilot and seven innocent people. This was the first time in the 21st century that anyone was injured by nuclear weapons, and it was a serious challenge to international peace.

What’s even more frightening is that the radiation residual value in the control area is also much higher than expected..."

John stood on the Colorado State University lawn, spitting and delivering a speech.

There were many members of Congress behind him, making the press conference even more luxurious.

It was only 7 o'clock in the morning, more than three hours had passed since the second hydrogen bomb was dropped. These high-level elites were finally willing to get out of the Cheyenne Mountain bunker, but they still did not dare to go too far.

The takeoff of the Il-80 doomsday command aircraft naturally made them highly nervous. The final yield exceeding the standard made John worry for two hours, and he made nearly 40 minutes of hotline calls before he put down his concerns.

Plan A of the IAEA's cleanup plan is actually the most perfect. It not only takes into account the cleanup effect, but also controls the scope of the impact as much as possible and reduces subsequent reconstruction costs. It is technically the optimal solution.

But the equivalent ranking made John very dissatisfied, and finally decided to find reasons to implement Plan B. Maozi, who also had the same idea, hit it off with them.

Plan B made John very satisfied. He increased the plans from front to back, and put the largest one at the end of the Pacific Fleet, which was very suitable for his position.

However, Maozi broke his promise and took out a 1.2 million-ton hydrogen bomb, but the Pacific Ocean really only prepared a hydrogen bomb with an equivalent of 1 million tons!

Dogs are born with a chance! !

What made John even more frustrated was that one hour after the explosion, the Pacific Fleet first discovered a group of private intruders on the coast. They took advantage of the gap in the interval and entered the 4.5 kilometers range of the explosion center in a small boat.

In the end, this small team composed of 6 islanders and 5 foreigners from four countries failed to take a close-up view of the nuclear explosion as expected. Instead, they were severely damaged by high temperature, overpressure and huge amounts of radiation. Seven people were already dead when the plane found them, and the remaining four were in very poor condition. They basically had severe burns and were not expected to survive tonight.

The rescue team who discovered this incident immediately organized a larger search team and searched everywhere to see if there were still fish that had slipped through the net. As a result, the daring tourists did not find it, but found the wreckage of a U2.

The Pacific Fleet immediately recognized it as a U2 that had recently entered the radiation zone to collect samples. It lost contact after the explosion. They thought the communication system might have been damaged in the nuclear explosion, but they did not expect that it crashed directly.

According to the preliminary investigation at the scene, the cause of the crash may be that the pilot failed to adjust his attitude in time, causing the side to respond to the explosion impact. The slender left wing of the U2 was directly blown off. The pilot failed to parachute and has become a section of coke in the cockpit.