"I'm Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov!"

"Comrade President, the Chernobyl reactor does have a phenomenon of corrosion of pipelines!" came Karenya's crisp but steady voice from the microphone.

"In addition to the design problems, is there a possibility of man-made disasters for civilian reactors?" asked Andropov with a solemn expression.

"Yes!" Karenia replied categorically: "Chairman, we have carried out a comprehensive inspection of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and although there are great safety risks in the design, it is the human factor that is even greater!"

After inspection, we found that only one deputy director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is a nuclear energy expert! The others, including the workshop director, the operator, the head of the maintenance department and the security inspector, are all not certified for the special industry of the nuclear power plant!

The factory manager only has training experience and worker experience in coal-fired power plants, and is basically only a supervisor in charge of political work, and rarely appears on the front line of the factory. The chief engineer comes from a conventional energy plant, and the deputy chief engineer in charge of reactors 3 and 4 also has only some experience with small reactors.

In view of the fact that the RBMK reactor does have potential safety hazards in terms of design, if coupled with the fact that the operators who are not qualified for RBMK are unable to grasp and deal with the sudden technical failure in time, and the reactor is shut down, the consequences caused by it will be absolutely catastrophic!

According to the analysis and inference of the most authoritative nuclear experts I have brought with me, since the safety shells of the four reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are all cement shells instead of armor steel, if any of these four reactors explode, they will release at least 400 times more radioactive dust than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"

There are 400 times more radioactive dust than the Hiroshima atomic bomb! This decision immediately frightened Andropov into a cold sweat.

Andropov suddenly had such a scene in his mind at this time:

Radioactive fallout from the meltdown of the atomic furnace at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant drifts over Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. It then drifted through Turkey, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France and the United Kingdom......

The effects of nuclear radiation in these areas can last for 20 years, if not hundreds of years......

Such an international impact would be catastrophic and responsible for the Soviet Union, which was in the midst of national reform!

God bless the USSR!

Because Yang Weiping, the head of the Oriental Union Union, the youngest national leader in the world, uses his rich professional and technical knowledge. persuaded Andropov to prevent a serious nuclear accident in the Soviet Union.

Remembering the heated argument with Yang Weiping last night over the issue of the existence of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Andropov felt extremely happy and embarrassed at the same time.

At that time, Yang Weiping bluntly made it clear that the RBMK reactor had design flaws, especially those of the control rods.

As the supreme leader of the world's largest nuclear power, Andropov firmly denied it on the spot.

However, Yang Weiping did not argue with him. Rather, from the reactor stored zài a dangerous cavitation coefficient, very patiently with him to analyze.

The cavitation coefficient is a measure of a reactor's safety procedures and is used to measure the impact of the formation and increase of steam bubbles in a water coolant on the reactor, Yang said.

Most reactor designs produce less energy when the water temperature rises, because if the coolant contains steam bubbles, the number of neutrons being slowed down decreases. Neutrons with high velocity are generally less likely to cause fission of uranium atoms, so the reactor produces less energy.

However, the RBMK reactor of the Chernobyl NPP. Solid graphite is used as a neutron moderator to reduce the velocity of neutrons, and light water from the absorption center is used to cool the core. Therefore, despite the presence of vapor bubbles in the water, a large number of neutrons are still moderated.

In addition, because steam does not absorb neutrons as easily as water, once the temperature of the RBMK reactor rises, more neutrons will produce uranium atomic fission, increasing the energy output of the reactor. This design leads to the tendency of RBMK reactors to be very unstable at low power and to reach dangerous levels of energy in a short period of time when the temperature rises, which is very, very difficult for non-professional workers to understand, grasp and foresee.

When operating the reactor, the operator inserts a rod into the reactor to reduce the reaction speed, but the end of the rod is composed of graphite at the end of the RBMK reactor design. Its extension is hollow and filled with water, while the rest of the rod is made of boron carbide and is the one that really has the ability to absorb neutrons.

Because of this design, when the rod is first inserted into the reactor, the graphite end replaces the coolant, which greatly increases the reaction rate of nuclear fission, because graphite can absorb fewer neutrons than boiling light water. Therefore, in the first few seconds of inserting the control rod, the output power of the reactor will increase instead of decreasing as expected. Unprofessional and rigorously trained reactor operators are unaware of this feature, let alone foreseeable.

When Yang Weiping said this, he immediately criticized the Soviet Union in rather sharp terms.

Yang Weiping, the head of state, directly criticized the slogan of "reducing personnel and making more products" put forward by Xie Jinuo, the essence of which is to blindly pursue profits and control the so-called variable costs, that is, wage expenses. In fact, it is the most direct embodiment of the "surplus value" of capitalism extracting workers!

Because of this reality, a large number of workers in the Soviet Union who had mastered real skills were not used because the wages they needed to pay were too high, and a large number of "two knives" who were not skilled enough to go to work without even vocational skills training were used. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is a prime example!

Yang Weiping said that there are certainly many such situations in the Soviet Union, and if we do not correct them in time and introduce a correct and reasonable enterprise management model that conforms to the national conditions of the Soviet Union, the Soviet industry will have big problems!

Thinking of this, Andropov couldn't help but feel more and more frightened the more he thought about it, and the more he felt that he was a little sorry for Yang Weiping.

Because Andropov did not want to sell the Typhoon-class strategic nuclear submarines to the Eastern Union, he proposed to lease several Alpha-class attack nuclear submarines for the temporary use of the Eastern Union Navy as a transition.

Unexpectedly, Yang Weiping said on the spot: "I don't want an expensive titanium coffin like the Alpha class that uses an RBMK reactor!"

Because of this, Andropov and Yang Weiping's argument led to the civilian use of the RBMK reactor and brought out the concerns of Yang Weiping about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

As it turned out, Yang Weiping was right, and it seems that the youngest national leader in the world never missed it!

"Chairman, Comrade President, are you still listening to the phone?"

A shout came from the microphone, interrupting Andropov's musings.

"I am here! Comrade Karenya, I request and authorize you to conduct a comprehensive review of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, especially from the human factor! I want to know what is the reason why our nuclear power plant, including our nuclear submarines, will cause such a serious safety hazard!"

"Yes, Comrade Chairman, I promise that I will never spare any enemy element who seeks to endanger the great Soviets!"

"Well, that's good, Comrade Karenia, you've always been worthy of my trust in you, and I'm sure you won't let me down this time either, hard work! ”

"Serve the Soviet people!"

After hanging up, Andropov let out a long breath.

"Chairman, is there really something wrong with our dual-circuit liquid metal reactor nuclear technology?" Kryuchkov stared at Andropov with wide eyes, visibly in disbelief.

"Last night, I made a bet with Yang Weiping. Andropov raised his right hand and pinched the bridge of his nose between his eyebrows with his thumb and forefinger, and sighed: "He said that the reactors of our Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Alpha-class nuclear submarines are designed to have serious safety risks. I didn't believe it at the time.

So, Yang Weiping offered to make a bet with me, the bet was that if he lost, the Oriental Union unconditionally opened all Internet information technology to the Soviet Union without charging any fees, but if he won, I myself need to owe him a favor. Now it seems, he was right, he won the bet between us. ”

After finishing speaking, Andropov suddenly swept away his previous fatigue and said in a loud voice: "However, I am happy to lose this bet! Because this bet has allowed us to avoid the biggest nuclear accident of this century!"

I dare not imagine now that radioactive fallout, which is at least 400 times more than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, will cause huge loss of life and property to the Chernobyl zone and its surrounding areas, and I dare not imagine how serious the threat to the lives of our submarine officers and men would be if an accident at the nuclear reactor was carrying out combat readiness tasks for our Alpha-class nuclear submarines.

What is more important is that if such a serious nuclear leakage accident occurs, how serious and irreparable the negative impact it will have on us in the international community! However, because we had the reminder of Führer Yang Weiping and the bet between me and Führer Yang Weiping, this would not have happened! Führer Yang Weiping, with his technical knowledge, saved the Soviet Union! Saved thousands of Soviet people!"

The phrase "the radioactive dust of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima is 400 times greater" can startle Yanayev and Kryuchkov into a cold sweat.

The conclusion that "the Soviet Union had an irreversible negative impact on the international community" made the two First Deputy Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet and the Chairman of the KGB even more frightened. (To be continued......)