Chapter 990: Base Destruction
"Boom!" The sound of the explosion is not very loud, when the distance is relatively long, it must be the light of the explosion first, and then after a few seconds, the sound will be heard.
Moreover, the height of its explosion was not very high, only eighty meters!
During the explosion, the misty cloud was rapidly spreading outward, as if a drop of ink had been placed in clear water.
Soon, it enveloped the buildings below.
The building, which is circular, has a thick concrete shell on the outside, and on the inside, there is clear water underneath, and only the most professional knows that this water is a special heavy water.
At the same time, in the water, there are sticks inserted one by one, the darker ones are uranium rods, and the thinner ones are brighter ones, which are cadmium rods.
Here, there is a reactor, and at this time, the internal nuclear reaction is constantly going on, through combustion, uranium into plutonium, and the more it burns, the more it burns.
This nuclear reactor was just started a few days ago, and after getting enough uranium ore, it can produce nuclear raw materials to meet the needs of this reactor, and then it can be burned more and more.
No one dared to be inside, the thick cement protective layer outside was used to shield from radiation, and not far from this reactor was its control room, where several personnel on duty were waiting, not knowing that the disaster had come.
One of the personnel sniffed, "What's going on?" Why is there a strange smell in the air? ”
The clouds have spread to them, covering everything around here!
Just when the people on the side were about to answer him, the second explosion came suddenly.
"Boom!" This explosion is ten thousand times more powerful than the explosion just now!
In the huge explosion, all the diffused air masses ignited almost at this moment! Within a radius of 500 meters, all of them were firelight!
On the dark earth, a huge fireball with a radius of more than 500 meters suddenly lit up, and the night turned into day, and all the space surrounded by this flame turned into nothing at this moment!
The temperature at the center, up to two and a half thousand degrees, at this temperature, nothing will survive!
The personnel were quickly vaporized, and then, scattered, their ashes could not be retained.
The center of the fireball, at the same time, creates a powerful air current, which can produce a super strong air pressure of 1,000 pounds per square inch.
This air pressure is enough to crush any strong fortress or fortification!
Of course, the nuclear reactor with a huge reinforced concrete structure enclosure was not spared, and under this huge air current, it was like an eggshell, which was crushed at once!
The nuclear reaction inside also stopped instantly, and under high temperature and pressure, whether it was uranium rods or cadmium rods, all of them turned into fine powders, which diffused outward with the air flow.
This is the most terrible radioactive fallout, and as long as you breathe this dust, there is only one way to die!
The huge fireball is still expanding rapidly at a speed of 3,000 meters per second! Everywhere he went, everything was foamed, and in the sky, a mushroom cloud rose.
“Fuck!” Corporal Rex was stunned, he couldn't believe what he was seeing, and even, he couldn't believe that it was an enemy bombardment, if it was an accident at the base, it could still be believed.
"Quick, let's go back and put out the fire!" Ward in front shouted loudly, they have no duty now, they are firefighters!
And at this moment, the second explosion actually appeared again!
When the first one exploded, the bright light produced was enough to guide the bombers behind, and they deliberately deviated slightly from the location of the fire to expand the bombing range.
And then the third, then the fourth...
When the explosion occurred, there was an immediate commotion in the centrifuge factory, three kilometers away from the nuclear reactor.
Although a large number of scientists have carried out preliminary research work, the nuclear bomb is still unknown, so in order to achieve the goal of detonating the nuclear bomb as soon as possible, the Manhattan Project simply started in various ways, using nuclear reactors to burn plutonium to make plutonium bombs, and also using centrifuges to purify uranium-235 and make uranium bombs.
The centrifuge, as the name suggests, uses the principle of centrifugation, uranium-238 is the heaviest, loaded on the centrifuge, it is thrown to the outermost, and the innermost is the lightest.
This kind of device must be quite large, and the factory here is also the largest, a full three stories high!
The explosion over there made this place immediately realize that something was wrong, and the next moment, all the glass was shattered under the shock wave, and the workers stood up and ran out quickly, in short, it was the worst to stay here.
However, as soon as they ran outside, they smelled a distinctive smell of ammonium nitrate in the air, and then, in front of everyone's eyes, a terrible fire appeared.
Their bodies also turned into foam!
Five fifteen-ton bombs turned the entire base into ruins!
Everywhere was burning, everywhere there were fragments of buildings or machines or human flesh, far from the center of the explosion, people who were not directly burned, and the death was even more tragic, they covered their necks with their hands, their faces swelled into pig liver, but they couldn't breathe, there was no oxygen in the surrounding environment, they were suffocated!
And farther away, those guards deployed on the outskirts of the base, if they were evacuated immediately at this time, then they could still survive, but unfortunately, no one thought of retreating at this time, they were all running towards the direction of the explosion, wanting to go over to put out the fire.
Countless radioactive dusts filled the air.
The fire is still burning.
Corporal Rex ran in the direction of the fire, running, the air was constantly choking, he had no scruples, he continued to run, but his breathing was becoming more and more difficult.
Finally, he stopped running, half-crouched on the ground, gasping for air, he didn't know that the more he breathed, the faster he would get from death.
He was still breathing, breathing, and at this time, his lungs, having no control, coughed violently.
"Cough, cough..."Suddenly, in the midst of coughing, he felt a fishy breath in his throat, and by the light of the fire, he saw that what he spit out was actually red!
His lungs spasmed violently, and his face turned even pale.
What's going on? What's going on?
At the base of Oak Ridge, there was a terrible series of large explosions, and in the explosion, the entire base was ablaze!
This news is also being quickly reported to the superiors.