251 Another threat
So how did Hong Tao deal with it? He didn't mean to do it, but reason told him that it was normal. The members of a group are divided into three, six, nine and so on, let alone the world.
So he also asked the chairmen of the other continental unions how they used the rights, and then revised and changed them, and also made the framework of the rules of the Asian region. Different levels of information are provided to survivor groups in Asia according to their level of contribution.
What is the contribution degree, of course, it is the experience of surrendering survival. For example, if you find a certain vegetable planting trick, well, tell me, and I will submit it to the alliance headquarters, and after the approval of the chairmen of each continent, you can calculate the contribution and get the corresponding points.
The higher the points, the more survival data will be summarized by the alliance. The more each continent contributes, the more information that the continent president receives from the Alliance.
The more information a survivor group has, the better it will be for their own development. This thing seems to be a network of exchange, not material, but knowledge and experience.
Is there any benefit, there must be. After it is put into operation, it can further stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, give full play to the spirit of the three stinkers and Zhuge Liang, and replace the disadvantages of each family with collective efforts, so that the development speed is more average and faster.
This time, Hong Tao received a notice from the alliance headquarters, and he remembered to warn survivor groups throughout Asia, especially in China, to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
The announcement was simple and poignant, with a group of survivors in California sending out a final message saying goodbye to all survivors three days ago. They had to evacuate their base in downtown Los Angeles and find a way to make their way through the zombie-infested streets, moving north or east.
Whether the transfer will be successful or not, they themselves do not know, but they can't help but act, because the Devil's Valley nuclear power plant, dozens of kilometers away from the city of Los Angeles, exploded, and a huge column of white steam smoke soared into the sky.
This message was sent by the headquarters of the Union free of charge and requested that the Chairs of the Continental Alliances also transmit as much unconditionally as possible. There is only one purpose, to remind and call on all survivors to stay away from the nuclear power plant and various nuclear facilities as soon as possible. Because no one knows for sure how far and to what extent this contamination will spread.
Of course, Hong Tao forwarded the notice as soon as possible, and checked the list one by one to confirm that all the registered survivor groups in Asia had replied, and then began to think about how to put forward reasonable suggestions to the domestic survivor team.
However, before making suggestions, you have to find relevant information, such a serious matter must not be picked up and said, and it must be supported by some data.
Without the Internet, it is not so convenient to find information. Hong Tao went to three bookstores to barely scrape together some evidence, a few maps of the distribution of nuclear power plants in the country in the past two years.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it! As of the year before last, there were 16 nuclear power plants that had been completed and put into operation in China, covering all coastal provinces except Hebei.
Hongyanhe in Liaoning, Haiyang and Shidao Bay in Shandong, Tianwan in Jiangsu, Qinshan, Fangjiashan and Sanmen in Zhejiang, Ningde and Fuqing in Fujian, Daya Bay, Lingao, Taishan and Yangjiang in Guangdong, Fangchenggang in Guangxi, and Changjiang in Hainan Island.
So will there be a leak at a nuclear power plant? According to the analysis of two people in the survivors' groups in Russia and Brazil who have worked in related industries, it is 100% inevitable.
Nuclear reactors are generally divided into pool type and shell type, the former is mainly used for testing, and the latter is a nuclear power plant. The reactor uses a pump to pump light water (purified water) into a pressure vessel to cool the reactor core, while the resulting steam is used to propel a steam turbine to generate electricity.
Finally, it is returned to the condenser to be cooled by ordinary water or seawater, waiting to be pumped into the pressure shell again. This loop is closed, so the light water does not come into contact with the cooling water, so there is no leakage.
Once the external power goes out, the electric pump stops working, the light water cannot be recirculated, and the temperature of the reactor increases dramatically, eventually causing the core to melt, burning through the pressure shell, and then the explosion of various chemical reactions, including steam.
In order to prevent this phenomenon, designers have come up with many ways. For example, once the external power supply is stopped, the backup power supply will be started immediately to continue to supply power to the water pump, and then the diesel generator set will be started to keep the light water circulating and cooling.
At the same time, the control rods in the reactor automatically fall, preventing the fuel rods and neutron rods from continuing their reactions. After this set of combination punches was successfully completed, the reactor was basically able to shut down the cold reactor.
However, the energy reserve of diesel generators and backup power supplies is limited, if the power supply cannot be restored for a long time, and no one adds fuel to the generator, or due to mechanical failure due to long-term operation, the waste heat of the fuel rods cannot be dissipated, and slowly accumulates in the pressure shell, and finally the melt reactor is out of cold.
In fact, this problem was also taken into account in the design of the third-generation reactor, and the designers used the principle of gravity to keep the cooling water circulating, or simply submerged the pressure shell, as long as the evaporation and water replenishment could be guaranteed, the core would not melt. But there will definitely be a nuclear leak, which can be regarded as a strategy to lose the army and protect the commander.
As for whether the generation 2 reactor has added more safety facilities to ensure that the cold reactor can be shut down, the situation varies from country to country. However, in the case of long-term unattended, no reactor can be said to be 100% successful in the shutdown of the cold reactor. Sometimes what is theoretically feasible does not mean that it is actually possible, and many unexpected factors can affect the results.
The steam explosion at a nuclear power plant in Devil's Valley, California, is an example, where a large amount of hydrogen gas was produced in the pressure shell due to a chemical reaction, and instead of igniting and exploding, the pressure shell burst as if it were constantly inflated into a balloon.
So how much human life will be affected by a leak or explosion at a nuclear power plant? There are different opinions about this, and the two survivors can't give an accurate answer.
They just gave a more famous example, Chernobyl. At that time, the quarantine area was 30 kilometers, and no one could live in this area. The area of pollution after the incident is 100 kilometers, and people can live in this area, but many agricultural products cannot be exported.
However, the vicinity of the nuclear power plant can already be visited, the plants are growing well, there are animals living, and the radiation level in most places tends to be normal. Of course, the core is still buried in the depths, and if the cover is opened, the amount of radiation is still very high.
Although the concentration of nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants is dozens of times lower than that of nuclear weapons, the amount of fuel rods cannot be large, and if hundreds of tons of fuel rods are really melted, the instantaneous radiation dose is not necessarily high, and the duration of the explosion will definitely be longer than that of a nuclear explosion.
Anyway, the closer you get to these facilities, the more dangerous it becomes, and the hell knows if they're really cold stacks down. In fact, even if the cold stack is actually shut down, there is no guarantee that it will never be leaked, how many years? More than ten years? Decades? It's always going to leak anyway......
In this case, Hong Tao definitely did not want the few remaining survivors to suffer another radiation test, and suggested that the coastal cities should be evacuated as soon as possible for this purpose, and he also made it clear to them.
As for why the new base was chosen in a big city in the interior, and even encouraged people to come to the capital. I really didn't want to take advantage of the fire to rob and increase my strength, but I thought of another problem. Since nuclear power plants are not insured, will there be a possibility that nuclear bombs will also be leaked?
The two industry insiders were also consulted on this issue, but they were second-hand, had only been exposed to commercial nuclear facilities, and did not know much about the military. The general idea is that both atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs have a shelf life, usually around 20 years.
After the expiration date, it will be destroyed or prolonged, but either way requires human operation. If no one deals with it in time, the leak is a certainty, it's just not known how long it will be after that.
No matter how long it takes, no one wants to live next to a scrapped nuclear bomb that could leak at any time. So the question arises, who knows where the nuclear bomb is kept?