The sky is clear and the white clouds are fluttering.

The plane travels through the sea of clouds, the sky is full of light, and below is the vast Atlantic Ocean, where the occasional black dot can be seen, large or small, which is an island or a moving freighter.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, everyone was relaxed and happy, and at the same time, they couldn't help but talk about the scientific expedition mission.

Academician Dominory is old, so this matter is handed over to Lizzy Charty Meyer to lead the team, and the group includes Zhou Qiao, Murphy, and Stephanie, a total of twelve people.

Only ten of them are researchers, and two are security guards. It is said that he is a retired special forces soldier who has participated in many wars and has great experience.

These two have been employed by the institute for several years and are trustworthy fellows.

Academician Domitri also gave Lizzy Charty Mayer a business card and told her to contact a senior police officer from the Lyon police department when she arrived in France, who would provide local security services.

Regarding nuclear radiation, in fact, it is a rather serious topic.

People love and hate nuclear weapons. It is a double-edged sword.

Cancer risk studies at nuclear power plants have been conducted in the United States for several years, and then the U.S. government halted these projects.

The reasons given were that the time was too long, the funding was insufficient, and that regular inspections showed that the amount of radiation to the surrounding environment from US nuclear power plants was too small to increase the risk of cancer in nearby residents.

The United States is the world's largest nuclear power, with more than 100 nuclear power plants.

The current nuclear power technology is theoretically safe, especially the third and fourth generation nuclear power plants.

Fourth-generation nuclear power plants have four main characteristics: sustainable use of nuclear energy, economy, safety and reliability, and non-proliferation and physical protection. Among them, safety, including significantly reducing the probability of core damage and eliminating the need for off-site emergency response, is a prominent feature of the fourth-generation nuclear energy system.

There are roughly six types of reactors: Supercritical Water Reactor (SCWR), Ultra-High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (VHTR), Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (SFR), Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) and Molten Salt Reactor (MSR).

However, nuclear power plants are also controlled by people, and no matter how safe the measures and systems are, if they are not implemented properly, they will inevitably cause leaks or explosions.

Even ordinary factories will have all kinds of accidents that cannot be prevented, not to mention nuclear power plants with extremely strict requirements in all aspects?

The International Nuclear Accident Standard is usually classified as 7 levels, with each additional level representing an accident that is about 10 times more serious than the previous level 1.

The 7 levels are further divided into 2 different stages.

The three levels of the lowest impact are called nuclear events, while the four highest levels are called nuclear accidents.

Compared with the fact that the intensity of the event can be quantitatively assessed (such as earthquakes, which are unavoidable natural disasters), nuclear accidents (which account for more than human factors) are more subject to interpretation. The difficulty in explaining this is that the INES rating of the accident is not assigned until much after the incident. And this explanation is given by people, and there is a lot of room for operation in it.

Probably the most impressive, the most impactful, were two accidents.

First, on April 26, 1986, the accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where the fourth generating unit of the power plant exploded and all the nuclear reactors were blown up.

Then, a large amount of radioactive material leaked, resulting in 31 deaths, and in the following 15 years, 6-80,000 people died, 134,000 people suffered from various degrees of radiation diseases, and more than 115,000 people in a 30-kilometer radius were forced to evacuate. Within 10 years, milk production was banned within 100 kilometres, and a large number of animal genes were mutated.

That place is still a ghost town to this day. Someone once operated a drone and went deep to shoot.

For this incident, the Americans also filmed a TV series, called "Chernobyl", produced by HBO TV Network, and "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Westworld" are the same company, in the year it was just released, the Douban score was as high as 9.6 points.

However, this American drama is really uncomfortable to watch, and it can be said that the kind that shuddeers from the beginning can smell death all the time.

There are also several related movies.

The second accident, naturally, was in March 2011, when an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale caused the reactors of two nuclear power plants in Fukushima, Japan, to malfunction, and since then caused leaks and explosions.

In fact, as early as 1978, there was an accident at this nuclear power plant, and since then there have been frequent accidents, and it has been concealed until 2007. The discharge of nuclear-contaminated water has never stopped.

In 1999, when a huge flood broke out in the Breyer region of France, experts estimated that if the water level had risen by another one metre, it would have affected the cooling power of the Breyer reactor, similar to the situation currently faced by the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

There are many science fiction movies in the United States, South Korea, Japan, France, etc., all of which are set against the backdrop of a nuclear power plant explosion or nuclear leakage.

There is a film in France that tells the story of the apocalyptic wasteland and the passage of time. An abnormality occurred at a nuclear power plant in France, the core of the reactor was about to melt down, the employees fled in all directions, and two staff members turned on the emergency stop system to terminate the reactor, at this time, a man fell from the sky, appeared out of thin air, claiming to be a time walker from the future, and told them not to press the blue button, otherwise the nuclear power plant will explode immediately, and the consequences are unimaginable.

However, due to the intervention of the space-time patrol, it was not possible to prevent the success in the end, and the nuclear power plant exploded with a bang.

No one expected that this incident would open the prelude to the era of the earth's wasteland, and all kinds of zombies and mutated animals were rampant.

"Haha, guys, you're too serious. In our France, such an accident is impossible, it is just a movie, a fiction of the screenwriter. On the plane, an old French man suddenly laughed loudly and interjected.

He had a cigar in his hand, but he didn't smoke it, but just smelled it. Smoking on an airplane is not allowed and is very impolite.

Smoking in a small space exalts people from secondhand smoke? And some people get smoke allergies. The most important thing is that it has caused a tragic safety accident.

"The reason why Ukraine and Japan are not good is that there is a problem with the level of their engineers, and if it were changed to our France, it would definitely not appear!" The old man rubbed his finger on the cigar, took a deep sip, and said very proudly.

And they looked at him in amazement.

The old man with the cigar smiled and said, "Don't you know that we in France are the pioneers of nuclear science?" We have the famous Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and Jean Perrin. ”

"No one can try to stop our great French nuclear revival program!"

Zhou Qiao: "......"

Gasp, are the French so proud of their country? The word revival is so familiar!

However, with so many predecessors in the world, especially the famous Marie Curie (Zhou Qiao was familiar with it when he was in elementary school), it is not surprising that the French people are embracing nuclear science.

But just because the majority of the people support it doesn't mean that there are no opponents.

A French journalist has published a book, Nucléaire : une catastrophe franaise (Nuclear Power: A French Disaster). In France, too, there are often anti-nuclear demonstrations, especially when the Fukushima accident erupted.

In addition, the more than 1,000 residents of St. Arus Castine, where Zhou Qiao and the others traveled, also hated it.

Many of their relatives have died of cancer or leukemia, where can they be reasonable? The most important thing is that the lawsuit has been fought until now, and it has not been won, and there is no compensation. Many of the materials are not accessible to them because they are confidential.

Of course, nuclear science is a major category, in addition to nuclear power and nuclear weapons, it also has a wide range of applications in many fields such as agronomy, medicine, testing, analysis, radiation processing, food hygiene, geology, archaeology, etc.

To go a little further, if we want to move towards the interstellar age and fly out of the solar system, there must be a breakthrough in nuclear power.

After about seven hours, after a connecting flight, Zhou Qiao and his team landed at Lyon-Saint-Eucaupéry Airport in France.

Lyon is the third largest city in France and the most important transport hub in eastern France. The city, the main gateway from Paris to the Mediterranean coast, connects Switzerland and Italy to the east, Spain to the south, Germany and Luxembourg to the north, and most of France to the west.

After getting off the plane, Lizzy Charti contacted the police officer on the business card given by Academician Domitri before, and the other party took it very seriously and sent a special car to escort them to the small town of St. Arouss Casten, and left a few detectives there, together with the town police, to take care of security.

That night, they stayed in a hotel in the town.

It's just that everyone is very cautious and brings their own bread, chocolate, beef jerky, bottled mineral water, drinks, etc.

Anthony, the mayor of the town, led many townspeople to give a warm welcome to the arrival of Lizzy Charty and her party.

It's just that they also knew that the expedition team had brought their own dry food, so they were embarrassed not to set up a banquet to entertain them.

Due to the limited conditions of the town, there are not many rooms in this hotel, and for the sake of safety, Lizzie Charty asked for a room for two people, so Murphy and Stephanie had a room, and Zhou Qiao and another male scientist had a room.

Zhou Qiao couldn't help but feel a little regretful, so he couldn't sneak to their room. Originally, if it was a single room, he could go to Murphy's in the first half of the night and Stephanie's room in the second half of the night to enjoy the blessings of all people.

Lizzy Charty comforted everyone, the conditions are difficult, everyone should be patient, and when this mission is over, Academician Domitri will give everyone three days off, and then go to Paris for a transit and have a good time in Paris for two or three days.

When the time comes the best hotel in Paris, arrange it for everyone.

There was no entertainment in the town, and on a quiet night, everyone built a bonfire in the yard and had a simple bonfire party. Roast marshmallows and cheese while singing and dancing.

The marshmallow is particularly soft and delicious, Zhou Qiao is surrounded by two beauties, and it is the most envied existence in the entire scientific expedition team.

Some people joked, saying that Lizzie Charty deliberately let the two of them have a room, just because they were afraid that Zhou Qiao would steal fish.

Some people laugh and are about to steal, isn't it better for two people to have a room?

It made Murphy very embarrassed, she was thin-skinned and unsociable, if it was before, she would only keep a straight face, and she didn't bother to pay attention to it, and even snorted coldly and left directly. But now it's not that I've been following Zhou Qiao for a long time, the gene transcription in the body has quietly changed, and the symptoms of autism are not so obvious.

Stephanie smiled and joked with the other female scientist on the team, unconcerned about the other person's jokes.

When they were busy and lively, in a house about two hundred meters away in front of the hotel, a pair of eyes looked through the window, through the darkness, looking this way.

There was no light in the room, and the man watched quietly, unnoticed.

In fact, when Zhou Qiao and the others just arrived in the town, they were targeted by this man.

The man's name is Leno, and he is a resident of the town, but at the same time, he is also an undercover agent and eyeliner who was bought by the nuclear power plant in the town.

When Zhou Qiao and the others arrived, Leno was still mixed in the crowd, and together with Mayor Anthony, he greeted Zhou Qiao and them in a grand and polite manner.

Leno sneered, closed the window, took a few steps back and sat on the couch and took out the phone and dialed out.

"Hello, Peter, the expedition has arrived in the town and is staying at Cornell's inn, just across the street from my house." Leno said softly.

On the other end of the phone, Peter, with a big beard and rosacea, was sitting in the office of the nuclear power plant, hugging a female subordinate who was like a flower, giggling.

"Got it, keep an eye on them, and report back at any time."

"I'll do it, don't worry. It's ......"

"Less nonsense, no less money for you!" Peter hung up the phone impatiently and continued to play with his female subordinates.

"Peter, wouldn't it be bad if the other party found out something? Why not just kill them? The woman in her arms smiled coquettishly, her smile sweet, but the words she uttered were chilling.

"Louise, my little darling, you don't understand, it's easy to kill them, but the other party is an American, or that Academician Domitry sent it, and it's not good to deal with the aftermath after killing them. Moreover, if the other party disappears just after they came, doesn't that tell the outside world that we seem to be very weak-minded? ”

"Moreover, the Lyon police actually sent agents to protect those people."

"However, if they find out some information that affects the operation of the nuclear power plant, we can't explain it to the higher-ups...... Louise said worriedly.

On the Franco-Italian border, there were originally 6 nuclear power plants, 2 of which have been closed because they are too old, and there are still 4 of them, with 13 reactors, generating amazing electricity and profits every year, with an income of more than one billion euros last year.

"It's okay, there haven't been accidents for three years, can they find out? The remaining bit of nuclear radiation has long since weakened. Peter sneered.

"Are you alright?" Louise was suspicious. Although this kind of thing is a secret within a secret, there are very few people who know about it. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if.

"Of course, a lot of people were dealt with three years ago. When this abominable expedition is gone, we will leave here immediately. Peter said with a wicked grin.

"Mmmm, I don't want to stay here any longer, if cancer finds us, it will be trouble."

"Don't think about these unhappy things, come, let's have another drink!" Peter began to pour wine for the two of them.

……

The next day, Zhou Qiao and the others got up early and started work.

Lizzy Charty divided the group into several groups, the first of which was responsible for sampling and monitoring nearby water, soil and plant samples for nuclear radiation; The second group interviewed residents to obtain the medical history of each patient and count the type and severity of the disease. The third group collected blood samples from everyone, retrieved them, and analyzed them in a temporary base set up by the expedition team.

They brought a lot of equipment with them, and the temporary base was set up in the courtyard of the hotel.

Qiao Zhou, Murphy, and Stephanie are clinicians who know more about the disease itself than anyone else, so they were assigned to interview residents, especially patients and their families.

The small town of St. Arus Castine is actually halfway up the mountainside, and a wide river rushes down the mountain.

The water is exceptionally clear, and there is a lot of green vegetation on both sides of the river, even in winter.

A little farther away, about five kilometers, a tall nuclear reactor stands by the river, emitting faint radiation.

Within five kilometres, there are no human populations, and the town of Sant'Aruscastine is the closest residential area to the plant.

The first house they visited was located in the east of the town, where a middle-aged couple in their forties lived and had two lovely daughters, both of whom were in junior high school in the town.

The man's name is Bernard, and his wife's name is Emma.

Bernard has been suffering from cancer for more than two years, has been battling cancer, surgery, chemotherapy, and is described as withered by the disease, and his body is quite weak, but his wife Emma is surprisingly good-looking, round and beautiful, and is a beautiful French girl.

"If it weren't for that nuclear power plant, our town would have been one of the best places to live!" On the grass in front of the door, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard warmly received Zhou Qiao, Murphy, and Stephanie.

Zhou Qiao talked to the couple, learned about their medical history, recorded the situation, and told them that a colleague would come over to collect blood samples later.

"Dear Emma, your skin is so silky!" Stephanie couldn't help but praise the hostess.

Emma smiled happily and said, "I'm old, no matter how beautiful I am, I can't compare to you two young beauties." ”

In fact, in terms of true beauty, Murphy and Stephanie are naturally many times stronger. But when you come to someone's house, you naturally choose something that sounds good.

"You're pretty well maintained." Murphy glanced at Emma and couldn't help but say.

Emma laughed and said, "It's strange that I live here with my husband and have been 'enjoying' radiation, a few years ago, my husband had cancer, but I was safe, and to our shock, my skin is getting better and smoother than when I was younger." ”

Emma glanced at Bernard and couldn't help but say to Zhou Qiao and the others: "Because of this, this guy always suspects me of cheating." God, God testifies that I am a well-behaved woman. Besides, it's such a small town, where am I going to cheat? ”

The implication is that she can't even look down on the men in the town.

But after saying that, he couldn't help but look at Zhou Qiao a few more times, and said in his heart that if there was such a handsome young man as Dr. Zhou in the town, I might cheat on me.

Zhou Qiao pondered for a moment, and then said to Bernard: "Mr. Bernard, in fact, the consequences of nuclear radiation are uncertain, and most people will suffer damage that is difficult to repair themselves, but there are some exceptions, such as additional 'curative effects'. ”

"Efficacy?" Bernard and Emma were stunned, nuclear radiation is still effective? Are you being funny, doctor?

Zhou Qiao said: "Here, I mean to be beautiful, such as your wife, she is very likely to be a very rare beneficiary of nuclear radiation." ”

I regret this plot a little, I wrote it with trepidation and timidity, after all, there are also many nuclear power plants in our country. I'll simplify it as soon as possible.

(End of chapter)