At about 18 o'clock on the evening of the 13th, when Lin Ju took off to return to China on the 20th, he could still see the spectacular mushroom cloud in the sky.

The second hydrogen bomb caused a 45-minute interruption of communication on the Yuanwang-7, and this alone can determine that the yield is definitely more than the claimed 700,000 tons.

At the moment of the explosion, it was as if a super sun with dozens of times its brightness had risen on the ground, and even the ships dozens of kilometers away were illuminated with a long trailing shadow, and the sky turned a miserable white.

The resulting mushroom cloud obscures the sky in the distance, making the area as dark and gloomy as if it had entered darkness in advance, reminiscent of storms at sea, and the same scene at the very center.

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

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

So what were the consequences of this explosion? Pilots who went to survey said they couldn't find the landmarks of the Toshima power station......

The first explosion had already destroyed the plant's geological structure, and a second blow was delivered before the residual temperature of the first explosion had dissipated, completely collapsing hundreds of meters of land around the plant, leaving only a bay with a near-perfect circular outline.

In addition, due to the high temperature and high pressure at the time of the nuclear explosion, the land around the cliffs around the bay was compacted and unusually flat, and a large amount of glass remained on the surface, which can be easily identified during aerial surveys.

If radiation is not taken into account, then this would be a very good deep-water port......

As for the clean-up effect, there is no doubt about the effect, the unmanned ship that arrived closest to the radiation area as soon as possible collected some samples, and after analysis, it was found that the short-term radiation value increased rapidly, but the residue after the explosion would drop to normal levels within a few days.

The most worrying nuclear power plant has very little contaminant residue, suggesting that the clean-up of core 2 is also quite satisfactory.

A larger percentage of the power leaked out of the second clean-up operation, with initial speculation possibly exceeding 900,000 tons, nearly nine times that of the first, which explains why it is so much more spectacular when observed.

And this has an unintended effect: the residual radiation in the air is also 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, which spread out to cause considerable pollution of the air and soil.

However, the leakage yield of the second hydrogen bomb is very rich, and by the way, part of the residual radiation is solved, which can greatly reduce the yield demand of the third hydrogen bomb, but I don't know if Ami is willing to do so.

As for the reason why the yield does not match the content of the notice, Lucia also gave an explanation: their nuclear expert Anton Eugene has made a mistake in the design, and has been suspended from his post 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 party only said cryptically:

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

This made Lin Ju very suspicious of what Aramco would do, the first one was 340,000 tons, the second one was 1.25 million tons, and they would accept the median value of 1 million tons of equivalent? This is highly doubtful.

Apparently the second equivalent exceeded the souring of the clean-up – or rather more than a simple radiation clean-up program.

Lin Ju, who vaguely felt that the development of the situation exceeded expectations, chose to return to China without hesitation, and he didn't know what would happen.

Also returning were the vast majority of the base employees and executives, who couldn't stay out for long, having already witnessed two nuclear explosions anyway, and it wouldn't be a big deal not to see the third.

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

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"We strongly condemn Lucia's unprofessional, unscrupulous and irresponsible behavior, which seriously threatens the security of the region and increases the potential danger to the inhabitants of the radiation zone.

This unprofessional behaviour also led directly to the death and injury of a pilot and seven innocent people, the first time in the 21st century that a person has been injured by nuclear weapons, and is a serious challenge to international peace.

What's even more terrifying is that the residual value of radiation in the control area is also much higher, and the expected ......"

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

There are many congressmen behind him, and it seems that the lineup of the press conference is luxurious.

It's only 7 o'clock in the morning, more than three hours after the second hydrogen bomb was dropped, and these high-level elites are finally willing to get out of the Cheyenne Mountain bunker, but they still don't dare to go too far.

The take-off of the Il-80 Doomsday command aircraft naturally made them highly nervous, and the final equivalent exceeded the standard that made John worry for two hours, and it took nearly 40 minutes to make a hotline call before letting go of his doubts.

In the IAEA's cleanup plan, Plan A is actually the most perfect, which not only takes into account the cleanup effect, but also controls the scope of the impact as much as possible and reduces the cost of subsequent reconstruction, which is the best solution in terms of technology.

But John was very dissatisfied with the equivalent ranking, and finally decided to find a reason to implement Plan B, and Maozi, who also had this idea, hit it off with them.

Plan B made John very satisfied, and it was increased in turn from the beginning to the end, and the Pacific Fleet finale was the largest, which was very suitable for his position.

However, Mao Zi did not keep his word and took out a hydrogen bomb of 1.2 million tons, but the Pacific Ocean really only prepared a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 1 million tons!

Dog** raised *** machine!!

What made John even more defended was that an hour after the explosion, the Pacific Fleet first discovered a group of trespassers on the coast, and took advantage of the gap in the interval to enter the 4.5-kilometer range of the explosion in a small boat.

In the end, the small team of 6 islanders and 5 foreigners from four countries failed to take a close-up view of the nuclear explosion as expected, but was severely damaged by the high temperature overpressure and huge radiation, and when the drone found them, 7 people had died, and the remaining 4 people were also in quite poor condition, basically all of them had severe burns, and it is estimated that they will not survive tonight.

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

The Pacific Fleet immediately recognized that this was a U2 that had recently entered the radiation zone to collect samples, and that it had lost contact after the explosion.

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, resulting in the side coping with the impact of the explosion, and the slender left wing of the U2 was directly blown off, and the pilot's failure to parachute has become a piece of coke in the cockpit.

(End of chapter)