Chapter 1013 Not Lit?

not lit...

The moment these words came out, the entire command room fell silent.

The engineers of the Rosatom company standing in front of the console looked at each other, and Academician Vasily was stunned.

"It didn't light up?! How is this possible? We have... cooperated with the Chinese engineers to complete all the inspection work. How could it not be lit?"

The silence in the command room was instantly broken by these words, and the reporters who hadn't figured out the situation were even more in an uproar.

Implementation ignition failed!

This is a big project worth tens of billions!

If this project fails to work, it will not be as simple as a joke. It will be a heavy blow to the entire Russian energy industry, and it will even affect the diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Standing next to Minister Novak, Dean Wang's face was also solemn.

Obviously, he has realized the seriousness of the problem.

Not only did he realize it, Minister Novak also reacted at this moment, and immediately put on a serious expression and said.

"Find out what's going on right now!"

The engineer in the hard hat nodded quickly.

"Yes! Mr. Minister, we are already doing this!"

Due to a sudden situation, the ignition ceremony was temporarily interrupted.

The only good thing is that the ignition ceremony was not broadcast live, and the reporters present were all local Russian media, and they handed over the memory card quite cooperatively, so that the impact of the accident was not further expanded.

At the same time, the engineers of Rosatom are also anxious like ants on a hot pot, rushing around the reactor, discussing with the engineers of Huaguo Nuclear Industry Group and East Asia Electric Power Co., Ltd. s reason.

"...Theoretically, there should be no malfunction."

"But it did happen!"

"I know, but everything in the reactor test was fine...but something went wrong after it was installed."

No problem was found in the core. At this moment, the engineer from Huaguo suddenly said.

"Could it be something wrong with the nuclear power plant itself? For example, the connection type—"

This sentence was not finished, even just in the middle of it, when Lermontov, who was sitting on the side, interrupted him rudely.

"There can be no problem with our nuclear power plant!" With a gloomy face like iron, the unsmiling middle-aged man continued in a bad tone: "I said earlier, these Chinese people cannot be trusted! What they gave us must be inferior cores !"

Although it was an angry sentence, as soon as the sentence was said, it immediately stabbed the hornet's nest, causing the faces of the Huaguo engineers present to show resentful expressions.

Especially Academician Wang Zengguang, who has a bad temper, slapped the table and stood up.

"Inferior products? You actually said that the cores we produced are inferior products? Mr. Lermontov, I want to know whether your statement represents Rosatom's opinion or your personal opinion!"

"Mr. Lermontov, please pay attention to your words!" Minister Novak hastily reprimanded him, then looked at Academician Wang Zengguang who was full of anger, and comforted him in a soothing tone, "Academician Wang, please don't Too excited, I believe Mr. Lermontov is also angry, he certainly doesn't really think so..."

Lermontov raised his chin slightly. Although he didn't deny Minister Novak's statement, he didn't express any regret either.

Academician Wang still had a bit of anger on his face. If it wasn't for the contract, he would have walked away.

Academician Vasily sitting on the side tried to act as a peacemaker and persuaded both parties to calm down, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

The meeting has reached this point, and it is obvious that it cannot go on.

Even if we barely proceed, it is foreseeable that 80% of the following content will be just throwing blame at each other.

Rosatom will never admit that it is the problem on its own side, and of course it is impossible for East Asia Electric Power to admit that there is a problem with the core.

Now the only thing we can only hope is that the engineers who are troubleshooting on the front line will bring the ideal news.

No matter which side of the problem it is, only by knowing where the problem lies can it be possible to solve it.

After the meeting was over, Academician Wang went to the corridor to smoke a cigarette.

After he finished smoking a cigarette, Lu Zhou walked over.

At the previous meeting, although he did not speak, he had been thinking about what the problem might be.

Looking at the dignified Academician Wang, Lu Zhou asked.

"how is the progress?"

"Tricky."

Lu Zhou: "Have you checked the heat dissipation system and the He-3 atom probe?"

Academician Wang: "I checked."

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou continued: "Could it be a core trap? I remember that there seems to be an active protection measure on it, which can forcefully shut down the out-of-control reactor and terminate the ongoing nuclear reaction—"

"We have checked, we have checked everything that can be checked," Academician Wang Zengguang shook his head, "I don't know where you can think of?"

emmmmm...

It seems to be oh.

Lu Zhou was also lost in thought for a while.

The problem seems to be deadlocked.

The condition of the reactor couldn't be better, yet the core just wouldn't start.

About an hour later, the inspection report from the front line came over.

The preliminary diagnosis is that everything that can be checked is normal, including a series of components such as the core trap, heat dissipation system, energy interface, etc.

Only the reactor core.

This thing is equivalent to a "black box" to Russian nuclear engineers.

Without understanding the relevant technologies, only Hua Guo's engineers can inspect this thing.

However, according to the agreement, Huaguo does not need to show complete technical details to Russia.

At this time, Lermontov, the head of Rosatom, suddenly stood up and complained.

"Ensuring the normal operation of the reactor is the obligation of your Huaguo company. This is written in black and white in the contract. Am I right?"

Academician Wang: "That's right."

"However, for us now, the only thing that is uncertain whether there is a problem is the reactor core, which has not been effectively inspected!"

Facing Lermontov's criticism, Academician Wang responded seriously.

"Correct what you said, our engineers have conducted a comprehensive inspection of the core, and you have read the inspection report—"

Interrupting Academician Wang's Hu, Lermontov said in a suspicious tone.

"Yes, you did, but who knows if you lied on the inspection report?"

Looking at the guy in front of him who kept pointing the pot at them, Academician Wang narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm raising reasonable doubts," Lermontov continued, squinting at Academician Wang, "The most likely problem now lies in the 'black box' of the core, and I have reason to suspect that the problem lies here .In order to accurately identify the cause of the failure, I request you to issue a complete detection technology to us or other third-party inspection agencies in Russia."

Academician Wang said in a deep voice, "This is different from what was agreed in the agreement."

Lermontov continued aggressively: "Yes, because you did not ensure the normal operation of the reactor, it is because you breached the contract first!"

"I don't think we have any breach of contract, we are actively helping you solve the problem!"

Even if he continued to refute, it was just a meaningless quarrel. Academician Wang cast his eyes on Minister Novak, hoping that he could come forward to calm this guy down, but he was surprised to see that the latter subtly moved his eyes away.

It was evident that his opinion was swinging, and had already swung to Lermontov's side.

After all, this Helios fusion power station is not only firmly tied to the future of Russia, but also to his vision.

It is important to maintain the relationship with China, but this does not mean that Russia will continue to compromise without a bottom line. Now the nuclear fusion power plant cannot be successfully operated, and apart from the objects that cannot be inspected, there is no way to find out where the problem lies.

So even with the method of elimination, he has reason to believe that the problem lies in the core.

Just when the situation began to gradually become unfavorable to East Asia Power, Lu Zhou, who had been silent in the meeting, suddenly spoke.

"Is it convenient for me to have a look at the monitoring data of plasma turbulence?"

"Monitoring data?" Lermontov frowned, glanced at the security director next to him, and then looked at Lu Zhou, "Is there any significance to that pile of messy data?"

The so-called plasma turbulence data, that is, the changing law of the plasma motion in the reaction chamber seen through the eyes of the He-3 atom probe, or the popular point is a mathematical description of the movement trajectories of all micro-flow elements in the reaction chamber Model.

At the beginning, this research result can be said to have caused a sensation in the physics world, and even many scholars in the field of plasma physics claimed that this is a Nobel Prize-level achievement, which is directly for a series of magnetically confined fusion reactor devices such as star simulators. Provides a theoretical basis.

However, for most people, this thing is really no different from a bunch of messy numbers.

Just like no matter how good a programmer is, it is unlikely to study machine languages ​​​​such as 0 and 1, because that is the work of hardware such as CPU.

And the most important thing is that the reactor is not on fire at all, even if the monitoring data of plasma turbulence is retrieved, how can it help solve the problem?

Lu Zhou just shrugged his shoulders for this Maozi's question.

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Lermontov also shrugged his shoulders expressionlessly.

"casual."

Although he was not optimistic about what Lu Zhou could do with the data, Lermontov agreed to his request and asked Rosatom's technicians to retrieve the monitoring data of plasma turbulence.

The data was printed on a report of more than 200 pages and sent to the conference room.

Looking at the thick stack of printing paper, Academician Wang couldn't help but twitched his eyebrows.

Not to mention digging out any useful information from it, let alone analyzing these things, I am afraid that it will take a lot of time to read all these papers.

Sitting aside with folded arms, Lermontov quietly waited for the next move of the landing boat. Academician Vasily and Minister Novak also cast curious eyes on Lu Zhou, wanting to know what he was going to do.

In fact, Lu Zhou didn't do anything special.

He just found the plasma turbulence data of the first five seconds of the reactor fault diagnosis according to the label of the observation time, and then glanced at it twice.

After only five minutes, he put down the stack of printing paper in his hand.

There was a mocking smile on the corner of Lermontov's mouth, and he said sarcastically, "See what's going on? My respected Mr. Mathematician."

However, Lu Zhou's next sentence was beyond his expectation.

Lu Zhou, who put down the report, said in an affirmative tone.

"certainly."

"The problem is not in the core."

There was commotion in the conference room.

Obviously, as an authoritative figure in the field of nuclear fusion, Lu Zhou's words still carry a lot of weight.

The expression on Lermontov's face was slightly astonished, obviously he didn't expect that Lu Zhou could really see something from the messy data, and it took such a short time.

But soon, his face returned to normal, and he said with a hint of disapproval in his tone: "I know, you will definitely say that, and we would say the same. The problem is definitely not the nuclear power plant itself."

Did not deny his statement, Lu Zhou even nodded.

"You're right, the problem is indeed not with the nuclear power plant, I think I may know where the problem is."

This time, not only Lermontov was stunned, but the experts from Rosatom were also stunned, and even Academician Wang was also stunned.

The first to react, Minister Novak asked quickly.

"What exactly is the problem?"

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"If nothing else, it should be the power grid."