Didn't ignite......

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

The engineers of Rosatom, who were standing in front of the console, looked at each other, and Academician Vasily was even more dumbfounded.

"Not lit?! How is this possible? We ...... all inspections It's all done with the engineers of the Chinese side, how can it not be lit? ”

The silence in the command room was instantly broken by this sentence, and the reporters who had not yet figured out the situation were in an uproar.

Ignition failed!

This is a big project worth tens of billions!

If the project does not work, it will not be a joke, and it will be a serious 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.

Apparently, he was aware of the seriousness of the problem.

Not only did he realize it, but Minister Novak also reacted at this moment, and immediately changed his expression to a serious expression.

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

The engineer in the hard hat nodded quickly.

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

Due to the sudden situation, the ignition ceremony had to be temporarily suspended.

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

At the same time, Rosatom engineers were also anxious like ants on a hot pot, rushing around the reactor to discuss the cause of the core ignition failure with the engineers of Huaguo Nuclear Industry Group and East Asia Electric Power.

“…… Theoretically, there should be no malfunction. ”

"But it did happen!"

"I know, but the reactor tests are working fine...... Only after putting it on, something went wrong. ”

There was no problem on the core, and at this moment, the engineer on Huaguo's side suddenly spoke.

"Could it be that the nuclear power plant itself is in trouble? For example, the connection type - "

Before he could finish speaking, he was even halfway through his sentence when he was rudely interrupted by Lermontov, who was sitting on the sidelines.

"There can be no problems with our nuclear power plants!" With a gloomy face as iron, the middle-aged man who did not smile continued in an unkind tone: "I said a long time ago, these Chinese people cannot be trusted! What they gave us was definitely an inferior core! ”

Although it was a sentence of anger, as soon as this sentence came out, it immediately stabbed the hornet's nest, which made the faces of the Huaguo projects present show indignant expressions.

Especially Academician Wang Zengguang, who was a violent temper, slapped the table and stood up.

"Inferior products? You actually say that the cores we produce are inferior products? Mr. Lermontov, I wonder if your words represent the opinion of Rosatom, or your personal opinion! ”

"Mr. Lermontov, watch your words!" Minister Novak hurriedly reprimanded him, then looked at Academician Wang Zengguang, who was full of gloom, and said in a soothing tone, "Academician Wang, please don't get too excited, I believe that Mr. Lermontov is also angry, he definitely doesn't really think so in his heart......"

Lermontov raised his chin slightly, and although he did not deny Minister Novak's statement, he did not express any apologies.

Academician Wang's face was still a little angry, if it weren't for the contract here, he would have planned to leave with his sleeves up.

Academician Vasily, who was sitting on the sidelines, tried to act as a peacemaker and persuade both sides to calm down, but it didn't seem to be effective.

The meeting had reached this point, and it was clear that it could not go any further.

Even if it is reluctantly carried out, it is foreseeable that eighty percent of the content that follows will just dump each other.

Rosatom will never admit that it is its own side of the problem, and it is certainly impossible for East Asia Power to admit that it is the core problem.

The only thing left to pray now is that the engineers on the front lines will bring the ideal news.

No matter which side of the problem it is, only when we know where the problem is, can we solve it.

After the meeting ended, Academician Wang walked to the corridor and smoked a cigarette.

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

Earlier in the meeting, although he did not speak, he had been thinking about what might have been the problem.

Looking at Academician Wang, who had a solemn face, Lu Zhou asked.

"How's it going?"

"It's tricky."

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

Academician Wang: "I've checked it. ”

After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhou continued: "Could it be a core trap?" I think there seems to be an active protection measure up there, which can force the shutdown of runaway reactors and stop the ongoing nuclear reaction-"

"I've checked it, we've checked everything we can do," Academician Wang Zengguang shook his head, "Where you can think of it, I won't know?" ”

emmmm……

It seems to be the same.

For a while, Lu Zhou also fell into deep thought.

The issue seems to be at an impasse.

The condition of the reactor could not be better, but the core just can't start.

After about an hour, the inspection report from the front line arrived.

The initial diagnosis is that it includes a core trap, a cooling system, an energy interface, and ...... And so on, and so on, everything that can be inspected is normal.

Only the reactor core.

This thing is the equivalent of a "black box" for Russian nuclear engineers.

Without understanding the relevant technology, only Huaguo engineers can inspect this thing.

However, according to the agreement, the Chinese side does not need to show the Russian side full technical details.

At this time, the head of Rosatom, Lermontov, suddenly stood up and made a question.

"It is the obligation of your Chinese enterprises to ensure the normal operation of the reactor, this is written in black and white on the contract, am I right?"

Academician Wang: "That's right. ”

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

In the face of Lermontov's attack, Academician Wang responded seriously.

"To correct your statement, our engineers have conducted a thorough inspection of the core, and you have seen the inspection report—"

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

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

Looking at the guy in front of him who kept buttoning the pot to their side, Academician Wang narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm reasonably questioning," Lermontov continued, squinting at Academician Wang, "and now the biggest problem is the 'black box' of the core, and I have reason to suspect that the problem is here." In order to accurately identify the cause of the failure, I ask you to present us or other third-party inspection agencies in Russia with complete testing technology. ”

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

Lermontov continued aggressively: "Yes, because you did not ensure the proper operation of the reactor, it was your breach of contract first!" ”

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

Even if he continued to refute, it would only be a meaningless quarrel, and Academician Wang turned his attention to Minister Novak, hoping that he could come forward to calm this guy down, but unexpectedly saw that the latter subtly looked away.

It is clear that his opinion is swinging, and it has already swung to Lermontov's side.

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

It is important to maintain relations with China, but this does not mean that Russia will continue to compromise without a bottom line, and now the fusion power plant cannot be successfully operated, and it is impossible to find out what the problem is except for the objects that cannot be inspected.

Then even if it is the method of elimination, he has reason to believe that the problem is in the core.

Just when the situation began to gradually become bad for East Asia Power, Lu Zhou, who had not spoken in the meeting, suddenly spoke.

"Is it convenient for me to show the monitoring data of plasma turbulence?"

"Monitoring data?" Lermontov frowned, glanced at the security director beside him, and then looked at Lu Zhou, "Is there any point in that messy pile of data?" ”

The so-called plasma turbulence data, that is, the change law of plasma motion in the reaction chamber seen through the eye of the He-3 atom probe, or the popular point is a mathematical model that describes the motion trajectory of all microfluidic elements in the reaction chamber.

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

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

It's like the best programmer is unlikely to study machine languages like 0 and 1, because that's the job of hardware like CPUs.

And most importantly, the reactor is not lit at all, so even if the monitoring data of plasma turbulence is called, how can it help solve the problem?

Regarding this Maozi's questioning, Lu Zhou just shrugged his shoulders.

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

Lermontov also shrugged his shoulders expressionlessly.

"Whatever."

Although he was not optimistic about what Lu Zhou would be able to do with the data, Lermontov agreed to his request and asked Rosatom technicians to call up the monitoring data of plasma turbulence.

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

Looking at the thick stack of printer paper, Academician Wang's eyebrows couldn't help twitching.

Not to mention digging out any useful information from it, not even analyzing these things, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to read all these papers.

Sitting with his arms crossed, Lermontov quietly waited for the landing boat's next move. Academician Vasily and Minister Novak also cast curious glances at Lu Zhou, wondering what exactly he was going to do.

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

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

It only took five minutes for him to put down the stack of printer paper in his hand.

A mocking smile tugged at the corners of Lermontov's mouth, and he said in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "Do you see what's coming?" My esteemed Mr. Mathematician. ”

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

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

"Of course."

"It's not the core."

There was a 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 stunned, obviously he didn't expect Lu Zhou to 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: "I know, you will definitely say that, and we will say that the problem is definitely not the nuclear power plant itself." ”

did not deny his statement, Lu Zhou even nodded.

"You're right, it's true that the problem isn't with the nuclear power plant, and I think I probably know what the problem is."

This time, it was not only Lermontov who was stunned, but also the experts of Rosatom, and even Academician Wang was stunned.

The first to react, Minister Novak hurriedly asked.

"What's the problem?"

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

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