Chapter 1011: Helios

"... Four burning horses, the sun-bearing sun-bearing horses galloping in the air, from east to west, morning and evening, making the world shine."
Sitting in the extension car, yawning, listening to the tone of singing, recieving the land boat looking out of the window, and glanced at Minister Novak sitting next to him.
"what are you saying?"
The hawker smiled, and the kind person could not see that he was the leader of the Russian Ministry of Energy. Instead, he was like an enthusiastic tour guide, explaining to Lu Zhou with a funny tone.
"Homer Epic! The description of Helios ... also the nuclear power plant we are about to arrive!"
Speaking, his tone was filled with emotion.
"Helios's son used to make the light closer to the ground. He accidentally ignited the earth, turned Libya / Asia into a desert, and burned the skin of Ethiopian residents to black. Probably Homer two or three thousand years ago would not have thought, After thousands of years, people have not only accomplished the great work that the gods can accomplish, they have even surpassed the gods and found a gentle way to release the energy of the sun. "
Lu Zhou: "... how is the version you said different from what I have heard?"
Minister Novak said with a smile: "This is not surprising. There are many versions of this word-of-mouth compilation. In addition, future generations will also undergo certain art processing when finishing. If you are interested, we can find I had a chance to talk about it, and I just have some research in this area. "
Lu Zhou declined politely: "Thank you, but I'm not particularly interested in myths and legends."
For him, setting aside a day to deal with matters not related to academics is already the limit he can accept.
Especially at the stall where the IMU conference is about to begin.
"Well, I understand that not everyone has the talent to be a poet ..." With a helpless shrug, Minister Novak's gaze fell out of the window, and he looked at the towering wall not far away. "We have arrived."
Helios nuclear power plant is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea, surrounded by a towering high wall, and, like Haizhou's fusion power station, is guarded by Russian troops.
On the stone tablet in front of the main wall of the fence, Lu Zhou saw three trademarks, two of which were the Guangzhou Nuclear Construction Group, which is responsible for the construction of the plutonium and the reactor, and the East Asian power supply, which is responsible for the supply of the core. The other one is this The real owner of the fusion power station-Rosatom.
As an oligarch in the Russian nuclear power sector, Rosatom controls almost all production links in the entire Russian industrial chain from top to bottom, and even most uranium mines in Siberia.
Cooperation with such enterprises is both an active choice of East Asia Power and an option supported by Russian officials.
According to the contract signed between East Asia Power and Rosatom, while East Asia Power sold the core to Rosatom at an expensive price, it will also send engineers to the Helios nuclear power plant to provide technical services for a period of 20 years.
These technical services include the maintenance and upgrade of the core control system, including the inspection of the safety status of the core. In short, every effort is made to ensure that the core can operate normally.
At the same time, in the past 20 years, East Asia Power will share 13% of the profits generated by the cores provided by East Asia Power.
Although this kind of cooperation that sells you and uses your money to make money is more or less an inequality treaty, who wants East Asia Electric Power to be the only company in the world now?
While the European Union and North America were still swaying, Russia signed the agreement without saying a word, and it was for this reason that they succeeded in becoming the first overseas core customer of East Asia Power.
And now, the core from China finally arrived here.
In order to meet the historic moment of core ignition, not only the Russian energy minister visited here, but also made a special trip to match Lu Zhou's schedule to adjust the ignition time to early August.
In fact, if it wasn't for waiting for Lu Zhou, they could have ignited a week ago.
A gray-haired old man stood at the door of the Helios Fusion Power Station. When he saw the land boat coming down from the car, his eyes suddenly glowed with joy, and he greeted with a smile.
"Welcome, Professor Lu! We have met again."
"Hello, Academician Vasily."
Holding the old man's extended hands shaking, Lu Zhou smiled kindly, then looked at another serious middle-aged man standing beside him.
"Who is this?"
"Lermontov," he offered to extend his right hand, unlike the enthusiastic academician Vasily. This serious middle-aged man didn't seem to have a cold to him, but said briefly, "The person in charge here one."
Not paying attention to the attitude of the person in charge, Lu Zhou nodded kindly to him, and then continued to look at the door.
Just then, he suddenly saw an unexpected figure.
"Academician Wang? Why are you here?"
Chief Engineer of Nuclear Industry Group, Academician Wang Zengguang!
He was one of the veterans in the nuclear power field who lit the fusion fire in Haizhou with him!
Regardless of the old men of the past era, including academicians Pan Changhong and Academician Zhou Chengfu, plus an academician Li Jiangang from the Material Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a relatively low presence, the three of them are basically the three giants in the nuclear industry in China.
Because Lu Zhou did not publish engineering articles, did not accept students and even resigned, Mr. Wang Lao's influence in the nuclear industry may not be as great as he is.
Lu Zhou was really surprised this time. He didn't expect that Academician Wang actually came.
"After all, it is our first overseas project for nuclear fusion engineering. I ca n’t ignore it anyway," Wang Zengguang smiled, and squeezed his eyebrows at the surprised Lu Zhou, and continued, "Let ’s go, The people at Rosatom have been waiting for us for a long time, haven't you seen our Mr. Lementov being impatient? Let's not stand at the door, let's talk. "
The group did not stay at the door for long.
Even without the urging of Academician Wang, Minister Novak had no plans to let Lu Zhou stand at the door and continue to chill.
He couldn't wait for the upcoming ignition ceremony.
On the way to the control tower of the fusion power station, Lu Zhou learned from chats that, as a representative of the Nuclear Industry Group, Academician Wang arrived earlier than himself, even as early as a week.
The original ignition should start a week ago, but it has been postponed to now for various reasons.
Although this has nothing to do with the Chinese side, mainly the Russian side's own arrangements, many technicians and management personnel of Rosatom have criticized this.
After all, the ignition one week later means that the electricity is turned on one week later, and the electricity is turned on one week later, it means that their capital chain has to bear one more week of pressure.
If it is because of safety or other technical reasons that the ignition is postponed, now it is just to wait for a Chinese flight and a minister ’s political show to adjust the ignition date backwards for a full week. This is really It's not very refreshing.
But anyway, this moment finally arrived.
At this moment, a large group of people stood in the command tower.
The person standing first was naturally Minister Novak, and most of him standing next to him were senior officials of the Russian Ministry of Energy and core technical staff of several nuclear power companies.
The camera's lenses are lined around the command room, and journalists with long guns and short cannons in their hands make this originally not-so-large command room more crowded.
However, no one paid attention to these details, staring at the screen and buttons on the console in front, and almost all Russians present were holding their breath.
All the work was ready a week ago.
Now just press the last button!
Under everyone's attention, Minister Novak standing in front of the console tried to calm his heartbeat, watching the button in front of him rubbing his index finger and thumb repeatedly.
At last taking a deep breath, he looked away from the console, glanced at the reporters who were waiting for the camera, and Rosatom's engineers, speaking solemnly.
"This is a great moment!"
"It not only witnesses that the Russian people finally ushered in the never-ending fire, but also our friendship with the Chinese people ... May it last like the sun ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and our world Because of eternal energy, eternal peace will continue. "
After all, under the attention of all eyes, he pressed the button.
then……
Seems nothing happens?
Staring at a series of indicators such as the irradiation data and plasma temperature on the console, Lu Zhou frowned slightly, wondering if it was his illusion. I always felt that this was the same as when he pressed the button in Haizhou. The situation seems somewhat different.
Academician Wang and Academician Vasily apparently saw this, and their expressions were intensified.
However, the reporters standing next to him and Minister Novak himself who pressed the button did not seem to find anything wrong, and even cheered.
However, at this moment, the door of the command room was suddenly opened, and an engineer wearing a hard hat walked quickly to Minister Novak, his face trembling with an ugly expression.
"Mr. Minister!"
Originally there was a gleeful expression on his face. After seeing the engineer's face, he realized that the situation might be a little bit wrong, and his face suddenly collapsed.
However, he reluctantly kept calm, and asked with a dignified expression on his face.
"……What happened?"
"Reactor, something seems to be wrong."
The command tower was suddenly quiet.
The reporters taking pictures stopped.
The expression on Minister Novak's face stalled for a moment.
And after returning to God, the cold sweat brush sticking to the forehead of his back came out.
"What the happened ?! What does it mean that something went wrong with the core?"
The engineer in the hard hat swallowed and continued to tremble.
"Our core ..."
"It doesn't seem to be lit."