Chapter 69: Would you like some hydrogen bombs?
At night, in the western district of Bedlord City, the castle tower on the top floor of Bedlord Castle
Looking out from the window, the late night sky is full of light, reflecting the stars and the moon. The surface of each cloud is decorated with brilliant fireflies all over the sky, flying around and extremely gorgeous, forming a kind of gorgeous light that is indescribable in words, making the night look particularly scary and weird.
On the tatami in the castle tower, there were a group of time-travelers from college students to elementary school students, and cadres of the "Concerned for the Country One Heart Association", plus Takashi Komuro, who was designated as the son-in-law of the Takagi family, and police officer Miyamoto who led a group of former public servants. Watching the video, there were also several representatives elected by evacuated citizens, gathered around a simplified map of the distribution of Japanese nuclear power plants. Their faces were as sinking as water, and their expressions were trembling, making the atmosphere in the venue as solemn as if they were coated with asphalt.
Although at this moment, since the Yankees who tried to drag the whole world into burial took the lead in opening Pandora's box, all the major countries in the world have begun to frantically throw nuclear bombs at each other, and by the way, more and more More and more places become radioactive wastelands. But in fact, even without the outbreak of this global nuclear war, the radioactive wasteland of many countries around the world is inevitable: because of those nuclear power plants standing around the cities - those extra-large "dirty bombs" , has already entered the countdown to detonation with the outbreak of the zombie crisis!
——Modern society is like an extremely precise machine. As long as one part fails or is damaged, the entire society will immediately fall into chaos.
"...According to the information Doraemon observed through special satellites, the situation in Taiwan was the worst. On the first day of the zombie crisis, before the Americans had time to launch a nuclear war, the three nuclear power plants on the island Explosions have already occurred one by one, and I don’t know how the Taiwanese people manage the crisis... In short, Taiwan is in a terrible state right now. The vast majority of islanders can only choose one way to die between zombie infection and radiation sickness...
Next, after the nuclear war broke out, the nuclear power plants in North Korea, China, the United States, and Russia also began to detonate one by one into extra-large dirty bombs. Judging from the numbers, it is enough to turn the Eastern European plains and the Great Plains of North America into places of death, and it will take at least a century to return to life!
In addition, the nuclear reactors of India, Pakistan and Iran were also exploded while throwing nuclear bombs at each other, and at least hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land were contaminated. The situation in Europe is the same. Except for Iceland, which is isolated in the Arctic Circle, no country has been spared. Especially France, as the world's largest nuclear power country, not only ate about fifty nuclear bombs, but also exploded at least sixty reactors. The radiation intensity in Paris now far exceeds that of Chernobyl, let alone romance. The French are so old that even the unromantic French zombies are almost turning into glow sticks...
As for poisonous gas leaks and water pollution caused by explosions in pesticide plants, city fires caused by explosions in oil refineries, liquefied gas plants and natural gas companies, smallpox and other plagues caused by leaks in biological laboratories... Such trivial things are now It’s completely worth mentioning!
Those small countries that do not have nuclear bombs are currently busy dropping anthrax and poison gas bombs on each other! Well, there are also poisoning the water sources upstream... All human beings have used all their ingenuity, brains, or madness to kill their own kind..."
Like a sudden storm, Wang Qiu opened his mouth and threw a series of bad news to everyone, "... Of course, the situation in Japan is not much better. The first is Tokyo in the west - an experimental nuclear reactor at the University of Tokyo. , had been exploded in a nuclear bomb attack, displacing radioactive material It spread all over Tokyo's 23 wards. Then came the Tokai Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture in the north, which has been shut down but has not yet been dismantled. This old nuclear power plant with backward technology and aging facilities has also begun to leak... The current bed The main city is surrounded by nuclear pollution zones!
But this is not the most dangerous thing - the bigger trouble is that on Japan's soil, from Hokkaido to Kagoshima, there are about sixty other open nuclear reactors for power generation, as well as an unknown number of secret nuclear testing equipment. , as well as several large-scale nuclear waste processing plants... How long do you think these nuclear facilities can survive in the current apocalyptic world of total collapse? ”
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As we all know, Japan is a country with a large population, a small territory, and extremely scarce resources. On this land with a total area of approximately 370,000 square kilometers, there are fully 140 million Japanese citizens living. In terms of population density, it is several times that of China.
The gold and silver veins that were once very rich in ancient times have now been exhausted. In addition to the forest resources that are still abundant due to effective environmental protection, there are only a few iron, copper, coal and sulfur produced, and the remaining resources may be scarce. , or it is difficult to mine, they all need to be imported from overseas.
After World War II, Japan quickly became a developed country. With the rapid development of Japan's social productivity, domestic resource shortcomings became increasingly apparent. Compared with other resources, what Japan needs most is energy. Until the beginning of the 21st century, Japan was the world's second largest energy importer. In order to solve the problem of energy shortage and reduce dependence on imported oil, the Japanese government has always attached great importance to the development of nuclear energy. Because there are no uranium mines in the country, Japan has been trying every means to import nuclear raw materials from other countries since the 1980s, and has built multiple nuclear raw material reserve bases in the country. At the beginning of the 21st century, Japan was already the world's largest reserve of nuclear materials. The stockpiled nuclear materials could be used by all nuclear power plants in the country for hundreds of years!
While hoarding a large amount of nuclear raw materials, Japan also has the largest number of nuclear power plants in the world. By the beginning of the 21st century, Japan's nuclear power plants accounted for more than 80% of the country's total electricity generation, while France, which ranked second, accounted for only 67%... With so many nuclear power plants crowded into the small territory of the Japanese archipelago, The density can be imagined. Moreover, because the country is too small, Japan's nuclear power plants can only be built not far from big cities. If the reactor leaks and radioactive contamination occurs, the 140 million Japanese people will have nowhere to escape, which will inevitably lead to catastrophic consequences!
But the problem is, in today's dual apocalypse of zombie craze + global nuclear war, and when the Japanese government has collapsed and collapsed, if all these nuclear power plants can continue to operate normally without incident... that is What an incredible weird thing!
"...Um...Although the government has collapsed now, weren't the Self-Defense Forces sent to take over various water and electricity facilities a few days ago? I think they should have emergency shutdown of various nuclear power plants as soon as possible . I guess it won’t be a big problem unless it’s hit directly by a missile, right?”
Komuro Takashi scratched his hair in confusion and raised his hand to speak - this brave young man has been braving the threat of radiation and zombies, scavenging on the streets of this doomsday city...or robbing, for half an hour I just came back, so I don’t know much about some things before.
"...Komuro-kun, please don't have too high expectations for the capabilities of the Self-Defense Forces! The Self-Defense Forces who were sent to take over the two nuclear power plants in Ibaraki Prefecture are all here right now! As soon as they landed on the speedboat, they were attacked in large numbers Surrounded by zombies, he couldn't break through at all, so he ran away in fear, and then found himself at sea again. The helicopter accidentally broke the engine and drifted for three days before landing in Bedou City... The self-defense team members who took the helicopter to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant were even worse. Not long after setting off from Tokyo Bay, they encountered the shock wave of the nuclear explosion. , less than half of them struggled to fly to us..."
Doraemon sighed and interjected, "...Moreover, Komuro-san, a nuclear power plant is not a motorcycle. As long as you take out the key and turn off the engine, you can leave it alone. With the technical conditions of this era, nuclear power plants The sealing of the pile is an extremely cumbersome and large-scale project..."
——Well, first of all, we need to popularize science. The so-called nuclear power generation in the modern world usually does not directly convert the energy of nuclear fission into electrical energy. Instead, it is like an extra-large tea stove that uses the heat energy of nuclear fission to boil water, and then uses high-temperature steam to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity.
To this end, engineers need to sinter nuclear fuel containing uranium powder as the main raw material into uranium dioxide ceramic pellets. Then put them into slender zirconium alloy material casings and turn them into nuclear fuel rods. When generating electricity, insert the rod into the reaction tank. If you want to generate more heat, insert the fuel rod deeper. If you want to reduce the power generation, pull the rod out a little. And all this requires electricity.
To put it simply, the nuclear power plant itself also needs electricity. Even if it is shut down and no longer generates electricity, it still needs electricity!
If the entire nuclear power plant accidentally loses power during this process, what will happen to the nuclear reactor?
Well, take the Fukushima nuclear disaster in our world as an example. In fact, as soon as the East China Sea earthquake broke out, several nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had already shut down in an emergency. But the problem is that even if the emergency shutdown has been completed, the waste heat continuously generated by the entire reactor due to its own decay still needs to be cooled down. Otherwise, this heat alone can cause the core temperature to soar to thousands of degrees Celsius!
When the reactor has shut down, the electric water pump of the waste heat cooling system needs to be powered from the outside, or rely on emergency diesel generators, and the batteries must be constantly replaced... And Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the earthquake The factory was completely paralyzed because the external power grid was completely paralyzed, and its own emergency diesel generator was also submerged by the tsunami. As a result, it lost all external power supply and could only rely on batteries to survive. But Tokyo Electric Power Company wanted to cover the lid again and refused to admit the accident. So after the battery was exhausted, the reactor core lost its cooling method and the tragedy occurred.
Next, the rescuers who risked their lives and arrived from Tokyo had no choice but to keep pouring water on the hot reactor to cool it down. They could only sit back and watch as a large amount of radioactive sewage was discharged into the Pacific Ocean and polluted the underground water veins. At the same time, the core continues to burn through the foundation...
Obviously, in the current zombie wave that has swept the world in an instant, the fate of nuclear power plants around the world may be even more terrible. It is impossible to have proper preventive measures in advance, and there will not be enough manpower to organize them afterwards. Rescue... Maybe at the beginning, you can rely on computer programs to keep the reactor running, but as long as the time is delayed, it will inevitably explode one after another!
Not to mention that after the global nuclear war that destroyed the world broke out, there were frantic EMP electromagnetic pulse attacks again and again. Many old nuclear power plants that were built too long ago or had low technical levels were incapable of preventing EMP electromagnetic pulse attacks! In that case, the entire electronic operating system of the nuclear power plant, including the electric pump of the waste heat cooling system, would be burned out by the electromagnetic pulse. There is no way to save him even if he wants to! In the next few hours at least, and one to two days at most, the residual heat from the nuclear fuel rods will burn through the reactor, causing the core to melt down!
Moreover, this is still under the ideal situation that the nuclear power plant has already shut down in an emergency... If it is paralyzed by an EMP electromagnetic pulse attack before it has time to shut down, then it will probably be like the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The entire reactor was instantly "bombed" into the sky!
As for what will happen after the nuclear power plant core melts down... Doraemon took out several photos of the French scene that had just been synthesized using the [Home Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] - the European pastoral countryside scenery on the picture was indeed quite good, and The gorgeous sunset as the background is even more colorful and dazzlingly beautiful, and the nuclear power plant with its core meltdown does not look like it was guided. It was reduced to ruins after being bombarded by bombs, with only some sporadic flames scattered on the roof and wisps of white smoke... But all around it, there were fallen birds, dead human and animal corpses, and a large number of Zombies returning to death again: Obviously, even the rough, strong and torturous zombies can no longer bear such terrifying and intense radiation!
And there are at least sixty nuclear fission reactors that are also melting down on the land of the Japanese archipelago... or more!
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In short, through Doraemon and Wang Qiu's narration, everyone here understands the seriousness of the above-mentioned problems and the urgency of time - although most reactors across Japan are now likely to have problems, they have become A ticking time bomb, but still within the realm of salvage. If the nuclear fuel rods completely burn through the foundation and protective cover, and the entire nuclear power plant collapses, even gods will be unable to save it!
However, knowing the problem is not the same as solving it - and they soon understand how little power they have.
"...Find a way to shut down so many nuclear power plants? That's easy to say! Do you know how long the decommissioning process of the nuclear industry in the modern world is? Generally speaking, those professionals must first patiently let the nuclear fuel cool down completely, Then remove the nuclear fuel and wait for its radiation dose to gradually During this period, the less polluting equipment in the nuclear power plant, such as generators, can be dismantled first, and finally the steel containers of the reactor can be divided and thrown into the trench or buried deep underground - the entire decontamination and dismantling The process lasted twenty or even thirty years!
But the problem is that we obviously can’t find many professional engineers and construction workers who are proficient in the nuclear industry, nor do we have such a long time to deal with it calmly. We don’t even have enough manpower to handle sixty reactors at the same time! There seem to be less than a thousand people in this bed master's castle! ”
In response to everyone's request, Doraemon said helplessly, "...Hey, don't all look at me. For a dangerous thing like a nuclear power plant, my props are of little use! If you use a shrinking light, , I am afraid that the radioactive material inside has already leaked before the reactor can be shrunk; if the nuclear power plant is reduced to raw materials, so many uranium ores piled together can also pollute the environment and kill people..."
"...Then what should we do? Are we just going to watch the Japanese archipelago turn into a radioactive wasteland?" Saya Takagi asked, pushing up her glasses.
"...In fact, Doraemon and I have already discussed and weighed up the countermeasures to solve the above-mentioned nuclear leakage crisis. After eliminating those solutions that were too late or beyond our capabilities, we finally decided There is only one simple and crude method left.”
For some reason, Wang Qiu's eyes actually flashed with some strange excitement, "... Just aim at every nuclear power plant that may have a leak and drop a large-yield hydrogen bomb directly, and you can blow up all the sources of pollution. Calming down, it's all over, no more troubles
Regarding the source of the hydrogen bomb, you can rest assured that as long as you have money, you can order it from Doraemon's 22nd Century World. Of course, we have no choice but to ignore the destruction and disaster that this will bring to the areas around the nuclear power plant... I named it the 'Nuclear Leveling of Japan' operation! ”
——Nani? ! ! A war to “nuclear Japan”? ! ! ! Are you sure you didn't make any mistake?
Regarding this unimaginable solution to the nuclear crisis by using violence to counter violence, everyone initially felt that it was messy and scary. However, after listening carefully to Wang Qiu's explanation, they found that this countermeasure of "nuclear peace" was not unreasonable. ——Yes, there will be radioactive pollution after a nuclear bomb explosion, and it is fatal nuclear pollution. However, the radioactive pollution caused by nuclear bomb explosions and nuclear power plant accidents are different in nature.
Although the explosion of a nuclear warhead is terrifying, it explodes instantly. Radioactive contamination was very severe at the time and decayed very quickly. The harm of nuclear radiation generally only lasts for days or months, and is basically gone after a year or two. , definitely not the decades that some people brag about - for example For example, the famous Bikini Atoll, a nuclear weapons testing site where more than 20 hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs were dropped by the Americans, has now become a tropical tourist destination full of vitality and crowded with tourists; and Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where atomic bombs were dropped , it was built into a prosperous big city again in a few years.
On the contrary, after a nuclear power plant leaks, radioactive materials are slowly released. The amount of pollution per unit time may not be large, but the duration is too long, ranging from a few years to hundreds of years. It will take longer - in comparison with the three nuclear bomb ranges of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini, the area near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is still a radiation restricted area decades after the accident!
Therefore, since there is no cure for those nuclear power plants with melted cores, in the spirit of treating illnesses and saving lives, we might as well blow them up with hydrogen bombs!
No matter how you look at it, it is better to suffer temporary pain and destruction than to harm future generations for generations. As for the survivors who will be killed by the hydrogen bomb...well, after the nuclear power plant leaks, they will definitely die of radiation sickness. What if they die in another way?
However, no matter how you say it, this means that everyone here will make decisions with their own hands, depriving tens of millions of Japanese citizens of their lives...
If the Japanese militarists were militant and bloodthirsty during World War II, they might have already made a choice under such circumstances. But in this new era of the 21st century, where all of Japan is "abolition of cuteness", not everyone can easily overcome such a heavy sense of guilt and moral obstacles.
Therefore, out of the most basic humanitarian concepts, everyone here has been hesitant about this. They neither dare to agree nor give up this way of life. In the end, it was Soichiro Takagi who stood up and gave the final word - "...for such a major issue that affects the lives of tens of millions of compatriots and the survival of the Japanese archipelago, I am afraid that no one of us can bear this responsibility. Therefore, in order to show democracy and justice, everyone Let’s hold a general referendum!”
Well, although this uncle Gao Cheng said it loud and clear, in fact he was just shirking responsibility and seeking peace of mind at the same time.
——At 11:30 that night, after fully understanding the severe situation that the entire Japanese archipelago was about to become a nuclear pollution zone, and the advantages and disadvantages of using hydrogen bombs to quickly solve this nuclear crisis, the nine hundred people who gathered in the Bedlord's Castle The ninety-seven survivors quickly upheld the cynical spirit of "a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist" and voted with an absolute advantage to pass the battle plan of "nuclear Japan"... There was no other way to survive anyway!
On the other hand, those Notre Dame Archbishops who love boundlessly and find faults in their eggs are almost dead in these days.
What's more, facing the current desperate situation of impending nuclear contamination and nowhere to hide, only a true lunatic will seek his own death! As a result, the Japanese archipelago, which was already devastated, is about to usher in a new round of tragic nuclear explosions...