Ukraine is the second largest republic except Russia. Many of the Soviet military industries have chosen Ukraine. Affected by the Atlantic warm and humid airflow, most of the areas here have a temperate continental climate, warm and warm, and the winter is not cold.

The capital of Ukraine is Kiev. In the north of Kiev, not far from the Belarusian border, stands a neat and beautiful small city, Pripiat.

This small town was built in the 1970s to accommodate the construction workers and staff who built the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After all, this is a large nuclear power plant, and the electricity it produces is enough to meet one-tenth of Ukraine's electricity demand.

It is early spring now, and there is a green surrounding area, with dense forests around it, and silver birch trees stand tall and graceful. When a gust of wind blows, the leaves make a clamor. The tall and straight pine trees are lush and lush, the air is fresh, and white clouds are floating on the clear blue sky. In the entire Soviet Union, this was also a beautiful city, so there were not only various workers, but many tourists lingered and finally chose to live here.

Three kilometers away from the small town, among the birch trees, there is a huge building, which is the pride of the Soviet people and the Ukrainian people, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The nuclear power plant, composed of four reactors, each capable of generating 1 gigawatt of electricity. It began construction in the 1970s. Reactor No. 1 was opened in 1977, and then in 1978, 1981 and 1983, three other reactors were launched one after another. There are also two reactors No. 5 and No. 6 under construction, both of which belong to the RBMK-1000 model.

Now, this nuclear power plant has ushered in a group of special people.

The representative from Pakistan was riding a helicopter and landed next to the nuclear power plant. When the helicopter's rotor stopped rotating, the hatch door above opened and several bearded men walked out of it.

Just a few years ago, when Pakistanis were mentioned, they were the enemies of all Soviets! And now, just over a year ago, this argument has disappeared. Pakistan seems to have no conflicts with its own side, as if it were a family. Even the Soviet Union’s most proud nuclear power plant can be assisted to them!

Of course, it is claimed that these people are from Iraq. A country that is still friendly to the Soviet Union. However, Kiyatrov, the chief engineer of the nuclear power plant, knows the inside story. These people are really from Pakistan! The head of the country is Pakistan's Minister of Industry Asif!

These enemies! They should have gone to hell long ago! Kiatrov cursed in his heart and met them.

"Our distinguished guests are very welcome." Kiatrov said: "I am the chief engineer here. Kiatrov."

"Where are the KGB people?" Asif opposite, he was very stance.

In addition to being responsible for various intelligence to the outside world, the KGB is also responsible for internal supervision, including all aspects of production safety. Therefore, this time, Pakistan came to inspect the Soviet nuclear reactor, in addition to the staff of the nuclear power plant, the KGB was also accompanied by the KGB.

For Asif, the KGB people are more important, because President Mhamad's mission is to come here. He tries every means to make this Kiyatrov go away. Although he doesn't know what kind of grudges this guy has with President Mhamad, Asif knows that if he wants to do his best to accomplish this, the KGB needs to do it.

"They will arrive soon, too," said Kiatrov.

As they were talking, several cars drove over from a distance, and they were from the direction of Kiev.

When the cars were parked here, a tall man got out of the car.

The sharp eyes, the shiny light, the tall nose bridge, with obvious characteristics of the Leningrad people, and the lines were strong. This was a cold man.

"Hello, I am from the KGB Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ukraine. My name is Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin." The visitor stretched out a big hand and grabbed Asif.

Putin! If it were Mhamad here, he would definitely be very excited. The person in front of him is the iron-fisted figure of Russia in later generations, Putin!

Putin was born in Leningrad in 1952. During his college years, he joined the KGB and entered the Leningrad intelligence agency's important department. He worked until 1983 and then studied at the KGB school in Moscow for a year. Starting from 1985, the KGB sent Putin to East Germany to mainly collect economic intelligence from West Germany at that time. Until 1990.

Therefore, according to history, Putin should be in East Germany at this time. Unfortunately, Mhamad's time travel brought a series of butterfly effects.

When Marshal Akhromeyev was resigned by Gorbachev due to the defeat in the Afghan war, a series of personnel changes followed, including the KGB.

Many personnel from the KGB organization in Ukraine were transferred to Turkmenistan. In this way, there was a vacancy in Ukraine. As a result, Putin was transferred to Ukraine and did not go to East Germany.

Holding the two hands together, Asif said, "I am very happy to see you. Mr. Putin, at your request, we came to inspect your nuclear power plant, mainly your safety facilities."

"Very welcome." Putin said: "Please."

The KGB people are always arrogant. If I had known that I would not be an engineer back then, but as a KGB! Kiyatrov, who was left alone, couldn't help but feel even more depressed. He thought about it and followed behind.

"We have four large nuclear reactors here, which provide a continuous stream of energy and supply our generators." Walking inside the nuclear power plant, Kiyatrov finally found a location and introduced to Asif.

In those tall buildings, there are nuclear reactors. Through nuclear reactions, heat is generated, turning cooling water into high-temperature and high-pressure steam, and then pushing the steam turbine to generate electricity. Kiyatrov understands the basic principle.

"What is the thickness of the containment of your reactor?" Asif asked.

The reason why the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is that there is no containment in this type of reactor!

At that time, nuclear experts believed that the possibility of a reactor leak was too small and there was no need for any containment. Therefore, outside the reactor, there was an ordinary factory building with no doors or windows.

If there is enough containment outside to withstand the huge pressure caused by nuclear leakage, then there will be no eight tons of nuclear radiation substances thrown into the air, causing the risk of a large-scale harmonious road.

For Mhamad, even if such reactors are really introduced, the first thing is to build a thick enough containment shell outside.

This time I was here to pick on the trick, so Asif asked about the containment directly.

When Kiatrov heard Asif's question, he was stunned: "What is a containment?"

Asif really doesn't know that he used to be an engineer at a thermal power plant, and his ability to come up was not based on technology, but on means.

"Mr. Kiyatrov, you are the chief engineer of the nuclear power plant here. You don't know what a containment is?" Asif shouted in surprise, and his voice was heard by everyone: "How can we investigate the safety of the nuclear power plant here? Are you really the chief engineer here?"

"That's certainly." Kiatrov said: "I am the chief engineer here. But there is indeed no containment in the nuclear power plant here."

Although the focus is on climbing upwards, Kiyatrov still knows the basic knowledge, and no technical document here mentions the thing like a containment.

"What is your reactor using as a moderator?" Asif continued to ask.

Nuclear reactions rely on chain reactions of uranium rods, and they need to be stimulated by neutrons. The neutrons generated by the reaction are fast neutrons. The uranium nucleus captures slow neutrons, so they need to turn fast neutrons into full neutrons, which requires a slower agent.

Moderator? Kiyatrov was not clear about the nuclear reaction. He heard Asif's question and didn't answer it just now. This time he couldn't answer it anymore.

What is it? It seems that when I was reading the literature, I heard about cadmium rods. Those control rods are cadmium rods! Yes, that's right!

"Cadmium rod," said Kiatrov.

"That's a control rod!" Asif said: "Even a minister in charge of industry like me, I know that cadmium rods are control rods, not softeners. Do you know nuclear reactors?"

An engineer on the side quickly said to Kiatrov: "Graphite, our nuclear reactor uses graphite as a moderator."

It was those graphite blocks? Kiatlov originally thought that they were like cement blocks, used for fixing fuel rods and control rods, but they turned out to be slower agents!

Each nuclear reactor used up to 1,700 tons of graphite blocks to be used as a slower agent. Kiatrov didn't understand these at all. In his eyes, this nuclear reactor was just a big boiler.

Putin's face turned cold. The chief engineer of the nuclear power plant didn't even know the most basic knowledge of the nuclear power plant. How did this guy get up?

"We learned that your nuclear reactor is a boiling water reactor. How did you solve the reactivity effect of the vacuole?" Asif continued to ask.

Although the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in later generations was caused by man-made operations, there were problems when designing the reactor. The reactor was in an unsafe working condition at low power because the cooling water of this reactor boiled to produce cavitation, and the core was designed to have a positive cavitation reactivity coefficient. The cavitation increased and the reactivity power increased. This would lead to an increase in the number of cavitations and the reactor would be on the verge of being out of control. This was the reason for the original accident.

After analyzing the reactor, Pakistan's nuclear experts raised these safety questions, and now Asif has asked them all.
Chapter completed!