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The whole meeting room was quiet.

There's no problem with the core, there's no problem with the nuclear power plant...

Problem with the external grid?

When I heard that, Lemontov laughed.

“You mean the battery is fine, the battery slot is fine, the problem is the Russian power system? Can't accept this kind of high-tech fusion? This is the funniest joke I've ever heard. ”

The ark stunned slightly: “Is that funny? ”

Lermontov's face flashed with a glimmer of colour and said, "Ark academician, I know you're a good mathematician, and even in the city of St. Petersburg next door, hundreds or even thousands of your peers are eagerly awaiting your debriefing, but I have to say you're a pure outsider in the electricity sector. ”

The ark nodded: “That's true, I have no idea about the Russian grid system, but I have enough evidence to prove my point. ”

Lermontov didn't speak, he just held his arms and waited for the landing boat to continue.

Obviously, it's not just Lermontov, the whole conference room, even the royal academicians, is waiting.

Not selling Guan at this time, the ark cleared its voice and continued.

“When designing reactor cores, we typically add a lot of insurance to ensure safety. For example, the active shutdown mechanism on the core trap, such as the temperature detection device on the heat sink system, is able to actively pause the fusion reaction when there is a significant risk of accidents on the core. These insurance measures will not only shut down the core as a matter of urgency in the event of a failure of the core, but will also, in some exceptional circumstances, prejudge the risk that the core may incur and terminate the ongoing nuclear reaction before everything is irreversible. ”

Lemontov hummed a nasal sound.

“Like what? ”

Ark: “For example, when an external grid cannot withstand, or consume, electric energy from nuclear fusion. ”

“This problem does not exist at all," Minister Novak, standing next to him, said, interjecting, "we have adjusted our plans of work for other thermal power facilities for today's ignition, and even reprogrammed several areas of St. Petersburg that consume more electricity. As long as the core runs successfully, we will immediately reduce the efficiency of the unit at a large nearby thermal power station. When the output power of the core reaches 10%, we shut down units 1 and 2 of the Leningrad nuclear power plant 80 km west of St. Petersburg… We have a complete plan to adjust our energy structure. ”

Ark: “But have you considered another possibility? ”

Minister Novak stunned slightly: “What is the possibility? ”

“Generally speaking, even if the protection mechanism of the AGC system is triggered, not a tiny bit of electricity cannot reach the St. Petersburg City grid, but the situation is now…” Looking at Minister Novak, the Ark continues, "Your grid system doesn't even seem to want a tiny bit of energy from Helios. ”

Lermontov laughed. “How is that possible? Are you making fun of our electricity experts? Or do we have a mole in the power department? Is that what you're trying to say? ”

“If you take it as a mockery, I can't help it. As for the presence of an insider, that's not my area of expertise either," shrugged his shoulder and the ark continued without expression, "but in fact, your energy management system… the so-called EMS, seems to have quite a compatibility problem with our Helios Fusion Station. ”

“I'm not sure if this is a system bug or an artificial one. In short, the power produced from the core cannot be successfully fed into the grid, not even a tiny bit, which triggers the active protection mechanism of our core. By analyzing the data on plasma turbulence, I can tell you this responsibly. ”

“I can even say that without such a protective mechanism, the problem we face today is not so much the so-called lack of light, but a major nuclear accident. ”

Hundreds of millions of degrees of plasma melting through the core is still quite dangerous.

At least for people in nuclear power plants…

The look on Minister Novak's face instantly changed when he heard that.

Lermontov didn't look too good either, apparently frightened by the nuclear accident.

However, even if he was surprised, he was subjectively not convinced that the ship would be able to complete the analysis of those plasma turbulence data in such a short time.

Obviously, this man is simply using his academic authority to justify his fellow citizens.

Biting his teeth, Lermontov said: "... stop screaming there, who knows if you're making this up...”

“Mr. Lemontov. ”

He was suddenly looked at by the ark, and the fur slightly shrugged and frowned and said.

“… what is it? ”

Staring at Lermontov, the ark asked seriously, "Just in case I confirm first, do you really want us to fix this? ”

“What do you mean by that?” Lermontov's expression was a little confused, but it settled quickly, "it was a tens of billions investment, and I, Rosatom, was in charge of the project! Who do you think is in the greatest hurry right now? ”

“Good," the ark nodded down, looking like Minister Novak, "you can arrange a couple of engineers to check if I'm right, and I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard. ”

Minister Novak took a cautious place at the bottom.

“I'll let people do it. ”

Pushing the chair up, the ark looked at Lemontov, who kept staring at himself, and his index finger gently knocked on the over 200 pages of plasma turbulence data.

“You don't know how many times you've seen this for me. ”

“Now that I've told you what the problem is, if you really want to solve it, do as I say. ”

“If you just want an accident appraisal intersection, of course I can show you my calculations live, but I'm just not sure if your IQ understands it. ”

“You!”

Lermontov stood up angrily, but under pressure from the gaze of Mr. Massim, who stood at the door, he eventually let go of his fist and sat back.

According to Russian tradition, they should fight at this time.

But for the sake of his life's safety, he felt he should have restrained himself.

……

The ignition ceremony was forced to be put on hold.

As proposed by the Ark, Russian Ministry of Energy personnel have contacted the Russian Unified Electricity Company and begun to identify potential hidden hazards in the grid.

As to whether the problem is on the grid...

The ark can be very responsible, which is a 95% probability.

However, it would take him less than a week to do an accident analysis and prove his empirical speculation mathematically.

Instead of spending a week doing this pointless thing, go straight to the grid and find out what the problem is.

After coming out of the nuclear power plant, instead of returning directly to the hotel, the Ark searched for a Chinese restaurant nearby and had a meal with Wang Yakuza.

On the dining table, I happened to talk about what had just happened, and the monk suddenly sighed and said with some emotion.

“To be honest, it's weird. As for Lermontov's attitude, I suspect it was self-directed by Rosatom. ”

The chopsticks in his hand stopped, and the ark looked strangely at the king academician.

“What's in it for them? ”

He doesn't know much about business, but he knows better.

Such large public utility projects tend to depress a number of banks' loans, even if they are put into use one day later, for hundreds of thousands or even millions of losses.

Wang Zengguang explained patiently after hearing the question of the Ark.

“This is a ten-billion order, not just a loan, but an insurance policy. If something goes wrong with the core, they can not only apply to the insured company for compensation, they can also put pressure on us to provide complete or partial fusion technology. After all, there is no third-party testing mechanism at all, whether it is a core or a nuclear power plant, and it is up to us to pass the standard. ”

In short, the Nuclear Industry Group and East Asian Electric Power are like a retail giant with a supermarket chain, or a monopoly. Now Mao Zi's neighbors are planning to open a branch store at home. It is up to the head office on the Chinese side to decide how the supermarket should be renovated, the goods purchased, or even the goods placed on the shelf.

Since the products on the Chinese side are necessary for the countries concerned, at the national level, the countries concerned have made certain concessions to many places that would otherwise not be concessional in order to ensure that the products can enter the country.

But such concessions are not without preconditions.

And the biggest prerequisite for nuclear facilities is safety.

This is particularly true for countries such as Russia, which are extremely sensitive to nuclear accidents.

If nothing happens, of course, it's the best. Hello, I'm good. Hello, everyone, enjoy the dividends of clean energy and share the power of knowledge to change the world.

However, there are now serious quality problems with the product and all hidden dangers are exposed.

For example, most importantly, the core could not be activated successfully, but there is no institution in Russia that can carry out quality testing of the product. The question of whether the core has any problems depends solely on East Asian electricity selling the core.

It would be strange if Rosatom did not seize the opportunity to extort money from them. Even as far as means are concerned, they are “restrained”.

The ark frowned and asked: "Could it be that the Russian authorities had authorized them to do it? ”

“It is unlikely, but even if they do, it is expected that the Russian authorities will meet and act, first to test our reaction and then to decide whether to condone it or not. After all, an oligopoly such as Rosatom has considerable influence in Russian politics. And with 10,000 steps back, their energy sector must also be geared towards their own people. ”

Speaking of this, Academician Wang Zenguang sighed, “I didn't expect the opening to be unfavourable. This is still a normal country to return to our state. If you are on the other side of the coast, I don't know what moths are waiting for us. ”

If you compare the hairy one to a gangster, the one across the coast is a gangster in a suit, but also culturally, armed with knowledge.

However, this is a wake-up call for East Asian electricity that has just left the country.

Even strategic allies, even projects in which countries are interviewed, cannot be completely careless. For the small countries of South-East Asia, they are a giant backed by the super-Power, but for the other Powers, they are giants and they are a walking piece of fat, and everyone wants a bite.

Next time, they will also incorporate the grid system that needs to be accessed into the engineering acceptance inspection project.

Of course, this may involve issues of national security and some inconvenient confidentiality, which the States concerned may not necessarily be willing to cooperate with.

But even so, it's better than this.

I touched the cup with the ark and killed the beer, and the monk said sincerely.

“Thanks to you for helping solve the siege today. ”

The Ark laughed and said, "You're welcome. At least I'm a shareholder of East Asian Electric. ”

“You big dog, you sneak out there, you buy this drink! ”

Laughing and looking at an innocent ark, the Wang Academician paused for a while and changed his serious tone to continue.

“I'll get in touch with the other side of the country and ask them what their opinion is. ”

“Whether or not the final problem is on the external grid, we definitely can't transfer the detection technology to them, this place can't open a mouth at all, and even if we export controllable fusion technology to the outside world, we have to make sure that we are more than a decade ahead of technology. ”

The ark nodded down and continued: "Is there anything I can do for you? ”

“No, we've already bothered you too much," looked at the ark, and Academician Wang Zenguang smiled, “The rest of the time, you can safely participate in your International Mathematicians' Congress. If you can catch up with the ignition ceremony just one more time, forget it, it's not our fault anyway. ”

“As for anything else, leave it to us! ”