Chapter 349: Find a nuclear bomb to generate electricity!
Nuclear bombs are the most powerful weapons currently possessed by mankind. There have been no less than a hundred losses of nuclear bombs in history, and the number of nuclear warheads lost by humans is as high as dozens!
Such a major nuclear bomb loss accident has a very vivid term in the Eagle Country’s military operation code, called “Broken Arrow”.
The Eagle Country alone has disclosed more than a hundred cases of "Broken Arrow" data, and some undisclosed data are probably still locked in the confidential archives of various nuclear powers.
During the period of the Bear-Eagle rivalry in the last century, due to frequent military confrontations, Eagle Country's broken arrow accidents occurred frequently. Most of the nuclear warheads have been recovered, but 6 have sunk to the bottom of the vast ocean.
The wooly bear is even more exaggerated!
In 1968, the Russians sank a K219 nuclear submarine directly on the east coast of the United States.
It is said that the nuclear submarine carried a total of 30 nuclear warheads. If it was accidentally detonated, it could instantly take away most of the coastal areas of the Eagle Country.
Chen Jue no longer cared whether the Russians did it on purpose at that time. They were all old historical stories anyway.
The only thing he cared about was the nuclear bomb that was lost by the USS Ticondero, an aircraft carrier of the American Navy, off the coast of New Mexico in 1965.
According to the information collected in the base, an A-4E Skyhawk carrier-based aircraft took off from the deck of an aircraft carrier and the nuclear bomb accidentally fell off the aircraft and crashed into the sea. The Eagle Navy searched for the area for several months without success and finally determined that the nuclear warhead was stuck on the seabed 80 miles from a small island in Chicken Foot Basin.
With the salvage technology at that time, or even with the salvage technology now, it would be difficult to salvage the nuclear warhead.
Because the average water depth in the sea area around Jiaobenji reaches 1,350 meters, and the deepest place is 4,049 meters. Even the most advanced salvage equipment will be helpless when encountering this depth.
More than half a century has passed, and the nuclear warhead is still quietly sinking in the deep sea of Jiaobenji.
But just because others can’t get it doesn’t mean Chen Jue can’t get it!
After breaking through the Void Level, Chen Jue's body structure had evolved to an incredible level, and he was almost immune to the pressure of sea water.
He can easily travel through the 11,000-meter-deep Mariana Trench, let alone this tiny area of the Jiaobenji Sea.
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After locking the target, the next step is to refer to historical documents to track the approximate range of the nuclear warhead.
Fortunately, after being hit by two atomic bombs, this nuclear-powered nation has become extremely sensitive to nuclear warheads.
Moreover, the netizens of the big nuclear nation are usually bored and are keen on setting up various discussion websites and forums, which contain all kinds of strange information.
Using the computer at the nuclear power plant to search the Internet, Chen Jue actually found a discussion forum created online by a group of Japanese military enthusiasts about the specific location of the lost nuclear warhead.
Sneaking into the forum, relying on the Japanese he had learned before, Chen Jue quickly browsed through some of the excellent posts in the forum.
In addition to personal analysis and information released by the Eagle Country Navy, these posts also include several nautical charts marked with red circles, which look very serious.
Although these nautical charts only depict the approximate location of the lost nuclear bomb, they also saved Chen Jue a lot of useless time!
If he were asked to search around the sea area of Jibaji like a headless fly, the difficulty would be no less than Chen Jue sneaking into the aircraft carrier base of Eagle Country to steal fuel.
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After defining the preliminary search range online, Chen Jue once again turned into a white shark in the waves and dived into the depths of the sea several thousand meters in one breath.
He found that the deeper he dived, the more plasma energy was consumed by opening the invisible shield outside his body.
However, compared with the 12% energy accumulated in his body, this consumption is insignificant.
Quickly passing along the seabed, Chen Jue amplified his sensing ability to the extreme.
With his current physical fitness, plus the bonus of [Five Senses and Six Perceptions], he can expand his sensing range to hundreds of kilometers as long as he wants.
All objects scanned by his thoughts will be quickly fed back to the cerebral cortex, and then shaped by his thinking that is faster than the speed of light.
At this time, Chen Jue was equivalent to carrying an advanced detector that integrated sonar, radar, and 3D imaging, and scanned several sea areas circled by military enthusiasts.
Information about historical shipwrecks, antiques, seabed minerals, shell casings left over from the war, strange fish affected by nuclear radiation, and various marine creatures were all quickly screened in Chen Jue's brain the moment he released his senses.
Soon, Chen Jue sensed an object that was cylindrical in shape and emitted a large amount of nuclear radiation inside.
“Found it!”
Chen Jue showed a look of joy, and controlled the protective shield outside his body to push himself faster and closer to the nuclear radiation object.
In his sight, there was a rusty aerial bomb, and if he looked closely, he could see the blurred English code on it.
Half of the aerial bomb was buried in the mud on the seabed, and the shell had long been rusted through after more than half a century of corrosion from seawater.
Fortunately, the nuclear materials loaded inside were not affected, and Chen Jue could sense an astonishing radiation hidden inside .
"No wonder we couldn't find it before. It's half buried in the soil!" In Chen Jue's opinion, looking for a nuclear warhead at the bottom of the vast ocean is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
If it weren't for his strong and the fact that he had been exposed to nuclear radiation in his second home and was extremely sensitive to such radiation fluctuations, he would not have been able to discover the nuclear warhead in such a short time.
As for this nuclear warhead, its internal ignition device had long since failed due to being submerged in water for half a century.
Chen Jue carefully dismantled the shell and took out the spherical warhead filled with uranium-235.
The warhead is made of pure lead structure, which not only weakens the leakage of internal nuclear radiation, but also has strong corrosion resistance and can effectively resist rust from seawater.
Holding the approximately 200-kilogram nuclear bomb warhead, Chen Jue began to return to the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant as quickly as possible.
"They are worthy of being a nuclear-armed nation! The location of this nuclear bomb stuck on the seabed is less than 50 kilometers away from the nearest city. Aren't they afraid that this thing will suddenly explode one day?" Chen Jue complained.
Of course, if an outsider knew at this time that there was a strange young man approaching the city of Jiaobenji with a nuclear warhead made in the last century.
I guess the entire nuclear nation would be so scared that they would pee their pants on the spot!
Because of the radioactive elements leaked from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, they are nothing compared to the 200-kilogram nuclear warhead in Chen Jue's arms.
Hidden inside is more than 90% weapons-grade highly enriched uranium!
It is not comparable to the ordinary nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants which has a concentration of only 3% to 5%!
