Chapter 350 Stellar Expansion
Holding the 200-kilogram nuclear bomb warhead, Chen Jue quietly sneaked into the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant again.
It was afternoon, the summer sun was scorching outside, and the patrolling security personnel in the nuclear power plant were drowsy and yawning.
Since this nuclear power plant was shut down for more than ten years, a large number of core technical personnel have been transferred from their posts, and most of those who remain are older maintenance personnel.
According to Chen Jue's perception, there are only 12 people in the nuclear power plant including himself, and they are all elderly people with weak qi and blood.
It wouldn't take Chen Jue much effort to control these people.
You know, the aging of chickens is very serious, and the retirement age is notoriously long among many countries on the earth. In the name of waste utilization, some elderly people who have reached retirement age will reduce their salaries and stick to their jobs.
In addition, the most dangerous fuel in the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant had already been transferred and sold, so it was understandable that there were only a dozen people left in such a large plant.
If Tokyo Electric Power Company did not want to restart the nuclear power plant and re-activate the nuclear power units in which it had invested huge amounts of money, it is estimated that these dozen or so older engineers would not have stayed .
After all, in Chen Jue's impression, some domestic companies that have stopped production or shut down for many years would only arrange an old man to guard the door in the end.
But it’s better that there are fewer people, as this also gives Chen Jue the opportunity to cause trouble!
First, he found an empty room and placed the nuclear bomb warhead. Then Chen Jue slipped into the office of the technical department of the nuclear power plant again and quickly reviewed the operating procedures of the sealed heavy water reactor and generator units, as well as some precautions.
All these materials are integrated into a book that is as thick as dozens of Xinhua dictionaries. Fortunately, Chen Jue learns quickly and can read two pages at a glance.
It took more than an hour to read all the operating manuals. After 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the 11 old men patrolling the nuclear power plant began to go off work one after another.
Judging from their cheerful steps and loud discussions, they must have been fishing all day and decided to go to an izakaya to have some fun.
The average person in Jiaobenji lives under a lot of pressure and really likes to have a meal and a drink after get off work.
In addition, the nuclear power plant has been completely shut down for more than ten years. Although most of the machines are restarted and maintained at regular intervals, when it is time to get off work, there is not even a single person left here!
There were only two middle-aged security guards guarding the gate of the nuclear power plant.
"The theoretical knowledge has been learned, and the next step is practical operation!" Chen Jue withdrew his perception, a playful smile appeared on his face, and he threw the operating manual in his hand aside.
However, in order to prevent interference, Chen Jue quickly rushed to the security monitoring room at the entrance and knocked out the two middle-aged security guards inside at an extremely strange speed.
After knocking the two men down, Chen Jue took the opportunity to look through the visitor entry and exit records in the monitoring room for the past six months and found that very few people came in at night.
Now, the huge Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant fell into Chen Jue's hands.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, no one will disturb Chen Jue from now until the next morning when he goes to work.
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"The reactor program has started, and ignition and preheating are in progress."
"Inject heavy water, and turn on the reactor pressure monitoring."
"Insert carbon rod, currently missing reaction fuel."
After solving the personnel problems in the factory, Chen Jue began to transform into a series of afterimages, constantly appearing in front of various workbenches that required actual manpower.
After familiarizing himself with the operating manuals of each work area, the power generation process of the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant no longer remained a secret to Chen Jue.
It simply means that one needs to take on multiple roles and replace the work of dozens or even hundreds of nuclear power plant engineers.
Fortunately, Chen Jue is fast enough. Although he cannot create clones like the ninjas in Naruto, he can still compress all the work that requires a lot of manpower.
It took an hour or so to activate and restart all seven reaction units, and to remove all the output terminals of the generator's external high-voltage lines. Several extremely thick transmission cables were carried from the warehouse and reconnected, and then they were neatly arranged in a suitable location. Only then were the preparations before power generation completely completed.
If the heads of other nuclear power plants knew about Chen Jue’s heroic act, they would probably kneel down and call him daddy on the spot!
Because a nuclear power plant involves hundreds of positions, and a smaller one with only a few units requires at least a thousand people for stable operation, and they are all core technical positions!
A nuclear power plant like the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant, which has seven units, is considered a large nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant of this size, including marginal jobs, would require at least tens of thousands of people to support it.
Moreover, if you want to restart a shut-down nuclear power plant, it will take at least a week from preparation to formal commercial use.
But what about Chen Jue?
He alone did the work of tens of thousands of people for several days!
If the capitalists knew about such abnormal work efficiency, wouldn't they be immediately furious and lay off all their 996 employees?
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After that, the unit was restarted and all operating procedures of the reactor were checked.
Chen Jue moved the 200-jin nuclear warhead to the fuel delivery area.
The pure lead shell outside the warhead was torn open by him with a slight pull, revealing the highly enriched uranium inside.
He divided the enriched uranium into several portions and poured them into lead boxes in the factory. He then added chemical reagents to dilute it. After preparing about 5% of the fuel suitable for the reactor, Chen Jue put them into the seven reaction units one by one.
During this process, Chen Jue did not wear nuclear protective clothing. If the staff of the nuclear power plant saw it, they would probably be so scared that they would gouge out their eyes on the spot and throw them on the ground to step on them!
"Done! The next step is to start generating electricity." Chen Jue quickly went to the control room and pressed the last ignition procedure.
Soon, the heavy water in the seven reactors, which should have been calm, began to ripple.
The dazzling blue light emanating from the reactor brought a smile to Chen Jue's face.
In his opinion, although people with the "Foot Basin Chicken" habit are sick in nature, they are still very meticulous in their work.
Especially for this nuclear power plant that has been shut down for more than ten years, there were no problems at all during the restart process, which shows that the daily maintenance of the units is very in place.
“It’s worthy of the craftsman spirit!”
After taking a look at the system in the control room and finding no alarms or accidents, Chen Jue quickly moved to the generator set.
As the temperature of the boiler in the unit gradually increased, crackling sounds of electric arcs began to be heard on the thick transmission cables.
Chen Jue slowly approached and calmly began to absorb the endless flow of electricity.
12.01%…12.02%…12.03%…
Watching the space opened up in his body begin to be filled up by the injected electrical energy, Chen Jue grinned unconsciously: "Now I can finally fill it up with energy!"
"This efficiency is much better than the Kori Nuclear Power Plant in South Korea!"
According to Chen Jue's estimation, these seven huge nuclear reactors can output nearly 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per second.
In addition to the increase in the number of generators and total power, part of this is related to the high-quality enriched uranium he released.
The fuel used in ordinary nuclear power plants is mostly uranium-235 with a concentration of about 3%.
However, the uranium-235 diluted by Chen Jue this time is above 5%. Although the loss in the reaction process will increase, the output power will be much higher than ordinary fuel.
The most important thing is that Chen Jue had privately dug cables at the Guli Nuclear Power Plant before and only intercepted a small part of the electricity. Now the entire Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant only serves him. You can imagine how terrible the charging efficiency is.
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From 7 o'clock in the evening of the previous day to 8 o'clock the next day, Chen Jue absorbed a total of more than 460 million kWh of electricity.
The utilization rate of space in his body even climbed to 36%!
Although there is still a long way to go before it is fully charged, Chen Jue feels that his strength has increased several times overnight!
Even he himself was a little surprised at such an astonishing leap.
In particular, as the amount of plasma in his body increased, Chen Jue's weight began to soar, and the cement floor where he was sitting cross-legged had been pressed into a dent visible to the naked eye.
"After shattering the vacuum, there is such a leap in growth and development!"
"Should this stage be called void expansion?" Chen's determination moved and he thought of the stars in the universe.
As stars evolve, their mass and size increase year by year.
The sun, which is the closest star to humans, is actually one of the smaller ones among many stars.
As the Sun evolves to the next stage, a red giant, the difference in size and mass between the two can be hundreds or even thousands of times greater.
Therefore, after referring to the evolution process of stars in the universe, Chen Jue, who had transformed his body into a star-like existence, felt that the several-fold increase in strength overnight was nothing at all.
He simply compressed the process of physical evolution and shortened the evolution time by taking the shortcut of absorbing electrical energy.
"It's a pity about the nuclear fuel. Only this much is consumed after burning for a whole night." Chen Jue took a look at the diluted uranium. Based on the calculation that 1 gram of nuclear fuel can produce more than 400 degrees of electricity, the seven reactors consumed less than one-sixth of it after one night.
As long as he continues to generate electricity, Chen Jue will be able to fill the atomic gaps opened up in his body in about 24 hours.
"How about just robbing it openly?"
"It's just a dozen old guys anyway! Just knock them all down when they come in."
"If we miss this opportunity, it will not be easy to find another nuclear power plant that meets the requirements."
