Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 525 Scrap Warehouse
With the cover of the sewage ditch, Qi Lin quickly passed the street and entered the opposite block.

Lifting the cover on the top of the head, Qi Lin jumped out of the sewage ditch, and quickly ran to the load-bearing column that was close at hand.

The diameter of the bottom of the load-bearing column is nearly 70 meters, and the diameter of the top is slightly smaller, but it is also [-] meters. It is not so much a load-bearing column as it is more like a large cooling tower in an old nuclear power plant.

Generally, load-bearing columns are surrounded by a large number of buildings. Originally, according to the three-dimensional planning and design of the residential area of ​​No. 909 refuge, the load-bearing columns are also called "round towers". A load-bearing column, including its internal space and outer ring Such a building can definitely accommodate thousands of people. However, on the surface of this load-bearing column, there are no redundant buildings, and even the surrounding houses keep a certain distance from it.

Before Qi Lin ran under the load-bearing column, he already felt that the radiation dose in the environment was rising rapidly. Although it was not to the extent that it would affect the human body, if he lived in this environment for a long time, even if he could With "Antiradiation Ning", the days are long, and one suffers from different degrees of radiation sickness, or suffers from side effects and complications caused by long-term medication.

Even in low-level residential areas, there are not many people who are willing to live around this load-bearing column. Many people would rather squeeze a little more than live under the envelope of radiation.

Although the price of "Anti-radiation Ning" is not expensive, but if you want to eat it every day, no one can afford it.

However, the radiation that ordinary people are afraid to avoid gives Qi Lin a feeling like a fish in water - the speed of the energy-gathering vortex in the abdomen is much faster. If this thing has emotions, it must be very happy Terrible.

Qi Lin ran around the load-bearing column for a small half circle, and finally found the iron gate leading to the interior. The iron gate was locked with a rusty chain. It took Qi Lin less than five seconds, He picked the old lock open.

Pushing open the iron gate, there is a deep and narrow corridor inside. The width of the corridor can only accommodate one person to pass through. Qi Lin raised his pistol and walked in with his footsteps pressed.

After walking in for 20 meters, an inconspicuous hidden door appeared on the right hand side. The hidden door was not locked. Qi Lin just pushed it casually, and the rusted metal door that was almost out of shape was pushed open.

This is a "dressing room" with a cleaning function. Its area is only about ten square meters. There is a wooden bench in the middle, wardrobes made of polymer materials on both sides, and a Dusty shower head.

The doors of the closet had fallen to the ground, and Qi Lin saw pieces of orange protective clothing hanging inside. The nylon fabric and rubber layer on the surface of these protective clothing had completely aged, and it could be seen through the cracked surface that there was no Metal mesh structure - this is the cheapest low-level protective clothing, and has the weakest protection against radiation.

"Wearing such broken protective clothing to work, it's no wonder that you don't get radiation sickness..."

Qi Lin complained, and continued to walk towards the depths of the corridor.

……

This is indeed a spare reactor, but to be precise, this is the ruins of a spare reactor that has been abandoned-inside the load-bearing column, Qi Lin did see the reactor base and brackets used to install it, but those equipment are not It has been demolished, and the interior of the entire load-bearing column appears empty.

Without a reactor, naturally there would be no spent fuel rods that Qi Lin was looking for.

It's just... why is the radiation concentration inside the load-bearing column so abnormally high?According to various indications, this spare reactor has been dismantled a long time ago, at least for more than a year. Even if there is radiation residue, after a year of dissipation, the current radiation concentration should not be high. To such an extent——

Unless... the radiation source is still here.

Following the intensity of the radiation, Qi Lin began to explore inside, and soon found a inspection well in the corner.

The inspection well was sealed with a thick metal cover, and on the metal cover was a striking yellow and black "radiation hazard" warning sign——in the entire confined space, this is where the radiation concentration is the highest.

"Sure enough, there must be another universe under this inspection shaft!"

Qi Lin did what he said, and immediately pushed the heavy manhole cover aside, and climbed down the iron ladder along the side of the well.

Below the inspection shaft is a huge cave similar to an air-raid shelter. According to the location, this is an independent underground space located tens of meters directly below the No. 909 shelter. In this space, there are a lot of yellow metal piles. Cylinders, the radiation is emitted from these metal cylinders.

"...Damn it, they turned it into a warehouse for nuclear waste, no wonder no one lives around it!"

Qi Lin ran to the side of a metal drum, pried off the lid, and saw that it was filled with cement, and inside the cement were dozens of spent fuel rods as thick as an arm.

There are more than 800 such drums piled up in the entire waste warehouse, and according to the markings on the outside of the drums, excluding the cement, there is [-] kilograms of nuclear waste in a drum. In this warehouse, more than [-] kilograms of nuclear waste are stored. More than [-] tons of nuclear waste.

You must know that a medium-sized nuclear power plant in the old days would only produce dozens of tons of nuclear waste in a year-these [-] tons of nuclear waste are likely to be the entire inventory of the entire No. [-] energy reactor in the past few years. up.

This waste warehouse is a thorny problem for the managers of Vault 909, but in Qi Lin's eyes, it is a rare treasure house!

What kind of nuclear waste are these, they are clearly worthless experience points!

Qi Lin immediately let go of the restrictions on the energy-gathering vortex. At the moment when Qi Lin's consciousness suppression disappeared, the energy-gathering vortex paused for a while, and then spun wildly. In less than a minute, Within a short time, all the radiation energy overflowing from the waste warehouse was completely absorbed.

"This packaging is really troublesome. It would be great if I had a large can opener..."

While complaining, Qi Lin pried off the lids of the drums one by one—the radiation that escaped through the cement seal and the metal drum wall was only a small part. All these "packages" used to isolate radiation should be removed.

Fortunately, due to the shortage of resources, the quality of these drums is not good, and the walls of the drums are as thin as cans. Otherwise, Qi Lin may not be able to pry the drums open with only a small dagger in his hand .

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As the spent fuel rods are exposed to the air, the energy-gathering vortex absorbs more and more radiation energy. The energy-gathering vortex, which seemed a bit ethereal and illusory, has become more and more staring. Based on his experience, Qi Lin knew that this was a sign that the energy-gathering vortex was about to reach a critical point.

(End of this chapter)