Ultra-Dimensional Technology Era

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, I am Simon Manhattan." The male commissioner smiled and shook hands with Willard.

The female commissioner at the side seemed indifferent, and just said a word: "I am Karina K Eddie."

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, let's fish up the black boxes of the two ships first." Simon Manhattan said.

"OK." Willard also couldn't wait.

Not all of the four scientific research submarines were put into operation. After modifying the mechanical arms, two of them were put into the Pacific Ocean trench that afternoon.

This Pacific Trench is actually the Okinawa Trench. Fortunately, they sank in the northern section of the Okinawa Trench, where the average water depth is about 2000 to 4000 meters.

If it is the southern section of the Okinawa Trench, it may be more troublesome, because the water depth there is about 4000 to 6000 meters.

As the depth of seawater increases, the difficulty of submarine work increases exponentially.

Six scientific research submarine remote control personnel operated the submarine to dive rapidly. This kind of small scientific research submarine can only be remotely controlled by unmanned people.

In addition, there is a designer of the USS Washington and a designer of the USS Los Angeles. They are also on the sidelines, ready to give technical guidance at any time.

Half an hour later, the scientific research submarine discovered the USS Washington at a depth of about 3470 meters. At this time, the USS Washington was lying on its side on the seabed, and the propeller had stopped working.

"Director Simon, the situation is not very good. The reactor has burned through the protective layer, and the concentration of nuclear radiation in the current seawater is very high." The operator reported with a bad face.

Simon Manhattan thought for a while, then turned his head and asked Anthony, the aircraft carrier designer: "Dr. Anthony, we need your technical guidance."

"OK." The Mediterranean old man nodded.

He looked at the radiation dose level, the monitoring screen, and the sonar detection results, and then took out another piece of draft paper, writing and drawing for more than ten minutes.

"Washington has three black boxes. They are located at the bow, the island, and the stern. The one at the stern does not need to be considered for the time being. The one on the island is currently the easiest to obtain. You guys..."

Under Anthony's guidance, the operator quickly steered the small submarine closer to the island.

As soon as they approached the ship island, many sundries, bones, and incomplete corpses appeared on the surveillance screen.

Coupled with the cold and dark environment, it is even more infiltrating. Many sea creatures have begun to occupy the ship island. Obviously, the corpses inside have attracted these sea creatures.

Despite the guidance of the designer Anthony, the position of the black box was designed very firmly, and the island was hit by the propeller of the auxiliary ship before, which increased the difficulty of taking out the black box.

They have been busy for more than a week, and it took a lot of effort to successfully take out a black box of the USS Washington.

As for the black box of the Los Angeles, although they have determined the sinking location, it is a pity that the Los Angeles fell into a seabed crack.

The specific depth reaches about 4590 meters. What is even more troublesome is that the head of the Los Angeles is directly inserted into the cracks in Haiti, and the tail is also a reactor leak.

After discussing with Lieutenant General Willard, Simon Manhattan decided to analyze the black box of the USS Washington while waiting for the black box of the USS Los Angeles to be taken out.

Because Washington's black box contains very important information, overseas bases do not have the authority to access the contents.

Special commissioner Karina K Eddie personally escorted the black box back to the mainland.

And the hard-working Lieutenant General Willard can only continue to fish for the black box of the Los Angeles in the accident area.

But these days, there have been one after another of bad things. First, they were suspended, and then Lucia, the humanitarian rescue fleet of Huaguo, and the rescue fleet of other younger brothers came here to make soy sauce.

Especially after the detection of signs of nuclear leakage, it has continued to express its deep regards to the United States.

It was vowed that there would be no leakage before, but now the radiation dose level in the surrounding sea area has increased by more than ten times.

Lucia and Huaguo, who were involved in the matter, hurriedly publicized to the world through the Internet, such as the concentration of nuclear radiation seriously exceeding the standard, and the Pacific gyre will bring radioactive materials to Japan, California, Hawaii, etc.

For a while, there were large-scale anti-nuclear protests in Japan and California, which made the whole world pay attention to this matter.

……

California.

Inside a heavily guarded base, a small transport plane quickly landed on the runway of the base.

Karina K Eddy came here with the black box, along with that designer Anthony.

They came to the interior of the base and handed over the black box to the relevant personnel. After obtaining authorization, the data of the black box of the USS Washington was finally read out.

Technical personnel including Anthony, as well as Karina K Eddy's intelligence personnel, conducted a comprehensive analysis of the black box data.

"Strange..." Lewis Ford, the engineer in charge of the reactor, frowned.

Karina K Eddy asked, "Dr. Ford, is there a problem with the data?"

Lewis Ford nodded: "The reactor was shut down suddenly, but neither the control system nor the detection system has fault data. It seems that the neutron dose suddenly dropped to zero rapidly."

"Doctor, under what circumstances will the neutron radiation return to zero?" Karina K Eddy asked quickly.

However, Lewis Ford shook his head directly: "NO, the neutron radiation of the reactor will never return to zero, and it can only stop the large-scale chain reaction of nuclear fuel through graphite barrier rods."

"Is there any way to prevent nuclear fuel from producing neutrons?" Karina K Eddy asked unwillingly.

Lewis Ford shrugged dumbfoundingly: "Ms. Eddie, it is impossible to prevent radioactive substances from releasing neutrons, maybe God can do it."

Chapter 181

After listening to Levi's explanation, Karina K Eddy did not fully believe it. She consulted several authoritative scholars in nuclear physics through internal authority.

However, the answers of these authoritative scholars are exactly the same as Levi’s. They all said that the release of neutrons by radioactive substances is a physical law, and humans currently have no way to prevent radioactive substances from releasing neutrons.

Data is still being analyzed.

Karina K Eddy not only investigated the situation of the nuclear reactor, but also included the crew on the USS Washington, especially the crew who had access to the reactor.

For every situation that might arise, they analyze and investigate.

As time went on, more and more evidence showed that Washington's crew did not intend to sabotage.

The weird 13-minute downtime of the reactor became the focus of this accident. Even the engineer of the reactor, Lewis Ford, was puzzled as to why the reactor would suddenly shut down.

Karina K Eddy asked again: "Dr. Ford, is there really no way to temporarily suspend the release of neutrons from radioactive material?"

Despite the many doubts, Lewis Ford still insisted on his judgment: "From the current technology and theory, there is no relevant technology or theory."

Scientists became stubborn, and unless they could come up with real evidence, they would just sneer. Obviously, Lewis Ford believed that he was not wrong.

The investigation reached a stalemate, and the weird 13-minute shutdown drove all the engineers and researchers crazy.

Reeves Ford continued: "Ms. Eddie, the biggest possibility now is that there may be some kind of defect in the reactor that caused this accident."

Karina K Eddie frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"

The old-fashioned Lewis Ford replied: "Unless the USS Washington is salvaged for a comprehensive analysis, we can only look for existing problems by studying the black box and other aircraft carriers of the same level."