Chapter 1154 Hope

No matter what, the players finally have their next action plan.

Facts have proved that no matter what kind of disaster, hope is the most beneficial weapon for mankind.

After finding a new direction, everyone including Coconut's mood temporarily stabilized, and everyone began to discuss how to get close to Konvitz.

According to Bryukhanov, the expert team arrived in Kiev an hour and a half ago. Counting the time on the road, they should be almost in Pripyat by now, but I don’t know how they got there. Yes, by train, car, or ship?

And I don’t know where they will go first after arriving or how to arrange their day’s itinerary. However, the players do know where the expert team will stay at night - the Pripyat Grand Hotel, which is also the only hotel in the town. It is usually used to receive tourists from all over the world, and the environment and services inside are very good. good.

Besonova is certain that the expert team would definitely stay in that hotel if they stayed in Pripyat.

"This saves us trouble. We can just go to the hotel and wait." Kui Ye said, "We can also let Besonova see which room Konvitz lives in. If we are lucky, we don't even need to disturb him." other people."

Her proposal was unanimously agreed by the players, so the maintenance man started driving towards the Pripyat Hotel, and everyone seemed to have regained their energy.

However, Zhang Heng knew very well that this motivation was only temporary. Once he got an unsatisfactory answer from Konvitz, not only Coconut, but also many people would be emotionally shattered.

Unlike people of this era, players like Zhang Heng are very aware of the horrors of nuclear radiation.

In a sense, most of mankind's true understanding of crises actually comes from disasters. Perhaps only such an intuitive way can arouse everyone's attention and vigilance.

The Chernobyl accident was like a heavy punch that hit everyone hard, not just ordinary people who knew nothing about nuclear physics, but even engineers and workers working at nuclear power plants. Prior to this, due to more than thirty years of smooth nuclear utilization, everyone was somewhat paralyzed, so that when the disaster really struck, many people lost their sense of danger.

This is also an important reason why in the eyes of many people in later generations, people at that time seemed a bit slow in handling this matter. To put it bluntly, neither SL nor the United States had ever dealt with a reactor explosion before. situation, so until now, eleven hours after the explosion, many people still don't understand what kind of situation they are facing.

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Just as the players were rushing to the hotel, on the other side, the expert team from Moscow finally arrived by car from Kiev to Pripyat. Some of them went directly to the nuclear power plant and found Bryukhanov and Fu in the bunker. Obviously understanding the situation, some people tried to get a Mi-6 helicopter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as a photography club and telescopes, hoping to fly above the reactor to see the specific situation.

As a result, when the helicopter approached the reactor, they were completely stunned by the scene below them.

The site where the reactor was originally was now completely in ruins. The drum separator has long since left the place where it was supposed to stay, and the pipelines below have also been pulled out. The headers protrude from the outer wall of the auxiliary system, pointing proudly to the sky, and there are rubbles everywhere. The asphalt road was filled with black graphite and blue sheen, and the air was filled with a strong metallic smell.

The amazing thing is that in this horrific mess, the control emergency system water tank that exploded as reported by Brukhanov and Fomin did not seem to be too damaged, and the wall where it was located is still standing there.

The experts on the plane are now a little confused. The situation on the scene is really different from the information they have obtained. On the way here, they were already thinking about how to repair the damaged aircraft as quickly as possible. part, allowing the reactor to be reconnected to the grid to generate electricity.

But now, even the most optimistic people don’t think Reactor 4 can continue to generate electricity.

The experts let the helicopter hover over the right side of the reactor, and then asked the photographer to take pictures of the scene below. Everyone's heart and eyes were beating wildly.

Even without a measuring instrument, they could tell how powerful the radiation was now, especially when they looked at the ruins where the reactor was located and could see the deep red below. The people on the plane quickly realized what this meant. However, none of them spoke out about their conjecture, because the conjecture was too terrifying.

It affects far more than just the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and not just the 50,000 residents of Pripyat. Ukraine, Belarus, and even further afield will be affected. In fact, it just flies near the reactor. , they received a lot of radiation. Only because they were responsible for the investigation, the experts did not let the helicopter land immediately.

However, when they saw Brukhanov and Fomin in the bunker, they did not expect that the two of them were still insisting that the water tank exploded and the reactor was safe.

Brukhanov and Fomin have already figured it out. They have no way out. No matter how they shirk responsibility, the main person in charge of the reactor explosion cannot escape the blame. The only way to survive now is to bring in the experts sent by the committee. They also fell into the trap together, and then everyone thought about how to round off this shocking lie.

Experts who have seen the reactor are left speechless. There was even a hint of sympathy in the eyes looking at Blyukhanov and Fomin, feeling that these two people had gone completely crazy.

But after all, the first team was only responsible for investigating the accident and issuing solutions. They did not have the right to directly command and issue orders, although everyone who saw the current situation of the reactor felt that nearby residents should be evacuated immediately.

But they still waited until the members of the accident committee who took the second flight arrived, especially the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers Boris Yevdogimovich Shcherbina, who also dealt with the Chernobyl accident this time. the first person in charge.

Over the years, he has been promoting the construction of nuclear energy in SL. Previously, Bryukhanov proposed to him to evacuate the residents of Pripyat, but he rejected it without hesitation. He arrived in Pripyat around nine o'clock in the evening. Ji, then rushed to the conference room non-stop,

"How's the situation?" Sherbina rubbed her sore thighs and sat in the chair in the conference room.

"It's very pessimistic. The reactor has been destroyed. I propose to evacuate the residents of Pripyat immediately." Marin, the head of the nuclear energy accident of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said in a solemn voice.