One Thousand and Eighteen Cutting Corners

Shuhai.

Luo Qi personally led a squad to the power cabin, pointed at the reactor and shouted: "Quick, quick, put all the explosives in place!"

Several soldiers rushed up immediately, some put the explosives under the shell of the reactor, some put the explosives on the pipes of the primary circuit, and some cut the floor near the reactor.

Everything was in order, and Luo Qi shouted on the radio again: "Lower second deck, are you in position?"

It is easy to give orders, but it is not so easy to execute them.

The reactor of the transport ship is located in the middle and rear of the warship, with a height of more than ten meters. The entire reactor runs through three decks. According to the practice of the navy, the power cabin does not belong to any deck, but is called the power deck alone.

Below the power deck is the lower second deck, and below that is the bottom cabin, so the distance between the reactor and the bottom cabin is not far, which is very beneficial to the implementation of the plan.

Luo Qi immediately received a reply from the bottom cabin: "The lower second deck is in place, cutting!"

"Hurry up!" Luo Qi instructed, "Bottom cabin, how is the situation?"

There was fierce gunfire from the radio, and Luo Qi's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

"Report, the enemy has penetrated the bottom cabin, and is blocking it, blocking it!"

"Pay attention to the time, time is running out!" Luo Qi said.

"The bottom cabin understands..."

"Report, the lower second deck has been penetrated!"

"Okay!" Luo Qi looked up suddenly, "Fourth Class——"

"Report, the explosives have been placed!"

"Great, number one, number one, I'm Luo Qi, the Shuhai is ready!"

Ye Han, who received the news, did not hesitate: "Proceed as planned."

At this time, Ye Han had just returned to the ridge of the ship, looking at the wreckage of the Red Sea two kilometers away.

Just half a minute ago, the Red Sea was hit by a nuclear shell from space. The already dilapidated warship was shattered in the nuclear explosion, and most of the ship disappeared, leaving only a small section at the bow and stern.

The enemy troops that invaded the Red Sea must have been annihilated, but I don't know whether the servants on the Red Sea escaped.

Luo Qi also felt the vibration of the nuclear explosion, but he didn't take it seriously at all. He answered yes and passed the order down immediately: "Bottom cabin, I order you to evacuate immediately, twenty seconds, you only have twenty seconds!"

"Bottom cabin received, retreat!"

At the command, dense explosions suddenly came from the bottom cabin. After the troops in the bottom cabin detonated a large number of grenades and several explosive packs, everyone immediately started the flight packs and swarmed to the passage leading to the lower second deck.

At the same time, similar scenes were also staged on other ships. On each warship, two groups of people were ordered to take the critical moment. One group rushed to the power cabin to prepare to destroy the reactor and release nuclear waste into the bottom cabin.

Note that it is nuclear waste, not nuclear fuel!

The longer the half-life of a substance, the lower its radiation intensity. The half-life of uranium is as long as 700 million years, and that of uranium is as long as 4.5 billion years. Therefore, the radiation intensity of uranium fuel rods is not high. Even if you hold it directly in your hand without any protection, the radiation received by the human body is not much. The reason why gloves are worn when carrying fuel rods is not to prevent radiation, but to prevent contamination of the fuel rods.

However, nuclear waste or spent fuel is different. The main component of the fuel rods after nuclear reaction is no longer pure uranium, but contains isotopes of hundreds of various elements. Their half-lives are as short as a few milliseconds and as long as thousands of years. Their radiation intensity is far greater than that of pure nuclear fuel!

The reactor of the Haizi transport ship has been running for more than half a year. There are strong radioactive materials in the core, which is definitely enough for the noble army to drink a pot.

Another group rushed to the second deck, or more precisely, rushed to the bottom of the reactor, cut the deck directly below the reactor, and opened a channel for the flow of nuclear waste.

Speaking of this, we must talk about nuclear reactors.

Humans have not yet mastered the technology of controlled nuclear fusion, so all reactors, whether military or civilian, are fission reactors.

According to the fuel state, reactors can be simply divided into two types: solid fuel and liquid fuel. The former is the nuclear reactor that is most familiar to the public, has the widest application range, and uses metal fuel rods as fuel.

Strictly speaking, the latter is divided into two situations. One is to use molten metal or liquid alloy containing fission materials as fuel, which is called liquid metal fuel reactor, and the focus is on the fuel state; the other is to inject molten metal or alloy into the reactor's hot loop, and use liquid metal instead of cooling water, which is called liquid metal cold reactor, and the focus is on what the cooling material in the loop is.

Liquid metal reactors have always been the key research direction of military reactors. The first batch of space warships converted from space shuttles used this type of reactor.

Today, liquid metal reactors have made great progress and are widely used in various human space vehicles. All types of main battleships in the Beiyuezhou Fleet, including assault ships, use this type of reactor. Its characteristics are low operating pressure, high equipment efficiency and reliability.

These two points are one of the important reasons why all parties choose liquid metal piles.

However, nothing is absolute. Only real human warships will be equipped with liquid metal piles. The Sea-class transport ship provided to the resistance organization is not in the human combat sequence at all. Except for a few key positions such as armor and thrusters, other parts of the ship are either shoddy or defective.

It's not that the military didn't do their best, but they intentionally made all the Haizi-class warships defective. In order to manufacture this batch of warships, the orbital factory, which is used to building warships with the highest standards, spent a lot of brain cells. As a result, the final product not only cut corners, but also had a terrible manufacturing process. All the structures that could be saved in the ship were omitted.

If the aliens took the transport ship to do reverse engineering, they would definitely drive themselves crazy in the end.

The reason for this situation is that Beidu has never let down its guard against the resistance organization, and secondly, it is to prevent the warship technology including reactor technology from falling into the hands of aliens.

This is not a joke. The military even once believed that the purpose of the resistance organization's cooperation with humans was to deceive a batch of human warships.

After all, the aliens have already mastered the artillery technology. After getting the human warships, it may not be impossible to copy a batch of copycat versions. Even if they absorb a little bit of the manufacturing concept of human warships, it is not good news for humans.

So don't be fooled by the fact that these warships look fine on the surface and are not problematic to use, but a warship with adequate workmanship and materials can be used for decades, and these transport ships can only be used for a few years.

Anyway, the resistance organization doesn't plan to use them all the time, as long as they can fly to Jupiter and then fly back to Ganymede. Now it's even simpler, just throw these warships on Ganymede, and they can't fly again. Even if the resistance organization racks its brains, it can't expose the trick here.