Chapter 887 Preliminary Arrangement

Sometimes, the parties involved in historical events often don't think they have experienced any remarkable moments. Perhaps they can only realize afterwards how much their actions have left a strong mark in human history.

In fact, in Xiangshan's eyes, he just walked around a huge alien garbage, and he didn't play any role. He was just a burden. When he came out of the protective suit, his whole body was wet and sweaty. Xiangshan took a shower and slept that day.

But the next day, when Xiangshan went to work at the research institute, he found that everyone looked at him differently.

"You can go back and claim to be the first person in China to contact aliens." Lao Liu told him. He patted Xiangshan: "Do a good job, you will have a bright future in the future."

Regardless of Xiangshan's personal fate, this exploration did change a lot of things.

After confirming that there were no interactive objects in the entire "Ogun" - whether mechanical or alien - the Rama project also became bolder. A large number of peacekeeping troops wearing chemical protective suits entered Ogun to start work. At first, they carefully sampled the ground, trying to find possible alien cells. But soon, they found that the inside of Ogun was also terribly clean, and all organic matter was mixed from the Earth.

Now there was no need for disinfection.

So, the senior executives of the Rama project began to organize the soldiers of the peacekeeping force to work inside Ogun, erecting reinforcement structures inside and outside to support the shaky "Ogun", while laying tracks and scaffolding inside, building elevators, and laying lighting equipment to facilitate exploration.

And the intelligence sorted out in this process was also presented to the scientists in a continuous stream.

First of all, it was the steel beams that Xiangshan saw that day. It was indeed a complex structure, a complex steel structure like the Eiffel Tower supporting "Ogun". This structure has been severely deformed, but all the deformations bypassed the dark cylinder in the center - that is what the builders of "Ogun" really want to deliver.

This is the result of careful design. According to the restoration calculation. No matter what posture Ogun lands in, those steel beams can absorb kinetic energy through deformation. No matter how the steel structure deforms, the black cylinder will most likely not be affected.

It seems that what the NASA engineer said was right. The builders of "Ogun" did not consider parachutes at all.

Perhaps thanks to human parachutes, the integrity of "Ogun" when it landed was much higher than its builders expected. Humans were able to peek into the art of building blocks.

In addition, there is another piece of news. There are no cables leading to the outside on the black cylinder. This black cylinder did not have the function of controlling the rocket engine from the beginning.

The good news is that there is a hatch on the cylinder.

At present, humans have used a variety of signal transmission methods including knocking to "call" to the cylinder, but the cylinder has no response and is always silent. It seems that even if there are machines inside, they have stopped working and can be further explored.

The bad news is that there seems to be controversy about how to open it and who will open it.

It is said that every bit of progress here can cause waves in the political arena of several major countries. Xiangshan really can't understand the specific process. Why can the bureaucrats behind react so strongly when the front-line personnel are obviously working hard?

Then there is another piece of news.

Or a good news and a bad news.

The bad news is that the rocket engine of "Ogun" is seriously damaged.

But the good news is that humans can still analyze useful technology from it.

And it is exactly what humans need now, "technology that is a little more advanced than contemporary humans."

Ogun uses nuclear rockets, which use reactors to directly heat the propellant and then eject it to gain speed.

The structure of its reactor seems very interesting, which has never been used by people on Earth. Nuclear physicists from different countries all exclaimed "So that's it."

If we look at the entire history of human science, such a little hint is at best equivalent to "a flash of inspiration of a scientist". Even if there is no "Ogun", humans will discover this structure one day. But the arrival of "Ogun" means that humans directly save the step of "waiting for inspiration" and the cost of research and development and trial and error.

Of course, humans also found symbols on the steel beams inside Ogun, which were directly engraved on certain positions of the steel beams.

Ingrid was very excited when she learned the news, but she couldn't laugh after just half a day.

Those symbols were not words at all, but a kind of barcode-like, computer-readable symbol used to represent numbers.

"Except that the builders of Ogun used the duodecimal system, we still know nothing." As Ingrid said this, she stuck her fork into the plate and rolled up a ball of pasta.

And the rubble was also cleared out.

These things contain uranium-235 of high purity. It is said that they must be properly preserved by nuclear countries with experience in handling them, and must be sent to this "turbulent country" as soon as possible.

"That's really strange..." Xiangshan said after reading the information sent: "The purity of this uranium is too high, and judging from the radiation I saw that day, it is not spent fuel at all. This is not their way of dealing with nuclear waste."

The radiation from high-purity fuel rod elements is not strong. Even without any protection, humans can come into direct contact with them for a short period of time. Compared with radiation, it is more terrible that uranium, a heavy metal, is absorbed or poisoned by humans. But spent fuel is not like this. Spent fuel elements removed from the reactor can be used to kill people.

The brand new reactor fuel rods contain very pure uranium. But after the fission reaction, the fuel rods are not so pure. There are hundreds of isotopes with different half-lives, but the radiation is more terrible. Compared with the fuel rods that mainly emit alpha rays, there is also a mixture of radiation with stronger penetration and greater harm.

Judging from the reading, the huge stone pestle does not contain any spent fuel at all.

"If we consider that the technical level of Ogun builders is not much different from that of Earth, they would not have piled the spent fuel in Ogun at all." David was behind Xiangshan, biting a Coke straw, "Apart from anything else, humans are very troubled by the problem of 'computers being intolerant to electromagnetic radiation', and aliens should be the same."

"Then how should the spent fuel be dealt with?"

"If it were me..." David looked up and took a sip of Coke: "As propellant?"