Luo Qi personally led a squad to the power cabin, pointed at the reactor and shouted: "Quick, quick, quick, put all the explosives for me!"
Several soldiers rushed forward immediately. Some put explosives under the shell of the reactor, some placed explosives on the primary circuit pipes, and some cut the floor near the reactor.
Everything was in order, Luo Qi shouted on the radio again: "Lower to the second deck, are you in place?"
The command is easy to give, but not so easy to execute.
The transport ship's reactor is located in the middle and rear of the battleship, with a height of more than ten meters. The entire reactor runs through three decks. According to Navy practice, 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 bilge. Therefore, the distance between the reactor and the bilge is not far, which is very beneficial to the implementation of the plan.
Luo Qi immediately received the answer from the bottom tank: "The lower second deck is in place and is being cut!"
"Hurry up!" Luo Qi urged, "How is the situation in the bottom cabin?"
Fierce gunshots came from the radio station, and Luo Qi couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart.
"Report, the enemy has penetrated the bottom tank and is blocking it, blocking it!"
"Pay attention to the time, there is not much time!" Luo Qi said.
"Bilker understands..."
"Report, the lower second deck has been penetrated!"
"Okay!" Luo Qi suddenly raised his head, "Class 4——"
"Report, the explosives have been placed!"
"Great, No. 1, No. 1, I am Luo Qi, Shuhai is ready!"
Ye Han received the news without hesitation: "Proceed as planned."
At this time, Ye Han had just returned to the ship's spine and was 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 originally dilapidated battleship was shattered into pieces in the nuclear explosion. Most of the hull disappeared, leaving only a small section at the bow and stern.
The enemy troops that invaded the Red Sea were definitely wiped out, but we don't know whether the servants on the Red Sea escaped.
Luo Qi also felt the shock of the nuclear explosion, but he didn't take it to heart at all. He simply answered yes, and then immediately passed on the order: "Bottom compartment, I order you to evacuate immediately. In twenty seconds, you have only
Twenty seconds!”
"The bottom cabin is received, withdraw!"
After an order was given, dense explosions suddenly came from the bottom cabin. After the troops in the bottom cabin detonated a large number of grenades and several explosive packets, everyone immediately activated their flight bags and swarmed toward the passage leading to the lower second deck.
At the same time, similar scenes were staged on other ships. On each battleship, two groups of personnel were assigned to the emergency. One group rushed to the power cabin to prepare to destroy the reactor and release nuclear waste into the bottom tank.
Note, this is nuclear waste, not nuclear fuel!
The longer the half-life of a substance, the lower its radiation intensity. The half-life of uranium-235 is as long as 700 million years, and that of uranium-238 is as long as 4.5 billion years. Therefore, the radiation intensity of uranium fuel rods is not high, even without any protection.
If you hold it directly in your hand, the human body will not receive much radiation. The reason why you wear gloves when handling fuel rods is not to prevent radiation, but to prevent contamination of the fuel rods.
But nuclear waste or spent fuel is different. The main component of fuel rods that have undergone nuclear reactions is no longer pure uranium 235, but contains hundreds of isotopes of various elements. Their half-lives are as short as a few milliseconds and as long as
For thousands of years, its radiation intensity far exceeds that of pure nuclear fuel!
The reactor of the Haizi transport ship has been running for more than half a year. There is a lot of strong radioactive material in the core, which is definitely enough for the noble army to have a good drink.
The other group rushed to the lower deck, or to be precise, rushed to the bottom of the reactor, and cut the deck directly below the reactor to create a channel for the flow of nuclear waste.
Speaking of which, we must talk about nuclear reactors.
Until now, mankind has not been able to conquer controllable nuclear fusion technology, so all reactors, whether military or civilian, are fission reactors.
According to the fuel state, reactors can be simply divided into solid fuel and liquid fuel. The former is the nuclear reactor that is most familiar to the public and has the widest application range and uses metal fuel rods as fuel.
Strictly speaking, the latter can be divided into two situations. One is using molten metal or liquid alloy containing fissile materials as fuel, which is called a liquid metal fuel reactor. The focus is on the fuel state; the other is injecting molten metal into the thermal circuit of the reactor.
Metal or alloy, using liquid metal to replace cooling water is called a liquid metal cold reactor. The key point is what the cooling material in the loop is.
Liquid metal reactors have always been a key research direction for military reactors. This type of reactor was used on the first batch of space battleships transformed from the space shuttle.
Today, liquid metal reactors have made great progress and are widely used in various human space vehicles. Various types of battleships in the Beiyuezhou Fleet, including assault ships, use this type of reactor, which is characterized by operating pressure.
Low, equipment efficiency and reliability are relatively high.
These two points are one of the important reasons why the military of various countries choose liquid metal reactors.
However, nothing is absolute. Only real human warships will be equipped with liquid metal piles. The Haizi 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 propellers, the entire ship has no other parts.
Either they cut corners or they are defective products.
It's not that the military didn't do its best, but that all the Haizhihao were intentionally made into defective products. In order to manufacture this batch of warships, the orbital factory, which is accustomed to using the highest standards to build warships, also spent a lot of brain cells. As a result, the final product not only cut corners, but also made
The craftsmanship is also appalling, and all the structures in the ship that can be omitted have been omitted.
If aliens use the transport ship to reverse engineer, they will eventually become insane.
The reason for this situation is that, firstly, Beidu has never put down its guard against the resistance organization, and secondly, it is to prevent warship technology, including reactor technology, from falling into the hands of aliens.
This is no joke. The military even believed for a time that the purpose of the resistance organization's cooperation with humans was to deceive a group of human warships.
After all, aliens have initially mastered artillery technology. After obtaining human warships, they may not be able to copy a batch of knock-off versions. Even absorbing a little bit of human warship manufacturing concepts is not good news for humans.
So despite the fact that these warships appear to have no problems on the surface, and there are no problems with their use, warships with sufficient workmanship and materials can be used for decades, and these transport ships can be used for a few years.
Anyway, the resistance organization has no intention of using it forever. As long as it can fly to Jupiter and then back to Europa, it is even easier now. Just throw these warships on Ganymede. It will be impossible to fly again even if you want to fly.
Even if the resistance organization wants to break their heads, they can't even think of exposing the intrigue here.