Chapter 1014 Active Protection Mechanism

The entire conference room was silent.

There is no problem with the core, and there is no problem with the nuclear power plant...

The problem is the external grid?

Hearing this, Lermontov laughed.

"You mean to say that there is no problem with the battery, and there is no problem with the battery slot. The problem is the Russian power system? Can't accept the high technology of nuclear fusion? This is the funniest joke I have ever heard."

Lu Zhou froze for a moment: "Is it funny?"

A sullen look flashed across Lermontov's face, and he said unceremoniously: "Academician Lu Zhou, I know you are an excellent mathematician, and there are hundreds or even thousands of you in the nearby city of St. Petersburg." My peers are eagerly awaiting your report, but I have to say that you are a pure layman in electricity."

Lu Zhou nodded: "That's true. I don't know much about Russia's power grid system, but I have enough evidence to prove my point."

Lermontov did not speak, but folded his arms, waiting for Lu Zhou to continue.

Apparently not only Lermontov, but everyone in the meeting room, including Academician Wang, was waiting.

Lu Zhou didn't make a fool of himself at this time, cleared his throat, and continued.

"When designing the core, in order to ensure safety, we usually add many insurance measures. For example, the active shutdown mechanism on the core catcher, such as the temperature detection device on the heat dissipation system, can be used in the event of a major core failure. Actively suspend the fusion reaction when there is an accident risk. These insurance measures will not only shut down the core in an emergency when the core fails, but also predict the possible risks of the core in some special cases, before everything is irreversible Terminate the ongoing nuclear reaction."

Lermontov snorted.

"for example?"

Lu Zhou: "For example, when the external power grid can't bear it, or can't consume the power generated by nuclear fusion."

"This problem does not exist at all," Minister Novak who was standing next to him interjected and said, "For today's ignition, we have adjusted the work plan of other thermal power facilities, even for several power-hungry facilities in St. Petersburg. The region has re-planned power consumption. As long as the core is running successfully, we will immediately reduce the unit efficiency of a large thermal power plant nearby. When the output power of the core reaches 10%, we will shut down the city of St. Petersburg Units 1 and 2 of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 80 kilometers to the west...we have a complete set of plans to adjust our energy structure.”

Lu Zhou: "But have you considered another possibility?"

Minister Novak was slightly stunned: "What's possible?"

"Generally speaking, even if the protection mechanism of the AGC system is triggered, it is not impossible for a little bit of electricity to enter the power grid of St. Petersburg, but the current situation is..." Looking at Minister Novak, Lu Zhou continued. , "Your power grid system doesn't seem to want even a little bit of energy from Helios."

Lermontov laughed and said, "How is it possible? Are you mocking the experts in our power department? Or are you saying that there are ghosts in our power department? Is that what you want to say?"

"If you take it as a mockery, then I can't help it. As for whether there are ghosts or not, that's not my professional field." Shrugging his shoulders, Lu Zhou continued expressionlessly, "But in fact, it is, Your energy management system...the so-called EMS seems to have a pretty serious compatibility issue with our Helios fusion power plant."

"I'm not sure whether it's a system bug or man-made. In short, the electric energy produced from the core cannot be successfully input into the grid, not even a little bit, and this triggers the active protection mechanism of our core. Through the plasma I can analyze the data of body turbulence, and I can tell you this matter responsibly.”

"I can even say that without this protection mechanism, the problem we encounter today would not be a so-called non-ignition, but a major nuclear accident."

The hundreds of millions of degrees of plasma melting through the core is still quite dangerous.

At least for the people in the nuclear power plant...

Hearing these words, the expression on Minister Novak's face changed instantly.

Lermontov's face was also not very good-looking, obviously frightened by the nuclear accident.

However, even though he was taken aback, subjectively, he still did not believe that Lu Zhou could complete the analysis of the plasma turbulence data in such a short period of time.

It was clear that this man was simply using his academic authority to offend his fellow man.

Gritting his teeth, Lermontov said: "...Stop scaremongering there, who knows if what you said is something you made up—"

"Mr. Lermontov."

Seen by Lu Zhou suddenly, this Maozi was slightly startled, and said with a frown.

"……What's wrong?"

Staring at Lermontov, Lu Zhou asked seriously: "Just in case, let me confirm first, do you really want us to solve this problem?"

"What do you mean?" Lermontov was a little flustered, but he quickly calmed down, "This is related to an investment of tens of billions, and I am the person in charge of Rosatom on this project ! Who do you think is the most anxious person right now?"

"Very good," Lu Zhou nodded, looking like Minister Novak, "You can arrange a few engineers to check if what I said is right, I believe it should not be very difficult."

Minister Novak nodded cautiously.

"I'll let someone do it."

Pushing away the chair and standing up, Lu Zhou glanced at Lermontov who had been staring at him, and tapped his index finger on the stack of more than two hundred pages of plasma turbulence data.

"You don't know how many copies of this stuff I've seen."

"Now that I've told you what the problem is, if you really want to get rid of it, then do what I said and figure out how to fix it."

"If you just want an accident identification report, I can certainly demonstrate my calculation process for you on the spot, but I'm not sure if your IQ can understand it."

"you!"

Lermontov stood up angrily, but under the pressure of the gaze of Mr. Massim standing at the door, he finally let go of his fist and sat back down.

According to Russian tradition, they should fight at this time.

But out of the consideration of life safety, he felt that he should restrain himself.

...

The lighting ceremony was put on hold.

According to Lu Zhou's proposal, the people from the Russian Ministry of Energy have already contacted the Russian Unified Electric Power Company and began to investigate possible hidden dangers in the power grid.

As for whether the problem lies with the grid...

Lu Zhou can responsibly say that the probability is as high as 95%.

However, it will take at least a week for him to do a serious accident analysis and use mathematical methods to prove his own experience and conjecture.

Instead of spending a week doing this nonsense, it's better to go straight to the grid and find out what the problem is.

After coming out of the nuclear power plant, Lu Zhou didn't go back to the hotel directly. Instead, he found a nearby Chinese restaurant and had a meal with Academician Wang.

At the dinner table, they happened to be chatting about what happened just now. Academician Wang suddenly sighed and said with some emotion in his tone.

"To be honest, this incident is very strange. With Lermontov's attitude, I doubt that this incident was directed and acted by Rosatom itself."

The chopsticks in his hand stopped, and Lu Zhou looked at Academician Wang strangely.

"What good does it do them?"

Although he didn't know much about business matters, he knew better anyway.

This kind of public utility project with huge investment often weighs down a lot of bank loans. Even if it is put into use one day later, it will result in hundreds of thousands or even millions of losses.

Hearing Lu Zhou's question, Wang Zengguang patiently explained.

"This is an order of tens of billions, not only with a loan, but also with an insurance policy. If there is a problem with the core, they can not only apply for compensation from the insurance company, but also put pressure on us to provide complete or partial fusion. Technology. After all, there is no third-party testing agency at all, whether it is a reactor core or a nuclear power plant, we have the final say on whether the standards are up to standard."

In short, the Nuclear Industry Group and East Asia Electric Power are like a retail giant that runs a chain supermarket, which is still a monopoly. Now that Neighbor Maozi plans to open a branch at home, how should the supermarket be decorated, the goods purchased, and even How the goods are placed on the shelves is decided by the Huaguo head office.

Because Huaguo's products are necessary for the country concerned, in the game at the national level, the country concerned has made certain concessions to many places that could not be compromised originally, so as to ensure that the products can enter the country.

But this concession is not without conditions.

The biggest premise related to nuclear facilities is naturally safety.

This is especially true for a country like Russia, which is extremely sensitive to nuclear accidents.

It would be best if nothing happened, hello, hello, everyone, let’s enjoy the dividends brought by clean energy and share the power of knowledge to change the world.

However, now the product has serious quality problems, and all hidden dangers have been exposed.

For example, the most terrible thing is that the core cannot be successfully started, and there is no organization in Russia that can inspect the quality of the product. Whether there is any problem with the core depends entirely on the East Asia Electric Power that sells the core.

It would be strange if Rosatom did not take this opportunity to blackmail them. Even in terms of means, they are considered "restraint".

Lu Zhou frowned and asked, "Could it be that the Russian authorities ordered them to do it?"

"It's unlikely, but even if they do, it is estimated that the Russian authorities will play it by ear, test our reaction first, and then decide whether to condone it. After all, Rosatom, an oligarch in the nuclear power field, still has a lot of problems in Russian politics. Little influence. And taking a step back, their energy department must also be oriented towards their own people."

Speaking of this, Academician Wang Zengguang also sighed, "I didn't expect the start to be bad. This is still a country with normal relations with us. If we are on the other side of the sea, I don't know what else is waiting for us."

If you compare Maozi to a hooligan/hooligan, then the guy on the other side of the sea is a hooligan/hooligan in a suit, and he is still educated, the kind who will arm himself with knowledge.

However, this can be regarded as a wake-up call to East Asia Power who has just gone abroad.

Even if it is a strategic ally, even if it is a project negotiated by the country, it is impossible to take it lightly. For the small countries in Southeast Asia, they are giants backed by superpowers, but for other big countries, they are giants but also a piece of fat that will go away, and everyone wants to bite.

Next time, they will also include the power grid system that needs to be connected to the inspection items for project acceptance.

Of course, this may involve national security issues and some secrets that are not convenient to disclose, and the country concerned may not be willing to cooperate.

But even so, it's better than what it is now.

After clinking glasses with Lu Zhou and finishing the glass of beer, Academician Wang said sincerely.

"Thanks to your help in solving the problem today."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You're welcome, anyway, I'm also a shareholder of East Asia Electric Power."

"You are a big dog, and you secretly show off your wealth there, you bought this wine!"

Smiling and cursing, looking at Lu Zhou with an innocent face, Academician Wang paused for a while, then changed to a serious tone and continued.

"I'll contact the domestic side later and ask what their opinions are on how to deal with it."

"Regardless of whether the final problem is caused by the external power grid, we must not transfer the detection technology to them. This place cannot be opened at all. Even if the controllable fusion technology is exported to the outside world, we must ensure that the technology is more than ten years ahead. "

Lu Zhou nodded and continued, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"No, we have troubled you too much," Academician Wang Zengguang said with a smile while looking at Lu Zhou, "For the rest of the time, you should still attend your International Mathematicians Conference with peace of mind, and come again if you can catch up with the ignition ceremony. It’s okay if we can’t catch up, anyway, it’s not because of us.”

"As for other things, leave it to us!"