Super Dimension Technology Era

Three days have passed since the July 29 accident.

The Seventh Fleet, which suffered such heavy losses, had no choice but to postpone the exercise in Ganghwa Bay on August 5.

Some of the auxiliary ships stayed in the accident sea area, and the remaining warships turned to the Sasebo base in Japan.

As the commander, Lieutenant General Willard did not go to Sasebo with the flagship Blue Ridge, but stayed in the accident area.

In the past few days, the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong.

It would be understandable if one ship had problems, but if two ships had problems at the same time, it was at this critical moment that he had to wonder if there was something fishy going on.

In fact, Willard is a little careful. If the investigation reveals that other reasons caused the accident, he can still blame it. Otherwise, he can only bear the responsibility for this accident.

So no matter what, he must stay. If he doesn't figure this out, Willard will die in peace.

A C-5 transport plane that flew over from California quickly landed at Naha Airport in the Okinawa Islands, and then four specially designed scientific research submarines were unloaded from the C-5 transport plane.

These specially-made scientific research submarines have a round shape and are specially prepared for deep-sea scientific research. They have an unladen weight of 2.16 tons and can carry 400 kilograms of items. The maximum diving depth is about 8,000 meters.

The person in charge of the US military in Naha quickly transported these specially-made scientific research submarines and a large amount of materials to the accident sea area via transport ships.

Following the transport ship were the Pentagon's special commissioners and five experts in related fields.

As soon as the transport ship arrived in the accident area, one of the auxiliary ships came close to it.

Two serious correspondents, a man and a woman.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, I am Simon Manhattan." The male commissioner smiled and shook Willard's hand.

The female correspondent on the side looked indifferent and just said: "I am Karina K. Eddie."

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, let's fish out the black boxes of the two ships first." Simon Manhattan said.

"OK." Willard was also impatient.

Not all of the four scientific research submarines were launched. After modifying the robotic arms, two of them were launched into the Pacific trench that afternoon.

This Pacific Trench is actually the Okinawa Trench. Fortunately, the location where they sank is in the northern section of the Okinawa Trench, where the average water depth is about 2,000 to 4,000 meters.

If it is the southern section of the Okinawa Trench, it may be even more troublesome, because the water depth there is about 4,000 to 6,000 meters.

As the depth of sea water increases, the difficulty of submarine work also increases exponentially.

Six scientific research submarine remote control personnel operated the submarine to dive quickly. This kind of small scientific research submarine can only use unmanned remote control.

There is also a designer from the USS Washington and a designer from the USS Los Angeles. They are also on the side, ready to provide technical guidance at any time.

Half an hour later, the scientific research submarine discovered the Washington on the seabed at a depth of about 3,470 meters. At this time, the Washington was lying on its side on the seabed, and the propeller had stopped working.

"Director Simon, the situation is not good. The reactor has burned through the protective layer, and the nuclear radiation concentration in the surrounding seawater is now very high." The operator reported with a grim look.

Simon Manhattan thought for a while, turned to the aircraft carrier designer Anthony and asked: "Dr. Anthony, we need your technical guidance."

"OK." The old Mediterranean man nodded.

He looked at the radiation dose levels, monitoring images, and sonar detection results, then took out a piece of scratch paper and wrote and drew for more than ten minutes.

"The Washington has three black boxes in total. They are located at the bow, island, and stern. The one at the stern does not need to be considered for the time being. The one on the island is currently the easiest to obtain. You guys..."

Under Anthony's guidance, the operator quickly maneuvered the small submarine close to the ship island.

As they approached the ship island, many debris, bones, and mutilated corpses appeared on the surveillance screen.

Coupled with the cold and dark environment, it is even more permeable. Many undersea creatures have begun to occupy the ship island. It is obviously the corpses inside that attract these undersea creatures.

Despite the guidance of designer Anthony, the position of the black box was designed to be very solid. In addition, the island had been hit by the propeller of the auxiliary ship before, which increased the difficulty of removing the black box.

They were busy for more than a week, and after a lot of effort, they successfully removed a black box from the USS Washington.

As for the black box of the Los Angeles, although they had determined the location of the sinking, it was a pity that the Los Angeles fell into a seabed crack.

The specific depth is about 4,590 meters. What is even more troublesome is that the head of the Los Angeles is directly inserted into the cracks in Haiti, and the tail is also leaking from the reactor.

After discussing with Lieutenant General Willard, Simon Manhattan decided to analyze the black box of the USS Washington while waiting for the black box of the USS Los Angeles to be taken out.

Since the USS Washington's black box contains very important information, overseas bases do not have the authority to access its contents.

Special Commissioner Karina K. Eddie personally escorted the black box back to the mainland.

The bitter Lieutenant General Willard can only continue to fish for the black box of the Los Angeles in the accident waters.

However, bad things have happened one after another these days. First, he was suspended, and then Lucia, China's humanitarian rescue fleet, and other younger brothers' rescue fleets came here to make soy sauce.

Especially after signs of nuclear leakage were detected, they continued to express their deepest condolences to the United States.

They had previously vowed that there would be no leakage, but now the radiation dose level in the surrounding sea has increased by more than ten times.

Lucia and Hua Guo, who were causing trouble, quickly publicized to the world through the Internet that the nuclear radiation concentration seriously exceeded the standard and that the Pacific circulation would bring radioactive materials to Japan, California, Hawaii, etc.

For a time, large-scale anti-nuclear protests took place in Japan and California, attracting worldwide attention.

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California.

In a heavily guarded base, a small transport plane quickly landed on the base's runway.

Karina K. Eddie came here with the black box, and the designer Anthony came with her.

They came to the interior of the base and handed the black box to the relevant personnel. After obtaining authorization, the black box data of the Washington was finally read.

Technical staff, including Anthony, and intelligence staff from Karina K. Eddie conducted a comprehensive analysis of the black box data.

"Strange..." Levi Ford, the engineer in charge of the reactor, frowned.

Karina K. Eddy asked: "Dr. Ford, is there a problem with the data?"

Levi Ford nodded: "The reactor suddenly stalled, but there was no fault data in the control system and detection system. It seemed that the neutron dose suddenly dropped to zero."

"Doctor, under what circumstances will neutron radiation return to zero?" Karina K. Eddie asked quickly.

However, Levi's Ford simply shook his head: "NO, the neutron radiation in the reactor will never return to zero. It can only prevent the large-scale chain reaction of nuclear fuel through graphite barrier rods."

"Is there any way to prevent nuclear fuel from producing neutrons?" Karina K. Eddie asked unwillingly.

Levis Ford shrugged dumbfounded: "Ms. Eddie, it is impossible to prevent radioactive materials from releasing neutrons. Maybe God can do it."

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