When Lu Zhou returned to the hotel, Minister Nowak was standing in the computer room of the St. Petersburg branch of the Unified Power Company of Russia. He stared at the group of engineers working in front of the computer without saying a word.
Standing next to Minister Nowak was the manager of the St. Petersburg branch of the Unified Power Company. His name was Olig. The pale-skinned, middle-aged man had a thick beard and was a little chubby. His Armani suit made him look like a balloon that was full of air.
Since two hours ago, he had been nagging nonstop.
"Mr. Minister, I can swear to you that our power grid has always been in perfect condition, there is absolutely no problem! Since this morning, the engineers in our department have been waiting at their respective posts to prepare for the power of the Helios Polymer Substation. However, we have not detected any voltage changes from the Helios Polymer Substation energy connection — "
Minister Novak wasn't affected by this at all. He spoke with a straight face.
"I will personally confirm whether there is a problem or not."
"I am deeply sorry for your decision. This is a sign of distrust in our work."
"Shut up."
"Okay, Mr. Minister." Minister Nowak's face showed an impatient expression. Olig muttered in a low voice and quickly shut his mouth.
In fact, it wasn't just Rosatom Corporation and the Ministry of Energy who did not expect this to happen. Unified Power Company of Russia, which was responsible for operating the European power grid, also did not expect this to happen.
During the acceptance of the project, not only did East Asia Power sign on the responsibility letter, but the people from Unified Power Company also went to the site to inspect. After verifying that there were no safety problems, they approved the request for Helios project to be connected to the grid.
When Olig heard the news that the nuclear core of the Helios Polymer Substation could not start normally, his right eyelid kept twitching. Sure enough, in the afternoon, Minister Nowak brought people to his door.
But he didn't expect Minister Nowak to suspect that the problem was not with the nuclear power plant, but with the power grid system.
This was simply unimaginable!
Time passed by, and so far, there was still no problem. Just as Olig was wondering if he should remind Minister Nowak to stop, a technician sitting not far from him suddenly stopped typing on the keyboard. He stared at a string of characters on the screen and pushed his glasses.
"… Mr. Manager."
Oleg's thoughts were interrupted by the voice, so he immediately looked at him and asked subconsciously.
"What happened?"
The technician felt tremendous pressure from the pairs of eyes staring at him. He gulped and finally said, "There seems to be a small problem with our EMS system —"
As soon as he heard this, Olig instantly realized that he might have thought too simply. He quickly stopped the technician and pulled him out.
"Wait a minute, come with me first …"
Seeing that Olig was going to take the technician out of the room, Minister Nowak immediately stopped the two of them.
"Stop!"
Minister Nowak stared at the technician and spoke in a serious tone.
"What the hell is going on? I demand that you report your findings immediately and truthfully! If you conceal anything in the report, you will be held responsible for the concealment! "
As soon as the head of the department said that he had to bear the responsibility, the technician was terrified. He ignored the fat manager's frantic look and pretended not to see it.
"When we checked the EMS memory, we found several abnormal response records. When the system received the output request from Helios, it did not process the relevant request, but it gave feedback to approve the request …"
In layman's terms, it was equivalent to a message from upstream that there was a flood. The downstream dam received the message and also gave feedback that it was opening the sluice gate to release the flood, but in fact, the sluice gate was not opened. The report of opening the sluice gate was even recorded in the log.
Academician Vasily frowned and said, "Is this a system bug?"
"It doesn't look like a bug …" The engineer said in a difficult tone, "I found that several lines of code that were modified are not generated by a bug, but by human input."
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead as Oleg said anxiously.
"How is this possible? Did you see wrongly?! "
Thinking that he had probably offended the manager to death, the technician decided to give up on the treatment. He pretended that he did not hear the hint at all and said with certainty, "I'm 90% sure it's not! If you don't believe me, you can ask our director of security to take a look. I believe his deduction must be the same as mine. "
Not only did Olig have cold sweat on his forehead, but Minister Nowak, Academician Sivali, and a group of officials from the Ministry of Energy standing next to him were all soaked in cold sweat.
This was done by someone!
Someone locked the energy input port of the nuclear power plant from the EMS system!
If the nuclear core was successfully ignited, the huge amount of electricity generated by nuclear fusion would not only paralyze the entire transmission line, but it would also impact all of the connected transformer stations in the nearby area. It would also cause a series of chain damage from the ferrofluid electric energy generator to the nuclear core itself. It could even cause a serious overheating and meltdown of the nuclear core!
If it weren't for the fact that the Helios nuclear core actively triggered the protection mechanism and forcibly shut down the reactor …
Minister Nowak thought about the hundreds of millions of degrees of plasma that Lu Zhou described, as well as the fusion reaction that occurred in the nuclear core, and he felt like he was walking in front of Satan's door.
He trembled, jumped up like a polar bear that had its toes stepped on, and roared angrily.
"Find out! Who tampered with our power grid system?! And the people responsible for maintaining the power grid system … Motherf * cker, do they eat sh * t?! "
Olig looked at the furious Minister Nowak and spoke with a trembling voice.
"Mr. Minister, maybe it's just a system bug, we don't have to go through so much trouble —"
"Mr. Olig." Minister Nowak stared at the fat man standing next to him and said, "I advise you to cooperate with the investigation. This is the only way to clear your name."
Upon hearing this, Oleg's eyes widened in disbelief and he pointed at himself with his index finger.
"Are you suspecting me? God, how could I do such a thing! "
"I don't have the right to suspect anyone," Minister Novak said. He stared at the chaos in the computer room and said, "This is a well-planned sabotage, even murder! There is no doubt that there are traitors in our team. "
"This is no longer an energy issue, it's a national security issue."
Minister Novak looked at the pale Oleg, Academician Vassily, and the head of Rosatom, Lermontov, who was standing on the side without saying a word. Minister Novak spoke in a cold tone.
Minister Nowak spoke coldly, "I will truthfully report this matter to the FBI, and they will take over.
"I believe the truth will come to light soon."
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