Manhattan Reborn 1978

a new day.

early morning.

New York, 42nd Street, Manhattan, above the Wildfire Bar.

David, who was still sleeping soundly, vaguely felt as if someone was scratching the back of his hand with nails.

He slowly opened his eyes and in the morning light outside the window saw Cui Yingying sitting on the floor beside the bed, looking at him with a smile.

"Morning!"

"Is it time?"

"Ok!"

"All right.."

"Come, let me kiss you!"

"..."

"Hahaha~ Why are you blushing again?" David couldn't help but teasing when he saw two blushes on Cui Yingying's face again.

Cui Yingying sneered and raised her hand to brush David's messy hair, and said gently: "Elena has been here just now. She asked me to tell you that Polly and her family have arrived safely in Houston and met your parents and Susan and others..."

"Oh, great!" David picked up the bathrobe from the side and put it on, then pulled Cui Yingying up and held her in his arms, walked towards the bathroom and said.

"I just had a dream, do you want to hear it?"

"..."

"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you want to hear it!"

"Let me tell you, just now in my dream I discovered that there are several other postures suitable for our morning exercises..."

“No!” Cui Yingying’s face flushed red and her legs went weak with shyness.

David smiled and pulled her into the bathroom, closed the door, and ignored her "resistance" as he quickly took off all his clothes with his hands.

. . .

More than half an hour later.

Cui Yingying, with wet hair and a rosy face, followed David out of the bathroom in her pajamas.

In the restaurant.

Butler Aclaid stood at the door of the restaurant, looking at David as he approached, and greeted him, "Good morning, sir."

"Morning, Ackleid."

"Where's Chasida? Have you eaten yet?"

"Yes, we all had breakfast."

"Oh, and where's my newspaper? Here you go."

"It's ready." Butler Ackleid picked up a few newspapers from the small table next to him and placed them on the dining table.

Feeling refreshed, David sat down and quickly flipped through the front-page headlines of several newspapers.

"what!"

"This is..." When David saw the front-page headlines of two newspapers, both reporting the same news, he looked at Ackleyd in surprise and asked.

"Have you read this news?"

"Yes."

"Do we have any other newspapers?"

"Yes." Butler Aclad was prepared for David's reaction.

He turned around and took a newspaper from the cabinet next to him and placed it in front of David, saying, "This report in the Philadelphia Inquirer is more detailed than those two newspapers."

"Well, go on." David said, frowning and picking up the newspaper.

Butler Ackleyd's eyes fell on the newspaper, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, "The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, where a serious nuclear leak occurred last night, is located on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania."

"It is located southeast of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The straight-line distance from downtown Philadelphia is less than 100 kilometers, and the straight-line distance from downtown New York is about 200 kilometers."

"According to a report sent back by a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer who rushed to the scene, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant uses a steam turbine pressurized water reactor structure with a total of four cooling towers."

"At 2 a.m. today, the feedwater pump of the second cooling tower circuit of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant stopped operating due to a malfunction, resulting in the loss of main feedwater and the increase of pressure in the primary circuit, forcing the reactor to automatically shut down."

"After the main water supply pump failed and stopped operating, the emergency water supply pump started automatically. However, the staff accidentally closed all the valves on the emergency water supply pipeline during maintenance, resulting in the loss of all water supply."

"The pressure in the primary circuit continued to increase, and the pressure relief valve of the pressurizer opened, but after the pressure was relieved, it got stuck in the open position, causing the primary circuit to continue to relieve pressure."

"..." After butler Ackley finished speaking, David also finished reading the front-page report of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

He rubbed his brows vigorously, thought for a few seconds and then asked, "What about the TV station? Has any TV station ever conducted live coverage?"

"Have!"

Butler Aclaid walked quickly into the living room, turned on the TV and said, "Just now, the 6:30 morning news on CBS reported this news."

"It's 7:40 now. There should be more TV stations doing follow-up coverage of this news."

"What about the reaction?"

"Did the TV station report the reaction of residents near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant?"

"Not yet."

"Found it!" Butler Ackleid said to David with the remote control in his hand.

"This is a reporter from NBC, reporting live from outside the fence of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant on the Susquehanna River."

"Turn up the volume!" David walked quickly to Ackleyd's side, looking at the male reporter on TV and the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant behind him with a serious expression.

Butler Ackleid quickly adjusted the volume with the remote control, and the male reporter's voice immediately came from the TV.

"The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant behind me started construction in November 1969 and officially began commercial power generation in 11."

“它共有两座巴布科克·威尔科克斯设计的压水堆核反应炉1号机组和2号机组的总容量为1700MW，能够满足当地30万居民的用电需求，每小时可产生每平方英寸985磅压力的饱和蒸汽762万磅。。”

"The Unit 2 behind me has two 164-meter-high cooling towers. Every minute, 1700 tons of water will be pumped into the cooling towers, and 40 tons of water will turn into white steam."

"The reference power of Unit 2 is 880MW, and the thermal power of the unit is 2772MW. The steel casing of the steam turbine weighs 99.32 tons. Under the casing is a 32-ton inner casing that protects the rotor. Inside the casing is the core component of the steam turbine, a rotor weighing about 80 tons. When the turbine blades are running, the speed of the blade tip will reach twice the speed of sound."

"When the nuclear power plant was first designed, the designers covered the entire facility with 3-meter-thick concrete blocks to prevent radioactive leakage."

"According to the information we just received from the nuclear power plant staff, before the accident, Unit 97 was operating at 3% of the rated power. Three staff members were repairing the ion exchange system for purifying the feed water and were busy transporting the failed ion exchange resin in the No. 7 condensate purification tank to the resin regeneration tank."

"When they were flushing the resin agglomerated in the mixed bed with water and compressed air, water entered the pneumatic system through a check valve that was stuck open due to a malfunction."

"This problem caused all isolation valves on the purified water supply system to close, and the condensate flow was cut off, which immediately caused the condensate pump, condensate riser pump, and main feed water pump to trip."

"So at 2:43 this morning, after the steam generator lost feed water, the steam flow rate dropped rapidly, the nuclear power plant safety system was activated, and the steam turbine automatically tripped."

"After the main water supply pump tripped, the three auxiliary water supply pumps used during the accident started automatically, but the valves of two water supply pipelines were still closed."