Previous chapters of this book:
06: Slave market
07: Murka
08: Norga
Leonid Bogdyhanova, President of Tartaria, was quite occupied. He got wide "inheritance" of unresolved problems from his predecessor; and he did not want to do the same for his successor. The problem is that almost no new law can be passed through the Federal Referendum: Few percent of population in any of farms could stop almost any Law project, and they, actually, did. That provided with Tartaria some kind of stability in the «retro» style. In less polite terms, some stagnation. In the public opinion, the President is guilty for this. But the power of President in Tartaria is very limited.
Formally all the problems accumulated in Tartaria are not personal troubles of the President. Following the Constitution of Tartaria, the political, economic, executive powers at Tartaria are well separated. The main duties of President are to prevent the battles between Pahans at the Federal Junta, to represent Tartaria at the international meetings and to cancel all the projects that contradict the Laws of Tartaria - to be personally guilty if some project that contradicts the Constitution is set at the Referendum.
In some sense, the scandal with the weapon-grade Plutonium-239 at the Norga Warm was not a busyness of the President. On the other hand, Leonid Bogdyhanova knew that every international scandal triggers numerous quarrels within the junta, which are difficult to handle even with the help of the federal secretary. It's best to extinguish any scandal at very beginning.
These were the thoughts that came to Leonid Bogdyhanova's mind as he got thousands of messages with «deep concerns» and «serious worries» about the achievements of the Norga Warm in extraction of Pu-239. It is better to handle the case before the Federal Junta begin to deal with it.
Leonid discussed the case with the actual Federal Secretary Triba Shtamm. The conversation was short.
- Dear Triba pro. I see, you know about Norga Warms..
- Yes, Leonid pro.
- Could you arrange this?
The diplomatic concerns are not duty of the Federal Secretary, but after few seconds, she replied:
- Yes, Leonid Pro!
- How much?
- It depends.
- Say, 10 the most laud critics.. And journalists, of course; for their accounts..
- What will be source of foundation of the meeting?
- Try to charge the interested persons. Those who loudly complain, let them pay.
- Ok, I'll try. How do you want to call all this?
- I think «First Tartarian Nuclear Congress». Or «Tartarian Isotopes Conference».
- «First Tartarian Nuclear Congress» sounds more serious. Especially if we charge the participants for this.
The same day, the tender for holding the Congress had been announced. The two places had been discussed: The Cathedral of Kristovina, as the historic building of Capital of Tartaria, and the Norga Hall Hotel, located near the "Norga Warm" factory. Due to the transport expenses, the Norga Hall won, as it was closer to the main point of interest. But formally, the requirement of "competitions of applications" had been satisfied.
Then, the numerous worry-letters were answered with invitation to the "First Tartaria Nuclear Congress". The registration fee was, softly speaking, significant, but, due to the high rank of the interested persons, that was not a big deal; several officials agreed to participate; other promised to watch the direct video translation.
Mozdok Tsuker did not like this idea at all, but he was hanged with the Federal Grant, and he wanted to have the President and the Fedsek at his side;
so, he Mozdok had to provide the speakers.
After few days, the pamphlet of the Congress was ready. It specified the following:
Chair: Triba Shtamm, Fedsek of Tartaria, organizer of the "First Tartarian Nuclear Congress".
Invited speakers:
Mozdok Tsuker, head of Norga Warm
Pesia Zivertov, engineer-chemist of Norga Warm
Femistoklus Zalupaev, engineer-constructor of Norga Warm
Ruvim Pechor, top scientist of Norga Warm
Tolian Horoshilina, pahan (Coordinator) of Norga
Opponents:
Fritz Zeidel, president of INA (International Nuclear Association
Conchita Putanova, secretary of INA
Jiang Yuan, Ambassador of China in Tartaria
Sarah Monaliza, Consul of the USA in Tartaria
Sinzo Kurokawa, Minister of foreign affair of Japan
Pepito Verdaduro, president of the International Green Peace association
Cristofer Santiago, Emissary of the International Christian Society.
Mark Arturov, ex-head of the International Military forces.
Observers:
Prudon Leavings, correspondent of BBC
John Grant, correspondent of Voice of America
Tania Kazanova, correspondent of Lajournada
Jean Lustucru, correspondent of Lemonde
Fransoi Korenko, correspondent of Colonist de Chukotka
Burbon Gabsburg, correspondent of Kamchatka News
Kanawa Hashimoto, correspondent of Karafuto Shinbun
Li Dong Hui, correspondent of Baikal Jibao
Vahtang Basilashvili, correspondent of Sakartvelo Analytic
Timur Tohtamysh, correspondent of Asian Communications
Nadia Kokkonen, correspondent of Suoyarvi Sanomat
Zarina Putoff, correspondent of Clever Times
The Congress was important for the image of the Norga Hall Hotel. For the event, it was cleaned and decorated.
Murka-Bank and the Norga National College lended several girls as escort to please the participants with the «All included» service after the session. Artist Nastia Horoshilina was hired to instruct the escorts; they were required to «behave decently», adhering to «international standards», at least while in view of cameras of the foreign journalists.
Triba Shtamm walked onto the stage, swaying her hips, and with a wide, even slightly mocking smile, addressed the assembly:
Dear guests. I am Triba Shtamm. I handle the today's First Tartarian Nuclear Congress. I am very glad to see you here.
I am glad that the achievements of the Tartarian science and technology are recognized by the international community.
My colleagues (Triba gestured toward Nastia Horoshilina and her female commandos standing by the door) and I will try to fulfill all your wishes, doing everything possible for you. And, perhaps, even a little bit more. All your wishes that we succeed to guess in your eyes.
I am not wizard from the Land of Oz. So the fulfillments of your wishes will be real. I am sure to be pleased to serve you in all possible ways. The same applies to my colleagues.
The only, I cannot do all at once. We shall fulfill your wishes one by one. We will try to fulfill your requests as they arrive.
I guess, the first your wish is to know the achievements of our Norga Warm. And you want to stop be afraid of their results. So, I begin with these.
I am glad to present our first speaker, Mozdok Tsuker, owner and director of the Norga Warm. Perhaps, he is not so widely known among scientists, but he makes his best effort to make our country clean; he and his team have certain achievements this year. I hope, the same technology can be used in other countries too..
So, please, Mozdok pro!
The clownade by Triba drew laughter and applause, which was not quite in keeping with the seriousness of the event. This performance set the tone for the playful spirit of the entire symposium. Triba was dressed in a strict business suit, but many of the guests already imagined what does she look like underneath it.
Thank you, miss Shtamm, for the complementary advertisement.
Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you very much for your visit. I believe, we do very important things, and I hope, you willl appreciate it. The cretics is also welcomed.
We clean the territory of Tartaria. Also we provide the heating. the idea is to combine these two activity.
Until recently, we had separate the waste for non-radioactive, and dangerous, radioactive. The non-radioactive burnable materials may be used as a fuel in conventional stoves, in conventional chimney, in steam locomotive. Even for constriction of homes, buildings, schools. The radioactive staff was compressed for nursing deeply under the ground. Preferably in a hermetic containers.
But now we combine these two kinds of activity. We convert the dangerous substances to goods, to heaters. The isotopes we extract from the waste may have also other applications, not only heaters. Shortly, we convert bad things to good things. And you can do the same. Do like we do. Do it with us. Do it better than we do.
Here is our team. Here is very beautiful and skillful woman in our team, Pesia Zivertov. She is top chemist of Norga Warm. Most of equipment related to your interest is mounted under supervision of Pesia pro.
Here is Femistoklus Zalupaev, top engineer of Norga Warm. Zalupaev used to build-up the most of building of our laboratory.
Here is Ruvim Pechor, top scientist of Norga Warm. He is author of the most important idea of use of the tandem decay of the plutonium isotope. His ideas are already realized in the test sample, that satisfies the requirements of the Federal Request.
Now I turn to the main result.
Our first heating tube provides one kilowatt termal power in the temperature range since 300 Kelvin to 1000 Kelvin.
It is sufficient to feed a small thermoelectric generator of even a model of a steam machine.
The heat is clean, no one isotope escapes from the heater, no ionizing radiation.
According to the simulations, during a century, this power will remain the same, with relative variation of order of 5%. It is not adjustable; but it does not rewire any maintenance. In such a way, we convert the nuclear waste into useful product, that can be sold both, at the national, federal and global market. I hope you'll be interested.
We have collected the right team in the right place. Sure, my co-workers will explain our achievements better that I do.
Professor Femistoklus Zalupaev will tell you, how do we make these devices. Thank you for your attention!
Thank you, miss Shtamm, for the opportunity to present here our results.
Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you very much for your visit. I believe, we do very important things, and I hope, you will appreciate our results.
I confess, I am not specialist in the nuclear energy. I am just constructor. All we had made errors, and I am not an exception. But now we are correcing our biggest errors. I think, that is why our activity attracts your attention.
The grounds, soils at the most of Tartaria are not so easy for the serious constructions.
We are constructing very important facilities. They are designed to enable our country to clean itself without human intervention or outside assistance. Forests and meadows provide timber, silage, and fuel. That is, heat and electricity. That means that we can grow the food in greenhouses. This mean the self-consistent civilization.
But the heat and electricity are almost useless while you have no save home, no safe building for the industry. There are two opposite approaches here.
The first approach is to build a cold basement, that stays in harmony with the frozen ground. This approach happened to be not so good for our goals, as the treatment of the waste consumes a lot of heat. Anyway, the whole area is unavoidably converted to a swamp.
We use the opposite approach. Our construction is designed to float on this swamp. All our constructions, even roads, float on the swamp. The design should to allow this. Also, we need to apply some effort to keep the surface close to horizontal.
The idea is not mine, this principle had been invented by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Amassing coincidence: the Norway idea is implementer at Norga. However, Nansen did not a building, but a boat for the icy ocean. But the idea is the same: some construction is pressed by the ice from sides, and this pressure push the construction up. We worked with the drawing by Nansen. Please look at the slide. We used it «as is». I did not change even the notations.
The dashed horizontal line shows some intermediate level of the ground. We dug a hole in the permafrost in the shape shown in the drawing and made formwork from rotten boards, plywood, and plastic. Then we welded rebar in place of the walls. Then we filled it with concrete. The result was a sturdy frame. The concrete we used was dirty, contaminated with cesium and strontium. It's cheaper. The resulting dirt between the permafrost and the concrete serves as lubricant; it does not allow the horizontal forces; the pressure from the ice push the building up. The internal structure is assembled from the commercial beams and joists; robots connected them following the standard routine; we did not need even to program them. These are cisterns used for the balance. We loaded them with the radioactive water. With isotopes of Americium, Caesium and salts of Uranium and Plutonium; such a water we got for free.
You see, the basement of the building is made of the nuclear waste. These letters "kj" denote the main heater. Indeed, it does of order of one klioJoule per second, at least at the beginning.. It does not save from the cold, but it helps a little bit.. There may be several in the same building...
No, no, is not our resulting century heater; we do not need it to be so stable. We just put there the cistern and filled it with the most heavy and most contaminated waste, until its power reaches one kilowatt. It is our standard; it is assumed, that one kilowatt of the decay heat does not melt the construction even without the special system of cooling. In such a way, the construction is very stable; the center of mass is low, near the bottom. This is strongest part of the basement.
Then the technical floor for the tubes, pipes, communication lines, etc. It is slightly above the ground level, so even through the pores of the concrete, the technical floor is not flooded by melt water.
Then we have the thick stone floor that prevents the contamination from the technical floor to enter the building, and construct the rest of the building by the standard project, as if the basement would be a normal European ground of a mountain rock. If the basement happen to be inclined due to inhomogeneteis of the ground, we compensate it redistributing the technical water in the bottom tanks. Above such a basement, I mount any the equipment, requested by Pesia Zivertov and Ruvim Pechor. We worked as team; this is key to our success..
We begin the construction with the temporal roof. In such a way we may perform the construction even at winter. Even better at winter; the permafrost is strong and solid, it is dry and can be used as formwork, with any soft woody or plastic trash as a thermal insulator and a lubricant; we keep temperature of order of zero Celsius with working on it.
I could talk many hours about this, but perhaps, it is already time for the next talk..
- Yes, it is so, - The moderator confirmed. She took-out her shoes and announced the next speaker:
- Pesia Zivertov, please! - and pointed at Pesia with big toe, rising it at the level of her head.
Such a jest caused an applause; the public awaked after the monotonous explanations by Zalupaev.
Pesia walked onto the stage, imitating the moderator's gait; perhaps even overmimicking her, and earned applause before to open her mouth. Ruvim admired the Pesia's grace and blew Pesia a kiss; Pesia looked into Ruvim's eye and nodded. The visitors looked at them and had no doubt: Mozdok had truly put together a well-coordinated team.
Pesia waited a few more seconds until the noise in the hall died down and began in the tone of a young teacher telling her next lesson to high school students:
- I am top chemist of Norga Warm. We deal with dirt, waste, garbage. But the pure garbage does not exist. «Garbage», «waste» means, that various component are mixed, and this mixing makes difficult to reuse the components.
We cannot destroy the nuclear waste, but we separate it, we sort it. Then it becomes useful and requested good. We use the Federal Grant to elaborate tools for the separation.
The main problem is, that the concentration of the unstable isotopes in the soil, in the ground waters, in the most of the waste is too low for the commercial use of the isotopes, but it is too high for the environment of the human being. Roughly, all my job is to handle this problem. We take all precautions, especially in the final stages of separation.
Our colleague Yuma Hahalev is not here, but I should begin with the acknowledgement of her important contribution. Yuma does the dosimetry and keeps all of us alive and safe..
The separation of waste is not easy, but is is not hopeless. The contamination shows strong clusterization. Isotopes are located in spots. Those spots are also not uniform. Some stones are highly radioactive, but some others are not. Some pieces of dust are radioactive, but some of them are not. They have different chemical content and, that is more important, different density. In general, highly radioactive elements are much heavier. It is just mechanical separation..
Here is the map of our laboratory. Here is the reception. The primary selection. Clay and sand goes to the first stream. Stones and rock to the second stream. Wreckages of the nuclear plants to the third one. Contaminated mechanisms to the fourth. That we cannot identify, go to the fifth. This is first stage of separation.
The second stage is also mechanical. We crack the big pieces to parts and measure the spectra of ionizing radiation of each part.
The most of pieces are just clean. We drop them directly to the output bunker. The same cars drive them out; they are not our case.
We sort contaminated particles by size and by the density. One robot can sort hundreds priced per a minute. We have thousands of them. The highly radioactive pieces are also detected here.
Then, we have tens of channels of sorting. Very small particles, sand and dust are sorted with water. The heavy particles are fist to precipitate in sedimentation tanks. Then we use the standard treatments with alkali and acids, to separate the chemical elements. The cheapest acids and the cheapest alkalis.
We recycle the chemical compounds. The entire western part of our territory is covered with the recycling machines. This is the most expensive part of the process; it consumes the most of coal and firewood we spend.. We do not have high technology; so, we use mainly the thermal separation.. This is school-grade chemistry. We approach the optimal conditions empirically.. We use the commercial chemical analyzers..
Only now we approach the isotopic analysis. The most interesting contaminants are isotopes of Uranium, Thorium, Plutonium, Caesium, Strontium, Americium.. Perhaps, I should say most dangerous..
No, usually, we do not work with metals. We use acids or fluorines..
These are, I repeat, the standard procedures, we took the specifications from the textbooks on chemistry..
Yes, thank you for this question, namely the isotopes happened to be the most interesting part..
No, we have no centrifugal separation. Centrifuges are expensive and consume too much electricity.
The prototypes were the apparatus to produce home-made taburetovka.. I am not sure in the term.. Самогонный аппарат.. Samorat..
Yes, the strong alcoholic beverage from the fermentation process.. The idea is the same, but the chemicals are different;
the range of temperatures and pressures is also different.
The melting temperature and the boiling temperature slightly depend on the isotopic content..
In general, the lighter isotopes melt first. The lighter isotopes vaporize first. Even in compounds..
The difference is of order of a percent; so, thousands of separation tubes are mounted..
We had assembled the first cascade manually. After the optimization, the robots make so many copies as we need..
Yes, good question. Mainly, we use zirconium tubes and the stainless still tubes; at the final stage, also wolfram for high temperatures; platinum while we deal with chemically-active mixtures..
also, some glasses and gold, where the high temperature is not essential..
Thank you for your question, No!.. That was not our choice. We work with that had been assigned from the Federal Storage..
I suspect, we got this as inheritance left since the Bigpuf. I mean, our Master just rents it.
I suspect the price of these materials greatly exceeds the budget of Norga Warm. Ask the Federal Database, I expect it to confirm this..
This is kind of politic. I think, Tolian Horoshilina will explain this better. His ancestors had been involved in the plundering of that storage..
Yes, thank you for the comment. Perhaps you mean the metallic Pu-239..
It was an error, mistake, misunderstanding. We don't need metallic plutonium. It's too aggressive..
I mean, chemically corrosive. We work mainly with with salts. To separate isotopes we use hexafluorides. Sometimes, oxydes. It depends on the element..
Yes, this is important question. You ask about the application..
I don't want to take bread from our beloved Ruvim Pechor. He'll tell you about that better..
Perhaps, I should stop here. Thank you for your attention..
At this moment, chairlady Triba Shtamm hanged her jacket on her chair, tenderly embrased Pesia, kissed her and loudly announced:
- Thanks to Pesia pro!.. Next speaker is Ruvim Pechor! Top scientist of Norga Warm!
Dear colleagues.. thank you for the opportunity to present our results.. I joined this project recently, and I talk only about the application.. I am not nuclear specialist, I am biologist, but my skills happened to be useful here, so, our boss asked me to present my position..
It is already mentioned here, we need to do something with unstable isotopes. We do not want to purify them well; for the application in the heating elements, it is not required. We use the decay heat, not the chain reaction. So, the heating elements are simple and do not require any maintenance.. How to explain.. Since the Bigpuf, the general level of education in this Tartaria is.. softly speaking.. a little bit law.. Some Tartarian do not speak well even English.. So, our devices will be handled by non-educated farmers.. As the result, all the science around our activity is very primitive; it refers to the level of two centuries ago..
Perhaps, it was bureaucratic error, or just fraud, or some love to the round numbers. But the initial specification implied, that the heating element works during a century and gives kilowatt power with loss no more than 10 percent of its initial power during that century. That did not seem to be doable: the isotopes with lifetime of order of kiloyear are recuired for this, and their heat production is low.
In addition, we cannot choose the lifetime arbitrary; we have to deal with existing isotopes. Even worse, we have to deal with isotopes existing in the waste delivered here from all the Tartaria..
Fortunately, the combination of Pu-241 and Am-241 happen to solve the problem. Here is estimate of the decay hear per kg of Pu-241. It is not monotonous, due to production of Am-241. The most of heat is generated by Am-241. We begin at time, say, 40 years, adding the corresponding about of Am-241. Then, during a century, the heating element produces almost a hundred watt per kilogram of the fuel. Device with, say, 10 kg of such a fuel satisfies the specification requested..
I repeat, the fuel has no need to be in metallic form. It can be oxide. And even better, if it is an oxide, or even a salt; it does not interact with walls of the container. It has no need to be pure; so, the size of the heating element can be made big in order to simplify the application.. I mean, the heat drain.. For example, warming of the greenhouse to grow the vegetables for food or for fodder..
Please, express your doubts, I try to answer your questions.
– I am Zarina Putoff, correspondent of the Clever Times. You told, that your occupation is biology.. Why did you move to the nuclear physics?
- Well, it was not my choice.. I had to save the project.. Heating element with one century lifetime.. To warm the greenhouses.. As I told..
– I am Fritz Zeidel, International Nuclear Association, Do you think your devices may have also other applications?
– I do not know.. Perhaps, it could move some vehicle, but I doubt if it can compete with conventional electric schemes.. May be, some nuclear plant, but, again, I think, the conventional scheme with the chain reaction is more efficient.
- Jiang Yuan, China. Can your samorat be used to make the weapon grade uranium or plutonium?
– Perhaps, yes. Let Pesia Zivertov correct me, if I am wrong. But what for?? We do not need it for the heating elements! Nor for cleaning the territory.
At this moment, the moderator, chair lady Triba Shtamm interrupted:
- Thank you, professor Pechor, for the interesting presentation.. I suggest, that we listen the last speaker from Norga, Tolian Horoshilina. Horoshilina is coordinator, pahan of Norga, and he helped the Norga Warm to get the Federal grant for the decontamination research. I respect him as very honest man, and his words should be very important.
I would like to thank all the colleagues for the interest about the research performed at our farm. I did not prepare any special speech for this meeting. The report by Norga Warm is copylefted. I skimmed through this report and I like it. I strongly recommend it. It answers many questions raised here. Any interested person can load it. I have only for notes. First, I would like to comment on question by Jiang Yuan.
As member of the Federal Junta of Pahans, I declare, that our development remains peaceful, and we do not need any weapon grade fission material. The preventive war is prohibited by our Constitution. So, there is nothing to worry about.
Second. The nuclear weapon it is out of date; it is weapon of the past centuries. It is extremely not efficient compared, for example, with the morabots. I mean, flying, soaring, swimming, running, climbing drones.
I confirm, that the first part of the Federal Grant is completed by the Norga Warm. I expect, it will be approved by the Federal Junta at the next Session. Then, the second tranche of the Grant will be assigned. However, we'll try to use your suggestions if any.
- Sinzo Kurokawa, Japan. I understand that plans of the Tartaria government are peaceful. But the question is about proliferation. May it happen, that some terroristic organization use your technologies to make the nuclear weapon and try to misuse it?
– Thank you, mister Kurokawa, good question. My answer is "no". It cannot happen. First, no any country except Tartaria has so wide areas contaminated with unstable isotopes at so high concentration. So, no terroristic organization, not controlled by government, can get sufficient amount of primary material to treat it in our way. All the activity at our country is pubic, it is documented and available in the free assess.
- Sorry, mister Horoshilina, - Zarina Putoff interrupted, - but the direct acceess to the streams from your webcameas and the video records at your libraries is restricted.. Is not it so?
- This is your restriction and your problem. - Horoshilina replied. Raise this issue in your Congress and stop your censorship. You will be able to see everything we do in real time.. May I continue?.. Thank you.
When new farms wanted to join Tartaria, we did not care, how clean is their territory. We carried only one question: do they follow the Constitution or not. This is how the most contaminated regions are in Tartaria. Under our control.
It is already mentioned, the technology at the Norga Warm is not economically efficient.
For terrorists, it is cheaper, to buy the ready-to-use materials at some North Korea, Papua New Guinea, or any other barbarian nuclear country.
– Prudon Leavings, BBC. Dear Mister Horoshilina. Madame Pesia Zivertov had mentioned, that in your industry, you use the expensive materials, Platinum, Wolfram, Zirconium, Gold, to build-up tubes of your samorats. For our readers, it may be of interest to know the sources of those materials.. Could you explain this?
– I am glad to explain. Since a century ago, even before the Bigpuf, a lot of treasure had been stolen by bolsheviks, and then, even more by the agents of KGB and their relatives. First, they tried to hide their blood money in the civilized countries. Including the UK, by the way. Then, your people and then – your government understand, that those of-shores are used to support the international terrorism. The biggest terroristic acts in London, Salisbury, Liverpool, Cambridge, Manchester had been financed from those of-shores. Some of-shores had been confiscated. Some other had been converted into cash. Tons of dollars, Euros, yens, pounds had been hidden in the bunkers of the top Russian administration. Tons of pounds, sorry for the pun. However, the rumour about the global nuclear war had been spread by their propaganda. The cash treasures were supposed to become trash. So, the officials begun to buy the noble metals in enormous, absurd amounts. If you remember the history of the past century, you know the strange raise-up of prices of those metals.. There were a lot of speculations about their secret use, that time.
However, there was no secret use. Those metals were just stored in ingots in the secret rooms of the underground bunkers of the Russian administration. They prepared the world wide nuclear war, as if, after such a war, they would be able to buy anything for those metals..
- How did you find those treasures? – Prudon asked.
– Oh, that was not difficult. They are in deep shelters. The shelters produce and drain the dark water. And warm air with high concentration of carbon dioxide. And the carbon monoxide too. These had been detected by the sensors of contamination. Especially at winter time..
The advanced shelters have their own nuclear reactors as energy supply; they recycle air and water and even food in the hidden gardens with artificial light.. But they still have to drain heat. The Second Law of thermodynamics is difficult to bypass. They get cold water from some lake or river and drop there the warm water. It is not so difficult to detect. We just prepared the simple connection, short cut of input-output for this water. After a week, that water boiled, and they had to shut-down their reactors. Without energy, they could not recycle the air, nor water. They opened the doors and surrendered. The Federal Police and then the Federal Court had interrogated them. Following the Law, we plundered all their treasures, as they did not register it, nor payed taxes for it. I think we found good application for it, did we?
– Pepito Verdaduro, International Green Peace, seem to have question, – moderator announced
– Mister Horoshilina, one of your colleagues mention, that you use wood to warm your samorats.. Instead of electric power.. Can the smoke be considered as contaminant?
– Thank you, mister Pepito, for your interest. The most of Tartaria is covered with forests. Some of these forests are contaminated. Caesium, Strontium, Samarium, plutonium. What would you suggest to do with them?
– Use as natural reserve, resorts..
– Well. Sun provides of order of one kilowatt per square meter. In the north area less, but still the same order of magnitude. Few percent of this power is used by trees to extract carbon from the atmosphere; it is stored in wood. How long, from your point of view, this process may last?
– Many years, I think..
– Correct! And then?
– Some fermentation..
– Correct. In wet area, yes, fermentation. How about dry area?
– Someone should cut it..
– And then? How can the carbon return into the atmosphere?..
– ..
– Who can answer? – pahan Tolian asked. – Well, then I answer. The natural forest burns, roughly, once per century. Somewhere, once per 40 years. Somewhere, once per 200 years. The old wood dries; the forrest accumulate the dry wood until some stupid Thunder-lightning, or even more stupid smoker brings a spark; then it burns out. With heavy smoke. In our case, with radioactive smoke. What should we do?.. Who can answer?.. Who knows?.. Nobody?..
– But still..
– Still what?
– If you make wide cut of trees, some species of trees may be lost..
– You have botanic gardens; keep there all the species you need. When we finish to clean Tartaria, you may bring the seeds and recover all the variety of trees you like!
– John Grant, Voice of America, has question, – Moderator announced.
– Mister Horoshilina, do you think, the USA nuclear waste storages can be treated in a similar way?
– Yes, sure. Laws of physics are the same in all continents. Bring us your waste and we'll treat it. Let your administration arise this question and I'll will bring it to our Junta. Or buy some of our samorats. As soon as we finish to clean Tartaria, we can clean the USA too. But in your case, the problem is not so grave, is it?
- Sinzo Kurokawa, administration of Japan, – Moderator announced.
– Can your technology be used to clean the Fukushima and Sendai prefectures? How much will it cost, to clean some thousand of square kilometers?
– As I understand, the most of those area is already cleaned, is it so?
– Yes, but we have a lot of buried waste. This in mainly ground with some dust of Caesium, Plutonium and Uranium.
– Caesium-137 is supposed to be over. Long time ago!.. Well, anyway, you do not need any samorat to separate the dust from the sand. It can be done mechanically. The Japanese technology is more advanced than that of Tartaria. I doubt it we can teach you how to do it better..
– And also the stored nuclear waste.
– Well, you may buy one samorat; the documentation is free.. I think, you can do it better than we do.. Negotiate with Mozdok Tsuker, it is his competence, not mine. Collaboration with foreign organizations is not subject for taxation.
– Tania Kazanova, Lajournada, your question, – Moderator announced.
– Can your experience, I mean, open access to all documents, be used to fight against corruption in the administration of nuclear regulation? – Tania asked.
– Our experience is Bigpuf.. – Tolian said. – I would not recommend it to any nation. Try to found more civilized way to fight your corruption. Perhaps, you may copy some parts of our constitution to your laws. It is free!
– Jean Lustucru, Lemonde, your question! - Moderator announced.
– How long will it take, to make the commercial version of samorat?
– Mozdok pro, this is for you! – Tolian said.
– Professor Ruvim, could you answer, please? – Mozdok said.
– I do not know, – Ruvim told. – Perhaps, several years. I would not hurry up. You have nuclear plants during two centuries. Our samorats are very primitive. Better, wait until your engineers or our Japanese colleagues do something better. That you see, it is only experimental sample. It is designed and assembled to satisfy the technical requirements: One kilowatt, hundred year, no more than ten percent variation. It does. Well, we could not test it during a hundred years, but all the calculus show that it will keep the power within the ten percent corridor specified.. It is already told here, economically, our samorats and the century-heaters are not consistent. Not efficient. Yet, it is science, not business. Consider to make donation to our research, and you'll be first to know about new results and achievements.
- Fransoi Korenko, Colonist de Chukotka - Moderator announced.
– Perdone, I would like to ask.. I think, Your heating devices could be useful for Chukotka.. And other parts of Canada; and, perhaps, USA; I mean Alaska. When do you plan to begin the commercial production?
– Not yet, – Ruvim told. – while, it is cheaper to instal a conventional nuclear plant. Buy the degraded plutonium extracted from the recycled nuclear weapon, your neighbors have a lot of, and assemble a standard megawatt micro-reactor. It is cheaper and more efficient, than to collect tons of Americium-241 and Plutonium-241. You'll be able to reduce or increase the power. With our century-heaters, you cannot. Our main goal is decontamination; the heating devices appear as a by-product.
– Burbon Gabsburg, Kamchatka News - Moderator announced.
– May it happen that the amount of heating devices you make exceeds the Tartarian market? – Burbon asked. - Then, perhaps, you could drop some of them in the direction of Kamshatka..
– Sorry, I have to repeat, – Ruvim told, – Yet, we made one heating device working. The second sample is assembled, the fuel is ready, but we did not yet load it. Perhaps, you may see with your eyes the final stage of the preparation, I mean, the loading of the fuel and the sealing. Now the fuel is kept in many separated reservoirs, because of the heating.. Hundreds specialists and prisoners used to work for it during a year! Don't you feel, that it is still very far from saturation of the market?.. The goal of this congress is not advertisement of our device, nor that of our technology. We want to show that it is safe. We whow, that it is not a weapon. We are here to answer worries of several representatives of civilized countries. I repeat: We look for the way to clean the territory. We look for the way to justify the grants we get. Yet, it is not a commercial device!.. Let Mozdok pro correct me if I am wrong. The first device is done to justify the grant and to stimulate the future foundation. It is only demonstration. It is not weapon. It is not a commercial product. It is scientific concept. Better check our estimates and confirm that it satisfies the criteria formulated. I cannot wait during a century to confirm, that it can work so long as I have declared. This is only my estimate. I invite the colleagues to check it.. I address to you, dear journalists! Convince your scientists and technologies to check our estimates. We really need this, rather than advertisement of our device, can you understand?
– Ruvim, calm down! These questions were for Coordinator! - Pesia whispered.
– Рувим, Заткнись! - Мozdok told almost simultaneously with Pesia.
Ruvim stopped talking and took his seat.
- Well, I think the position of developers at the Norga Warm is explained well, – Moderator said. - Perhaps, it is time to listen the objections. Fritz Zeidel, president of INA, id est, the International Nuclear Association, will express his concerns about the Tartarian nuclear project.
- Ladies and gentlemen! Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to express my worries here..
During almost two centuries, our association and its ancestors work to limit the spreading or the nuclear weapon.
During long time, since the Bigpuf, we did not worry about Tartaria, as all the nuclear weapon located at its territory had been either used, or destroyed. Unfortunately, this caused many victims among the militaries and civil population at territory of Tartaria. Now we observe some kind of renaissance, some recreation of civilization, culture and technology in Tartaria.
All civilised people are glad to see this renaissance..
Zeidel made a "theatral pause", and Pesia used it; she whispered to Ruvim:
– Ну прямо масло на мёд мажет, дипломат грёбанный! A ты слушай и учись, правдоруб хренов.. Сейчас этот фриц какую-нибудь гадость скажет..
Pesia guessed well. Fritz Zeidel continued:
- However, there are certain concerns about the development of Tartaria. I mean, the progress in use of the atomic energy. As I understand, the nuclear chain reaction is already realized in the Norga laboratories, and the equipment already allows to get the weapon-grade uranium and plutonium in amount of several critical mass.
I have no doubt in honesty of the Tartarian administration. I believe, they are best representative of the Tartarian people. On the other side, the historical inclination of Tartarin people to violence, propaganda and aggression causes my deep worries.. I think, we should make all efforts necessary, to help the Tartarian people to keep the nuclear energy for creative, not destructive activity..
The talk by Fritz was long and boring. Fritz finished offering Tartaria an opportunity to join the International Nuclear Association.
The objections by other speakers were not more interesting than the talk by Fritz Zeidel. Perhaps, more boring as they used to repeat the same with different words. Triba Stamm stopped their striptease and put back on all the clothes she had gradually removed during the presentations of first speakers. The participants were yawning.
The only Mark Arturov told, that regulation about nuclear energy is not specified in the Constitution of Tartaria, and there is no way to keep the "samorat" in secret.
Some correspondents asked Triba Shtamm, wether administration of Tartiaria plan to follow recommendation of Fritz Zeidel or not. Triba Shtamm replied:
– Sorry. According to the Constitution of Tartaria, we have no legal way to follow recommendation by Fritz Zeidel. As for joining the International Nuclear Association, I do not understand, what advantages could have for Tartaria such a joining. I cannot raise this question at the Federal Junta. Sorry. Anyway, I thank all the participants for the interest to the Tartarian research.
There were several critical replicas, but nothing new had been said. Then, the Moderator again took the microphone:
– I think, all who had something important to say, had used this opportunity. On this point, I close the official part of our meeting. There is some Buffet at the hall, you may continue the free discussion, in the non–formal way. I especially recommend the Tartarian national dish "tartar" and Tartarian national beverages "Shrewdriver" and "Cranberka". Merci beaucoup! Всем спасибо, все свободны! Chao!
At this, the meeting finished. The most of participants moved to buffet. Some enthusiasts tried to say something more, but the microphones were already switched out, and there was only noise of several parallel discussions. Ruvim and Pesia tried to leave, but were spotted by a reporter from the Clever Times.
Zarina Putoff caught Ruvim and Peisa while they were discussing, where to go to relax after the congress: to home of Pesia or to greenhouse of Mozdok.
– Dear professor Pechor! I need to talk with you, – Zarina told.
– Sorry, I am occupied. – Ruvim answered.
– I am from the Clever Times..
– Угу. Клеветаймс. – Ruvim switched into Russian. – Я уже имел дело с Вашими коллегами и это закончилось отсидкой. То есть даже ещё не закончилось. Спасибо.
Pesia called Mozdok:
– Boss, I have an idea about the Project. Нам надо выебать эту блять из Клеветаймса.. Mы - это Рувум и я. Надеюсь, Вы управитесь с гостями без нашей помощи?
The professional education of Zarina Putoff was good. Of course, she understood Russian, but no one muscle at her face confirmed that.
Mozdok replied:
- Pesia, do that you think is necessary. Now is better, because I plan to send Pechor to Komi to test his apparatus..
– Boss, we need Ruvim pro for the future research..
– Let him to learn to keep his moth closed, then we'll consider. Try to extract so much as possible from Ruvim in these days.
Pesia hanged the talk with Mozdok and addressed Zarina:
- Dear Miss Putoff. I invite you and Ruvim to my place. Let us do some party tonight.
Ruvim felt strong headache. His dream about Pesia.. It was so close to realization.. But the Clever Times is about to destroy everything..
– Thank you miss Zivertov. I am glad to join you.. I have serious suggestion for professor Pechor..
Ruvim felt strong wish to use the dirty slang to qualify the Clever Times, and their policy, and their correspondents. But Ruvim wanted Pesia, right now, by all price, it does not matter, what will be next..
Since the first experience with Ahmet Tuskershtеin and Evе Hebb, Ruvim several times has expressed a pray "Fuck Clever Times". However, Ruvim never expected this to happen so literally. And, of course, Ruvim did not expect this to happen with participation of wonderful, romantic and highly wanted Pesia Zivertov, brilliant Pesia, who did so much for promotion and realization of his ideas..
As for the suggestion from the Clever Times, it was trivial. They wanted to publish notes by Ruvim, and they agreed to pay for this by the highest scale, established for the Clever Times writers. Zarina Putoff already had prepared contract with signature of the top Editor. The notes were supposed to be in Russian, following requests of subscribers of the Clever Times. Or, more correctly, from some sponsors of the Clever Times, who did not want to be named.
The contract, singed with the Clever Times, did not save Ruvim, nor Norga Warm, nor Tartaria from the critical publications.
BBC: "Achievements of the Tartarian ecological programs."
Voice of America:
"Science in Tartaria: Radiologic heaters as competitors of the small nuclear fission plants."
"Tartaria will not join International Nuclear Association"
"Heater with 100 year guarantee."
Клеветаймс:
"В лабораториях Тартарии осуществлён синтез оружейного плутония!"
"Представители International Nuclear Association выражают крайнюю озабоченность и требуют прекратить опасные эксперименты"
"Зарина Путов: Развитие Тартарии идёт путём, опасным для мирового сообщества."
Suoyarvi Sanomat: "Tartaria: puhdas ja lämmin"
Baikal Jibao: "Tartaria的核问题"
Lemonde:
"L'énergie nucléaire propre de Tartaria"
"Tartaria: Le problème avec Association Nucléaire Internationale."
Lajornada: ¿Si el Bigpuf de Tartaria puede afectar al México?
Colonist de Chukotka:
"Idée Tartare pour réchauffer Choukotka et Alaska."
"Tartaria : Atome paisible ? De nouveau??“
Київські новини:
Тартарці прокляті до сьомого коліна. Сім поколінь змінилося. Чи можна співпрацювати з ними у сфері деконтамінації?
Kamchatka News: "Century lifetime heaters from Tartaria."
Karafuto Shinbun: "核汚染を浄化するタータリアン"
Asian Communications: "TARTARIA:だからも!
The report on the first Federal Grant for the Norga Warm had been approved by the Federal Junta. Mozdok got the next Federal Grant for the continuation of his research.
Nozdok fulfilled his promise, he released many slaves. Mozdok had released Pesia Zivertov, Femistoklus Zalupaev and many "dependants" workers to status «resident».
However, he employed them back at Norga Warm.
Nothing had changed for the released employees.
Life of Mozdok Tsuker become a little bit easier.
He had to pay salary to the workers, but had no anymore need to carry about so many people at once.
Almost noting had changed in their life; they continued to supply Norga with wood and fuel, and continued to work
on the Federal Grant on decontamination, trying at least to approach the samorats from the «Big minus» to zero profitability.
Mozdok found that both Nata Kiskin and Yuma Hahalev are pregnant. Mosdok wanted the healthy babies from them; he prohibited Yuma to approach the laboratories with final purification of isotopes, but Yuma still cold work from home, trying to help Pesia to optimize the sorting the nuclear waste. Mozdok kept Nata and Yuma as "dependents“; Nata still was forced to wear her "collar". Nata learned to cut the dry trees and could handle several robots at once, supplying the Norga Warm with wood.
Rivim's "honeymoon" with Pesia was sweet and happy, but not so long. Pesia did not even get pregnant.
Mozdok did not release Ruvim and sent him to Komi to test two "century-old heaters" he had designed.
There, near the small village «Amonalka», a special laboratory was built;
«Century Heater Testing Laboratory». Ruvim had to stay there.
In addition, in order to ruin Ruvim's reputation (and to bring some money to his master), Rivim was forced to give the interviews to the Clever Times.
However, that is also another story.