When they arrived at the Yinghu headquarters of the research institute, Song Biao first met with more than 20 scientists and engineer representatives waiting here, and thanked them for their hard work in seclusion here all year round.

Then, accompanied by Lao Youzhang, Song Biao put on a silver radiation protection suit, put on a mask, and then went to the heavy water reactor for inspection.

Normally, as long as a nuclear power plant is built, its scale will inevitably be very large, and miniaturization requires more technology. Although this experimental reactor in the empire is mainly experimental, its area has reached the scope of a football field.

The entirety is located in a base 30 meters deep underground. In order to achieve cooling effect, four loops are used to supply power to ensure the operation of the cooling system.

After boiling, these cooling waters are used to generate electricity by the steam turbine and then fed back to the power grid.

Power generation itself cannot be fully used for the operation of subsystems, and can only provide self-provided electricity, because this system still has too many instability and unpredictability, and if a problem occurs, it will become a big problem.

If it is confirmed that it cannot be solved, cement will be directly buried here.

Song Biao does not lack understanding of the nuclear world, but deep in this world, everything he sees is still unfamiliar with, especially in heavy water treatment plants, the entire process design and the supervision of facilities are labor.

Youzhang himself is responsible. The consumption rate of purifying heavy water by relying solely on electrolysis is too high. Even if the surplus products obtained are hydrogen and oxygen, the cost is too high. For this reason, Lao Youzhang started to study the extraction of heavy water in chemical processes since 1925.

Work.

The progress is still good, but in the existing process flow, the power consumption is still large, and the process is extremely complex, with a high catalyst loss rate and a high failure rate. It will take more time and expenses to develop a new process.

, it can only be based on continuing to study new chemical processes, continuously improving existing equipment, increasing output rate, reducing costs, and improving reliability. In particular, there are also many other research institutions in the improvement of catalysts.

Responsible.

It is difficult to build nuclear weapons, heavy water is the first level.

It is not difficult to refine heavy water, one gram or two grams is always easy. To ensure the scale of the empire's nuclear research, dozens of tons are required every year, and after the new heavy water reactor is started, at least thousands of tons of heavy water are required every year.

Nazi Germany was in the war stage at that time, and its national strength was tight and it was impossible to use enough electricity to decompose heavy water. It could only mobilize heavy water from Norway. The reason was that Norway had extremely rich water resources and many large hydropower stations. As a result, this matter was secretly destroyed by the Allies.

It's right.

The Empire adopted a catalyst reaction method to extract heavy water, which was not low, and it consumed a lot of electricity, but the production capacity was barely guaranteed.

After visiting the local heavy water treatment plant accompanied by Lao Youzhang, she also listened to the explanations of Lao Youzhang and others. Song Biao also realized that the heavy water problem could not be handled, and the empire still had no way to solve the development problem of the nuclear industry and solve it even more

The problem of not being able to do the atomic bomb.

Walking out of the heavy water treatment plant and on the way to the uranium reserve station, Song Biao and Lao Youzhang ordered: "The industrial production of heavy water extraction must have a major breakthrough. The current energy consumption scale is still

Too big to meet all our needs.”

Lao Youzhang said: "There are two main research ideas that are extremely likely. One is the ammonia hydrogen exchange method proposed by Sichuan University, and the other is the hydrogen sulfide exchange method proposed by Zhendan University. Our ammonia industry development

It is relatively fast, with abundant production capacity and low cost. This is obviously the best way, but Sichuan University has insufficient technical strength. At this stage, it can only cooperate with Central University of Science and Technology and Jiangnan University. The progress of Zhendan University is fast,

After all, there are many experts, and there are sufficient technical experience and research funds. No matter which method, as long as industrial production can be achieved, our heavy water purification progress and efficiency will be greatly increased, which can ensure the current research plan and progress."

Song Biao nodded slightly.

The current research funding is not a problem. Nuclear power project itself is the highest-level special national-level project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has abundant funds. The inner court has a special subsidy of nearly 50 million yuan in the fields of nuclear weapons and nuclear power every year through the Central Secret Service. This money is pure

Funding from royal property.

The annual expenditure of nearly 100 million yuan seems to be small, but it is already a sky-high price during this period, which can ensure that a Hoover Dam is built in China every year. This is the huge investment scale that can ensure the gradual progress of the entire project.

The real problem is that the energy limit is too large. If heavy water is extracted by electrolysis, even with China's current installed power generation capacity, it will take 1/5 to ensure the progress of the entire plan. Therefore, this stupid method can be used to create an atomic bomb.

I'm afraid there are only the United States, the Soviet Union and China today, and the rest are in trouble, whether it is Britain or France.

In the early days, the United States also used this hard method to forcibly advance, and gathered the strength of the entire country and could only create a few atomic bombs. Later, using the hydrogen sulfide exchange method, dozens of them could be made in a year, and finally hundreds of them were turned into them.

The Empire now adopts the method of walking on two legs. The clever method needs to be studied, and the stupid method must be continued. In order to prevent the exchange industrial law from being successfully developed, the Empire opened a super-large open-pit coal mine production base in Shenmu County and installed four on-site.

A thermal power plant, plus Liujiaxia, Yanguoxia, Longyangxia, Danjiangkou hydropower station, and two hydropower stations built in Jinsha River can be used for heavy water extraction.

If this is done, even a stupid method can ensure the progress of the entire plan. It is not very difficult to create four or five atomic bombs every year.

Song Biao has a basic requirement for the China he controls, that is, he is not afraid of any country in conventional wars, and at the same time, he must strive to complete the development of nuclear weapons before 1940. (To be continued. If you like this work
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