ALL NOVEL Chapter 189
Although there are three areas in the Jinwu base, there is still a distance between each area.
For example, the Jinwu area and the atomic area, one is for nuclear weapons, and the other is for reactors.
The reactor has the threat of leakage.
If a nuclear leak occurs at one point, it is easy to be affected if the distance is too close.
So the two places are about 20 kilometers apart, and there is also a distance of 15 kilometers from the town of Lop Nur.
If a nuclear leak occurs in a nuclear reactor, the impact distance is generally within 5 kilometers.
So this distance is relatively safe anyway.
The nuclear test area is the farthest away.
This location is 50 kilometers away from the town of Lop Nur, located deep in the Lop Nur desert.
And if a nuclear test is carried out, it will not affect the water source.
These things were deliberately avoided when the site was selected. After leaving the atomic area, Jiang Fan came to the final destination of this trip.
Jinwu District.
The area of Jinwu District is not much less than that of the atomic area, and it has many super-large factory areas.
This is also the place with the strongest security force.
There is an entire internal affairs detachment of soldiers responsible for the position work.
An internal affairs detachment has more than a thousand people, and there is also a helicopter squadron.
Responsible for patrolling and guarding the Jinwu District.
When Jiang Fan entered the core area of the Jinwu District, he also passed a total of 12 checkpoints, which shows how strict the guards here are.
Of course, these inspections are not aimed at Jiang Fan himself.
But for the inspection of vehicles and entourage. 28
Jiang Fan is the only one in the whole of China who can be exempted from inspection.
This is naturally for absolute confidentiality.
After all, once the news that China is developing nuclear weapons is known to the powers.
It will definitely attract their attention, so that they will also invest in research.
This is not what Jiang Fan wants to see.
The outbreak of World War II is inevitable.
Nuclear weapons are the fundamental guarantee for China to gain the greatest benefits in this war.
Nuclear deterrence is not just talk.
If China has nuclear weapons exclusively, it can deter all countries.
But if other countries also have them, the benefits cannot be maximized.
Jiang Fan will not only develop them himself, but also try his best to prevent other countries from conducting related research.
The intelligence department has specially developed a relevant plan.
A special action team has even been established.
It is mainly aimed at the murder or enticement of relevant foreign talents.
The general person in charge of the Jinwu Project is Fu Yuan, chairman of the Huaxia Nuclear Industry Group.
He is also a senior engineer at the Red Alert Base.
He is not only a top talent in nuclear physics theory, but also a talent in administrative management.
Therefore, he was promoted to the position of chairman of the newly formed Nuclear Industry Group.
Jiang Fan would never hand over such an important position to an outsider.
There is no one more suitable than Fu Yuan.
Now Fu Yuan is in the Jinwu District. He basically stays here to lead various project teams to develop nuclear weapons.
His main focus is now on nuclear weapons.
However, the person who is really responsible for the development of nuclear weapons is Cheng Ren, deputy chief engineer of the Jinwu Project.
At the same time, he is also the dean of the Huaxia Nuclear Physics Research Institute.
This Cheng Ren is not simple.
Because he is one of the five special engineers in the current Red Alert Base. He is also the only special engineer related to nuclear physics.
Special engineers cannot be recruited in the Red Alert Base.
They are upgraded from senior engineers.
And the conditions for the birth of special engineers are also very harsh.
Among tens of thousands of senior engineers, five people were born.
These five people are all super experts in their respective fields.
Among them, there is one in the field of aviation engines.
Special engineers are basically talents at the level of Tesla and Einstein.
Basically, they are rare in a century.
Their appearance has driven the rapid development of the entire industry.
If there were no talents provided by the Red Alert Base.
How could China develop so rapidly in just one or two years?
It's even faster than cheating.
Fu Yuan and Cheng Ren, the chief engineer and deputy chief engineer of the Jinwu Project, came out to greet Jiang Fan in person.
After a brief greeting, Jiang Fan got straight to the point.
"You two, as soon as you said there was good news, I came straight here.
Tell me, what is the good news? Why are you still keeping it a secret?"
Fu Yuan and Cheng Ren looked at each other.
Fu Yuan smiled and said,"Chairman, come with us to the No. 1 Assembly Plant and you will know."
Factory No. 7.
After hearing this word, Jiang Fan's heart moved.
He knew exactly what Factory No. 7 was doing.
The area of Factory No. 7 was not large. It was the smallest of the many factories, with an area of less than one thousand square meters.
But Factory No. 7 was the location of the nuclear weapons assembly workshop.
Could it be that nuclear weapons had been manufactured?
With strong curiosity, Jiang Fan passed by one factory after another and headed towards Factory No. 7 in the depths.
In the entire Jinwu District, there were more than ten factories of all sizes.
The largest of them was the centrifuge factory used to purify high-purity uranium-235.
This is also one of the most effective methods for purifying high-concentration uranium at present. (To read the novel of Baoshuang, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
It is also one of the most energy-consuming methods.
For this reason, a dedicated large-scale thermal power plant was built for the entire Jinwu project.
The amount of electricity consumed by the Jinwu project each year is equivalent to the amount of electricity required by a city with a population of 500,000.
Although the power consumption is huge, a large-scale thermal power plant can still be built.
Basically, this method consumes two hundred tons of uranium ore and can extract one kilogram of high-concentration uranium.[]
In addition to the centrifuge plant used to refine high-enriched uranium, there is also a reactor plant that refines plutonium-239.
Plutonium-239 is the core material for producing plutonium bombs.
Compared with uranium bombs, plutonium bombs are more powerful.
Take a data for comparison.
If it is a uranium bomb, the utilization rate of nuclear fission energy is only about 5%.
The one dropped on Hiroshima in history was a uranium bomb.
However, the plutonium bomb has an energy utilization rate of 20%.
The one dropped on Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb.
The refining method of plutonium bombs is different from that of uranium bombs.
Plutonium 239 is extracted from reactors.
Therefore, in the factories that produce plutonium 239, there are all reactors.
In the reactor, uranium 238 absorbs a neutron and becomes uranium 239 without fission.
Uranium 239 will decay into neptunium 239, and neptunium 239 will decay into plutonium 239 during the reaction.
This is the way to extract plutonium 239, which is mainly refined by chemical reactions.
(Warning: Don't try the above lightly.)
At present, the investment in the entire Jinwu project has exceeded more than 1 billion Huayuan.
The most expensive of these equipment is these equipment.
Uranium ore is not free of charge.
Because China now has very rich reserves of high-quality uranium ore.
The total reserves have reached 5 million tons.
What is the concept of 5 million tons?
You must know that in the 21st century, the total proven uranium reserves in the world are only 10 million tons.
And China's reserves are equal to half of the world's total uranium reserves.
All the credit naturally comes from the base.
The original reserves of China's uranium mines were only tens of thousands of tons.
It accounts for 2.9% of the world's total reserves.
This number can be said to be pitiful.
So Jiang Fan set his sights on the Chaozhi Peninsula.
The total reserves of uranium ore on the Chaozhi Peninsula are as high as 26 million tons, but the amount that can be mined is only 4 million tons.
So now China has been mining uranium ore on the Chaozhi Peninsula for use.
On the contrary, its own only carried out small-scale mining.
The total uranium reserves on both sides are as high as 9 million 350 tons, far exceeding Canada's 1.7 million tons.
For the 5 million tons of high-quality uranium reserves, Jiang Fang also paid a huge amount of money.
Of course, the Chinese National Defense Army is now sufficient in strength, and most weapons can basically be produced by themselves.
There is no use for the funds to be left there.
So Jiang Fan began to purchase various minerals on a large scale to make China's mineral resources more sufficient.
Among them are mainly scarce minerals and precious minerals.
This will allow the consumption of funds to reach the scale of 10 billion as soon as possible.
After walking for a long time, one person came to Factory No. 7.
On the way, Jiang Fan also visited several factories, otherwise he would not have walked.
Factory No. 7 is very small, and the exterior is very ordinary and very inconspicuous.
Jiang Fan, Fu Yuan, Cheng Ren and his party walked into the assembly workshop.
In the middle of the empty factory building, an elliptical bomb-like body has stood on a bomb rack less than one meter high.
The size of this bomb is not very large.
The length is about 5 meters, the diameter is 1.8 meters, and the weight is 8 tons.
This is the data Jiang Fan saw on the nameplate.
He looked at Fu Yuan and Cheng Ren with some surprise.
"This is....Is this a nuclear bomb?"
This is a surprise, and a big surprise.
Fu Yuan smiled and nodded and said,"Yes, Chairman, this is the nuclear weapon we assembled 5 days ago. It uses uranium 235, with an enrichment of 98% and a charge of 20 kilograms.
Just these 20 kilograms of uranium 235 consumed hundreds of tons of uranium ore.
According to our calculations, its power is about 3.5-4 tons of TNT."
After hearing Fu Yuan's confirmation, Jiang Fan looked at the nuclear bomb with his eyes shining.
This progress was completely beyond his imagination.
It is only 1935 now, and it has been less than a year since the establishment of the Jinwu Project.