Bald Eagle, PHS Headquarters Office.

Zhou Jimin, who was wearing the vest of Michael, handed Liang Wenfeng the list of materials that needed to be purchased and asked the latter to hurry up and deal with it.

Five hundred kilograms of uranium, just the amount on the list, shocked Liang Wenfeng and others.

What is this for?

As we all know, uranium is one of the main elements of nuclear bombs.

In addition to making nuclear bombs, it can also be made into fuel components for nuclear power plants.

Enriched uranium 235 is the best raw material for generating electricity in nuclear power plants.

Before being used in nuclear power plant reactors, uranium-235 must be enriched to increase its purity to between 3% and 5%.

Then it is sent to the fuel manufacturing plant and converted into uranium dioxide powder.

It is then compressed into small fuel particles and heated to create a hard ceramic material.

Seeing the expressions of Liang Wenfeng and others, Zhou Jimin stopped and said:

"Don't worry when you go shopping. No one will make things difficult for you. If so, just tell me and I will clear the way for you."

Five hundred kilograms of uranium may seem like a lot, but it’s actually not much.

Judging from the strength of PHS Mobile Phone North America, which has been rooted in Bald Eagle for so many years, purchasing 500 kilograms of uranium is actually just a trial.

Zhou Jimin’s real purpose is to see how much the bald eagle knows about his vest.

Although when he copied this vest, he had already done it to the extreme.

But in front of the state machinery, Zhou Jimin really didn’t dare to say more about how much he could conceal.

In fact, in the 1970s, technological level is developing rapidly, but it is still useless.

The main reason is that there was no more effective verification method in the past, and Michael, the vest, was an orphan himself.

The orphanage closed down more than ten years ago.

It is no longer possible to find those people.

After the tasks were dispatched, Zhou Jimin could only wait.

While waiting, he also learned about the current development situation of the Little Bee mobile phone in Bald Eagle.

In December last year, the second generation of Little Bee mobile phone was released and will go on sale on New Year’s Day this year.

Judging from the current operation situation, the data is not as good as the first-generation machine, but it is not too far apart.

In short, Zhou Jimin has decided to cut off this leek.

Competitors such as Pacific Mobile, First Mobile, and General Mobile have indeed been successfully launched, but they only account for 5% of the mobile phones sold.

There are so many mobile phone companies, but they only get 5% of the market share, which is a slap in the face.

Even so, these companies are already very happy.

At the very least, it finally opened a hole in the PHS mobile phone company.

However, their communication service provider, gsm, is a product of another small company owned by Zhou Jimin.

Therefore, Zhou Jimin knew their data clearly.

After understanding it, Zhou Jimin had no expression.

The market still needs to be cultivated, so take your time.

Computers are slowly appearing on the market, but the unit price is too high and it is difficult to reduce the price.

For the time being, the market can't bear it, and the cost can't support it.

Many materials for making computers are very expensive and the technology is also very high-end.

If you want to lower prices, you must first reduce costs, and secondly, there must be enough wealthy people in the market.

So, take your time.

Just when Liang Wenfeng found an agent to purchase the materials on Zhou Jimin's list, as time went by, many big bosses turned their attention to him.

PHS Mobile Phone North America Branch?

Purchase 500 kilograms of uranium?

What do you want to do?

As an extremely free market, any company in Bald Eagle can actually operate any industry, as long as you have money, brains and vision.

Of course, many industries actually have barriers.

Like the arms business, individuals can open a studio for operation.

But nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs are not things that ordinary people can afford.

Uranium is inherently very sensitive.

If they are just like some big bosses who just want to gather all the elements on the periodic table, then of course there is no problem.

But if you want to get involved in this industry, whether it is the upstream nuclear power plant fuel manufacturing process, the downstream nuclear power plant, or others.

The thresholds are obvious.

Therefore, if you want to buy uranium, you have to prove that you have the qualifications.

It is very simple for Zhou Jimin to prove this qualification.

He immediately arranged for Liang Wenfeng and others to start cooperating and make a series of applications in accordance with the other party's requirements.

While waiting, Zhou Jimin left Bald Eagle and headed to Oceania to find his own mine for refining.

In the original time and space, Oceania was one of the countries with the richest uranium reserves in the world, and was also the world's major uranium-producing country.

As early as a few years ago, Zhou Jimin conducted a large-scale 'purchase' at the Lanjie uranium mine in Oceania.

However, this mining area is owned by Oceania Electrolytic Zinc Co., Ltd., not Zhou Jimin’s mining company.

Now, the reason why Zhou Jimin went to Bald Eagle to purchase uranium first is naturally because that is the area where the largest uranium-235 fuel rods are produced.

In addition, it is foreseeable that Zhou Jimin's demand for uranium ore will be very large in the next few years.

Just relying on the uranium production in Oceania may not be able to meet his needs.

After entering Oceania, Zhou Jimin did not go to the Lanjie uranium mine, but to the Olympic Dam uranium mine.

The Olympic Dam uranium mine is located 560 kilometers north of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. This was the mine address directly designated when Zhou Jimin asked Liang Wenfeng and others to come over to establish the mining company.

Very accurate latitude and longitude address, never wrong.

Therefore, after the mine was put into operation, a large amount of metal minerals such as copper ore and uranium ore were quickly discovered, and the output has been soaring from the beginning.

This means that as long as someone has a machine, they can definitely produce quickly.

He showed up at the Olympic Dam uranium mine and found Eric, the head of the company.

"What is the current production of uranium oxide?"

Eric reported very respectfully that the current production has reached 1,080 tons of uranium oxide, 120,000 tons of copper ore products and 500 kilograms of gold, as well as associated metal sulfides, sericite, hematite,

Fluorite, chlorite, barite and other mine products.

In addition to gold, uranium oxide and copper mineral products are basically sold.

Every time it is sold on a quarterly basis, the target of sale is naturally Xinghai Trading Group.

After the latter brought these products back to the southern island, some were sold directly to companies on Hong Kong Island, while others were sold directly to Oasis New City or the mainland.

The demand for metal raw materials in Oasis New City is very huge, so even if the output of the Olympic Dam uranium mine is very huge, it is still barely enough.

Naturally, Zhou Jimin is not limited to this mine in the entire Oceania.

Looking at the entire Olympic Dam uranium mine, it is a comprehensive copper-uranium-gold-iron-rare earth element mine.

The current output of rare earth element products is negligible.

Due to the shortage of skilled workers, we can only give up temporarily.

Mine mining is not a simple matter, and the requirements for many skilled workers are not generally high.

Especially for the management side, last time Zhou Jimin came here for a sweep, and later Li Yuzhu, Liang Wenfeng and others also came here many times.

I am just worried that these management teams will cause trouble.

Otherwise, Eric would not treat Zhou Jimin so respectfully now.

After listening to Eric's report, Zhou Jimin said directly:

"From now on, if we increase the production of uranium oxide and double wages to recruit people from other mines, the cost can be increased appropriately."

"In addition, uranium oxide and rare earth elements are no longer for sale. They are all sealed in the warehouse and should be kept carefully. I will send people to the mine warehouse to receive them every quarter. Please arrange the person in charge."

"Okay, I'll report these things to the advisory group in a timely manner and let them know."

From a procedural point of view, the advisory group should issue orders directly to Eric's superior, Hunter, the general person in charge of Oceania, and then Hunter will notify Eric.

However, Zhou Jimin is the big boss, and whatever he says is what he says.
To be continued...