Since it is extremely confidential, Liu Fu can't go there often to check it out, and can only contact each other through special communication methods. Although he cannot be there personally, all material guarantees and logistical support will be delivered on time as soon as possible, no matter what.
Whether it is in terms of personal remuneration for scientific researchers or scientific research equipment and equipment, this 45 Research Institute can be said to have the highest remuneration among federal domestic scientific research units, and also the highest in the world.
The reason why Liu Fu is so attentive to the nuclear research project is that he knows very well that after the South China Sea Federation's submarines, aircraft carriers and aircraft, which are time-honored weapons, have been thoroughly studied by opponents, he will no longer have any more weapons that can completely suppress other countries.
Weapons can be invented. And in future wars, the federal force can defeat a battle, a battle or even a war, but it cannot defeat a country, especially a country as vast as the United States, which is completely self-sufficient.
It is still very, very difficult for a self-sufficient country.
And a country like the United States has demonstrated its war potential to the world in later generations. Back then, R himself killed most of its Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, and then tried to control it with a combined fleet that was better in quantity and quality than the United States.
Pacific. The result of this is that it only took more than 2 years.
The United States relied on its powerful manufacturing industry to rearm the Pacific Fleet, and eventually the whole country surrendered. All this was done on two fronts at the same time, but the focus of the United States' support was still in Europe, that is,
It is said that the United States completely crushed Japan using only a fraction of its national power.
Liu Fu himself believed that it was a big mistake for Japan not to continue attacking the west coast of the United States at that time. It should no longer focus on the broken islands in Southeast Asia, but should mobilize all the forces it could mobilize to attack the west coast of the United States.
In the end, the goal of destroying part of the industrial capacity of the United States is achieved. Only in this way can victory be possible. Of course, this possibility is not very high, but it is better than nothing at all.
Although the current South China Sea Federation is much stronger than Japan, it faces the same problem as Japan, which is how to deal with the relationship with the United States. Moreover, the federal government currently faces greater pressure than Japan.
Because now the South China Sea Federation and the U.S. government are imaginary enemies of each other. This is still the most important kind. A sneak attack on the U.S. naval base is not impossible, but the possibility is extremely small.
Back then, r originally chose to defeat the U.S. Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, then fully occupy Southeast Asia during this 1-2 year window, and even had plans to attack Australia, but all of this was defeated by the manufacturing capabilities of the United States. And Liu Fu had
After this experience, I will naturally not choose to injure the United States first, then let the tiger go back to the mountain, wait for it to recover from its injuries, and then jump out to fight with you.
However, Liu Fuzhuo made a careful comparison and found that relying on the current military strength of the Federation, it would be too difficult to completely defeat the United States at once. Therefore, Liu Fu cannot place all his hopes on conventional weapons. Now Liu Fu's only secret weapon is
, no longer submarines or aircraft, but nuclear weapons.
This idea did not come to Liu Fu only a few years or more than ten years ago. He had already had it since he planned to establish a country in this era, so he couldn't wait to establish the original country when he had just established a foothold.
Nuclear Research Institute. After more than 30 years of unremitting efforts and the desperate cry of Liu Fu, a half-immortal, the current 45 Research Institute has finally made a big breakthrough in nuclear research.
In layman's terms, the principle of an atomic bomb is to use a neutron to bombard a uranium-235 atom at high speed. The uranium-235 atom is neutron-blown into two halves. While a large number of protons are released, two neutrons are also produced.
.When these two neutrons bombard other uranium-235 atoms, the same reaction will occur.
In this way, 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, and 8 becomes 16. If this continues, nuclear fission is formed. The precise name is "self-sustaining chain reaction". This is the most basic principle of nuclear reactors.
The atomic bomb is actually a nuclear reactor that has been downsized and removed from the mechanism to prevent criticality.
If you want to make a nuclear reactor or an atomic bomb, you must obtain uranium 235, but the content of this isotope in nature is very, very low, with only 0.7% content in natural uranium, and how to purify it is also a big problem.
After the unremitting efforts of the scientific researchers of the 45 Research Institute, around 1925, the 45 Research Institute finally found two methods to purify uranium 235. They used thousands of layers of metal films to make a "sieve" with countless
small hole,
Each hole is only one hundredth of a centimeter in size. Then the uranium hexafluoride gas is passed through these "sieves". Since the fluoride molecular weight of uranium 235 is smaller, it will pass through the "sieve" faster than uranium 238, thereby achieving purification.
Purpose of Uranium-235.
Another method is to use electromagnetic fields to achieve the same purpose. Since uranium 235 and uranium 238 have different fluoride molecular weights, their curvature will be different when passing through the electromagnetic field, so that uranium 235 and uranium 238 can be distinguished.
, and separate them.
The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. The chemical method separates slowly, but the cost is low; the physical method separates much faster, but the cost is high, because it requires more electromagnetic field strength than ordinary electromagnets can achieve, and requires larger and more powerful electromagnets.
Strong electromagnetic field.
In order to solve this problem, 45 Research Institute first built a battery coil in the laboratory for testing, and finally determined that the coil's magnetic pole diameter needs to be more than 4.6 meters, which means that the inner diameter of the coil must be more than 4 meters. In addition to being bulky
In addition, this coil also has a
The problem is that a lot of copper is used to wind the coils. Each coil requires about 20 tons of copper. If you want to purify uranium 235 on a large scale, you need about 6,000 such coils to reach the monthly
The purpose of producing uranium-235 with a purity of more than 90% at the kilogram level.
Not to mention the power supply and site issues of these more than 6,000 large coils, these are nothing compared to the amount of copper consumed. They consume a total of 150,000 tons of copper. At that time, the federal annual copper production was more than 200 tons.
Thousands of tons, but copper is a strategic material. This raw material is needed in many places, and it is impossible for all of it to be used by the 45 Research Institute.
At this time, it can be seen that Liu Fu supports the 45 Research Institute. In order not to affect the work of other federal departments, but also to allow the 45 Research Institute to build an electromagnetic separation plant as soon as possible, he moved the Federal Bank to the federal bank with a stroke of his pen.
The 100,000 tons of silver ingots stored were temporarily loaned to the 45 Research Institute to replace the coils that originally needed to be composed of copper.
When the electromagnetic separation plant of the 45 Research Institute was built in 28 years, this cave buried 50 meters underground really became a treasure trove. Six of the seven plant areas were all shining with silver. Although those scientific researchers were not interested in money.
They don’t have any big hobbies, but I don’t know how they feel after working in piles of money all day long.
The electromagnetic separation plant, as the name suggests, requires electricity, and it uses a lot of electricity. The original small thermal power plant can no longer meet the demand, so a large thermal power plant was built across the strait. In order to hide from others, Liu Fu specially authorized Schneider's
The oil company built a non-ferrous metals factory nearby and falsely claimed that it was refining aluminum ingots, so it was equipped with a thermal power plant.
A lie often needs 10 lies to make up for it. This is a wise saying. In order to make this aluminum factory more like a factory, Liu Fu also built small docks, ore storage warehouses, railways and other facilities here, and then reinstalled it every month.
Ships are sent here to transport ore and finished products.
Those ores are just piled up in warehouses for a month, then loaded onto ships and shipped away, and new ores are unloaded. However, those so-called flat aluminum ingots are secretly transported from other places and then shipped out openly. Moreover.
The people in charge of this factory are not ordinary workers, but the "Federal Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Force".
After spending so much thought, money, and manpower, the only thing Liu Fu wanted was to let the federation have atomic bombs as soon as possible. As for those nuclear power plants, nuclear power, etc., they were all used by Liu Fu to encourage those scientific researchers. When?
Liu Fu didn't care too much if he could satisfy his hunger.
The nuclear researchers at the 45 Research Institute lived up to Liu Fu's huge investment. After successfully purifying uranium 235, they built a nuclear reactor in four years. As we said before,
An atomic bomb is a small nuclear reactor with the anti-criticality device removed, while a nuclear reactor should be a large atomic bomb with an anti-criticality device installed. (To be continued...)
