Two days later, Steelhammer made a PDF of the types and quantities of materials needed for a controlled nuclear fusion reactor and handed it to Chen Xin, listing iron, aluminum, titanium, nickel, chromium, and a large number of rare metal and non-metal materials, all of which were worth more than 10 million US dollars.

However, compared to the enormous potential of fusion reactors, their cost is almost negligible.

Chen Xin passed the documents to Vickers and asked him to raise the materials.

In the end, Chen Xin suddenly thought of something and asked: ", how can we solve the problem of fuel?"

The nuclear fuels needed for nuclear fusion are deuterium and tritium, but these two substances are strategic materials, which are strictly monopolized by the state, and it is difficult for ordinary people to buy them.

Chen Xin could choose to open a heavy water plant to manufacture these two materials, but it was not worth spending a lot of time and energy on a fusion reactor with only one fusion reactor.

Gang Rong sat on the edge of the desk with Erlang's legs crossed, shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said, "Old Dou, I can't do anything about this, I don't want to slowly extract heavy water from the sea." ”

Chen Xin thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, I'll solve this, you upload the fusion reactor design to the central computer of the underground base of Longshou Mountain, and let Vali guard it!"

"Okay!"

The steel hammer jumped up and blended directly into the desktop.

Chen Xin rubbed his temples, took out his mobile phone, and dialed Qiao Ting.

The last time she arrived in the capital with Chen Xin on the Dream, Qiao Ting disappeared. I don't know why I went, after Chen Xin dialed the phone, he only beeped twice, and then he was answered.

"Hey, Chen Xin?" Qiao Ting's voice was cold, and she couldn't hear much emotional fluctuations.

Chen Xin was faintly a little strange, he and Qiao Ting had always had a good relationship, and Qiao Ting rarely used this tone to talk to him before.

Maybe this aunt is here, Chen Xin thought to himself.

He smiled slightly and said, "Little Joe." There's something I might need to trouble you. ”

"What's the matter?"

Chen Xindao: "I need ten tons of heavy water!"

Qiao Ting was taken aback: "Ten tons of heavy water, do you want to build nuclear weapons?"

Qiao Ting didn't think it was strange to build nuclear weapons in a war. After all, they originally had a Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, and she also heard that Chen Xin got four more Typhoon-class nuclear submarines from the Russians, even if there were a lot of nuclear weapons in the hands of the war bureau, it would not be enough for these nuclear submarines.

Chen Xin said: "Don't guess about this. Ten tons of heavy water. I can buy it at a premium of about 50% of the ex-factory cost!"

Qiao Ting was silent for a moment. said: "I need to report this matter to my superiors before I can make a decision. ”

Chen Xin said: "Okay, I hope to give me a reply as much as possible." ”

Qiao Ting said, "Okay." ”

Fifteen minutes later, Qiao Ting called again. Said to Chen Xin: "Chen Xin, I just got the news that the superiors agreed in principle to give ten tons of heavy water to the Zhan Su Bureau, but we want to know what you are doing with them?"

Chen Xin thought for a while and said, "I'm sorry, the purpose of heavy water can't be said for the time being. Again, if I'm willing to buy at a 50 percent premium on ex-factory costs. ”

Controlled nuclear fusion is a matter of importance, and Chen Xin doesn't want too many people to know about it for the time being.

Qiao Ting seemed to be prepared for Chen Xin's refusal, and said, "Okay, then can you tell me how to transport it then?"

Chen Xin chuckled: "It can be transported to Wujiang Industrial Park, Jiangcheng City, and it will be signed by Vickers, general manager of Transwarp Group China!"

Qiao Ting said: "OK, we will deliver what you want in a week." ”

After solving the problem of fusion reactor fuel, Chen Xin was in a good mood and asked: "Xiao Qiao, I will go back to Somalia after the release of "The Wandering Earth" after a while, do you want to go back with me?"

In the past six months, Chen Xin and Qiao Ting have worked together happily, and he is happy that Qiao Ting will continue to serve as a liaison officer between him and the Chinese government.

Qiao Ting didn't seem to expect Chen Xin to ask such a question, so she didn't answer for a long time, and finally said, "Chen Xin, I'm ...... I have a question for you. ”

"What's the problem?" Chen Xin was slightly stunned.

Qiao Ting said: "That person, have you told him about me?"

"That person?!" Chen Xin was stunned for a long time before he suddenly realized that Qiao Ting was referring to herself.

He hurriedly snorted and said, "Ah, I didn't say anything about this, you know, I've been busy recently, and I haven't been in contact with the bureau." ”

"Oh!"

Qiao Ting hung up the phone.

Listening to the beep sound coming from the headphones, Chen Xin was a little stunned, he shook his head and smiled, and quickly put this matter behind.

……

In the next few days, Chen Xin was still busy.

From Somalia's military reforms to the ongoing war in the capital and negotiations between the Chinese government, even Cybertron Digital's next film plan requires Chen Xin to make a decision.

In addition, although Russia agreed to hand over four decommissioned Typhoon-class nuclear submarines to the war, how to deliver them is also a big problem.

It will take at least a week to renovate one Typhoon, and four is a month, and Chen Xin will not be able to leave until the fusion nuclear reactor at the Longshoushan underground base is completed.

He had no choice but to ask the Russians to moor the four nuclear submarines at an abandoned dock at the Severodvinsk shipyard, and when he really found time, he would pick them up with the steel hammer.

In addition, although the restoration of the Forbes-Soil Mars probe has attracted great attention and attention from various space powers, it has not caused much waves in public opinion.

Both Chinese and Russian state media published only a few brief news briefings saying that Roscosmos experts had repaired the Forbes-Soil probe against all odds, putting it back on its journey to Mars.

This incident has caused a lot of sensation among the people, and many people are speculating about how the Russians used to rescue the probe that was about to crash into the earth. It's just that they didn't expect that the repair of the Forbes-Soil probe benefited from the intervention of a third-party force, and it had nothing to do with China and Russia at all.

The Americans did not say anything about the war, and perhaps the only big move was the strengthening of the U.S. military presence in Africa and the Indian Ocean.

On the same day that Chen Xin returned to Jiangcheng, the US Government and Kenya signed an agreement to increase the size of the garrison at Mombasa Air Base in Kenya, and in addition, the United States also sent the USS Truman and USS Eisenhower Carrier Battle Group of the Atlantic Fleet to the Indian Ocean to Manama, the capital of Bahrain. (To be continued......)