Tang Feng knew very well how much helium-3 was contained in the seabed near Princess Belle Island, but other countries didn't know. In addition, this thing is so precious that although the IAEA is taking the lead, the negotiations for this proportional distribution are not going well.

The main reason is that all countries are worried that there is too little helium-3, and if there is not enough helium, they want to share a little more. According to common sense, even if you buy it back and don't use it, helium-3 is completely a precious strategic reserve resource.

Therefore, the negotiation meeting went on noisily for more than 10 days, and as a result, not even a single egg was discussed.

In desperation, Tang Feng, who was in a hurry, could only gather the negotiators of various countries and let them communicate with their respective bosses, and then each country took out some funds and equipment to jointly explore the helium-3 reserves of this sea mud mine.

For Tang Feng's request, the negotiators of these countries naturally hated to raise their limbs in agreement. So, after less than a day of communication, people from all countries around the world with nuclear power plants sent people to pay for it, anyway, for one purpose, to find out how much helium-3 is in this sea mud mine!

When supplies and equipment from more than 30 countries arrived on Princess Belle Island, a huge joint survey operation began.

A series of highly advanced deep-water robots were placed in the deep sea of the northwest Pacific Ocean, and through the cables connected to the deep-sea robots, the surveyors could clearly see the seabed at a depth of 4,000 meters.

Dozens of deep-sea robots carried out continuous surveys according to their own demarcated areas, and it took less than three days to determine the scope of the entire sea mud mine, and through the analysis of the retrieved samples, the overall reserves of helium-3 contained in this sea mud mine were roughly determined - about 50,000 tons!

This figure is quite accurate, because Tang Feng originally transported 50,000 tons of helium-3 from the moon, and then fused it into this sea mud. Now that the exact reserves have been surveyed, everyone is relieved.

50,000 tons of helium-3, which has greatly subverted the previous understanding of the earthlings on the natural helium-3 reserves on the earth. For a long time, the general understanding of human beings is that the natural helium-3 on the earth does not exceed 500 kilograms, and as a result, after the sudden appearance of this sea mud mine with a reserve of up to 50,000 tons, these people really can't think of any other celebratory actions to sigh except for unconsciously patting their heads.

50,000 tons of helium-3, what a treasure!

If humanity were to build a 500-megawatt helium-3 fusion power plant today, it would only cost 50 kilograms of helium-3 per year. If the United States uses helium-3 nuclear fusion to generate electricity, the total annual power generation will only need 25 tons of helium-3, while China only needs 8 tons, and as for the world's total annual power generation, 100 tons of helium-3 is enough.

In other words, just 50,000 tons of helium-3 could supply the earth's energy needs for 500 years. Moreover, as a civil power generation, helium-3 has an energy return of 270, and nuclear power generation has an energy return of 20, while coal has only 16.

Now, the heads of state who have nuclear power plants can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

In the past, for this precious thing, human brains could be beaten into dog brains, but now, the substance that originally existed only in legends, suddenly time has become a rotten street, who rarely spends a huge amount of energy to compete for such a lost share?

Anyway, whether to fight or not, so much helium-3 is enough. It's still worth a lot of money, but as long as it's enough and the rate of return is that high, let it be.

As a result, the negotiation meeting, which originally hated to turn human brains into dog brains, immediately became calm after determining the exact reserves of helium-3 in this sea mud mine. Then, in just three days, countries agreed on how to distribute the helium-3 sea mud mine and signed a provisional agreement. A real distribution agreement needs to be signed by the heads of state themselves.

However, all of a sudden, so much helium-3 appeared, which also made the value of helium-3, which was originally a hundred times more expensive than the price of gold, plummet, and changed from the rich and handsome who was originally on the top of the clouds to a **** ordinary person who can be touched by almost everyone.

Its price has also fallen from the theoretical price of US$4 billion per tonne to the current level of almost the same as gold - US$40 million per tonne.

Although this price is also very, very expensive, it can be used by countries that have nuclear power plants, such as South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Bulgaria, Hungary, and other countries that only have one nuclear power plant and one nuclear reactor, if they build a nuclear fusion power plant, the annual demand for helium-3 is only a few tens of kilograms

Although the price has plummeted, the current price is enough to completely push Tang's Anglo-American Glencore, which owns this sea mud mine, to the world's largest company.

In the past, Tang's Anglo-American Glencore was recognized as the world's largest market capitalization, but its total assets were still far from those established banks. And now the world's largest does not only refer to the market capitalization, you know, just this sea mud mine with 50,000 tons of helium-3 reserves, is worth more than two trillion US dollars, plus the original total assets of Tang's Anglo-American Glencore, now Tang's Anglo-American Glencore's total assets have exceeded 3.5 trillion US dollars, and it also exceeds the company with the world's largest total assets - Huaxia Industrial and Commercial Bank, which has total assets of 3.4 trillion US dollars.

To be honest, Tang Feng was not very happy that Tang's Anglo-American Glencore's total assets had skyrocketed, and now Tang Feng was numb to his net worth. However, the world's acceptance of helium-3 has excited Tang Feng for a while.

In the future, controlled nuclear fusion technology is the most basic condition for human beings to carry out interstellar voyages, although there is still a distance to go before human beings really apply controllable nuclear fusion technology for interstellar voyages, but after all, this head has been opened, as long as human beings persevere along this path, I believe that in the near future, human beings will always be able to go out of the solar system and go to the real cosmic deep space.

And isn't one of the purposes of what I'm doing now to fulfill this wish?

One of the main reasons why mankind's previous development of controlled nuclear fusion technology has been slow is because of the lack of raw materials. What is 500 kg of helium-3 enough? I guess it's not even enough for human experiments. Now that we have enough helium-3 for those scientists to splurge on, and we will ask for the technology from Eric ourselves next year, humanity is very, very close to truly mastering controlled nuclear fusion technology (to be continued). )