Chapter 1661: Centrifuges
Can't be in a hurry, the seedlings are the most terrible, Ciric deeply understands this truth, now, Germany does not need to catch up with the schedule, Germany is already the strongest in this era in all aspects, in contrast, the United States needs to catch up with the schedule, but it is not so easy to catch up with Germany.
Distant North Africa, Libya.
When the war in Europe was in full swing, it was still relatively safe and not baptized by the fire, and at the same time, Libya's main oil-producing area, the Amal oil field, has reached its highest production capacity.
Tens of thousands of barrels of oil are transported to the port every day through pipelines and then exported to Europe, which has become one of Germany's main crude oil supply points.
On the oil field, kowtow machines are everywhere, working day and night, forming a busy scene.
And deeper than the oil fields, there is an oasis in the desert, which is now under the tight protection of Germany, and is a secret German weapons research and development base.
This is the first place to be carved out, and when Ciric first opened up this place, it was greeted with ridicule, they thought that Ciric must be crazy, and actually thought that there was something in this unruly desert.
As a result, the facts slap those who read the joke in the face and let them know that Ciric is the greatest prophet of the century, and that everything he says, is right.
And the desert has always been the biggest secret to the German base, even if someone knows about it, they can't come in and destroy it, a large number of guard forces, anti-aircraft artillery and fighter planes, will make any invading enemy pay the price of death, and only ballistic missiles can destroy it.
It is a pity that this era is only possessed by Germany.
At this time, in the middle of the base, a larger power station has been built, and from the towering chimney, there is a faint green smoke, which is not at all the appearance of ore burning.
This is the largest power station in the whole of Libya, and the electricity generated is enough to use the whole of Libya.
Of course, backward Libya does not need so much electricity, and most of the electricity is produced and sold.
On the other side of the base, from the outside, there is nothing out of the ordinary, however, the ground is rumbling all the time, indicating that underground, there is a huge amount of machinery.
It's actually very easy to build underground in the desert.
First use an excavator to dig up the sand, then use reinforced concrete, pour out the plant, and then cover the top with sand, a large centrifuge factory is formed.
The plant, which started operations only last year, is the next major item in Germany's nuclear program.
At this time, in the factory, Heisenberg, the leader of atomic physics in Germany, was walking around the factory with his assistant Hahn, which was their daily routine.
In the hearts of both of them, a flame burned, a flame of enthusiastic work, a flame of longing for the coming atomic age.
The desert is boring, but they have their own business here, so they can work here for more than ten years, and only when necessary, will they return to Europe, either to buy various materials, or to report to the Führer Ciric.
Germany's atomic program has gone through two important points in time, the first is that Heisenberg came to Libya with experts to establish a base, and at that time, it was based on the nuclear fission equation proposed by Shirek.
When uranium-235 was hard to find, uranium-238 was burned in the reactor and turned into plutonium-239, so that more and more nuclear materials were burned, and Germany's first atomic bomb was also finalized as a plutonium bomb.
After that, they built a small experimental reactor in Libya, which confirmed that the formula of the Führer Ciric was no problem, and the magic furnace was finally born in their hands.
However, with only a small nuclear reactor, it is too slow to burn enough nuclear materials.
So, in 38, Shirek and Führer Hitler came to inspect the base, and after learning about the difficulties here, they immediately made a decision to build a larger reactor, accelerate combustion, and get nuclear raw materials!
The power station outside, which was built at that time, burned plutonium-239 there, could put the creation of an atomic bomb on the agenda.
At that time, after some careful consideration, Heisenberg agreed to a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb within four years.
From 38 years to 42 years, the test explosion of a nuclear bomb was carried out, which was already the fastest.
(There are a lot of big worries about mushroom bombs in front of me, and Hua Dongxiong thought he was delaying, but then he turned forward, and in chapter 298, it was already very clear, that is, it was detonated in 42 years, you can turn forward and see.) )
And after the construction of a large-scale nuclear reactor, all of a sudden, Heisenberg discovered a new problem.
Nuclear reactors are built to burn nuclear materials, but if they are only to burn nuclear materials, it is too wasteful, so when they were designed, this is a giant power station that generates enough electricity.
Now, there is electricity, so let's start the uranium bomb project together!
In nature, more than 98% of uranium-238 is uranium-238, and uranium-235 is prone to fission, so in order to reduce the difficulty, Ciric proposed a plan to burn uranium-238 into plutonium-239, which is a plutonium bomb.
At the same time, there is another way, that is, using the principle of centrifugal motion, separating two isotopes with different atomic weights, just like the principle of throwing water out of a washing machine, throwing uranium-238 outside, and what is left in the center is uranium-235.
This requires repeated centrifugation and a large amount of ore.
Now, with the German occupation of all of Europe, a large amount of uranium ore has been obtained, and when the power station is built, there is enough electricity to supply the centrifuges with a steady source of energy.
Coupled with the improvement of the empire's finances, after the euroization of Europe, all the wealth was concentrated in Germany, and once again a billion euros of funds were pumped into the current project, so to speak, there was nothing missing.
Standing in front of the huge centrifuge and listening to the rumbling sound inside, both of them were excited.
The war in Europe is over, the Soviet Union has been conquered, and the United States is left, and we must speed up!
They are not worried that the United States will create it first, but they are worried that they have not yet created it, and the war has ended, in this case, they have been busy for so many years, and they will be busy in vain, I am afraid that the future use will be to develop new planets, and even use it when an interstellar war breaks out, that is too nonsense, right?