Chapter 137: Fission is discovered
"General Ciric, the direction you specified is indeed correct!" At this time, in an office at the University of Berlin, several people were in high spirits, wearing glasses and looking like scholars!
Now, it was Hahn, one of the most famous chemists in Germany, who was in his fifties this year, his hair was beginning to turn gray, and he was in good spirits at this time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a scientist, all you want most is to win a Nobel Prize, and now, Hahn seems to have seen that the Nobel Prize is beckoning to him!
Of course, not only Hahn, but also his assistant, Strathman, was also instrumental in this discovery!
What was found? The most significant discovery of the twentieth century! Fission of the nucleus!
Historically, this was an unexpected discovery.
In 1938, the scientific community has made such a discovery, uranium is irradiated by neutrons to produce some β radionuclides, but many scientists believe that this is a transuranic element.
Only two people, Hahn and Strassmann, after carefully identifying the products of the nuclear reaction, affirmed that one of them was radioactive barium, what does this mean? The uranium nucleus fissioned and became a new nucleus!
In Einstein's theory, the fission of the nucleus of the atom will be accompanied by a loss of mass and the release of energy!
For this contribution, Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944!
And now, two years earlier than in history, they have made this discovery! This is thanks to a meeting that Ciric gave these scientists half a year ago!
At the meeting, Hillek elaborated on the importance he attaches to nuclear physics and pointed out some directions.
However, many people disagree with Ciric's words.
When did a soldier come to meddle in the affairs of the scientific community, young man, do you know how the nucleus of an atom is formed?
Many people have prejudices about Shirek, after all, Shirek does not have any prestige in the scientific community.
Only Hahn listened, took his assistant, did a lot of experiments, and finally, affirmed the correctness of Shirek's statement, bombarding the uranium nucleus with slow neutrons, and it could be fission!
This is a discovery that shocked the entire scientific community!
This is the reason why Ciric, who was called out in the middle of the night, at this time, almost all the experts of nuclear physics in Germany arrived!
"First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your amazing discovery." Rubbing his eyes, Ciric said to Hahn and his assistant, who were frowning, "At the same time, for the sake of Germany, I hope that you can keep this discovery of yours and not publish it publicly for the time being." ”
"Why?" Suddenly, Hahn was stunned.
"For Germany." "What this discovery means, I'm sure everyone knows in their hearts," said Ciric. The nucleus of the atom can be fissioned, it can release a large amount of energy, if these energies are released smoothly, it will bring convenience to our lives, for example, it can become a source of electricity, and if it is released violently in a short time, it is a weapon. ”
How did the United States begin to develop nuclear weapons in later generations? At first, it was discovered that all the academic papers on nuclear physics had disappeared, and as a result, Einstein and these guys couldn't sit still, and they realized that Germany might be working on nuclear weapons!
So, they wrote to Roosevelt and asked to study the nuclear bomb secretly, and as a result, Germany gave up and the United States succeeded.
And now, it is the first moment, for example, even the fission of the atomic nucleus, no one has yet discovered, if from now on, if this secret is kept, then Einstein and others will not notice anything.
Germany, from now on, will be secretly developed!
"We have endured for more than ten years, and we will never continue to endure." "Perhaps, you are not interested in politics, but I would like to say that only when Germany is strong will we have a future, and if other countries, such as Britain and the United States, succeed in building this kind of atomic weapon, then it will be our end," said Ciric. ”
Ciric, who came from later generations, of course, knew a lot of things, and there were many reasons for Germany's failure to successfully develop the atomic bomb, and the passivity of these scientists in front of him must be regarded as one thing, and the wrong direction of research is another.
And now, they must not be allowed to continue on the same path!
"Our current research has two goals, in peacetime, let nuclear energy be released smoothly to serve our country and people, and when it comes to wartime, then let it become a Spartacles sword hanging over the enemy's head!" Ciric continued: "Everyone present is a hero of Germany, and although you will be unknown now, in the future, your deeds will be written into our textbooks and become a well-known hero. ”
"I have always believed that it is not politicians who change history, but scientists!" "Science is the driving force behind the development of the world, and we have opened the door to the use of atomic energy! ”
Even agitation and instigation, Ciric hopes that his painstaking efforts will have an effect.
"General Ciric, don't be too optimistic." At this moment, the famous scientist Heisenberg, a veteran of German science, spoke: "Now, the fission of uranium nuclei is only observed in the laboratory, and there is still a long way to go before practical application. ”
At this time, Heisenberg had put away his previous contempt and solemnly explained to Ciric: "First of all, we need a large amount of uranium raw materials, in nature, uranium ore, uranium-238 content is the highest, uranium-235 is less than one percent, and we have done experiments to prove that only uranium-235 can be split." ”
If it was before, Heisenberg would never talk nonsense with Ciric, but now, since Ciric's correctness has been confirmed, Heisenberg will also communicate with Ciric as a person in the scientific community.
Whether you want to build a nuclear reactor or a nuclear bomb, you need to have a high enough purity of nuclear raw materials, and it is not so easy to enrich uranium-235 in uranium ore.
In later generations, if you want to use uranium to build a nuclear bomb, you need a centrifuge, that is, to enrich uranium-235. This method is a huge investment and the results are poor.
"Yes, that's a problem, but it's actually easy to solve." Cierrick's hand, picked up a piece of chalk, and on the small blackboard beside him, he wrote a nuclear reaction equation that would be written by high school students in later generations: "Uranium-238 cannot split, but when it captures neutrons, it can become plutonium-239, plutonium-239, which is easy to fission." ”
In comparison, it is much easier to make plutonium bullets than uranium bullets! Because, in this way, there is no longer a need for centrifuges, it is only necessary to constantly burn in the reactor and burn the uranium into plutonium, and that's it!