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Chapter 1629 Nuclear Progress

The major adjustment of the Japanese army's strategy in Siberia was highly secret, and An Yi did not know that the main force of the Japanese army had begun to secretly move south by sea and deploy to the Lanyin Islands, and he was still carrying out his itinerary step by step. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Peace of mind.

After the luncheon, in the afternoon, An Yi visited the industrial zone that was set up in accordance with local conditions and gathered factories for wood processing, papermaking, ceramics, building materials, tea making, and food, as well as a large-scale trade and wholesale center in southern Yunnan and South China.

At that time, the armed police force was helping the villagers to harvest the rice, and seize the time to return the grains to the warehouses and level the fields. Soon, these fields will be planted with wheat or rapeseed, but also garlic or pachyderma in order to make the most of the land. After An Yi visited the industrial zone, on the way back, he saw the spectacular scene of the autumn harvest of the army and civilians working together, and hurriedly called to stop, and then pulled up his trouser legs, and asked for a sickle from the custodian of the armed police squadron who entered the village to help.

When the officers and soldiers saw that it was the supreme leader An Yi, they felt very cordial, and many people couldn't help but come to An Yi's side and wield sickles to harvest rice together. An Yi bent over and waved his sickle while asking about the recent training and work of the armed police force.

Ding Zhicheng has achieved great results in rectifying the work style and strengthening military-civilian ties in the public security and armed police forces.

The armed police detachment that helped them came from Fushou County, Heping City, in the Red River Plain region. Due to the relationship between altitude and latitude, the autumn rice harvest in the plain area was completed as early as early August, and then the officers and men left half of the troops to be responsible for daily security patrols, firefighting and disaster relief, and crime fighting, while the rest of the personnel set out in full gear and marched all the way to the mountains of the northwest region. On the way, if there were other troops to help with the harvest, they did not join, and continued to move around the village, so that they went all the way to the west, and before they knew it, they came here.

In the previous continuous road construction, land reclamation, and town construction, the experience of crawling together has deepened the unity within the public security and armed police forces and the affection between officers and soldiers.

At all times, the officers are always on the front line, and the members of the South China National Democratic Party and the activists who have joined the party have always undertaken the most arduous work. In the previous military training and missions, the soldiers who had previously served in the French army of Annan and whose families were relatively wealthy and knowledgeable were promoted faster, but through a series of arduous projects, the average status of soldiers from poor backgrounds was greatly improved.

Thanks to the strict cultural education within the Anjia Army, coupled with the integration of theory and practice in the process of project implementation, the overall quality of those soldiers from poor backgrounds has been greatly improved.

Over the past few months, a total of 148 officers and men of the public security and armed police have lost their lives in the line of duty, and 2,246 officers and men have been seriously injured. At the celebration meeting for the completion of the construction projects in various counties, a grand farewell ceremony was held for the officers and men who had died in various departments.

The various units gathered at the station, the phalanx was as neat as a knife and axe, and the soldiers, under the orders of the officers, collectively took off their hats and paid silent tribute to their fallen comrades. In the unit where the deceased officers and soldiers belonged, the coffin covered with the military flag was guarded by the honor guard, and the burial ceremony was held.

However, this kind of pain of life and death is too common in the past lives of people at the bottom of society. Dead people are by no means uncommon, whether they come from the city or from the countryside, natural disasters are never stopped, and people's life and death are like weeds.

Most of the fallen comrades-in-arms were born in poverty, if they died at home, it was only insignificant to this world, only in the An Jiajun, death has meaning, and tens of thousands of comrades-in-arms can mourn their personal deaths.

For the vast majority of soldiers, they did not know until this time that their death could be truly meaningful, and that they could be treated as heroes, and quite a few soldiers suddenly felt an indescribable sense of sorrow and pride. Before the founding of the Republic of South China, what kind of life did you live before?

Before participating in the Autumn Harvest Battle, the evaluation of advanced figures of all squadrons, brigades, detachments, and corps had ended, and the evaluation criteria were quite simple, and only personnel in the front line could be rated as advanced individuals, and all officers were not allowed to participate in the evaluation. Not only that, but the officers of all public security police stations and armed police squadrons, brigades, and detachments that are ineffective and inefficient in their work must also receive internal criticism and education.

The impact of this model on officers and men is enormous, and the living conditions of officers and soldiers are exactly the same; they scoop rice in one pot and live in one tent, and everyone should discuss and offer suggestions and suggestions on the construction of the project before they work.

The weekly democratic life meeting was everyone's favorite activity, and the various entertainment games were even more popular with the soldiers. Officers, including commanders and political commissars at all levels of the public security and armed police forces, participated in the activities whenever they had the opportunity. Even if you win the officer, everyone will laugh good-naturedly, and they will never give you small shoes in private. Of course, soldiers who disobey orders are punished, and there is nothing wrong with it. The officers were the first to jump into the muddy water with sandbags, and the soldiers did not follow suit, nothing was right. From this point of view, the An Jiajun is really a "strange" army.

Because of the transparency of salaries, officers and soldiers are equally clear about how much they earn. The soldiers from the lower classes felt very fair, and the soldiers from the old Annan Army felt that they had a lot of power when they entered the Anjia Army, but they couldn't make a fortune. This makes people feel an indescribable awkwardness, not only can you not make a fortune as an official, but more importantly, it is much harder than being a soldier. So what's the point of being an officer of the An Jiajun?

With all kinds of doubts or joys, after the commendation meeting, various units held a celebration banquet. At all feasts, there was wine and meat on the table. Some soldiers who were born very wealthy felt that this was a hundred times more heroic than their own big banquet, and their incomprehension or dissatisfaction with An Jiajun turned into a deep envy at this time. If military salaries or military supplies can be deducted, how much income must this be?

At the celebration banquet, everyone discussed the new news received from the family letter. When the project is tight, I often run at various construction sites, and the delivery of letters is not timely enough. The project was over, and many letters were delivered at once. Who's got how much land, how many of their family members who worked on the big farms went into the factory, and what was their income in the factory? Of course, there are also letters that bring bad news, who has a loved one who has passed away. These news let the comrades-in-arms come together to comfort these soldiers. In the midst of drunkenness, the grief of losing a loved one becomes less sad.

On the third day after the celebration ended, the public security and armed police forces issued a large number of promotion orders, and after democratic discussions within the army through the performance of the people, the officers from the new recruits took up their posts, and then the general battle to go deep into the countryside to help the autumn harvest.

After listening to the accounts of the officers and men, An Yi was very happy, and was very satisfied with the achievements of Ding Zhicheng's rectification and transportation carried out in the public security and armed police forces, and he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses during dinner in the evening.

That night, An Yi accompanied the pregnant Ou Chuer to spend a warm night, and the next morning, he went to Laizhou.

Laizhou is located more than 150 kilometers east of Anxin City, with continuous mountains and many valleys, and is the location of the nuclear physics research center and physics experiment base of Anyi Group.

After more than half a year of intense construction, the railway from Lao Cai to Laizhou was fully connected, and all five thermal power plants were put into operation. Due to the inclination of funds and resources, the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Tesla's research on the normal guided projection orbit have made significant progress, An Yi came this time, in addition to listening to the report of nuclear physics experts, is to watch the conventional guidance projection orbit experiment done by Tesla, for which Ding Molan also rushed to Laizhou to participate in the experiment.

The Institute of Nuclear Physics was built in Muang Bhan, in the north of Laizhou, in a huge valley with more than 40 houses connected into one, which is a spectacular sight. Due to the great damage caused by radioactive materials to the human body, An Yi did not enter the laboratory, but listened to the reports of Jewish experts such as Fermi, Fritz, Meitner, Szilard, Bohr, Planck, and Born in the electronic demonstration center.

Fermi, the director of the Institute, was of Jewish descent and was born in Rome and was a central figure in the Italian physics community. Leaving the oppression of the Nazi fascists, coupled with the guarantee of sufficient funding for research, Fermi, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old, looks full of spirits:

"Since we have set a course to prioritize the development of nuclear power, the focus of our first step is to study nuclear reactors. The reactor is a key design for nuclear power plants, and the chain fission reaction takes place in it. In the laboratory, the nuclear reactor is now being studied to the second generation.

"The first generation reactor was the first test reactor and was completed in March this year and reached criticality. Once the research is completed, it can completely replace the thermal power plant that was originally used to drive the gas centrifuge that separates uranium, and provide sufficient power for the base, and we also plan to study a 2.1 reactor for the production of plutonium.

"We envision three generations of nuclear reactors that are miniaturized, safer, capable of providing military vehicles and even commercial services, and are expected to be completed in the next two years. Incidentally, the second generation is a pressurized water reactor with relatively low pollution, the third generation may be the pebble bed reactor we envisioned, and the fast breeding furnace of the 3.5 generation only exists in the planning. ”

The fundamental reason why Nanhua's nuclear reactor research and development speed is so fast is that the research does not require weapons-grade uranium with a concentration of 99 percent, only 3 to 5 percent low-enriched uranium, so the difficulty of raw material production is very low, and the energy and gas centrifuges required are relatively small, and the progress is naturally faster.

At the same time, because the development of nuclear reactors first, and then the use of reactor power to speed up the rate of uranium refining and enrichment, as well as the production of plutonium, such a gradual process rather than skipping the reactor to develop the atomic bomb first, so that the research can save the largest part of the consumption, that is, the energy consumption of purifying and refining uranium.

After listening to the report, An Yi was very satisfied, and then he told the scientists present about his worries about the nuclear leakage and environmental pollution.

In later generations, the site selection requirements for nuclear power plants were very high and very cautious. Generally speaking, nuclear power plants must be built in relatively remote areas of economically developed areas, and there can be no large or medium-sized cities within 50 kilometers. It is required that there must be no fault zone in the deep part of the site, and there must be no active faults within a few thousand meters of the nuclear power plant, the site is 1,000 meters in the sea area and 50 kilometers inland, and there has been no earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher in history, and there has been no tectonic background of a magnitude 6 earthquake in the site area for 600 years.

In addition, nuclear power plants need to generate huge heat during operation, so the site of nuclear power plants must be close to water sources, preferably by the sea, which can also solve the problem of transportation of large equipment.

In view of these requirements, it would be unwise to build a nuclear base in the mountainous areas of northwestern Vietnam, which is a source of water, because the river water here will flow downstream, affecting the Red River Plain and the Mekong Plain, and the consequences of a leak would be unimaginable. Previously, there was no territory in Central Asia, so it was understandable to build in the depths of this valley, but now there are such good conditions, especially since Kazakhstan is still the world's second largest uranium mining area after Australia and Canada, and the construction of a nuclear base in the desert area by the Aral Sea is the most ideal.

An Yi's words have attracted the attention of scientists, you must know that the study of nuclear energy was originally for the benefit of mankind, if it is because of his own negligence to lead to large-scale nuclear contamination and bring a terrible humanitarian disaster, no one wants to see it. Therefore, after consultations, it was finally decided that the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lai State would only be used for laboratory research, and that the real nuclear base would be built in the Karakum Desert area on the coast of the Aral Sea, and that a canal would be dug from the Aral Sea to penetrate deep into the nuclear base and provide water sources.

The scientists' plan to use nuclear energy is to first use small power plants to drive 200 gas centrifuges, which are connected in series to refine uranium fuel with a concentration of about 4 percent, add it to the second-generation practical reactor to produce huge electricity, and then drive more centrifuges to refine weapons-grade uranium and plutonium.

In this way, the initial energy consumption was only 1/10,000 of the Manhattan project in the United States, and although the energy consumption increased in the later stage, it consumed enriched uranium in the reactor instead of oil or coal resources.

Historically, the United States was worried that Germany would take the lead in building an atomic bomb and first developed an atomic bomb that used weapons-grade uranium with a concentration of 99 percent, so it needed to build tens of thousands of centrifuges or diffusers to operate for several years, and then used the Lawrence electromagnetic method and the gas diffusion method, which consumes 60 times the energy of the gas centrifugal method, to separate uranium, so the Manhattan project of the United States used one-tenth of the electricity of the United States, and the cost was very staggering, and the main expenditure of its plan was actually used for energy consumption.

The Manhattan Project in the United States cost $2 billion, but if it is developed gradually, the final cost may be less than $100 million, which is within the acceptable range of South China's finances.