Chapter 236 The First Successful Nuclear Test

"This is what you've been working on for a few years?".

"This is Lao Qian and my biggest achievement in the past few years, a 2 million ton atomic bomb, if you want to see the three-phase bomb, you have to wait a few more years." Zhou Lijian said triumphantly.

"You're still like this, I don't know when we'll see our nuclear-powered satellites and space probes appear, but at a time when the average level of science and technology in neighboring countries and the world has not yet reached the Renaissance era, is it too much to make a nuclear ejection? Isn't that a waste? Liu Xin looked unhappy, as if he did not vote for the 10-year nuclear energy development conference held that year.

"It's not a waste of money, we were all small people back then, we have never seen the scene of a nuclear explosion, and now we don't talk about scientific research and the collection of parameters of nuclear technology, etc., just to open our eyes, spend a few million, and build a nuclear bomb. You don't want to talk nonsense, the countdown will start immediately, and the virtual ritual of pressing the button will not be used, just sit here and watch the live broadcast directly, this no-man's land has finally come in handy. Liu Jiao recalled that when he called up the nuclear science and technology documents from the hard disk, he estimated the time to build a nuclear bomb and a nuclear power plant, but he didn't expect to make a large-yield atomic bomb in only five years, and he had to admire the hands-on ability of the Chinese people.

The uranium enrichment project presided over by Zhou Lijian over the past few years has been relatively smooth thanks to the accumulation of chemical technology, and the stockpile of weapons-grade enriched uranium has exceeded the design reserve of 100 100-million-ton atomic bombs. To put it bluntly, the energy industry is the driving force of all industries, is the absolute eternal sunrise industry and basic industry, will only become bigger and bigger with the development of society, at the beginning of the development of a variety of energy generation is the consensus of the public, but on which energy in a certain region to give priority to the development of the development of the future development of the issue has not been well determined.

The uneven distribution of thermal power and hydropower is an important background in the process of industrialization, and the economy of East Asia, as the world's most developed economy, has begun to enter electrification, so the development of the power industry should also be put on the agenda. From the perspective of scientific and technological level and training of technical personnel, nuclear power is definitely higher than thermal power and hydropower.

However, not having enough time to accumulate technology and talent is the weakness of the public, so when you click on the technology tree, it is inevitable that there will be disputes over speed or efficiency. It is absolutely contradictory to build a large number of provinces in the field of construction, and it is impossible to ensure quality and low cost while building a large number of them.

Several important cities and capitals have replaced dangerous gas street lamps with electric light bulbs, and many important factories and projects that must work night shifts in three shifts have also used better lighting lights. The invention of the servo motor is simply a major technology comparable to the atomic bomb, but without alternating current and sufficient stable voltage, it is also a waste. Every city is trying to adapt and pursue catch-up in the tide of the times, but the material and energy gap caused by this rapid technological explosion cannot be solved by stacking technology.

As small as a screw, as large as a generator set or substation, are not just against the drawings, relying on manual knocking can produce the crystallization of industrial civilization, a primary complete regional power system (from the upstream power generation equipment to the downstream electricity network lines) at least tens of thousands of patent reserves and applications. It's not a papermaking workshop that can be conjured up by taking out a few drawings and a restaurant that can be opened with a few secret recipes. Rather, it involves a large number of black technologies that transcend the times and people's cognitive level.

Just like before World War II, someone took out a set of scientific and technological gift packages for the production of Battlestar to the United States, and the United States could not build it, at this time, the Chinese Empire did not even popularize the steam engine to every factory that needed a stable power source, so electrification is a beautiful dream, which can only exist in the secret scientific research base of the people and is difficult to promote.

Therefore, although the people of China have developed an atomic bomb, it is difficult to develop a nuclear power system that can be commercialized on a large scale. The traversal is well aware of the benefits that technological diffusion brings to the world, and also knows that the pressure of the technological Big Bang on the countries that own it, and that once technological development slows down or is overtaken by copycats with a late-mover advantage, it will soon lose its advantage. Ancient Egypt lost to ancient Babylon, ancient Babylon lost to Assyria, many ancient civilizations died at the hands of barbarians because the technological lead was very limited, the technology tree is too short, too small so it is easy to catch up, when the science and technology explosion, after entering the modern era of industry, the technology tree has become a towering tree, and the combat effectiveness of civilized countries and barbarian countries is not just a few simple stirrups or horseshoes and other small technologies can be leveled. A tank and machine-gun company could take out more than a thousand cavalry without pressure or losses. The comparison of strength is not the old speed that can be caught up with a plagiarism in the past. In order for capital to pursue profits, huge competitive pressure will fall on every participant in the market economic system.

Among the achievements of the scientific and technological explosion, the most concentrated scientific and technological explosion occurred in the Cold War era, where the fierce competition led to the investment of huge amounts of resources by both sides of the Cold War in the arms race and the scientific and technological race, and the competition in space science and technology alone produced a super scientific and technological peak that other countries other than the United States and the Soviet Union could not have crossed for decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This kind of speed can only come from the era of high-intensity competition and resource concentration to prepare for war, and in peacetime, the chaebols will only create economic crises and bubble cycles in order to reap the fruits of social development in a stable round, and it is absolutely impossible to invest in scientific research in this way.

When they first came with the crystallization of science and technology that transcended the times and millennium, they also thought of learning from the Western chaebols in this way, but they were forced by the too backward background of life and production, and they had to selflessly engage in a big sale of the first industrial science and technology gift package. Who can endure a standard of living without even flush toilets and electric lights after enjoying the services of water, electricity, transportation and household appliances and equipment that have crystallized with modern and convenient technology?

The areas and people who are too far away and too remote to pass through the crowd can't care and don't want to care, and modern electrified life is impossible, at least to ensure that their own people and partners can live a modern standard of living after the industry.

Nuclear power is still too exaggerated, and hydroelectric power units can only supply power to fertilizer plants or precision machinery processing plants, which are large energy consumers, and niche technologies such as Solar, Wind and Tidal Energy can only stay in drawings and textbooks. According to the estimation of the cross-generation, thermal power will account for 90 major and mainstream within 20 years.

Therefore, the nuclear power promotion and application plan has been shelved, and only a group of people have been retained in the Energy Science and Technology Research Institute to continue to study various manufacturing processes, equipment matching and optimized design, and the research on the third-generation nuclear power plant technology tree has slowed down, and the pursuit of accumulating technology for stability and safety details has begun.

Although the emergence of the atomic bomb is one of the secret weapons programs, it is simply impossible to use it on any country in this era, and no country is worthy of using this weapon in the cross-section. Just like the development of biological and chemical weapons, the development of such weapons can only be used as a technological reserve and a transitional intermediate link that must be passed through for the development of peripheral derivative technologies, and a few experimental bombs to collect information and data are sufficient.

When the sound of the countdown interrupted Lee's memories, all the engineers and staff in the control room held their breath and stared at the murderous weapons on the massive tower on the big screen. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonation!" The emotionless mechanical sound counted down and counted, so that the traversers who had seen countless winds and waves couldn't help but clench their fists.

A burst of processed images came into everyone's eyes, and on several separate screens, images were played from cameras at more than a dozen observation points at a distance of 1 kilometer, 5 kilometers, 10 kilometers, 20 kilometers, and 50 kilometers from the atomic bomb. In addition to the cameras facing the direction of the atomic bomb, there are also many cameras facing various experimental objects, such as walls of different thicknesses and materials, houses, fortifications, vehicles, fake people, cats, dogs, domestic animals and other model props.

After the sound of the detonation sounded, the screen that should have turned white did not change at all, and the hideous iron tower and the atomic bomb painted with skulls did not move, still standing there motionless.

"What's going on, is the control line cut off?" Li Ji immediately asked.

Qian Jin, who is the chief engineer, was dumbfounded, "Go check it out, fuck, drop the chain at a critical time." "The people in the control room were in a mess.

A few minutes later, a staff member monitoring the control signal went to Qian Jin to report the situation. It turned out that the power line was bitten by a gerbil in the desert. After listening to this, the relieved traverser wiped a cold sweat. After excluding technical mistakes and sabotage, this ultra-low probability thing is comparable to the wormhole encountered by the traversal.

After several hours of waiting, the experiment had to be abandoned after dark. The bright light from the detonation of the atomic bomb at night will cause a lot of trouble, and at noon the next day, the traversal enjoyed the demeanor of the first thermonuclear weapon mushroom cloud made by himself in this time and space, as for why the prefix of thermonuclear weapons was added? This is to recall the first chemical high-energy weapon mushroom cloud created by the cloudburst bomb made three years ago.

Even if there was no pressure to prepare for it, the traverser couldn't help but celebrate, and held a drinking party to reward the meritorious personnel who participated. This kind of scientific research work and contributions, which are destined to be locked in the filing cabinet of the Secret Bureau for dozens or even hundreds of years, can only be kept out public, and mainly material rewards. Any medals and honors can only be recorded in the accounts, and they will not be made public until the day of decryption.

No matter how advanced the weapons and equipment are, China is also very reluctant to learn from the Cold War and engage in an arms race to pile up a science and technology tree, although it is an important way to transfer military science and technology to civilian use, but the traversal is still more willing to work steadily and steadily, and spread out the stalls step by step, just like the subdivision of college majors one by one, rather than the emergence of a swarm of bees. Although the data was sealed immediately after the successful conclusion of the nuclear test, new fields of nuclear technology and microscopic physics opened the door to the scientific researchers of the Chinese Empire. The mass-energy equation published by Qian Jin, which has always been in the hearts of many scientific researchers, has been perfectly deduced, revealing the objective and true side. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe (this site), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )