Chapter 658: Raw Material Crisis

The outside world continues to talk about UFOs, and people are skeptical of the deletion of posts by the authorities.

But in the era of news explosions, Chen Nuo believes that this topic will soon be covered by other news.

Especially in this era of entertainment, people have had a few relationships about what color celebrities wear than they are interested in science.

Sure enough, Chen Nuo swiped Weibo with Aisin equipment, and the hot search has become a topic of whether a celebrity has plastic surgery.

Chen Nuo is also worried that the Shahutai laboratory will be found by outsiders, and in the hinterland of the desert, there is no way to reach here on foot unless there is a positioning and helicopter.

So far, there is no road leading to the Shahutai area, and Chen Nuo does not have to worry about Shahutai being discovered by explorers or reporters.

Three days later, the A1 anti-gravity chassis will complete all the experiments and be delivered to the second experimental group for the installation of the draft shield and the decoration of the interior according to Feng Ran's design.

When all this is done, the A1 anti-gravity chassis will become a true space vehicle.

Of course, the experiment of the anti-gravity chassis is far from over, and Professor Ding will also lead the laboratory team to try an anti-gravity chassis with a larger volume, larger load, higher levitation, and faster speed, laying the foundation for future dual-use military and civilian use.

At present, the first step of the experiment has been completed, and there is no need for Chen Nuo to continue to stay in Shahutai and eat sand, he still has important things to do - how to obtain tritium?

Through laboratory nuclear reactions, the reactor uses the neutrons of the reactor and uses lithium fluoride, lithium carbonate or lithium-magnesium alloy as the target material to produce tritium in large quantities.

Don't look at the large amount written here, the large amount here is actually very small.

How many? Here's an example.

The country currently has less than 80 kilograms of tritium newly stored each year! The half-life of tritium is only 12 to 13 years, and to put it more simply, every 12 to 13 years, half of all tritium stored on Earth is lost.

So how expensive is tritium? Why would China provide enriched uranium to Bluestar instead of tritium?

Because according to the current technology of human production of tritium, tritium is destined to be the most expensive element in the world, and 1 gram is currently worth 27 million US dollars, which is 650,000 times that of gold!

How much tritium will be used in an anti-gravity chassis?

In the case of the A1 anti-gravity chassis (with a radius of three meters, a load of ten tons, and a maximum flight speed of more than Mach 2), an anti-gravity chassis requires 10 kg to 15 kg of tritium! Building an anti-gravity chassis would consume one-seventh to one-eighth of the total amount of tritium stored in the United States that year! At its current value, it is about 4 trillion meters!

Not to mention anything, not counting the other costs of the anti-gravity chassis, the cost of nuclear fuel alone exceeds the foreign exchange reserves of the entire country.

Besides, even if the Blue Star Group has money, there is no place to buy tritium.

The rice country will never sell it, and its annual output is only seventy or eighty kilograms, which is not enough for itself.

Huaguo's production is even less, although it has not been announced, but according to technical analysis, Chen Nuo calculates that Huaguo's annual output will not exceed 50 kilograms.

It is also impossible for Chen Nuo to use enriched uranium as a raw material all the time, because the safety factor of enriched uranium is too low, and no matter how well it is tuned, there is no guarantee that it will not be dangerous every time.

The danger of nuclear materials is not the explosion of the battery, but the enormous explosion and intense radiation.

This kind of dangerous value, not to mention that the country does not agree to the production of aerospace vehicles by Bluestar Group, even Chen Nuo himself will not agree to continue production.

At this cost and status quo, the space vehicle now produced by the laboratory is the first and probably the last in the human world.

The aerospace vehicle is very advanced, but the cost of production is too high.

The lab also concluded that its practical helium-3 would work! Helium-3 is as perfect as tritium as a nuclear material, because it is helium-3 after the decay of tritium.

For this kind of words, Chen Nuo only had two hehes.

Why?

Because the amount of helium-3 on earth is also very small.

And all helium-3 is derived from tritium decay.

The amount of tritium is inherently small, will helium-3 be more?

The entire planet has a helium-3 content of 500 kilograms.

But helium-3 is abundant in one place - the Moon.

The Moon has seventy kilograms per square kilometer.

The imagination is beautiful, the reality is cruel, but it is a pity that mankind, including all the group companies and countries of Bluestar Technology, has not yet had the technology to mine on the moon.

This can only be used as a scenario for future energy needs.

Fortunately, there is Blue Star World.

Fortunately, the planting community has formed a perfect experimental team with Feng Ran as the core through several years of development.

After Chen Nuo gave the order, Feng Ran collected the methods of tritium production and manufacturing in the Blue Star World in a short period of time, and simulated this method with the help of a supercomputer.

Perfect!

A reactor in a standard state that can produce a thousand tons of tritium per year by neutron bombardment!

A thousand tons of tritium!

There have never been a thousand tons of tritium in the history of mankind! Even the stock of all tritium on the planet is not a thousand tons!

If Chen Nuo could build a standard nuclear reactor to produce tritium, producing 1,000 tons of tritium a year, the whole world would be shocked.

Whether you can make an aerospace car or not, how many thermonuclear weapons can be made from a thousand tons of tritium, the picture is too beautiful to think.

Now that the method of producing tritium is available, it is now necessary to put the method into practice.

It has been said before that practice is the only way to test the truth.

Whether tritium can be produced, Chen Nuo still needs to build a nuclear reactor in the same way as the Blue Star World.

The planting community is not in a position to build a nuclear reactor, and everything can only rely on Chen Nuo himself.

The Bluestar Group has money and technicians, and it is not too difficult to build such a nuclear reactor.

But! Where there is always a but!

But building a nuclear reactor to produce heavy water is not about building a building and selling a house, it's not about building if you want to.

Chen Nuo needed to find the perfect location.

There are currently three locations to choose from.

1. The experimental field five kilometers away from Huaguo Shahu Terrace;

2. Turquoise Island;

3. Venezuela Special Economic Zone.

There is no need to consider the special economic zone in Venezuela, the management power lies in the Blue Star Group, but the sovereignty lies in the Venezuelan country, if the Blue Star Group builds a nuclear reactor here, it will break the reality of the denuclearization of the Lamy region, and the Venezuelan will not agree, and the United Nations will not agree.

The blue island is also unrealistic, the place is too small, there is not enough site for construction, even after the construction is successful, the tritium produced is also a problem to transport to China. What's more, the construction of a nuclear reactor on the Emerald Island would also break the reputation of the Emerald Island as a resort destination.

Finally, the only place to choose from will be the laboratory 50 kilometers away from Shahutai.

The desert Gobi is deserted and uninhabited, an excellent location for reactor construction.

Chen Nuo thought that it was time for a showdown with the above, and Shahutai and its surroundings needed more autonomy.

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