"I know the matter of aircraft carriers and battleships......"

Zhu Zhongliang listened to Zhu Jingyuan's description, compared with his understanding of the ancestors' relics, and made a basic judgment on the changing trend of the naval ship system, and then began to confirm another problem:

"By the way, during the day, when we were openly discussing, we talked about the technology related to electric furnace steelmaking, which can help the turbine engines of aircraft mature faster. So can we speed up the development of atomic weapons? ”

Zhu Jingyuan himself has considered this issue.

The most critical step in the development and production of atomic weapons is uranium enrichment technology.

There are three isotopes of uranium, uranium-238, uranium-235, uranium-234, and three isotopes of deuterium, deuterium, and tritium that are similar to hydrogen.

It is uranium-235 that can form a chain reaction that can be used as a fission weapon, but uranium-235 accounts for only 0.72% of natural uranium.

The remaining 99.275% is uranium-238 that cannot be used to make fissile weapons, and 0.005% uranium-234.

The uranium element in uranium compounds also exists in these three isotopes at the same time.

To make an atomic weapon out of uranium-235, it is necessary to separate uranium-235 from the massive amount of uranium-238.

This process of separating uranium-235 is known as uranium enrichment.

The resulting high concentration of uranium-235 after enrichment is used to make atomic weapons.

Low and medium concentrations of uranium-235 are used in the construction of nuclear power plants.

The remaining residue, mainly uranium-238, can also be used to make artillery shells, the so-called depleted uranium shells.

The name depleted uranium ammunition is not accurate.

Depleted uranium shells do not contain only a small amount of uranium, but only a very small amount of uranium-235, the vast majority of which are uranium-238.

In Zhu Jingyuan's memory, there are two ways to separate uranium-235.

One is the gas diffusion method.

First, a specialized chemical plant was built to convert uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride, a gaseous compound of uranium.

The uranium hexafluoride containing uranium-235 is then screened out with a filter membrane similar to a mesh sieve, and then reduced to pure uranium metal.

Another method is centrifugation.

The uranium hexafluoride gas is passed into a centrifuge, and the heavier uranium hexafluoride containing uranium-238 is thrown out by the centrifuge.

Comparatively speaking, centrifugation is more efficient, consumes less energy, and has a higher upper limit.

However, there are high requirements for the production process, and high-speed motors and high-speed centrifuges are difficult points to overcome.

In the early days of Zhu Jingyuan's life, the atomic energy industry was basically based on the gas diffusion method.

It was not until the sixties that centrifugal uranium enrichment gradually became mainstream as a second-generation enrichment technology.

Now Zhu Jingyuan has taken out the electric furnace electric steel and electroslag remelting steel in the fifties and sixties in advance.

The rotor of the high-speed motor and the bearing of the centrifuge are on the ground.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it in his heart and explained his thoughts to Zhu Zhongliang:

"With electroslag steel, we can make higher level electric motors and higher strength machinery.

"In terms of the uranium enrichment program, we have made two preparations, gas diffusion and centrifugation at the same time.

"Originally, it was mainly based on the gas diffusion method, and it will gradually switch to the centrifugal method in the future.

"Centrifugation is more efficient, consumes less energy, and doesn't require as many factories and power plants.

"It should be able to speed up the construction and maturity of the atomic energy industry."

Zhu Zhongliang actually has a judgment in his heart.

The steel industry is the foundation of industrial society, and if the level of steel materials is greatly improved, most of the high-end industrial industries can be upgraded accordingly.

Now that Zhu Jingyuan has affirmed it, Zhu Zhongliang has confirmed his judgment even more:

"And how long do you feel like you can speed up? Can we cut the time it takes to build atomic weapons in half? ”

Zhu Jingyuan was almost stretched when he heard this:

"Speed up by half...... This is obviously impossible......

"Unlike the aircraft industry, which can rely on the internal combustion engine industry, the atomic energy industry is completely starting from scratch.

"The process of infrastructure construction and the process of building an industrial system cannot be skipped.

"Whether it is using the gas diffusion method or the centrifugal method, it is necessary to prospect, open and beneficiate.

"We must build chemical plants to make yellowcakes (ammonium diurarate), build chemical plants to synthesize uranium gas (uranium tetrafluoride, uranium hexafluoride) for synthesizing and separation, and develop computers to assist scientific research.

"What's more, although the engineering scale and energy consumption of the centrifugal method are much lower than those of the gas diffusion method, the research and development of the centrifugal method is more difficult.

"Replacing the gas diffusion method with the centrifugal method will increase the construction speed of the entire atomic energy industrial system by a quarter.

"It may not even affect the speed of construction of the entire industrial system.

"But instead of doing gas diffusion, going directly to the centrifugal method can allow the atomic energy industry to skip the initial stage.

"This actually saves one stage of R&D and construction costs.

"There are certainly huge benefits in the overall and long run."

Zhu Zhongliang was a little regretful at once, but he was able to understand this logic.

It is also difficult to be efficient, and the time required to actually complete it can be about the same.

Zhu Zhongliang knew that he had just come up with a whim:

"Well, if that's the case, then I'd like to speed up by a quarter.

"Speaking of which, when we return to Xintianfu, let's go to the factory together."

Zhu Jingyuan also wanted to take a look, and when it was time to go and see, he nodded directly and agreed.

Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan's ancestors and grandsons followed the aircraft carrier formation on the sea for six days and returned to Xintianfu on a cruiser after watching the second comprehensive exercise.

The two rested in the palace for a day, and on the morning of the third day, they left the palace by car to inspect the industrial park outside the city.

The general industrial facilities of Xintianfu and the industrial base mainly for civilian use are arranged in the eastern area of the inner city.

The state-of-the-art scientific research facilities and special military research and development bases are located in the western block of the inner city.

The atomic energy-related research base and supporting factory facilities are located in the southern part of the inner city of Xintianfu, which is separated from all other industries.

The sign "New Element Research Base" hangs at the entrance of a base surrounded by a high wall.

Under the inner and outer walls of the base and at the door, there are soldiers patrolling the 24 filial piety stores.

After Zhu Zhongliang and his grandson entered the city, they did not immediately go to see the construction base related to enriched uranium.

Instead, I went to the power plant in the garden.

Energy is the foundation of industry, electricity is the foundation of the modern world, and electricity is even more important for enriched uranium.

Xintianfu is surrounded by large plains, and there is no way to build a large hydropower station.

A large number of hydropower stations under construction in the upper reaches of the Milky Way will not be able to quickly connect to the grid for power supply in the short term.

They will power future large-scale, sustained uranium enrichment production.

Therefore, at the same time, it is necessary to build the most efficient and fastest thermal power station, a research facility next to Xintianfu, and an early separation experimental base to provide energy.

In and around the coal-fired power plant in Xintianfu, there is no mountain of coal like a mountain.

Because the thermal power plant of New Tianfu New Element is not coal-burning, but heavy oil-burning.

There is a lack of coal mines in South Yinzhou.

This lack does not mean that there is no at all, but that on such a large continent, coal mines account for only 0.4 percent of the world's total.

It can only be said that it is almost nothing.

On the contrary, Nanyinzhou is rich in oil resources, especially in Venezuela, which has the world's largest heavy oil fields.

Heavy oil is not easy to smelt, the proportion of gasoline and diesel is low, and most of the remaining half is "residual oil".

Heavy oil cannot be sold at a good price in the smelting market, and it is not unacceptable to use it directly to generate electricity.

The calorific value of heavy oil is almost twice that of coal of the same weight.

In the southern Yinzhou, which includes Venezuela, the heat produced by the combustion of heavy oil per unit price may be cheaper than that of coal.

From the end of the second year of Ankang, Zhu Zhongliang reminded Zhu Jingyuan that he began Yinzhou's strategic planning and began to prepare for the atomic energy industry, and it has been less than two years in total.

Although the construction of thermal power plants is fast, this time is not enough to complete directly.

Most of the current power plant is still a construction site, with busy workers all around.

However, one of the generator sets has already started operation, and now it has begun to supply electricity to the base on an experimental basis.

There's something to do today.,First update this half chapter.,There should be more at night.,

(End of chapter)