Ceylon Ocean.

Diego Garcia.

The island, which Homo sapiens had previously snatched from America, has been remodeled inside and out by the Ministry of Defense.

In addition, using the shallow islands and reefs around the sea, three small bases hidden under the sea were built, as well as a secret harbor base.

At this time, it was located in the third satellite base on the north side of Diego Garcia Island, about 57 kilometers away.

All personnel inside the base were evacuated, leaving only an empty base.

Inside the main base underground on the island of Diego Garcia.

Base Commander Le Gong's expression was a little solemn and nervous: "Dr. Levi, is there really nothing wrong with that thing?" ”

Dr. Levi, who came from Honsavady on a nuclear submarine, replied with a calm face: "Don't worry! Everything is in my calculations, three layers of composite lead plates, plus a special compressed air absorption layer, enough to resist dense gamma rays. ”

"Alright then!" Le Gong could only carry out the task head-on.

Dr. Levi was very calm: "There are no personnel in that affiliated base, even if there is an accident, it will be abandoned directly." ”

"Doctor, it's been examined."

Dr. Levi then ordered, "Then let's start testing!" ”

"Yes."

"Countdown to 30 seconds ......"

30…… 20…… 10…… 0……

Drip! The detonation command followed the wires, quickly detonating the nuclear device 57 kilometers away.

In the special nuclear explosion test site, the hydrogen bomb with a yield of 100 tons exploded instantly, and because the entire room was pumped into a subvacuum, there was no strong shock wave, only light radiation, neutron jets, and radioactive materials.

Various detectors embedded in the defensive walls of the test site also received a large amount of data.

At the same time, more than 73% of the first-layer detectors were destroyed in an instant.

Dr. Levi looked at the real-time data on his computer, and a hint of excitement appeared on his face: "It worked!" I was right! The firefly configuration can really do it! ”

At this time, in the radiation index on the computer, the amount of gamma rays released is very high, almost hundreds of times more than that of ordinary ordinary hydrogen bombs.

This means that a large amount of radioactive material was produced in the nuclear explosion just now, and it is a radioactive material that can release gamma rays.

Dr. Levi's quickly instructed: "Feed the data into the reaction model and calculate how much cobalt-59 is converted to cobalt-60." ”

"Understood."

The data was substituted into the prepared reaction model, and through supercomputing analysis, a total of data was quickly obtained.

"The conversion rate is between 71.6%~74.2%."

Dr. Levi clenched his fists: "Expectations have been met, and it looks like we've added another hole card." ”

What they studied was the infamous cobalt bomb.

After developing a hydrogen bomb in the configuration of a firefly, Dr. Levi and others did not rest on their laurels and continued to delve into other nuclear technologies.

In a simulated nuclear explosion, Levi's had the whimsical idea to replace the uranium shell in the three-phase bomb with a cobalt-59 shell.

He found that because the firefly configuration has a special magnetic field binding mechanism, it can prolong the nuclear reaction by about 0.6 seconds and detonate, which leads to an extremely low conversion rate of cobalt-59, which can be increased to about 70%.

The cobalt bomb is not a nuclear bomb of direct destruction, but a super dirty bomb.

In the fifties of the last century, some physicists put forward the theory of cobalt bombs, and the major powers also studied cobalt bombs at that time, and found that cobalt bombs were difficult to realize, and the key difficulty was the efficiency of converting cobalt 59 into cobalt 60.

The firefly configuration developed by Levi is very suitable for cobalt bombs.

This test is to verify the cobalt bomb technology.

Judging by the data generated by the explosion, it is clear that Levi's vision succeeded.

According to the current conversion rate of about 70%, as long as a cobalt bomb containing 800 tons of cobalt-59 is detonated in the stratosphere at an altitude of 50,000 meters, the whole world can be wiped out.

800 tons of cobalt-59 can produce 560 tons of cobalt-60, while the earth's surface area is only about 510 million square kilometers, and the average per square kilometer will be divided into 1 gram of cobalt-60.

This thing is very radioactive, with a half-life of 5.27 years, and during decay, it releases a large amount of gamma rays.

Gamma rays are extremely penetrating, and humans on the surface have little chance of surviving, except in thick nuclear bunkers.

Even if it can survive 5.27 years in the underground base, it will take about 100 years for the radioactivity concentration on the surface to barely fall back to the tolerance range of humans.

Moreover, the cobalt bomb does not need to be launched into the territory of the other party at all, even if it is detonated in the air above its own territory, it can also cover the whole world.

This means that those so-called interception systems do not work at all.

Although a cobalt bomb cannot achieve the scale of 800 tons, an 8 ton can still be done.

8 tons of launch vehicles with just enough solid fuel can be launched directly to an altitude of 50,000 meters in the stratosphere.

From now on, Homo sapiens only needs to be equipped with 100 cobalt bombs to create a global extermination deterrent.

Of course, 100 cobalt bombs alone are certainly not enough, after all, once this thing is used, the Homo sapiens itself will also suffer heavy losses, so it can only be used as a strategic deterrent.

The conventional low-hazard hydrogen bomb is the main force of Homo sapiens' tactical deterrence.

Levi's led a group of nuclear physics researchers and nuclear engineers to carefully analyze the various data generated in this test explosion.

Although the cobalt bomb succeeded, they did not get carried away.

The research and development of this world-destroying weapon, everyone is actually a little stressed and uneasy in their hearts.

Three days later.

Levi and others conducted a comprehensive analysis and supercomputing simulation review of the data generated by this test explosion.

In a holographic projection of a temporary studio.

The various details of the explosion of the experimental cobalt bomb were restored little by little.

Suddenly, Du Hai, a nuclear power engineer, stared at him, turned his head and ordered: "Xiao Gao, play it again, stop at 3.7 seconds, and then slow down 100 times." ”

“OK。”

The supercomputing simulation played again until the 3.7-second node, which was slowed down by a factor of 100.

Dr. Levi asked curiously, "Did you find anything?" ”

"Electricity!" Du Hai's eyes flashed with excitement.

"Electricity?" Dr. Levi looked closely at the changes in the data, and soon he saw the current that Duhi was talking about.

After 3.7 seconds, the compressed air absorbing layer in the gamma-ray barrier layer begins to show a dense current.

According to the results of the calculation, these currents are basically stable in the range of 2.63~2.77 kilowatts.

Levi reacted instantly: "This is the ...... of gamma rays producing energy"

After the transformation of the absorption layer of compressed air, these gamma rays are directly turned into electric current.

Du Hai's voice trembled slightly: "We have a total of 200 grams of cobalt-59, of which 144 grams are converted into cobalt-60, which should be able to produce the equivalent of 4 kilowatts of power according to its half-life and the energy generated by decay." ”

All of them were professionals, and it was quickly calculated that the power conversion rate was 67%.

Du Hai already felt hot: "The key is the voltage, the current absorbed by the compressed air is about 3~70,000 volts, which is easier to transform than the natural lightning of hundreds of millions of volts." ”

Although Levi specializes in nuclear weapons research and development, it does not mean that he does not understand nuclear power, and after reading these data, he is also a little excited:

"This is an important discovery."

Du Hai proposed: "Doctor, I propose to refine the cobalt-60 in the test site and then redesign an experiment. ”

"Yes."

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