August 24th.

The second bidding meeting for blasting equipment at the Yushu base of United Mining began, and this time it was attended by China Nuclear Corporation, Xigao Company, Chelyabinsk Machinery Company and Alabama Construction Machinery Technology Company.

Although Luo Luo won the bid, he still came to participate together, and the last agreement signed was only a small part of the plan.

Compared to the first rushed bidding meeting, this time it was obviously much more formal, and United Mining was no longer unprepared.

After Luo Luo, United Mining provided the other four confirmed bidders with the lunar geological data obtained by Tianmu-2, and then each company used supercomputing to calculate the specific amount of hydrogen bomb used.

The supercomputer simulation is very fast, and yesterday the calculation results of the five bidders were sent:

Rowe believes that the use of nine hydrogen bombs of the 12 million ton yield and six hydrogen bombs of the 5 million ton yield will be sufficient; The calculation results of the Huahe and Xigao companies are to use 15 to 18 universal hydrogen bombs with a yield of 15 million tons.

If all three are normal, the results of Chelyabinsk Mechanical Company and Alabama Engineering Company are more outrageous:

They suggested that a 150 million ton hydrogen bomb should be used to explode at a depth of 900 meters, and then eight 1.5 million ton hydrogen bombs should be used to "repair" the pit and clean up the debris, and finally a stable mine with a solid outer wall could be obtained.

As for the Alabama Engineering Company, it directly overturned the calculation of the pit by United Mining, believing that the surface diameter of 2,500 meters is too conservative and inconvenient for mining, and that it is necessary to use 15 hydrogen bombs of 25 million tons of equivalent and 15 hydrogen bombs of 8 million tons of equivalent level, a total of 30 hydrogen bombs to create a super mine with a maximum diameter of 5 kilometers, which greatly reduces the difficulty of subsequent ore vein mining.

One is keen on super hydrogen bombs, and the other is almost doubling the number of hydrogen bombs.

Therefore, today's bidding meeting is not in a hurry to determine the number of hydrogen bomb bids of each company, and the plan must be confirmed first.

The person presiding over the meeting also changed from Wu Yi to the temporary head of the United Mining Engineering Department, Wang Lu, a nuclear expert from the 194 Institute in Rongcheng, after all, this kind of thing has to be a professional.

The main reason is that there are ready-made second-generation warheads of 15 million tons in warehouses, which are installed on the old Dongfeng 5 as a single warhead with a large yield.

At present, the nuclear arsenal is gradually upgrading to the 150 to 3 million ton class and the 3 to 7 point warhead type, and these old warheads can be used directly without modification, and the cost is very low.

Rowe Rowe's plan requires precise control, minimal cost but a bit of redundancy, as for Maozi and Yankee's ...... Although he couldn't find a big fault, Wang Lu still felt that it was not very reliable.

However, due to the particularity of the bidding meeting, it cannot directly choose the plan like ordinary enterprises, in fact, the plan of United Mining has to be treated as an international event.

Wang Lu simply asked all the bidders to introduce the advantages and disadvantages of their plans and then focus on the discussion, and no one would be able to raise objections at that time.

The proposal was accepted by all parties, and then the statements began to rotate according to the data submitted for the calculations.

Academician Yu started first, and he mainly focused on the two aspects of "power controllable" and "technology easy", with Rowe and Higo both claiming that their costs were the best to control, and then Jon of Alabama Engineering.

Jon was a seventy-year-old man, and he first introduced his major as explosive mechanics, and those present immediately understood that his main business was about the implosion core of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, and knew that the old man's technical expertise was not in doubt.

“…… In our view, while the Moon's low-gravity environment appears to be conducive to blasting operations, it is actually more difficult.

It is difficult to form a uniform shock wave that spreads through the atmosphere like on Earth by relying on solid matter alone, and debris and garbage will also be more widely distributed due to low gravity, so it is precisely the hydrogen bomb with a larger yield that is needed to ensure that the effect achieves the desired goal......

In addition, we also took into account the problem of deeper operation in the later stage of the mine, the larger the current pit and the more ore veins are exposed, the easier it is to develop in the later stage, and if the deep ore vein excavation is carried out in the future, it is difficult to continue the hydrogen bomb blasting operation. ”

After Jon finished speaking, Tomarsov immediately stood up, and Lin Ju, who was sitting in the corner, heard Academician She's muttering quietly:

"Do you remember the Lucia expert who said that the hydrogen bomb was used to solve the pollution of the Toshima nuclear power plant, look, this is it."

Lin Ju immediately set his eyes on this middle-aged Mao Zi in his 50s, who was short and fat, and his face revealed a wild atmosphere, it was very reasonable for such a person to propose such a crazy plan.

"Everyone!" Tomarsov's voice was extremely loud, and his output was full of hairy English:

"If there is no need to worry about any repercussions on the moon, why don't we simply and rudely solve the problem with a super hydrogen bomb?

We provide a super hydrogen bomb, you only need to take 1.5 million tons of active warheads, let us Lucia bear the most research and development costs! ”

“……”

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Wang Lu said that he could now express his opinions on each plan, and the scene suddenly turned into a scramble to criticize each other and quarrel in a mess.

Academician She, who was secretly observing, shook his head, yes, let's quarrel for a day first.

……

At 20 o'clock in the evening, the five bidders' nuclear experts, who had been debating in the headquarters of United Mining all day, finally began to pack up their things and leave the venue.

At first, everyone was just talking, but then they began to put pen and paper, and finally dragged out the whiteboard used for United Mining decoration to write and draw, and the things discussed could not be understood by outsiders.

In the end, there was still no consensus, and it was mainly divided into two factions: multiple large-yield hydrogen bombs and a single super hydrogen bomb, but the former mainly had the upper hand.

Tomarsov's proposal was the first to be rejected, after all, according to his theory, the rest of the family had no work, and the main discussion was about the size of the pit.

When the experts left the scene one after another, Lin Ju's assistant saw the opportunity to trot into several teams and said something, and left quickly without waiting for a response.

The teams that were summoned also left as if they were unaffected, but when they all returned to the hotel they had settled, they all went out again after hurriedly packing up.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the nuclear experts of the junior ten gathered in an old hotel, and Lin Ju had been waiting inside for a long time.

After looking at the people, the nuclear experts from all over the world have arrived, and on their side is Wang Lu of the 194th Institute.

They were all invited by Lin Ju in their personal names, all for the purpose of "getting to know each other", and they had absolutely no other meaning.

When everyone was in place, Lin Ju didn't talk nonsense, and after expressing his welcome, he made a request:

"Guys, I don't know anything about nuclear technology, so I'd like to ask a question that might be a bit obvious."

Stevenson: "Tell me, we're all friends now. ”

Lin Ju: "I've heard a saying before that the residue of fission pollution can be cleaned up with a larger yield hydrogen bomb, is this statement true? ”

After waiting for several interpreters to translate his words, Tomarsov's expression immediately became pleasantly surprised:

"Davarishi, we've studied this!"

(End of chapter)