Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

After sending the pilot away, Chen Xin's attention naturally turned to the batch of weapons-grade enriched uranium.

This is a good thing in the true sense, and it is also a big killer.

There are only a handful of countries in the world that can manufacture enriched uranium of this weapons-grade purity, and small countries simply do not have the scientific and technological strength and industrial strength to study related technologies.

Coupled with the control and blockade of nuclear technology by the five hooligans themselves, it is even more difficult for small countries to have the opportunity to research and manufacture such weapons-grade nuclear materials.

If it is placed before the disaster, such a batch of nuclear materials that can make a tactical nuclear bomb with a yield of 100,000 tons is very valuable. Although the cost of one kilogram of weapons-grade enriched uranium is about half a million dollars, it is actually valuable at all. There is no market, let alone idle people, idle countries can't buy them.

Before the disaster, if anyone could re-sell such a batch of nuclear raw materials, not to mention whether the money was made or not, but at least it would not be able to spend that much money in a few lifetimes.

If Chen Xin was not in the nuclear power of the Yan Kingdom, and the country had the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons and nuclear materials, he would not want to easily access nuclear materials of this level. Instead, he could consider buying some uranium ore and come back to purify it by himself. After all, before the disaster Uranium mines are only regulated, and the price is not expensive.

But now, thanks to the country's blessing, he has obtained this batch of weapons-grade enriched uranium, so Chen Xin naturally does not need to slowly purify the uranium ore and make enriched uranium by himself.

The reason why Chen Xin needs to enrich uranium is to build a fusion reactor.

Some people may be surprised that enriched uranium is obviously the raw material for the fission reaction, so how can it be used to make a fusion reactor?

It's not that Chen Xin made a mistake or that he planned to use the system to forcibly upgrade the fission furnace to a fusion furnace, but it is true that a fission furnace can be used to build a fusion reactor.

Before explaining how this is done, the first thing to know is that the fuel for fusion reactions is usually deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen. Although deuterium is abundant in nature, tritium needs to be artificially produced.

The method of producing tritium is to bombard the lithium 6 compound target with neutrons generated by the fission reaction, and then a large amount of tritium can be obtained.

After that, it is only necessary to enrich the tritium by thermal diffusion method to reach more than 99%, and then the fusion reaction can be used.

Of course, what you get directly by doing this is just a violent thermonuclear fusion reaction, which is commonly referred to as a hydrogen bomb explosion, releasing huge energy in an instant.

Therefore, every Blue Star country capable of studying nuclear fusion is looking for a way to control the nuclear fusion reaction, which is the origin of the concept of controllable nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion.

Holding the system in hand, controllable nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion are not difficult for Chen Xin to achieve. Even if he is willing to toss, he can also make sci-fi power sources such as GN solar furnaces and antimatter reactors.

But of course what Chen Xin wants is not something that is black and borderless, but a product that can be replicated and promoted.

So he doesn't plan to do something too technologically advanced, not even cold fusion, but only a controllable thermonuclear fusion reactor.

For this thermonuclear fusion reactor, what Chen Xin envisaged was not to add fuel to the reactor by adding fuel from the outside, but to install a fission reactor under the fusion reactor and bombard the target directly with the fission reactor. to produce tritium, which is used as fuel for fusion reactors.

This is why Chen Xin would need nuclear raw materials, otherwise even if he can make a furnace, it will not be ignited without fuel.

As for why not fuel-grade enriched uranium but weapons-grade enriched uranium, it is because, according to Chen Xin's assumption, he needs to use high-purity nuclear raw materials as fuel.

"Seriously, seeing so many nuclear materials piled up in front of me makes my scalp numb." In the warehouse where nuclear materials were temporarily stored, Chen Xin looked at the box in front of him for storing nuclear materials, and the huge nuclear material on the box. The radiation sign does have a tingling feeling in the back.

"Weapon-grade enriched uranium with a purity of more than 90%, if this thing flows out, I'm afraid many people will die." As the commander of the special forces, he has also performed many dangerous missions, so he can naturally understand how dangerous this thing is. , How many people will take risks and risk their lives for it.

"So I'll trouble you to be optimistic about it. Before I build the reactor, these things should not be less than a gram." Chen Xin looked at the commander, and the expression on his face turned serious: "These nuclear materials will be temporarily stored in Here, I will continue to work in Linshi. After the work here is completed, these nuclear materials will return to my own shelter with me, where I will complete the manufacture and charging of the nuclear fusion reactor, and then conduct a test run , the defense of this entire process will be your responsibility.”

Chen Xin's words made the commander of the special forces look stunned. Although he had been greeted by the superior leader before the mission, and he was mentally prepared, Chen Xin made him guard these important and dangerous things. The nuclear material still made the commander breathe a little too fast.

But his sense of mission and responsibility as a soldier made him almost instinctively reply to Chen Xin: "Guarantee to complete the mission!"

"This can be considered as extra trouble I brought you. Originally, you only wanted to protect my safety, but now you are also responsible for the safety of these nuclear materials." Chen Xin also knew that he was causing trouble for others, but These troubles are bound to arise.

After all, it is weapons-grade nuclear materials, and the country cannot just hand over Chen Xinxi so easily. If the special forces were not ordered to protect him, I am afraid the country would not hand over weapons-grade nuclear materials to him so easily.

So from the time they set off, this special force has been tasked with protecting the nuclear materials and the fusion reactor that Chen Xin will build next.

Fortunately, in the current environment, it is not too troublesome to protect the safety of Chen Xin and this batch of nuclear materials. As long as the military camp is well guarded to ensure that this batch of nuclear materials does not leak out, there will be no problem.

After all, in the land of Yan Kingdom, there is no force that can break through the military camp guarded by an elite special force, and even snatch things from the military camp and run away.

"The existence of this batch of nuclear materials should be blocked as much as possible. The fewer people know about it, the better. I'll leave it to you." Chen Xin didn't know what to do, but he still suggested to the commander according to his impression. its own requirements.

The commander also nodded and replied with certainty: "It is true that the less people know about this kind of thing, the better. After that, I will explain to the soldiers in charge of defending and let them keep it a secret."