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Chapter 297 Nuclear Reactor

In Germany, industrialization has long been achieved. Power plants are built near coal mines and transport electricity through high-voltage lines. However, in Africa, it is still in the most primitive era.

At the same time, the secret base set up here in Germany must require a lot of electricity. As early as when we arrived here, we transported a large generator set to provide electricity here. After that, as the demand increased, several were transported one after another to meet the energy demand here.

These generator sets are all diesel-burning, and the unique tone of diesel engines is the most obvious existence sound.

But now, here, you can’t hear the sound of a diesel engine! This is simply too strange!

Where did this electricity come from?

Hearing Hitler's question, Heisenberg, a veteran of the German scientific community, said to Hitler: "First of the People's Republic of China, that's because we have started to use nuclear reactors to generate electricity."

Werner Carl Heisenberg was born in 1901 and is now at his most energetic time. Although he is not as famous as Einstein, in fact, he is the most important physicist of the 20th century second only to Einstein!

His greatest contribution is quantum mechanics. In later generations, if you want to study the microscopic world, you must study quantum mechanics! Quantum mechanics is one of the most important achievements in the history of science. Given his important influence, Heisenberg ranked 43rd in the "100 People Influencing the Progress of Human History" written by American scholar Mike Hart.

However, Heisenberg's reputation was not very good. After all, before World War II, a large number of physicists, represented by Einstein, left Germany and went to the United States.

However, Heisenberg stayed in Germany because of his love for Germany and saved German science as much as possible.

Now, he is a professor of physics at the University of Berlin and director of the Royal Institute of Physics of Kaiser William, and is also the leader in the development of atomic bomb nuclear weapons in Germany. His current job is to develop nuclear reactors with Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission!

A few years ago, Hitler approved Germany's atomic bomb plan, that is, the uranium plan. Now, they have not built nuclear bombs, but have started to engage in reactors!

why is that?

Of course it is because of the insufficient nuclear raw materials! Germany does not have uranium ore, and the uranium required is imported and the quantity is very small. It is quite difficult to extract the uranium 235 that is prone to fission from it.

Later, Cialick's explanation opened Heisenberg's horizon.

Among uranium ore, the main one is uranium 238. These things are not easy to fission. However, in a nuclear reactor, uranium 238 can be burned into plutonium 239 and plutonium 239, which is easy to fission!

At that time, even Heisenberg didn't believe that a layman, Cialek, who had never been exposed to nuclear physics, was able to propose a fission equation!

And while doing the experiment, Heisenberg suddenly discovered that Cialick's proposals were completely correct!

In this way, Germany's first nuclear bomb was set as a plutonium bomb. In this way, Germany needs to build a nuclear reactor to burn the plutonium needed to generate it!

At the beginning, there was a discussion on the site selection issue, and the final decision was made to set up a secret Libyan base, where scientific research conditions were met and were relatively easy to keep.

In this way, many German scientists, with Heisenberg as the core, came to Libya. However, they often returned to Germany to give academic speeches and make public appearances, so as to deceive the scientific community of other countries.

Their contacts were protected by the Gestapo and there was never any problem.

This is much earlier than the historical process. One of the important issues is capital.

Historically, from 1937 to 1940, the German Army spent 550 million marks on developing large rockets, while the "Uranium Program" funding was only more than 1 million marks. In this way, the funding of the "Uranium Program" was seriously insufficient.

Now, Germany has sufficient funds to support the entire plan. So far, Germany has invested 500 million imperial marks in the uranium plan!

Hitler came here, of course he also hoped to see some results.

For example, now, when hearing that it was actually using a nuclear reactor to supply power, Hitler became interested: "Go and go and have a look."

Go and see? Cialic frowned immediately: "Great Head of State, nuclear reactor is our great invention, but there are some invisible rays inside, which can easily cause harm to the human body. Let's listen to the introduction first."

In this era, all kinds of technologies are still very primitive. Although Cialek has made suggestions to let them thicken the cement layer of the nuclear reactor, no one knows whether there is a leakage.

It's better not to take risks.

"The nuclear reactor is built five kilometers away from here, and the power is transported through cables buried in the sand." Heisenberg also said: "Now, let us introduce it to you first."

Regardless of whether the radioactivity is sufficient, Heisenberg must avoid danger, so the nuclear reactor is not built inside the base.

So Hitler had to give up.

When he arrived at the meeting room of the base, Hitler first listened to Heisenberg's report.

"General Cialick's proposal was very inspiring to us. We used graphite as a speed reducer, burning uranium 238 into plutonium 239 to obtain the nuclear raw materials we need. At the same time, the energy generated by the reaction allows us to use it as a boiler, heat water vapor, push the steam engine, and then drive the generator to generate electricity. Now, all the electricity used in the base is powered by this reactor."

Historically, Heisenberg began to study nuclear reactors after he came to the conclusion that the atomic bomb could not be successfully created. In later generations, there was also a saying that he loved his motherland but hated Hitler's atrocities. Therefore, he took practical actions to curb the development of Germany's nuclear weapons.

Actually, of course it’s not the case. Just think about it and you will know that what should be left has left, and what remains are of course followed Hitler!

Besides, if Germany successfully manufactures the atomic bomb, the history of the whole world will be rewritten, and Heisenberg will be the greatest scientist of the empire at that time!

Heisenberg just calculated it wrong!

Hitler was very happy: "When will we get the nuclear bomb we planned?"

Now, hearing that it is going well, Hitler certainly wants to have a nuclear bomb as soon as possible. Whoever is disobedient, then throw one over!

Hesenberg seemed embarrassed when he heard Hitler's question: "We are still a long way from the creation of nuclear bombs. If we look at the current nuclear reactor, it will take at least a hundred years to burn before we can get enough of the raw materials needed for a nuclear bomb."

In an instant, Hitler's face turned dark.
Chapter completed!
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