Chapter 1663 Centrifuge

Don't be in a hurry, it's the most terrifying thing to encourage growth. Cyric deeply understands this truth. Now, Germany doesn't need to hurry up. Germany is already the strongest in this era in all aspects. In contrast, American talents need It is enough to catch up with the progress, but it is not so easy to catch up with Germany.

Far North Africa, Libya.

When the war in Europe was in full swing, it was still relatively safe here and was not baptized by the war. At the same time, the main oil-producing area in Libya, the Amal Oilfield, had reached its highest production capacity.

Every day, tens of thousands of barrels of oil arrive at the port through oil pipelines, and then export to Europe through the port, which has become one of Germany's main crude oil supply points.

On the oil field, there are kowtow machines everywhere, working non-stop day and night, forming a busy scene.

Deeper than the oil field, there is an oasis in the desert. Now, this oasis is under the strict protection of Germany and is Germany's secret weapons research and development base.

This was the first place to be opened up. When Cyric first opened this place, they were greeted with ridicule. They thought that Cyric must be crazy and thought there was something in this barren desert.

As a result, the facts slapped the face of those who read the joke, letting them know that Cyric was the greatest prophet of the century and that everything he said was true.

And the German base in the desert has always been the biggest secret. Even if someone knows about it, they cannot come in and destroy it. A large number of guards, anti-aircraft artillery and fighter jets will make any invading enemy pay the price of death and destroy it. Its, only ballistic missiles.

Unfortunately, this era is only owned by Germany.

At this time, in the center of the base, an even larger power station has been built. From the towering chimney, faint blue smoke is coming out, which is not the appearance of burning ore at all.

This is the largest power station in the whole of Libya, and the electricity generated is enough for the entire Libya.

Of course, backward Libya does not need so much electricity, and most of the electricity is produced and sold by itself.

On the other side of the base, from the outside, there is nothing unusual, but the ground is rumbling all the time, showing that there are huge mechanical equipment underground.

It is actually very easy to engage in underground construction in the desert.

First use an excavator to excavate the sand, then use reinforced concrete to pour out the factory building, and then cover the top with sand, and a large centrifuge factory is formed.

The plant, which only started operations last year, is the next major item in Germany's nuclear program.

At this time, in the factory building, Heisenberg, the German atomic physics leader, was walking along the factory building with his assistant Hahn, which was their daily routine.

In the hearts of both of them, a flame was burning, a flame of passion for work, a flame of yearning for the coming atomic age.

It is boring in the desert, but they have their own business here, so they can work here for more than ten years. Only when necessary will they return to Europe, either to buy various materials, or to go to the head of Cyric. report.

Germany's atomic program has experienced two important time points. The first is that Heisenberg brought experts to Libya to establish a base. At that time, it was based on the nuclear fission equation proposed by Cyric.

When uranium 235 was hard to find, uranium 238 was burned in the reactor and turned into plutonium 239, so that more and more nuclear materials were burned. Germany's first atomic bomb was also shaped as a plutonium bomb.

Afterwards, they built a small experimental reactor in Libya, which confirmed that the formula of the head of Cyric was no problem. The more and more magic furnaces burned, they were finally born in their hands.

However, if there is only one small nuclear reactor, it is too slow to burn enough nuclear material.

Therefore, in 1938, Cyric and Hitler came to the base to inspect, and after learning of the difficulties here, they immediately made a decision to build a larger reactor, accelerate the combustion, and obtain nuclear materials!

The power station outside was built at that time, and the plutonium-239 burned there could put the manufacture of an atomic bomb on the agenda.

At the time, after some serious consideration, Heisenberg agreed to a plan to detonate the bomb within four years.

From 1938 to 42, the test explosion of a nuclear bomb was the fastest.

(There are a lot of big people thinking about mushroom bombs in front of them. Huadong Zhixiong thought he was procrastinating. Later, he turned forward. In Chapter 298, it was already made clear that it was detonated in 1942. , you can scroll forward and take a look.)

And after the massive nuclear reactor was built, suddenly, Heisenberg discovered a new problem.

The purpose of building a nuclear reactor is to burn nuclear materials, but it would be too wasteful to just burn nuclear materials, so at the time of design, it was a giant power station that produced enough electricity.

This time, the power is also available, let's just start the uranium bomb project together!

In nature, uranium-238 occupies more than 98% of the total, and uranium-235 is prone to fission. Therefore, in order to reduce the difficulty, Cyric proposed to burn uranium-238 into plutonium-239. , this is the plutonium bomb.

At the same time, there is another way, which is to use the principle of centrifugal motion to separate two isotopes with different atomic weights, which is the same as the principle of throwing water out of the drying bucket of a washing machine, and throwing uranium-238 outside. , the rest in the center is uranium-235.

This requires repeated centrifugation, and also requires a large amount of ore.

Now, these conditions are met. As Germany has occupied the whole of Europe, it has obtained a large amount of uranium ore. At the same time, when the power station here is established, sufficient power supply is enough to provide stable energy for centrifuges.

Coupled with the improvement of the empire's finances, after the Euroization of Europe, all the wealth has been concentrated in Germany, and one billion euros of funds have been transferred again and injected into the current projects. It can be said that there is no shortage of anything.

Standing in front of the huge centrifuge, listening to the rumbling sound inside, both of them were heartbroken.

The war in Europe is over, the Soviet Union has also been conquered, and only the United States is left. We must speed up!

They are not worried that the United States will build it first, but they are worried that they have not built it yet, and the war is over. In this case, they have been busy for so many years, and they are all busy. I am afraid that the future use is to develop new planets, and even the outbreak of interstellar It's too nonsense to use it again during the war, right?