Chapter 838 Good Idea

Latest website: There are many short-legged countries in the world. We must admit that the world is not so fair. Australia’s problem is that its agricultural foundation is so short, but its mining foundation is too long, long enough to cover up its shortcomings in agriculture. .

Theoretically, there is no shortage of minerals in any country, but the difference between a hundred meters underground and a thousand meters underground is so big that no existing minerals can be found. The great thing about Australia's mineral resources is that it has all kinds of minerals, and they are buried very shallowly, including uranium.

One of the big reasons why the British alloy pipe plan progressed slowly was that there was no progress in high-quality uranium mines at that time.

"Uranium ore is only useful in the military industry!" Pamela Mountbatten didn't care much about the discovery of uranium ore.

"Wrong, since nuclear reactors can be used as power, shouldn't they be used to generate electricity?" Alan Wilson corrected his wife, "Australia doesn't even have a perennial river, so we can't keep burning coal for power generation. If we build a nuclear power plant to provide nuclear power, It’s also good for Australia.”

Pamela Mountbatten nodded frequently, but as if she remembered something, she asked directly, "Are you so kind?"

"Use Australia to verify nuclear power. After all, the United States and the Soviet Union are also studying it." Alan Wilson responded with a high-sounding answer. What if something happens? Even if nothing happens, it would be better to let Australia bear the risk of British technical verification.

In fact, the United Kingdom was a pioneer in nuclear power. It was not until the 1970s that the United States surpassed the United Kingdom in installed nuclear power capacity and became the world's largest.

In nuclear power, the UK, like other pioneering technologies, has maintained its excellent style of getting up early and working late at night.

Just like the Comet airliner lost to Boeing, the Royal Navy was surpassed by the US Navy, and a series of other traditions. In nuclear power, the US was finally overtaken by the US, and once again, it became the most backward pioneer.

After the UK built the Calder Hall graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant for plutonium production and power generation in 1956, it successively built a number of graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plants. Because they used magnesium alloys as cladding, they were called magnesia. kes reactor. The UK was once the country with the largest total installed nuclear power capacity in the world.

Now that the UK has this technical reserve, and Australia has discovered the largest and best quality uranium ore. The problem is simple. What is needed now is for Pamela Mountbatten, the second generation of the British Empire, to bring British nuclear power technology to loyal Australia for implementation.

Later generations of Australia were anti-nuclear power because Australia had no shortage of coal, oil and natural gas, and the cost was low. It doesn’t matter whether there are nuclear power plants or not, people are more interested in solar power than nuclear power.

However, Alan Wilson believes that with Australia's loyalty to Britain, building a nuclear power plant is definitely not a problem at this time, and this country will not reject Britain.

Alan Wilson even wanted to deploy British strategic bombers in Australia. Unfortunately, Britain would definitely be reluctant to put such an important weapon in a secondary direction. Perhaps after nuclear submarines are put into service and the status of bombers is reduced, it will be possible.

After all, compared with the United States, the United Kingdom still likes to share weapons technology, especially with countries such as Australia and Canada. As long as Australia provides money, everything is not a problem.

"Australia has no shortage of energy at all, why would it do this?" Pamela Mountbatten didn't understand.

"The reason for this is because they have no shortage of energy." Alan Wilson explained, "Australia's power generation energy is so good, so we must find ways to increase the difficulty. Anything to ensure Britain's influence on Australia must be done , let alone nuclear power, if Australia likes nuclear bombs, it should sell them to them."

Alan Wilson Don’t know Australians yet? If Australia's agricultural conditions were better and it could support a population of 100 million, let alone the UK, Australians would dare to treat Americans' words as farts.

Australians will not object to anything that involves Australia's security, and the thing that best guarantees security in the world today is nuclear weapons. It just so happens that uranium mines have been discovered in Australia, and the timing is very suitable.

There is too much competition in Europe. According to the Asian Monster House decades later, Europe is the real monster house. Moreover, the size of each country is almost the same, so it is impossible to crush them.

This can understand why Britain has a much softer attitude than France and is equally unwilling to give up its colonies.

What was the difference between Britain, France and Germany once they gave up their colonies? With its own size, it is difficult to even deal with Italy.

After discussing it with his wife, Alan Wilson decided to see if he could get government support on the uranium mine issue.

In fact, based on the contract that Pamela Mountbatten signed with Australia, the Mountbatten Group can completely get rid of the United Kingdom and negotiate with Australia in the name of the group, but it will just get rid of the country. If the United States also joins, it may be a fight.

The Mountbatten Group had previously claimed that its iron ore reserves were 2 billion tons, reducing the reserves from its American peers. This is useful for iron ore, but uranium ore is different from iron ore and is completely different in importance.

Such a fatal thing would not work without the backing of the state. Soon, Alan Wilson arrived at Whitehall and informed the Mountbatten Group of the discovery of uranium mines. He also bluntly stated that he needed the backing of the government.

"Uranium mine? How big is it?" Norman Brooke was shocked after hearing this. This was a big deal, so he hurriedly asked.

"The reserves exceed all uranium deposits that have been discovered, and the quality also exceeds them." Alan Wilson answered without any secret.

There is no point in hiding it. Compared with the billions of tons of iron ore reserves, uranium ore reserves are too small and easy to calculate. There are not many samples from all over the world, and the blurred vision simply insults the intelligence of other countries.

Rather than being careless, it is better to be honest and directly state that we need the support of the state.

"Are you afraid that your wife's group will be pressured by state power in the mining of uranium?" Norman Brooke, the leader of the civil service system, immediately understood Alan Wilson's intention.

The Mountbatten Group is staking its claim in Australia and is constantly looking for minerals that can be mined, including but not limited to coal, iron, natural gas, gold, and copper. These are all commercial minerals, but uranium mines are different.

"The key is that the empire also needs uranium mines, and it is better to have the influence of the country." Alan Wilson made no secret of his determination to hand over his share of uranium mines. At least on the matter of uranium mines, he was willing to involve the country.

Alan Wilson not only contacted the British aristocrats to invest in Australia, but also wanted to bring in national capital.

So after this communication with the cabinet secretary, the candidate to represent the UK and Australia in discussing uranium mines has been announced. Alan Wilson himself is the perfect choice.

This, of course, required the approval of the cabinet. After Prime Minister Attlee learned about the matter, he agreed without saying a word. The UK is promoting research on nuclear power technology just when it needs high-quality uranium ore.

"This time I have one more mission to return to Malaya!" Walking out of No. 70 Whitehall, Alan Wilson counted the current tasks on his fingers, talking about uranium mines with Australia and advertising for nuclear power. Establish a chemical industry in the Malayan colony, develop oil in Sarawak, and solve the cost of the Vanguard battleship.

Of course, the last point is that the military is worried about the threat of Zhumu. Britain's embankment against a certain big country still exists.

It's not that Alan Wilson doesn't treat the threat of Bamboo Screen as non-existent, but he is somewhat aware of the inside story, not to say that he is too afraid.

The same thing will have different views from different angles. To a large extent, fear comes from not understanding. Wouldn’t he believe everything he said? Why did the Soviet Union also say that communism would surely win? Should we just listen to the Soviet Union and let the free world surrender?

The biggest achievement of returning to London this time is actually that Alan Wilson and Whitehall have reached a consensus. The key to defeating the enemies of the free world was to split the relationship between a major power and the Soviet Union.

Whitehall also fully recognizes this, but has no idea how to do it. At this time, an Orientalist expert is needed to answer. Alan Wilson can even write Chinese characters. No one knows what Oriental is better than him.

It took an hour, and the report made no sense. Hydrology took up half of the content, but the report concluded that China and the Soviet Union would split sooner or later. The content was not important, the conclusion was.

The content is not entirely useless. At least what China wants, the Soviet Union cannot provide, is still recognized by Whitehall.

When that day comes, this will be an important basis for Alan Wilson to be promoted to cabinet secretary.

After returning home, Pamela Mountbatten heard from her husband about going to Whitehall, so she asked, "Then what are you going to do? So that Australia can cooperate unconditionally. "

"It's simple, talk more about the threat of the Bamboo Curtain." Alan Wilson replied with a relaxed expression, "Security is Australia's biggest need, and this has been proven many times."

He himself is not interested in the so-called Bamboo Curtain threat, but he knows that this set of threats is effective for many people. Especially for Australia, a former colony that was once frightened by Japan's southern advance.

"You are my husband, helping my company to talk to the Australian government on behalf of the country?" Pamela Mountbatten thought for a moment and asked, "Will it affect you?"

Alan Wilson was a professional bureaucrat and accepted this task. Originally, this was nothing, but the company involved was his wife's property, which made Pamela Mountbatten a little worried.

"It's nothing, we are all a family. We and the Australians are all subjects of the Queen. If you feel that the emotional card is not enough, you can consider bringing the princess. The certainty of victory has increased." Alan Wilson said nonchalantly.

"Good idea!" Pamela Mountbatten agreed very much. The positive influence of the royal family can make things easier.