Chapter 299 Nuclear Reactor

In Germany, industrialization has already been realized, and power plants are built near coal mines, and electricity is transmitted through high-voltage lines, but in Africa, it is still in the most primitive era.

At the same time, the secret base set up by Germany here must require a lot of electricity. As early as when we first arrived here, a large generator set was shipped to provide electricity here. After that, as the demand increased , and transported a few more units one after another to meet the energy demand here.

These generator sets all burn diesel, and the peculiar tom tom of the diesel engine is the most obvious sound of existence.

But now, here, there is no sound of a diesel engine! This is just so weird!

Where does this electricity come from?

Hearing Hitler's question, the elder of the German scientific community, Heisenberg, said to Hitler: "Führer, that is because we are here and have already started to use nuclear reactors to generate electricity."

Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in 1901. Now is the most energetic time. Although he is not as famous as Einstein, he is actually the most important physicist of the twentieth century after Einstein. !

And his biggest 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 entire history of science. In view of his important influence, Heisenberg ranked 43rd in the "100 People Who Influenced the Process of Human History" by American scholar Mike Hart.

However, Heisenberg's reputation is 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.

Heisenberg, on the other hand, stayed in Germany because of his love for Germany, and tried to save German science as much as possible.

Now, he is a professor of physics at the University of Berlin and the director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Royal Institute of Physics. He is also the leader of Germany's development of atomic bomb nuclear weapons. At present, his job is to develop a nuclear reactor with Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission!

A few years ago, Hitler approved Germany's atomic bomb program, which is the uranium program, and now, instead of building nuclear bombs, they have begun to engage in reactors!

why is that?

Of course, because of the lack of nuclear raw materials! Germany does not have uranium mines in the first place, and all the uranium needed is imported in very small quantities. It is quite difficult to extract uranium 235, which is easy to fission, from it.

Later, Cyric's explanation opened Heisenberg's eyes.

Uranium ore is mainly composed of uranium 238. These things are not easy to fission, but in a nuclear reactor, uranium 238 can be burned into plutonium 239, plutonium 239, which is easy to fission!

At that time, even Heisenberg did not believe that a layman, Cyric, who had never been in contact with nuclear physics, could actually come up with a fission equation!

While doing the experiment, Heisenberg suddenly discovered that Cyric's proposals were completely correct!

In this way, Germany's first nuclear bomb is set to be a plutonium bomb. In this case, Germany needs to build a nuclear reactor to burn and generate the required plutonium!

At the beginning, there was a lot of discussion on the site selection, and the final decision was to set up a secret base in Libya, where the conditions for scientific research are already available, and it is easier to keep secrets.

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 public appearances to deceive the scientific community of other countries.

Their exchanges are all protected by the Gestapo, and there has never been a problem.

This is much earlier than the historical process, and one of the important issues is funding.

Historically, from 1937 to 1940, the German Army spent 550 million marks on the development of large-scale rockets, while the "uranium program" only spent more than 1 million marks. In this way, the funds for the "uranium project" are seriously insufficient.

And now, Germany has sufficient funds to support the entire plan. So far, Germany has invested 500 million Reichsmarks in the uranium project!

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

For example, now, when he heard that a nuclear reactor was actually used for power supply, Hitler became interested: "Go, go and see."

to see? Cyric immediately frowned: "Great head of state, the nuclear reactor is our great invention, but there are some invisible rays in it, which can easily cause harm to the human body. Let's listen to the introduction first."

In this era, various technologies are still very primitive. Although Cyric has proposed to thicken the cement layer of the nuclear reactor, no one knows whether there is a leak or not.

Better not to take risks.

"The nuclear reactor, built five kilometers away from here, transmits electricity through cables buried in the sand." Heisenberg also said: "Now, let us introduce you first."

Regardless of whether he knew enough about radioactivity, Heisenberg also wanted to avoid danger, so the nuclear reactor was not built inside the base.

So Hitler had to give up.

Coming to the conference room of the base, Hitler first listened to Heisenberg's report.

"General Cyric's proposal inspired us a lot. We used graphite as a moderator, and burned uranium 238 into plutonium 239 to obtain the nuclear materials we needed. At the same time, the energy generated by the reaction made the We can use it as a boiler, heat water vapor, drive the steam engine, and then drive the generator to generate electricity, and now the base’s living electricity is all powered by this kind of reactor electricity.”

Historically, Heisenberg turned his attention to nuclear reactors at a later stage, after concluding that an atomic bomb could not be successfully built. In later generations, there are also sayings that he loved his country, but hated Hitler's atrocities. Therefore, he took practical action to curb the development of German nuclear weapons.

In fact, of course, that's not the case. As long as you think about it, you will know that those who should go have left, and those who stay are of course following Hitler!

Besides, if Germany succeeded in building the atomic bomb, the history of the entire world would be rewritten, and Heisenberg would be the greatest scientist in the Empire!

It's just Heisenberg's miscalculation!

Hitler was very happy: "When will we be able to get the nuclear bomb we planned out?"

Now, hearing that things are going well, of course Hitler wants to have a nuclear bomb as soon as possible, and whoever is disobedient, throw one in the past!

Heisenberg looked embarrassed when he heard Hitler's question: "We are still a long way from the manufacture of a nuclear bomb. If we look at the current situation of our nuclear reactor, it will take at least a hundred years to burn before we can That's enough material for a nuclear bomb."

In an instant, Hitler's face darkened.