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The Third Empire - Chapter 297

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:56:44 AM


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

At the same time, the secret base set up by Germany here must need a lot of power. As early as we first arrived here, a large generator set was transported to provide power here. Later, with the increase of demand, several sets were transported one after another to meet the energy demand here.

These generator sets are all diesel fired, and the unique pounding sound of diesel engine is the most obvious sound.

But now, I can't hear the sound of diesel engine here! This is so strange!

Where did the electricity come from?

After hearing Hitler's question, Heisenberg, a veteran of the German scientific community, said to Hitler: "Fuhrer, that's because we have begun to use nuclear reactors to generate electricity here."

Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in 1901. Now he is most energetic. Although he is not as famous as Einstein, in fact, he is the most important physicist in the 20th century after Einstein!

His greatest contribution is quantum mechanics. In future generations, if you want to study the micro world, you must study quantum mechanics! Quantum mechanics is one of the most important achievements in the whole history of science. In view of his important influence, the American scholar Mike? Heisenberg ranked 43rd in Hart's "list of 100 celebrities affecting the process of human history".

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, however, 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 the director of Kaiser William Royal Institute of physics. At the same time, he is also the leader of Germany in developing atomic bombs and nuclear weapons. At present, his work is to develop nuclear reactors together with Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission!

A few years ago, Hitler approved Germany's atomic bomb program, that is, the uranium program. Now, instead of building nuclear bombs, they have begun to build nuclear reactors!

Why?

Of course, it is because of the shortage of nuclear raw materials! There is no uranium mine in Germany. The uranium needed is imported and the quantity is very small. It is very difficult to extract fissile uranium 235 from it.

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

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

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

As an experiment, Heisenberg suddenly found that these suggestions of Shrek were completely correct!

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

At the beginning, there was some discussion on the site selection. Finally, it was decided to set up a secret Libyan base, where the conditions for scientific research have been met and it is easier to keep it confidential.

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

Their contacts have been protected by the Gestapo, and there has never been a problem.

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

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

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

Hitler came here, of course, hoping to see some results.

For example, now, hearing that the nuclear reactor was used to supply power, Hitler became interested: "go and have a look."

Go to see? Xierik immediately frowned: "great Fuehrer, nuclear reactor is our great invention, but there are some invisible rays in it, which are easy to cause harm to human body. Let's listen to the introduction first."

In this era, various technologies are still very primitive. Although Shrek has made suggestions to thicken the cement layer of nuclear reactors, no one knows whether there is a leak.

It's better not to take risks.

"The nuclear reactor, built five kilometers away from here, transmits power through cables buried in the sand." Heisenberg also said, "now, let's introduce you."

No matter whether the knowledge of radioactivity is sufficient or not, Heisenberg also wants to avoid danger. Therefore, the nuclear reactor is not built inside the base.

So Hitler had to give up.

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

"General Shrek's proposal has greatly inspired us. We use graphite as a reducer to burn uranium 238 into plutonium 239 to make the nuclear raw materials we need. At the same time, the energy generated by the reaction allows us to use it as a boiler to heat steam, drive a steam engine, and then drive a generator to generate electricity. Now all the domestic electricity in the base uses the power of this reactor. "

In history, Heisenberg began to study nuclear reactors after he came to the conclusion that the atomic bomb could not be successfully manufactured in the late stage. In later generations, it was also said that he loved his motherland but hated Hitler's atrocities. Therefore, he took practical actions to curb the development of German nuclear weapons.

In fact, of course not. Just think about it. Those who should go have gone. Of course, those who stay are following Hitler!

Besides, if Germany succeeded in making the atomic bomb, the history of the whole world would be rewritten, and Heisenberg would be the greatest scientist in the Empire at that time!

Heisenberg was wrong!

Hitler was very happy: "when will we be able to get out of our planned nuclear bomb?"

Now, hearing that things are going well, Hitler certainly wants to have a nuclear bomb as soon as possible. Whoever doesn't obey, throw one in the past!

Heisenberg was embarrassed when he heard Hitler's question: "we are still far from the manufacture of nuclear bombs. If we look at the situation of our current nuclear reactor, it will take at least hundreds of years to burn before we can gather up the raw materials needed for a nuclear bomb."

In an instant, Hitler's face turned black.




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