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Chapter 389: The Foundation of the Nuclear Plan (Fourth update, please subscribe)

In the tropical rain forest covered with green waves, a road winds through it. As the car drove on the highway, looking at the tropical rainforest on both sides of the road, Li Yi'an couldn't help but praise the work efficiency of the Japanese prisoners - although Highway 2, which is the East Coast Highway, the 1154 kilometers of highway from Chief to Taiping The construction period of the road was only 23 months, a full nine months ahead of Highway on the West Bank.

I have to admit that the work efficiency of the captives is still very high. After all, there is a price for the captives to pay for "passive slowdown".

"Pity……"

The reason why Li Yian said it was a pity was that all the captives had been used for reclamation, and infrastructure projects such as road construction had been handed over to immigrants. Now from the second half of 11, more and more immigrants have come to Tangshan to escape the war, and even They are already approaching the limit - as many as 127 million immigrants poured into Nanyang through various means in November.

In order to accommodate the surge in immigrants, in addition to increasing the working area of ​​the reclamation area, more than a dozen major new projects have been launched. The Kayan River Hydropower Station that Li Yi'an is now going to is one of them. It is the next addition to the Kinabatangan River Hydropower Station. , the second hydropower station in Nanyang, with an installed capacity of 30 kilowatts. It seems small in scale, but it can generate 15 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. It can not only supply industrial land in the East China Sea, but more importantly, it can also supply nuclear power in Borneo. plan.

This is also the reason why the nuclear program is being fully promoted this year - the power problem that hinders the development of atomic bombs is being solved.

Many people think that the atomic bomb only needs U235, but the extraction of U235 requires a lot of electricity - the "Manhattan Project" in the United States to develop the atomic bomb used 200 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year, and the Soviet Union used 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year to develop the first atomic bomb. Spend.

Although in the past three years, Borneo has built five large power stations with a total installed capacity of more than 200 million kilowatts, the annual power generation is only 170 billion kilowatt-hours. Add in hydropower and factory-owned power plants, and the power generation is only 200 billion kWh. billion degrees.

Such a small amount of electricity... is definitely not enough to make an atomic bomb.

Coupled with the daily increase in industrial electricity consumption caused by the commissioning of factories, there is simply no excess electricity to use for atomic bombs.

This is Li Yi'an's biggest headache. In order to solve the power problem, in addition to building a new thermal power station with an installed capacity of 100 million kilowatts, the Kayan River Hydropower Station is also the key.

Their annual power generation capacity is exactly 100 billion kilowatt-hours!

It can basically meet the needs of research on atomic bombs.

Due to insufficient power, in the past three years, Borneo could only steadily advance its nuclear program based on reality. In fact, it was research on subsystems. Just like the research on nuclear weapons by Asan and other countries in later generations, it was all disguised as civilian and In scientific research.

Last October, Nanyang's first graphite-moderated reactor was started in Taiping, achieving a controlled chain fission reaction of uranium. The purpose, of course, was to extract the plutonium needed to make the atomic bomb.

But that's only part of Borneo's nuclear program.

As for the extraction of U235, project teams at several universities are also steadily advancing this work. In addition, the "Central Physics Laboratory" in the hinterland of Borneo is basically completed.

The development of atomic bombs in Nanyang was naturally put on the agenda.

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A convoy of several cars walked on a simple mountain road in the rainforest, sometimes passing through high mountains and sometimes winding up and down the banks of the Kayan River.

The water of the Kayan River below the mountain is crystal clear, and you can clearly see the pebbles in the water. When the convoy crossed a mountain, a vivid and magnificent picture appeared in front of people: two rivers intersected in a "Y" shape in the valley, sandwiching the mountain in the middle.

On both sides of the river, people have built rows of simple wooden houses. On both sides of the mountains, the former rainforest has disappeared and turned into a town covering an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers, with continuous wooden houses scattered among them. , countless cars dragging dust tails, speeding on the road, transport ships load large quantities of building materials, and bucket trucks run back and forth on the spider web-like track.

Within a radius of more than ten kilometers, there was a boiling sound everywhere.

Workers at hydropower stations live among the simple wooden structures along the river. All of them came from all over Tangshan. After simple training, they entered the mechanical construction team with education. Positions such as pneumatic drill operators, blasters, concrete workers, welders, and fitters did not require much knowledge. Even many car drivers are illiterate at all. There are more than 1.8 workers on this construction site.

Compared with plantations, it is large-scale construction sites like this that really attract immigrants. In addition to the hydropower station construction site, there are many corresponding industrial facilities that also provide tens of thousands of jobs.

"The approved investment for this power station is 1800 million yuan. The dam body is a gravity arch dam, and the annual power generation is expected to be 15 billion kilowatt hours. In this way, the investment per kilowatt hour is only 0012 yuan, and the cost per kilowatt hour is only 0.0078 yuan. At current electricity prices, it only takes two years to recover the entire investment.”

During the introduction by Hayes, the chief engineer of the project, Li Yian stopped and glanced at the dense mountain of high-voltage wires. Seeing this, Hayes continued to introduce:

"After the power station is completed, it will be sent to Donghai, Chang'an and other regions with seven high-voltage transmission lines. By then, a power network with a radius of 7 kilometers will be formed with the hydropower station as the center."

Li Yian is no stranger to these data, but looking at the data on paper is different from the field investigation. The group continued to walk forward, passing through the river dam construction site, walking to the east bank of the Kayan River, and climbing up to look at the Many vast basins in the winding mountains will be submerged in the future and become a giant reservoir. The reservoir can regulate floods in the rainforest and save tens of millions of acres of plantations downstream from floods in the rainy season.

During the rainy season in Borneo, it rains for several months. Hydropower stations can alleviate floods in the rainy season to a certain extent, and during the dry season, the water in the reservoir can be used to supply plantations. In fact, this is also the reason why hydropower stations need to be built in Borneo, to regulate water resources between the rainy and dry seasons.

But the more important thing is power generation. After all, for Borneo, whether it is industrial construction or other aspects, electricity is inseparable, and cheap hydropower is an effective supplement to reduce energy costs.

"Maybe in the future, nuclear power plants can be built. When was the world's first nuclear power plant built? We can let them conduct research in this area and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes!"

After leaving the hydropower station, Li Nian inspected the Oasis Coal Mine in Taiping Province. This open-pit coal mine has a designed production capacity of 600 million tons and is the largest open-pit coal mine in Borneo. All the equipment comes from Germany - mining equipment was introduced through barter. .

In the past three years, the three provinces of Nanyang have successively established 4 open-pit coal mines, providing sufficient coal supply to ensure Nanyang's power demand. During the coal mine inspection, Li Yi'an specifically went to the Hangkou Power Plant, which is equipped with four 25 The giant power plant with -kilowatt generating units is the largest power plant in this era and is also the fundamental guarantee for Borneo’s nuclear plan.

"Sir, 87.6 billion kilowatt-hours. When it is completed next year, the tight power supply situation in Borneo will be fundamentally alleviated."

When Qin Chunyun, the power plant manager, said these words, he had no idea about the future mission of this power plant.

The nuclear program research center in Nanyang is less than 100 kilometers away from the power plant. Although the distance is so close, the two places are shrouded in dense tropical rainforest.

In fact, the only way to enter the research center is by air. The dense tropical rainforest around the research center is enough to block outsiders from exploring there.

It's just that the research center has not been officially opened yet. Next year...next year, with the full development of the nuclear program, a large number of physicists will enter the center and begin the final research on the atomic bomb...

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