The rise of nanometers

Lop Nur thousands of miles away.

Of the two water pipelines entering Xinjiang, the southern line extends from Dunhuang in Gansu Province to Lop Nur, and the other northern line runs from the Mongolian area along the railway line to the Hami area.

The northern line enters the Hami region and can supply 500 million cubic meters of fresh water to the Hami region every year. This is only the first phase of the project. When the second phase of the project is completed next year, this number will increase to 1 billion cubic meters per year.

The southern route, because it passes through the densely populated Hexi Corridor and enters the Lop Nur area, only has 150 million cubic meters of fresh water per year.

Similarly, after the second phase of the southern line is completed next year, it will increase to 650 million cubic meters per year.

The newly established Loulan County is located at the current terminus of the southern water pipeline. The purpose of establishing Loulan County is not only to utilize water resources, but also to deal with some remaining problems.

Deep in the uninhabited land of Lop Nur, around the nuclear explosion test site, multi-legged mechas were equipped with thick lead plate armor and were working on the ground.

The area where nuclear radiation exceeds the standard extends 10 kilometers outward. A 50-meter-high wall is being built little by little. Currently, it has been built to a length of 19 kilometers.

This high wall made of super material is not to block the desert, but to separate the nuclear explosion test area from the normal area.

Although a fully detonated nuclear bomb does not leave much radioactive material on the surface, it does not mean that there is none.

The reason why the experimental area needs to be isolated and radioactive materials are enriched and removed at the same time is just in case.

The Academy of Sciences and the Department of Sui Ren have done many simulation calculations and found that radioactive materials may spread in the Lop Nur experimental area as the local microclimate changes.

In simulation calculations, as water pipes continue to transport water into Lop Nur and surrounding areas, it is very likely that local precipitation will increase, which will in turn bring Lop Nur back to life and turn it into a lake again.

The emergence of lakes, based on the characteristics of water flowing to lower areas, will spread radioactive materials remaining on the surface and even contaminate water sources.

Therefore, after research and discussion, the Academy of Sciences and the Suiren Department decided to build a wall to seal off the experimental area, and at the same time use the Suiren Department's material separation technology to clean up all radioactive materials remaining on the surface.

In fact, in the core area of ​​​​the nuclear explosion, due to the relatively complete reaction of the radioactive material itself, there is relatively little residual radioactive material. In addition, there have been no nuclear explosion tests for decades. After processing, it can still be reused.

For example, Japan's Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Bikini Island were bombed dozens of times by the United States. As long as these areas are handled properly, they can return to normal.

According to the plan, the Lop Nur area will be transformed into three areas: a closed area, a protected area, and an agricultural area.

The closed area is where the wall is being built; the protected area surrounds the closed area; outside the protected area is the agricultural area.

Transforming the Lop Nur area is an inevitable choice, because as the climate changes, sooner or later it will turn into lakes and oasis, restoring the environment of ancient times.

If we don’t take the opportunity now to deal with the issues left over from history, it will be even more troublesome in the future.

Loulan County is located 17 kilometers east of the ruins of the capital of the ancient Loulan Kingdom. The ruins have been surrounded by a wall.

Western Mining, controlled by Blue Star Mining, is building a rare element refining center nearby.

A large number of element mining vehicles form a fleet, mining rare elements in the desert and Gobi Desert of Lop Nur.

In Loulan County, in addition to the integrated buildings and factories under planning and construction, there are five artificial lakes connected together.

About 45% of the artificial lake is covered with solar panels, which can generate electricity and reduce evaporation of lake water.

These five artificial lakes surround Loulan County, which has effectively improved the local microclimate. On the south side of the artificial lake, Xiaonan Lake, is a large grassland that is being transformed.

This pasture is an industry of Fengmin Agriculture. More than 300 employees from the development team transferred from Hebei Province are busy here.

Fengmin Agriculture has rich experience in desert transformation. Even a harsh uninhabited land like Lop Nur can definitely be transformed into an agricultural area as long as there is sufficient water resources.

According to the standard reconstruction plan, a square frame road is usually built first. The side length of the frame road is usually 10 kilometers and the internal area is 100 square kilometers.

Square roads are simple roads paved with super materials. The width is generally 22 meters. They can be used as transportation roads for agricultural machinery and can also block the invasion of deserts.

At present, Fengmin Agriculture has completed land transformation in seven standard grids, totaling 700 square kilometers, in Loulan County.

Four of the standard grids are used as pastures, and the remaining three are planned to be used as cotton planting sites next year. A batch of pastures will be planted this year to fix sand and water while improving the soil.

Young people wearing gas helmets and equipped with a work-type exoskeleton are laying a spray pipe to spray the grass. The grass grown here is alfalfa, and the seeds have been sown.

His name is Li Tanwen, and he is an ordinary rural man. After graduating from high school, he inherited the family business in his hometown in Chengde. If it had not been for the emergence of Fengmin Agriculture, he might have spent his whole life plowing fields, marrying and having children in the countryside. .

But by chance, he participated in the Suiren Department's training class in Chengde. Then at the beginning of last year, he officially became a member of Fengmin Agriculture and was responsible for a glass greenhouse planting field in Chengde.

It was not until the beginning of this year that Fengmin Agriculture officially launched the Lop Nur development plan, mobilized a group of people in Hebei Province, formed a development team, and entered the Lop Nur area.

Li Tanwen gave all the farmland at home to his eldest brother. He planned to work hard on his own and leave his hometown and Hebei Province.

As a populous province, Hebei Province has too many people. When the population increases, per capita land resources become scarce.

Therefore, when Fengmin Agriculture was developing Northwest China, Mongolia, Mobei, and Central Asia, it gave priority to allocating populations from North China and Guanzhong.

It has been almost ten months since I came to Lop Nur. Li Tanwen thought it would be very difficult at first, but in fact, apart from being a bit difficult at the beginning, the situation quickly improved after that.

The current technological level of the Sui people is naturally not comparable to that of a few decades ago. The latitude of the northwest has relatively sufficient heat. As long as the water resources keep up, the oasis will soon recover.

He laid a set of spray pipes and looked at the endless fields of alfalfa and feed corn not far away. He couldn't help but sigh at the power of technology, which has given mankind the ability to change the world.

The water pipeline that runs directly from the Hexi Corridor to Lop Nur is like a human blood vessel, continuously supplying "liquid of life".

After taking a breath, Li Tanwen took off his gas helmet and felt a dry wind, but it was obviously much moister than when he first arrived here.

Suddenly, a large truck transporting minerals passed by the roadside.

Li Tanwen recognized the vehicle at a glance. It should be a transport vehicle for transporting special minerals. It was also marked with special patterns of radioactive materials. It was most likely coming from the closed area.

Put on the helmet again and proceed to install the spray pipe.

They were mentally prepared before coming to Lop Nur, but the houses and subsidies promised by the company did attract these employees.

In the past, the northwest lacked water resources, and it might be unreliable to allocate houses in Lop Nur. But now it is different. With abundant water resources, the northwest will become more livable.

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