Homo sapiens.

Chapter 98 Bioconcentration
Lambie Island.

This is an island full of tropical style, roughly located at 11 degrees north latitude and 98 degrees east longitude.

The entire island is in a northwest-southeast direction, with a length of 31.8 kilometers from north to south and a width of 4 to 24 kilometers from east to west. The terrain of the island is like a small hoe.

The reason for choosing this place is because the island is large enough, with 188 square kilometers, and it is also remote enough.

On the other hand, because of the topography of the island, a semi-enclosed bay with an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers was formed.

This terrain is convenient for Aoba Group to build some secret industries inside the bay.

The name of the external project of Lambi Island is the seaweed breeding base of Lambi Island. This is not a gimmick, but a real seaweed breeding base.

It's just that the species of seaweed cultivated here are quite special.

After Kevin and a group of blood blade special forces and ordinary soldiers arrived here, they immediately put on special biological protective clothing.

The factory buildings, breeding ponds, and anti-wave walls have been completed, and some secret facilities are built on the mountain and underground.

Kevin passed by the pond, looked at the rows of seaweed soaked in seawater, and quickly told the soldiers in charge of the management: "Change the access and exit, don't go directly through the seaweed pond."

"Yes."

Then it enters the depths of the factory building, and the algae particles crushed by the conveyor belt are sent to the methane fermentation tank for the production of methane gas.

The methane gas is stored in storage tanks made of crystal sponge and used to generate electricity and power equipment on the island.

The fermented residue is the real purpose of Kevin's visit this time.

Inside the mountain, there is a thick protective layer of cement and a barrier layer of lead plates.

The fermented seaweed residues are stored in lead tanks inside the mountain after being dried at high temperature.

"How much is the current output?"

The soldier management replied indifferently: "It can produce 300 tons of dry food per month. If we expand the area of ​​the breeding restaurant, we can continue to increase the production."

Kevin touched his chin: "300 tons of dry material? What is the average abundance?"

"The average abundance is between 0.73% and 0.88%." The soldier management replied.

"In other words, 300 to 2.1 tons of uranium oxide can be extracted from 2.4 tons of dry material?" Kevin roughly estimated the amount.

"Yes, but the proportion of uranium-235 in these uranium oxides is only about 0.7%."

Kevin is not disappointed, after all, this is just the beginning.

He was sent to Dawei Port, and one of the core missions was to secretly build a uranium refining base here.

The Lambie Island base was established for this purpose.

In fact, the uranium abundance of seaweed fermentation residue is already very high, at least an order of magnitude higher than that of general-grade uranium ore, which is about 0.05% to 0.2%.

As for things like uranium mines, the great powers are well aware of the mines on land, and they even monitor them all the time.

Laboratory research can also be used as an excuse to purchase a small amount, but it is simply impossible to purchase in large quantities.

Li Qingye used to produce many by-products in the process of developing seaweed technology, such as potassium salt seaweed used to extract potassium salt.

In addition, internationally, there are indeed scientists using seaweed to extract uranium. Li Qingye used his own advantages in biotechnology to transform uranium-enriched seaweed that specifically absorbs uranium.

We must know that the total amount of uranium in the ocean is more than 2000 times that of the uranium mines that have been discovered on land, and the total reserves are as high as 45 billion tons.

Rather than looking for ore on land, it is better to extract it directly from the ocean.

The advantages of doing so are firstly low cost and secondly better concealment.

Of course, the crude ore extracted from seaweed can only be stored in the underground warehouse on Lambi Island, and there is no way to purify it.

The main reason is that uranium enrichment requires the use of large centrifuges and massive amounts of electricity. Large centrifuges are equipment that the great powers strictly guard against.

Li Qingye doesn't want to be focused on by the big powers now, so naturally he won't buy centrifuges, or develop centrifuges.

But without a centrifuge, it does not mean that uranium cannot be enriched.

In fact, the biological enrichment method can also purify uranium and separate uranium 235 from it.

This technique is called the reverse biological purification method by Li Qingye, which uses the different weights of uranium 238, uranium 235, and uranium 234 to cultivate bacteria that only absorb uranium 238.

As long as the uranium 238 is separated, what is left is uranium 235, and a very low content of uranium 234.

At this time, among the remaining uranium compounds, the purity of uranium-235 will reach more than 99.9%, which is directly weapon grade.

Moreover, the energy consumption of this technology is very low, and the concealment is very good. Basically, a series of large centrifuges and power stations are not needed, and even a small workshop can complete the purification work.

But this technology is only an idea at this time, because Li Qingye has only cultivated several semi-finished products for bacteria that specifically absorb uranium-238, and the recognition rate between the three isotopes of uranium is relatively low.

In addition, uranium itself has nuclear radiation, which greatly interferes with bacteria.

But Li Qingye is not in a hurry, as soon as this technology is completed, a large amount of high-purity uranium 235 will soon be obtained by relying on the large amount of man-made uranium ore in hand.

Therefore, the task of the Lambi Island base at this stage is to continuously produce uranium-rich seaweed and store these uranium-containing residues.

However, the Lambi Island base is not the only uranium production base. In the Luzon Islands, there is also a hidden island that is doing the same work.

The technology of biological enrichment is definitely a cutting-edge technology with great potential.

The ocean is a huge resource pool.

With the global terrestrial resources already being divided up, Homo sapiens can only ask for resources from the ocean to complete the insignificant development in the early stage.

After Kevin inspected the Lambi Island base, he planned to continue to increase the scale of infrastructure here, at least to increase the dry material output of seaweed residue to about 1000 tons per month.

As for nuclear weapons, the cobweb managers like Kevin actually paid more attention to them than Li Qingye.

After all, they have already been deeply bound with Homo sapiens. If they don’t want to be manipulated and destroyed by the great powers in the future, they must not only have enough power in conventional weapons, but also have enough power to counter the enemy in super conventional weapons.

As the leader of super conventional weapons, nuclear weapons are very moderate as a strategic deterrent, not as frightening as biological weapons.

After all, nuclear weapons can be tested and exploded to let others know that you have them, but there is no way to test biological weapons on the bright side.

Kevin now wishes Homo sapiens could develop nuclear weapons immediately, so that they don't need to hide in the dark.

After he secretly returned to Dawei Port, he quickly reported the situation of the Lambi Island base to the branch through the internal optical cable, as well as the funds and resources needed for subsequent expansion.

In this regard, Ma Chi directly approved the expansion plan.

At this time, Taunggyi, with the entry of Qingye Group, began to transform from a backward agricultural city to an industrial city.

In other words, the entire Shan Plateau is changing, including the Golden Triangle, which has always been in a state of chaos, and it is also showing a strange calm at this time.

But this kind of calm, the outside world doesn't know much at this time.

On the one hand, it is because Hongshawadi has very limited external channels.

On the other hand, the gangs in the Golden Triangle were all cleaned up by Yang Mengjiao and Domino. They were either annexed or turned into fertilizer for the rainforest.

In this case, naturally very little news spread to the outside world.

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