I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

August 24th.

The second bidding meeting for blasting equipment at the United Mining Yushu base has begun. This time, Hua Nuclear Corporation, Xigao Company, Chelyabinsk Machinery Company and Alabama Engineering Machinery Technology Company are present.

Although Luo Luo's bid was successful, he still came to participate. The agreement signed last time was only a small part of the plan.

Compared with the first hasty bidding meeting, this one was obviously much more formal, and United Mining was no longer unprepared.

After Rolls-Royce, United Mining provided the lunar geological data obtained by Tianmu-2 to the remaining four confirmed bidders, and then each company first used supercomputers to calculate the specific amount of hydrogen bombs.

Supercomputer simulation is very fast. Yesterday, the calculation results of the five bidders were sent over:

Rolls-Royce believes that the use of nine 12-million-ton hydrogen bombs and six 5-million-ton hydrogen bombs is enough; the calculation results of China National Nuclear Corporation and Xigao Company are to use 15 to 18 general-purpose 15 million-ton hydrogen bombs.

If these three companies are considered normal, the results of Chelyabinsk Machinery Company and Alabama Engineering Company are more outrageous:

I don’t know if Maozi has any obsession with high-yield hydrogen bombs. They suggested using a 150-million-ton-yield hydrogen bomb to explode at a depth of 900 meters, and then using eight 1.5-million-ton-yield hydrogen bombs to "modify the mine." "And clean up the debris, and finally a stable mine with a solid outer wall can be obtained.

As for the Alabama Engineering Company, it directly overturned United Mining's calculations for the mine pit, believing that the surface diameter of 2,500 meters was too conservative for mining, and believed that 15 25-million-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs and 15 8-million-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs were needed. , a total of 30 hydrogen bombs created a super mine with a maximum diameter of 5 kilometers, greatly reducing the difficulty of subsequent mining of ore veins.

One is keen on super hydrogen bombs, and the other almost doubles the number of hydrogen bombs.

Therefore, in today’s bidding meeting, there is no rush to determine the number of hydrogen bomb bids from each company. The plan must be confirmed first.

The person presiding over the meeting was also changed from Wu Yi to the temporary director of the Joint Mining Engineering Department, Wang Lu, a nuclear expert from Chengdu 194 Institute. After all, this kind of thing requires professionals.

Naturally, he knew the reason for Hua Nuclear Power's plan. The 15-million-ton hydrogen bomb had a large enough yield, and the number used was relatively small. The main reason was that there were ready-made 15-million-ton second-generation warheads in the warehouse, which were installed in the old Dongfeng 5 as a high-yield single warhead.

Nowadays, nuclear arsenals are gradually being upgraded to missile heads of 1.5 to 3 million tons and 3 to 7 points. These old warheads can be used directly without modification, and the cost is very low.

Luo Luo's plan requires very precise control and has the lowest cost but a little redundancy. As for Mao Zi and Yankee's plan... although there are no major flaws, Wang Lu still feels that it is not reliable.

However, due to the special nature of the bidding fair, it is not possible to choose a plan directly like ordinary companies. In fact, the plan of United Mining has now been treated as an international incident.

Wang Lu simply asked all bidders to introduce the advantages and disadvantages of their own plans and then focus on the discussion. By then, no one would be able to raise objections.

This proposal was accepted by all parties, and then began to take turns speaking according to the data submitted for the calculation plan.

Academician Yu was the first to start. He mainly focused on the two aspects of "controllable power" and "easy technology". Both Rolls-Royce and Xigao claimed that their costs were best controlled, and then Qiong from Alabama Engineering Company kindness.

Jon is a seventy-year-old man. He first introduced that his major is explosive mechanics. Those present immediately understood that his main business is about the implosion core of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. There is no need to question the technical expertise of this old man. .

“...We believe that although the low gravity environment of the moon appears to be conducive to blasting operations, it is actually more difficult.

It is difficult to form a uniform shock wave that diffuses through the atmosphere like on Earth by relying solely on solid matter, and gravel and garbage will be more widely distributed due to low gravity. A hydrogen bomb with a larger yield is precisely needed to ensure that the effect reaches the expected goal...

In addition, we have also considered the deeper operation issues in the later stages of the mine. The larger the current pit, the more veins will be exposed, which will make later development easier. If we carry out deep vein excavation in the future, it will be difficult to continue hydrogen bomb blasting operations. of. "

Tomarsov stood up immediately after Jon finished speaking. At this time, Lin Ju, who was sitting in the corner, heard Academician She muttering in a low voice:

"Do you still remember the Lucia expert who said that hydrogen bombs would be used to solve the pollution at Tomishima Nuclear Power Plant? Look, this is it."

Lin Ju immediately set his sights on this middle-aged man in his 50s. The latter was short and fat and had a wild aura on his face. It was reasonable for such a person to propose such a crazy plan.

"Everyone!" Tomarsov's voice was extremely loud, and his words were full of English:

“Since there is no need to worry about any impact on the moon, why don’t we simply and crudely solve the problem with a super hydrogen bomb?

We provide super hydrogen bombs. You only need to take 1.5 million tons of active warheads. Let us Lucia bear the most research and development costs! "

"..."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Finally, Wang Lu said that he could now express his opinions on various plans, and the scene suddenly turned into a chaotic quarrel with people scrambling to criticize each other.

Academician She, who was secretly observing, shook his head, okay, let's have a day of quarrel first.

…

At 20 o'clock in the evening, the nuclear experts from the five bidders who had been debating all day at the United Mining Headquarters finally began to pack up and leave.

At the beginning, everyone just talked, but then they started to use pen and paper. Finally, they pulled out the United Mining decorative whiteboard to write and draw. No one outside the room could understand a word of what was being discussed.

At the end of the discussion, there was still no consensus. It was mainly divided into two groups: multiple high-yield hydrogen bombs and a single super hydrogen bomb, but mainly the former prevailed.

Tomarsov's proposal was the first to be rejected. After all, according to his theory, other companies would have no work to do. The main focus was on the size of the mine.

When the experts were leaving one after another, Lin Ju's assistant saw the opportunity and trotted to several teams to say something, but quickly left again without waiting for a response.

The teams that had been informed of the news also left without being affected, but after they all returned to their respective hotels, they hurriedly packed up and went out again.

At around ten o'clock in the evening, the nuclear experts from Xiaoshiren gathered in an old hotel, and Lin Ju had been waiting inside for a long time.

Looking at the people who came down, nuclear experts from all over the world were here. On my side was Wang Lu from the 194th Institute.

They were all invited here by Lin Ju in his own name, purely for the purpose of "getting to know each other" and with absolutely no other meaning.

After everyone was in place, Lin Ju didn't waste any time. After expressing his welcome, he made a request:

"Everyone, I don't know anything about nuclear technology, so I want to ask a question that may be a bit superficial."

Stevenson: "Please tell me, we are all friends now."

Lin Ju: "I have heard a saying before that the residue of fission pollution can be cleaned up using a hydrogen bomb with a larger yield. Is this true?"

After waiting for several translators to translate his words, Tomarsov's expression immediately became surprised:

"Davarisi, we have done a lot of research on this!"