Monster Factory

After reading the report, the four Pentagon officers sitting in the question raised questions one after another.

"I am the chief of the military department. I don't know much about rare earth metal minerals. But I know that the battery energy density can reach 1200-1300 wh/kg."

The first officer questioned, "If used in the military, it will change too much design thinking of existing military equipment, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a change."

“It’s just strange that China itself is the largest producer of rare earth metal minerals.”

“Why does Behemian Industries also choose to set up a rare earth plant in Nigaya?”

Viz, without thinking, replied: "The rare earth metal elements include 钆, 铽, 镝, 钬, 铒, etc. According to the intelligence, the giant beast industry only extracts metal elements."

“So there will be a balance of supply and demand here.”

“Huaxia's rare earth metal mineral reserves are huge, but in order to maintain the price stability of rare earth metals, the annual share of rare earth metal minerals mined has a corresponding number of regulations.”

“The percentage of metal lanthanum in rare earth minerals is very low. If the demand for single metal bismuth in the giant beast industry is met, the share of rare earth metal mining in China will be greatly increased, resulting in an imbalance between supply and demand.”

"Now the giant beast industry itself is mining rare earth metal minerals overseas. After they have purified metal bismuth to meet their industrial needs, they can also sell surplus other rare earth metals to China, so that China can reduce the share of rare earth mining and protect mineral resources."

The military department chief nodded.

Rare earth metal is a strategic resource. Although he is not the chief officer of the mineral energy sector, he knows the important role of rare earth metals in the field of electronic semiconductors and military equipment.

Later, an officer asked, what is the purpose of the giant beast industry to build nuclear facilities?

"For energy." Weiz replied, and made a few strokes on the tablet in front of him. When she retracted her hand, there was a corresponding photo on the big screen of the conference room.

This is a standard satellite overlooking photo taken with satellite operating parameters, ground height, time and building scale parameters that several officers can understand. In the photo, you can clearly see the foot of a mountain, there is a square building completely cast from concrete.

The parameters show that the building covers an area of ​​about 30,000 square meters, and the thickness of the wall is one meter. According to the projection of sunlight, the height of the wall reaches an astonishing 20 meters.

Within the fence, two buildings, apparently nuclear reactor rooms, are juxtaposed, with a circular shape behind them, and a nuclear power plant like a large chimney is equipped with a building cooling tower.

Because the sense of existence in Africa is too weak and too weak, it is weak to the big country to be too lazy to throw even a scouting satellite to their heads.

This satellite photo, or the intelligence department applied for a recent one from Nicara's upper orbit, was taken after performing a temporary orbital photo command.

In the photo, if it is only these buildings, it will be considered.

Commercial nuclear power is not a demon locked in a box. Many countries have commercial nuclear power plants.

It is not too unacceptable for the giant beast industry to build a medium-sized nuclear power plant in Nigara, where energy is extremely poor, if it is to obtain a large amount of energy for convenience.

After all, Huaxia is an active team in the international commercial nuclear power market, and has been working hard to promote its nuclear power to the sea.

But in this exaggerated concrete wall, there are two semi-buried bunk-style square buildings and a fully enclosed factory building.

"Based on the information of the horizontal ocean-going ship carrying the industrial-grade gas centrifuge in the name of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the Strait of Malacca two years ago, we can initially judge that two In semi-buried buildings, it is likely that there are a large number of key centrifuge equipment that can purify uranium-235."

Weitz emphasized the pronunciation volume of uranium-235. "So everyone saw it, and the giant beast industry still has the technology to purify enriched uranium."

"This analysis of our technology will not be officially provided by China, because most of the enriched uranium is used in the military field. It is very dangerous. If the behemoth industry does need it, China will only supply the finished uranium to them."

"For the behemoth industry that can make the banshee aircraft, and the plasma battery. They have the technology to make industrial grade gas centrifuges, I am not surprised." The third officer shrugged his shoulders and laughed at himself: After all, centrifuge technology is much simpler than the first two."

Weiz asked, "You are not curious, what is the purpose of purifying enriched uranium?"

“In order to provide nuclear power plants with higher purity fuel rods?”

"I will never make a nuclear bomb. I don't think so."

“Are they ready to build a nuclear submarine?”

Several generals answered this question with a slightly joking tone.

Enriched uranium can be derived from two different concepts. One is low enriched uranium with abundance of around 3%. This enriched uranium is widely used as a fuel for nuclear power plants.

The other is highly enriched uranium with abundance of more than 90%, mostly composed of uranium-235.

This is the most critical material for making nuclear bombs.

Several Pentagon officers believe that the Behemoth industry is only purifying commercial grade low enriched uranium.

Weiz showed a few strange smiles to several officers, letting the officers from the Pentagon unconsciously stop discussing.

"Some of you guessed correctly."

“The Behemoth Industry is indeed building a 'nuclear submarine’ and it has already been built.”

The officers sighed in unison, and their Pentagon was a pure military command organization whose functions were related to the military. The Behemoth Industry is just a commercial company. Even if their technology is advanced, it is the scope of business that other organizations need to be responsible for.

For example, the intelligence bureau that is annoying in overseas people.

Now they are sitting here and reading without hesitation, many survey materials that should not have been seen by them.

This can only explain one thing. The matter of the behemoth industry has been too large to be dealt with by the intelligence service. It can only be handed over to the Pentagon, which has the strongest force in the world.

If they really created the 'nuclear submarine', the intelligence team guys did not look enough.

It’s just too ridiculous.

"I will explain a few of our sources of information."

"Two years ago, when we seized the horizontal ocean liner, the president of the giant beast industry went to the Straits of Malacca and did not know what means to force Malay to abandon the execution of our seizure order and let us lose face."

"But we lost face, and we just paid a few calls, and a little promise."

Weitz pointed to the red phone on the oak table and made a call gesture. "We can call again and again."

"But the young president can't go to Malay again and again."

"After that, the Beast Industries purchased two Il-76 transport aircraft, no longer take the sea route, and changed to air."

"The transport capacity of the two Il-76, I think you are more clear than me."

"So during that time, the material transportation capacity between the giant beast industry and Nigaya plummeted, leaving the young president with a headache."

"Changes are after half a year."

Said here, Weiz picked up his eyebrows and his tone became erratic. "Our intelligence department suddenly discovered that one day, there was a huge difference in the material transportation information between the behemoth industry and Nigaya."

“Intelligence shows that the behemoth industry has received nearly 5,000 tons of mineral materials from Nigaya, but one of the two transport planes has stopped at Zhongyun Airport for engine replacement and maintenance.”

“We investigated all the possibilities and did not find this sudden material transportation channel.”

"then……"

"It is 10,000 tons, 20,000 tons, 30,000 tons, 50,000 tons..."

"The behemoth industry has also sent a huge amount of industrial equipment to Nigaya. However, we have not found any information on the transportation channels beforehand. They are like ghosts, and suddenly appeared on the port of Nigaya one day. ""

Some of the officers said seriously: "So the intelligence department suspected the behemoth industry and secretly built a 'submarine' that could escape our investigative means?"

“Even a ‘nuclear submarine’ with ocean-going capabilities?”

Weiz nodded again. "After all the possibilities are eliminated, there is only one result left."

"Next, you have to find this secret ‘submarine’.”

"Find it and destroy it."

At this moment, Weiz became a cold conspiracy, with a cold tone like a knife. "Since there is no possibility of negotiation, we must stand up and stop the technological expansion of the giant beast industry."

"The young president, isn't he running Nigaya into a 'fortress'?"

"Then we use the most powerful force to crush this fortress."

"The intelligence department will hand over all the investigations. You have to let the 'submarine' disappear, let the giant beast industry lose all the industries owned by Nigaya, and the important mineral resources that support the materials of plasma batteries and holographic glasses. ”

Several officers were silent for a moment and finally stood up and nodded.