Hand rubbing nuclear fusion live in the wilderness

Chapter 442 Separation of Crown Ether Compounds
Won did not handle the uranium hexafluoride himself, and the X-1 industrial robot could replace him.

After all, this thing will turn into a highly toxic gas during the processing process, and a very small amount of inhalation can kill people.

And this kind of death is not immediate, just like drinking paraquat, it is slow and painful.

After absorbing uranium hexafluoride, it will irritate the respiratory tract, and in severe cases, it will cause pneumonia, pulmonary edema, liver, kidney disease and other body organ diseases.

Not only inhalation, but even skin contact with uranium hexafluoride will cause burns, and the epidermis will fester and cannot be repaired.

So Han Yuan didn't want to deal with these things by himself, even if he could wear a full set of lead protective clothing, he could also bring an internal circulation oxygen cylinder.

The plant for processing uranium hexafluoride was placed at the end of the base, at the end of the mountain, far away not only from the river, but also from the settlements.

After all, once a problem occurs, it is fatal.

If uranium hexafluoride flows into the river, the lake water downstream will be polluted.

Of course, if it doesn't flow into the river, but just leaks inside the closed factory, there are still ways for the Korean won to deal with it.

Although uranium hexafluoride is terrible, it is not highly enriched uranium 235 after all.

If the high-concentration uranium 235 that has already started to react leaks, he will roll as far as possible.

The reason why the Chernobyl accident had such a serious impact is because the reactor core that was reacting exploded.

The dust all over the sky contains uranium 235 that has started a chain reaction, which is fatal to any living thing.

Han Yuan rummaged through the knowledge and information in his mind, but did not find a corresponding solution.

Obviously, it is estimated that intermediate knowledge information is required to safely handle nuclear leaks.

This also reminded him of the 'ruins' in Shennongjia, Huaguo, in the real world.

When the ruins first appeared, the accompanying white mist could absorb and process radioactive plutonium, which shows that there are still ways to deal with nuclear leakage.

The X-1 industrial robot took uranium hexafluoride to the processing plant, while Han Yuan sat in the control room watching and commanding through the monitoring equipment of the base.

The equipment and materials for extracting uranium 235 from uranium hexafluoride have been prepared before mining uranium ore.

Including the module programs and corresponding databases in the intelligent core of industrial robots.

Although it is not completely perfect, fortunately, he can make adjustments and modifications according to the situation at any time while sitting in the control room.

It would be even simpler if brainwave-sensing devices were built.

He can choose to sit in the control room with a brain wave sensing device to directly receive and convert the images and information sent back by the robot, and then directly control the robot's actions through his brain.

This is equivalent to an incarnation outside the body. With the flexibility of the X-1 industrial robot, it can basically do most of the things that humans can do.

In the live broadcast room, tens of millions of viewers squatted in front of the display screen to watch the display screen in the live broadcast screen.

Under the command of Han Yuan, the X-1 industrial robot opened the preservation box with layers of protective uranium hexafluoride, took out the light yellow crystals inside, and then sent it into a strange-looking device.

This device is like a ball, and it is also a bit like the first satellite built by humans.

Compared with the satellite, this device is much larger, with a diameter of astonishing 15 meters, and it is firmly fixed in midair by an alloy steel frame.

The surface of the equipment is silvery white and round, with a few relatively slender and protruding pipes.

The audience in the live broadcast room were very curious about this device.

[What a big ball! 】

[What is this for? 】

[When was this made?Why do I have no memory at all? 】

[It's been a long time, and it was made before making that gamma nickel. At that time, the anchor didn't say what it was for, but now it seems that it is used to extract uranium. 】

[I remember that the structure of this thing is not very complicated. 】

[Yes, the outside is an iron shell, but the inside is like a blast furnace for making iron. 】

[Just checked, the equipment used to refine uranium-235 by gas diffusion method is not like this. 】

[Do not leave the remaining uranium slag after refining uranium 235, compress it to a critical volume, and then bombard it with neutrons, the children next door will cry! 】

[Good guy, I'm afraid the children next door are all dead_]

[In terms of danger, uranium-235 is really inferior to radium-226. When radium was crazy, this product killed thousands of people_(:з」∠)_]

[I am more concerned about what method the anchor uses to separate uranium-235. After all, the device in front of me doesn't seem to want to use the gas diffusion method at all. 】

The strange-looking equipment aroused the curiosity of the audience in the live broadcast room, and even experts from various countries were very interested.

This is completely different from the equipment used to separate uranium-235 and uranium-238 by the gas diffusion method.

Before this anchor refined uranium hexafluoride, everyone thought that the gas diffusion method would be used to separate uranium 235, but now it seems that the situation has changed?
Han Yuan looked at the display screen in front of him, then at the virtual screen floating in the upper right corner, and said with a smile:

"I never said I would use the 'gas diffusion method' to smelt and separate uranium-235, it would take too long for me."

Hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room immediately asked curiously.

Won: "Although the two methods of gas diffusion and centrifugation are relatively simple and can be industrialized, there are still many ways to separate uranium 235 from other products."

"For example, the method I am using now is the 'crown ether compound separation method'."

"It exploits the subtle chemical differences between two isotopes, uranium-235 and uranium-238."

“使用的是二环已基24冠8（DCH24C8）和二环已基18冠6（DCH18C6）的1，2-二氯乙烷这两种不同的气体。”

After a pause, Han Yuan looked at the bulky separator in the display screen in front of him, and then said: "These two compounds correspond to the many pipes on the surface of the separator."

“分离器将六氟化铀气化，然后通过不同的管道投入二环已基24冠8和二环已基18冠6的1，2-二氯乙烷。”

"By controlling the pressure and temperature inside the separator, using a diaphragm similar to the structure of a distillation tower, it is possible to catalyze different reactions of uranium-235 and uranium-238, and then separate uranium-235 and uranium-238."

"Compared with the gas diffusion method and high-speed centrifugation method, the time required for the separation of uranium-235 and uranium-238 by this 'crown ether compound separation method' is much shorter."

"But relatively speaking, this method is more technically difficult."

"Because it is necessary to control the mass ratio of uranium hexafluoride and crown ether compound gas, and also to control the different pressures and temperatures between different diaphragms, in order to achieve level-by-level enrichment of uranium 235."

"In addition, the purity of raw materials, the performance of the diaphragm, etc. will also affect the entire production process."

As soon as Han Yuan finished speaking, the live broadcast room erupted.

[Sure enough, it's not the gas diffusion method. 】

[The separation method of crown ether compounds is another brand new technology. 】

[No, you are wrong upstairs. The separation of uranium isotopes by the crown ether compound separation method is not a new technology. It has been around for a long time, but it is not yet mature. 】

【二环已基24冠8和二环已基18冠6的1，2-二氯乙烷，嘿嘿，这两种气体我记住了！这就去申请专利。】

[Upstairs you are thinking about eating. 】

[I remember that the new technologies related to this anchor have been applied for patents by countries all over the world. It seems that there is some kind of patent fund organization that takes care of the fees for these patent applications. 】

【Is there such a thing?This anchor is in a parallel world, and he can't get the patent fee. Isn't it obvious that he is bullying the common people? 】

[What is bullying the common people?This is called resource sharing. As long as you can copy and pay a patent fee to the country, you can use the anchor's technology to make money. 】

[Listening to the anchor's explanation, I suddenly found that the separation of uranium-235 isotopes doesn't seem that difficult? 】

[It sounds simple. 】

[Not difficult?What are you daydreaming about?The anchor said that the application of this technology is more difficult than the gas diffusion method. 】

Ordinary viewers in the live broadcast room did not have much feeling for the 'crown ether compound separation method' used by South Korean won.

Although this method can shorten the time for separating uranium 235, it has a great influence on the change of social pattern.

But after all, things like uranium 235 are too far away from ordinary people, and they will basically never come into contact with this kind of thing in their whole life.

Oh, except for the small island players who have a good life.

At most, the audience would be moved with emotion, but the minds of high-level executives in various countries are completely different, with mixed feelings and various moods.

When they first saw uranium hexafluoride, they thought that the other party would use the gas diffusion method to separate uranium 235, which made everyone feel relieved.

After all, the gas diffusion method is not something that is extremely confidential. Even many non-nuclear countries have mastered it, but they have not mastered the porous diaphragm that separates uranium-235 and uranium-238.

Even if the preparation technology of the porous diaphragm is live broadcasted, the method of preparing uranium-235 by gas diffusion requires high investment and consumes a lot of power.

The gas diffusion method requires a factory with a huge energy supply, and it takes at least several months to extract enough uranium 235.

This is enough for other countries (US) to discover.

The emergence of the 'Crown Ether Compound Separation Method' is obviously not good news for Western countries (the United States) that aspire to control the entire world.

Although it is not known how long the technology will take to separate uranium-235, it is clear that it will not take too long.

If most of the countries have nuclear weapons, it would be a pain in the ass.

In the simulation space, the separation process for uranium 235 is in progress.

Batches of UF[-] stored in boxes are fed into a uranium separator, where the temperature is raised and sublimated into a gas.

大量的二环已基24冠8和二环已基18冠6的1，2-二氯乙烷通过不同的管道同步送入分离器中。

The X-1 industrial robot controls the pressure and temperature inside the separator outside the separator, and stabilizes it at a constant after the ratio is appropriate.

After waiting for a period of time, the curves sent back from the separator began to gradually level off.

At this point, Han Yuan, who had been staring at the screen tightly, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although all the operation steps and the purity and ratio of various materials are based on knowledge and information, as long as it is an experiment, there is a possibility of failure.

It's not like he hasn't failed before.

However, the graph is stable, which means that the separation reaction inside is in progress.

And all that's left is to wait.

This is also a rather lengthy process.

By the time the separation of all the smelted uranium hexafluoride was completed, nearly two months had passed, and there were less than three months left before the completion of the final Starlink mission.

10.97 tons of uranium hexafluoride, and finally separated out 120 kg of uranium 235.

The extracted uranium 235 is not pure uranium 235, but its compound, which needs further extraction and purification before it can be turned into uranium 235 metal that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.

It's just that this step is not difficult for Han Yuan, and he can even do it without his own hands, and the X-1 industrial robot can complete it.

It took three days to extract 120kg of uranium-235, which was finally transformed into real uranium-235 metal with a total weight of 75kg after re-dissolving, extraction, and purification.

The 75 kilograms of uranium contains 235% uranium-95, which belongs to the real high-enrichment uranium-235.

These uranium-235 metals were divided into several pieces and stored in different laboratories.

For the audience in the live broadcast room, 90.00% of the people above 235 saw weapons-grade uranium [-] for the first time.

[This is uranium 235?It looks really unremarkable. 】

[Silver gray, with a little metallic luster on the surface, it looks inferior to uranium metal, or even a piece of pure iron. 】

[Is this thing able to slaughter the city after it explodes?I really can not believe. 】

[Anchor anchor, are these uranium 235 sold?I will buy one piece for 100 million yuan, and I promise it is just for collection and not for other purposes! 】

[This piece of uranium 235 is a cube, with a visual diameter of three centimeters. According to the density of uranium 235 is 19.05g/cm3, which is 514.35 grams, and the cost of weapon-grade enriched uranium is more than 95. The market price exceeds 500000 meters of gold per kilogram. It is 25 meters of gold per catty. According to the market price, the price of this piece of uranium 235 is almost 160 million. Buying one piece for 100 million is not enough for the market price. 】

[Leave aside the price, collect this thing, do you think you died too slowly?Radiation can kill you. 】

[Upstairs, you think too much. The uranium 235 before the chain reaction starts is actually very safe. You can directly hold it with plastic gloves. The dangerous thing is the uranium 235 after the chain reaction starts. 】

[What the hell, if uranium-235 has no harm to the human body, why is the lethality of the nuclear bomb so great? 】

[That's because it will fission when it explodes, and the massive rays and radioactive material fragments that will be produced after fission are the most dangerous things. 】

[You can simply understand that fission is required to produce various dangerous substances, and it is safe without fission. 】

[Suddenly remembered, uranium 235 has been produced, and the next step is to make a nuclear bomb! 】

[Come on, the anchor will increase the tonnage a bit, how about the last [-] tons? 】

(End of this chapter)