Chapter 307 Confidential Documents (Ch 834258971)

Entered the laboratory office area.
Du Guojian didn’t say anything clichéd, but directly asked what new technology they had developed: “Dr. Liu, please tell me about the details of the new technology!”
“Okay, this is what happened…” Liu Tongxin said as he handed the sorted documents to the other party.
Listening to Liu Tongxin’s description, Du Guojian took the document and began to read it.
Ten minutes later, he raised his head and looked at Fang Tenglong with burning eyes: “Researcher Fang’s achievements do involve strategic security, but don’t worry, although the technology may need to be kept strictly confidential, your contribution will be recorded within the company, and you will not be treated unfairly.”
“I understand the company’s concerns and am willing to accept the company’s confidentiality arrangements.” Fang Tenglong naturally had no objection.
He had already become aware of this when he became a scientific researcher in the Hailufeng Department.
Since July and August last year, the European and American academic circles have held many academic conferences and invited researchers from the Hailufeng system to go to Europe and the United States for exchanges, but they were also rejected.
Especially at the end of last year, when Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Biology and the two directly refused, it meant that the Hailufeng faction and the European and American academic circles had completely torn their relations apart.
Now that Fang Tenglong has achieved this result, he is very clear about the value of this technology. At the same time, he has no intention of winning the Nobel Prize, but it should be easy for him to win domestic national technology awards.
However, considering the need for confidentiality, he estimated that this technology would not be made public in the next few years.
Liu Tongxin smiled and patted Fang Tenglong on the shoulder: “I am very optimistic about Aaron’s technology. The current mainstream deuterium and tritium refining technology requires very high costs. We can make it almost dirt cheap, and at the same time it can also help the further development of controlled nuclear fusion.”
After reading the document, Du Guojian nodded slightly. Although he was not engaged in technical research and development, he was a doctor of engineering who graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University and had basic scientific literacy.
When Liu Tongxin and others were compiling the report, they also tried to use easy-to-understand language as much as possible. Therefore, as long as you browse the document, you will basically understand the value of this technology.
In the document, Liu Tongxin and others also adopted some comparative data.
For example, the current global annual production of tritium is only about 2 to 3 kilograms, and the cost is as high as about 200,000 yuan per gram.
You read it right, it is not 200,000 Huayuan per ton, but 200,000 Huayuan per gram.
If this technology is used, about 272 kilograms of tritium can be extracted from every ton of super heavy water, and the refining cost is only 1.83 yuan per gram. It will completely solve the fuel shortage problem of fusion energy and further promote the commercial application of controlled nuclear fusion.
Fang Tenglong was not complacent, but scratched his temples and said, “Boss Du, even if we can provide cheap super-heavy water at present, I think it will still be difficult for controlled nuclear fusion to enter the commercial stage.”
The reason why he chose to pour cold water was that he was worried that the company’s management would invest blindly. For this situation, he wanted to take precautions in advance to avoid being implicated.
Liu Tongxin had the same idea, so he added: “Mr. Du, Aaron is right. Even if we can provide cheap super-heavy water, the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion is still a long way to go.”
“Oh?” Du Guojian calmed down from his excitement. He was only a doctor of engineering majoring in mechanical equipment design. Although he knew some simple concepts of nuclear physics, he had not learned them in depth. Therefore, he wanted to know more details:
“Researcher Fang, please help me solve this problem.”
“No problem…” Fang Tenglong introduced some issues of controlled nuclear fusion in detail.
After listening for more than ten minutes, Du Guojian had a preliminary understanding of the reason.
A more specific reason is that among the controlled nuclear fusion raw materials currently under research, the reaction requirements of deuterium and tritium are relatively the lowest.
Among all nuclear fusion reactions, deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion is relatively easy to achieve. This is because they carry less charge and the electrostatic repulsion between atomic nuclei is relatively small, so nuclear fusion reactions can occur under lower temperature and pressure conditions.
Compared with other nuclear fusion reactions, such as deuterium-helium-3, helium-3-helium-3, and protium-boron reactions, the ignition temperature required for the deuterium-tritium reaction is only about 100 million degrees Celsius.
While the ignition temperature required for helium-3-helium-3 fusion is at least 1.5 billion degrees Celsius, the optimal temperature for the protium-boron reaction is about 1 billion degrees Celsius of the pure hydrogen reaction, and the energy constraint requirements are 500 times stricter than those for the deuterium-tritium reaction.
Doesn’t this seem like a good thing?
After all, the temperature requirement for the deuterium-tritium reaction is low, only about 100 million degrees Celsius. Currently, many tokamak devices can achieve an operating temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius.
However, everything has two sides.
The deuterium-tritium reaction requires a relatively low temperature, but it will produce a large number of neutrons. Neutron irradiation is very harmful to the inner wall materials of the controlled nuclear fusion reaction device. It will also cause the inner wall materials to produce radioactive isotopes, resulting in difficulties in the processing of the inner wall materials, and there is a potential risk of nuclear leakage and nuclear pollution.
The temperature requirement for the helium-3-helium-3 reaction is relatively high, but the advantage is that it does not produce a large number of neutrons, which can further reduce the requirements for the inner wall materials of the reaction device, greatly extend its service life, and there is no risk of nuclear leakage or nuclear pollution.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Du Guojian did not show a disappointed expression: “Although controlled nuclear fusion is not that fast, this kind of thing is not something we should worry about. After all, the company does not have a controlled nuclear fusion project.”
“Mr. Du, I’ll trouble you and the company on how to develop and utilize the specific technology.” Liu Tongxin was also quite satisfied with the result.
“It’s my job. Leave this to me, but your report should have been sorted out today, right?”
Huang Chongyi nodded directly: “Boss Du has a keen eye. We have indeed just finished sorting it out today.”
“How about this! I’ll give you a week to reorganize and come up with a complete technical report. After all, I need to convince other management and the chairman. Also, send a researcher who understands technology to assist me. After all, I’m not involved in the technical research and development, so I don’t know some of the details.”
Liu Tongxin felt that this was plenty of time, so he agreed: “Okay.”
“Please recommend a researcher to assist in the explanation.”
Liu Tongxin, Huang Chongyi, Fang Tenglong and others looked at each other.
In the end, it was Liu Tongxin who made the final decision: “Let’s do this! I didn’t participate in the research either. As the developer of the technology, Aaron is the most suitable candidate, but Aaron needs to do follow-up research work, so I recommend Chongyi to provide technical assistance to President Du.”
“I have no objection.” Fang Tenglong expressed his thoughts directly. He knew that he was definitely not as good as Huang Chongyi in dealing with people. In addition, he was really needed to lead the research and development work in the future, so he agreed to this proposal.
“Then I will take on this task.” Huang Chongyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had no credit, at least he had worked hard.
Seeing that they had discussed it internally, Du Guojian set the tone: “Then let’s move forward according to this arrangement without further delay!”
“good!”
As time goes by.
About nine days later.
Jiang Miao, who was at the Hailufeng Company headquarters, also received the relevant internal confidential documents. The reason why he did not receive the relevant information until more than a week later was because of this.
That’s because this technology involves strategic security, and the company has a dedicated information security office to transfer information. This kind of content cannot be casually communicated on the public network or over the phone.
Therefore, this information appeared in Jiang Miao’s hands nine days later.
After reading the detailed technical report, he felt that this technology had great potential.
Jiang Miao then wrote down his comments:
[This type of isotope separation technology can be considered to be further expanded from water to other substances.
Silicon carbide nanotubes can withstand temperatures exceeding 2800 degrees Celsius, so it is possible to consider heating the substance to turn it into a high-temperature fluid state, and then using the negative pressure evaporation of the silicon carbide nanotubes to achieve efficient purification of the substance.
2028.08.17—Jiang Miao】
Hand over the reviewed content to the confidential secretary Hu Siqi, and ask him to hand it over to the Information Confidentiality Office on time.
Jiang Miao picked up another document.
It is also a Level 1 confidential document that needs to be kept confidential.
After reading for a while, he frowned. The content of this document was mainly related to the research and development design plan of a weapon.
Because Hailufeng Company has no direct industries related to military industry, Minqin Group reported the matter to him.
The weapon is conceived to be based on a high-strength mesh woven from silicon carbide nanotubes.
To put it in simple terms, this high-strength material is woven into a light and thin net, which is then stuffed into the missile warhead.
As long as the missile explodes above the target area, a large blocking net can be deployed to cover the target area.
According to laboratory tests, a barrier net woven with about 100 kilograms of silicon carbide nanotubes can cover an area of ​​approximately 6 to 8 square kilometers.
As long as the area is covered by the blocking net, no personnel, missiles, artillery shells or aircraft will be able to enter or exit the covered area.
Moreover, this thing is very insidious. Because it is very thin, it is difficult to detect it at once without careful observation with the naked eye.
At the same time, silicon carbide is a typical semiconductor. If the barrier net made of it is entangled in the power grid, it will instantly cause a short circuit in the power grid, which is similar to the effect of a graphite bomb.
The research and development laboratory of this weapon has conducted relevant tests. This thing not only has a huge restrictive effect on fixed facilities such as cities, but also has a restrictive and killing effect on moving targets, such as aircraft and ships.
After all, silicon carbide nanotubes can only be removed using ultra-high temperature combustion cutting equipment.
Instruments such as scissors, hydraulic pliers, diamond glass cutters, or bombardments such as artillery shells cannot clear the barrier net woven with silicon carbide nanotubes.
This will result in a barrier made of this material that is difficult to remove quickly.
For example, if an aircraft carrier is covered by this kind of thing, the aircraft and various air defense weapons on it will be unusable for a short period of time.
The light and thin arresting net, once entangled in the surface of an aircraft carrier, is also a threat to the soldiers on the deck. After all, it is very sharp, especially when it is stretched tight, or when limbs step into the mesh, it may directly cut the limbs. The more you struggle, the more difficult it will be to escape.
In fact, the reason why the laboratory developed this weapon.
The main reason is that the Blue Whale airship had a related idea before, which is to arrange a barrier net on this transport airship to block various external attacks.
Now we are just transforming this passive defense application into an active defense application.
Jiang Miao looked at it for a while and also wrote a comment.
However, considering that this technology involved the military field, he asked the laboratory to cooperate with relevant domestic military enterprises, and Minqin Group only needed to provide the raw materials.
After all, this type of technology application is relatively simple and crude. It is estimated that many domestic military industrial enterprises are already developing related weapons, and there is no need for Hailufeng Company to enter this field.
Then he picked up another document.
It is still a confidential document, but this time it is not a research and development project such as weapons, but related research on South American leaf blight and the current status of leaf blight around the world.
After reading the summary for a few minutes, Jiang Miao couldn’t help rubbing his temples to relieve the heat in his brain caused by thinking, and took a sip of the lemon honey tea: “Huh… what trouble!”
According to the description in the document, leaf blight has entered Southeast Asia, where management is relatively weak, through international air transport.
Siam, a major global tourist country, has experienced a large-scale outbreak of leaf blight near Bangkok, and almost all local rice has been infected.
Since leaf blight has already appeared in Southeast Asia, it means that the occurrence of leaf blight in China is just around the corner.
As for continuing to increase management efforts, Jiang Miao does not think this method will be effective.
After all, you can defend ports and airports, but you can’t prevent migratory birds.
This is also the idea expressed in the official document notified to him, that is, leaf blight in Asia is about to get out of control, and he hopes that he and Hailufeng Company can make preparations in advance.
Jiang Miao felt heavy in his heart.
However, Hailufeng Company has already prepared everything it needs to prepare, so there is no need to be too anxious now.
But when he thought about the huge population in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and the fact that rice is the staple food in these areas, he estimated that these two regions would suffer an unprecedented food crisis and a great famine was imminent.
Jiang Miao was powerless to do anything about this terrible future. After all, the current situation was mainly due to the fact that time was too tight. If he were given another half a year, he was confident that he could develop a new variety of rice that was resistant to leaf blight, but now leaf blight had already broken out.
These areas can only hope for the best.
If the local managers had any brains, they would have forced the farmers to switch to growing cassava, sweet potatoes and potatoes in advance, which would have provided some food and barely guaranteed the internal food supply.