Homo sapiens

Lambie Island.

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

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

The reason why I chose this place is that the island is large enough, covering 188 square kilometers, and it is also remote enough.

On the other hand, it is because of the topography of this island that a semi-enclosed bay with an area of ​​nearly two hundred square kilometers has been formed.

This kind of terrain makes it convenient for Qingye Group to build some secret industries inside the bay.

The name of Lambi Island’s external project is Lambi Island Seaweed Breeding Base. This is not a false accusation, but a real seaweed breeding base.

It’s just that the species of seaweed grown here are quite special.

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

The construction of factories, breeding ponds, and wave-proof walls has been completed, and some secret facilities are also built in the mountains and underground.

Kevin passed by the pond and looked at the rows of seaweed soaked in seawater. He quickly ordered the soldiers in charge of managing the place: "Change the entrance and exit. Don't go directly through the seaweed pond."

"yes."

Then entering the depths of the factory, the seaweed particles crushed by the conveyor belt are sent to the methane fermentation tank for producing methane gas.

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

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

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

The fermented seaweed residue is dried at high temperatures and then stored in lead tanks inside the mountain.

"What is the current production volume?"

The soldier manager replied coldly: "We can produce 300 tons of dry materials every 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 materials? How high can the average abundance be?"

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

"In other words, 300 tons of dry materials can extract 2.1 to 2.4 tons of uranium oxide?" Kevin roughly estimated the approximate amount.

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

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

He was sent to Dawei Port, and one of his core tasks 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 one order of magnitude higher than that of general-grade uranium ore, which is about 0.05% to 0.2%.

As for things like uranium ore, all major forces are aware of the mineral sites on land and even monitor them closely at all times.

You can also use laboratory research as an excuse to purchase in small quantities, but it is simply impossible to purchase in large quantities.

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

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

We must know that the total amount of uranium in the ocean is more than 2,000 times that of uranium ores that have been discovered on land, with total reserves as high as 4.5 billion tons.

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

The advantages of doing this are, first, low cost, and second, better concealment.

Of course, the crude ore extracted from seaweed can only be stored in the underground warehouse on Lambie 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 are strictly guarded against.

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

But the absence of centrifuges does not mean that uranium enrichment cannot be carried out.

In fact, bioconcentration can also purify uranium and separate uranium-235 from it.

This technology 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 uranium 238 is separated, what remains is uranium 235 and very low levels 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 weapons grade.

Moreover, this technology consumes very little energy and is very concealable. It basically does not require a series of large centrifuges and power stations, or even a small workshop can complete the purification work.

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

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

But Li Qingye is not in a hurry. As soon as this technology is completed, he will soon be able to obtain large quantities of high-purity uranium-235 with the large amount of man-made uranium ore on hand.

Therefore, the current task of the Lambie Island base is to continuously produce uranium-rich seaweed and store these uranium-containing residues.

However, the Lambie Island base is not the only uranium production base. There is also a hidden island in the Luzon Islands doing the same work.

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

The ocean is a huge resource library.

As the world's land resources have long been divided up, Homo sapiens companies can only ask for resources from the ocean to complete their early development.

After Kevin inspected the Lambie Island base, he planned to continue to enhance the scale of the infrastructure here, at least to increase the dry material production of seaweed residues to about 1,000 tons per month.

In fact, cobweb managers like Kevin take nuclear weapons more seriously than Li Qingye.

After all, they have been deeply tied to the Homo sapiens company. If they do not 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 in super-conventional weapons to compete with the enemy.

As the best of superconventional weapons, nuclear weapons are very modest as a strategic deterrent and are not as scary as biological weapons.

After all, nuclear weapons can be tested and exploded to let others know that you have them, but biological weapons cannot be tested openly.

Kevin now wishes that the Homo sapiens company would immediately develop nuclear weapons so that they wouldn't have to hide in the dark.

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

Ma Chi directly approved the expansion plan.

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

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

But this kind of calmness is not well understood by the outside world at this time.

On the one hand, this is because Hongsawady’s external channels are very limited.

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 little news spread outside.

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