Chapter 1040 1.8 billion and 8 billion

the next day.

Aldair’s face was gloomy.

 “Those **** French, it’s as if they’re determined to eat us!” Ardair was extremely annoyed.

 Irges felt happy for you to praise the French! Now, you know that the French are people who eat people without spitting out their bones, right?

 “Tell me about it,” said Sagastres.

"They offered us a price of US$8 billion for a backward Ruby-class nuclear submarine. I asked them for the most advanced Barracuda-class nuclear submarine, but they made various excuses, saying that nuclear submarines are too big, difficult to operate, and have high maintenance costs, etc. , especially since they haven’t made it themselves yet, and they clearly don’t want to sell it to us.”

Aldair has nothing to say at all. The football country is not Asan, and it doesn’t matter if it is cheated. Anyway, people are stupid and have a lot of money, but the football country’s hard-earned money cannot be spent like this.

 Hearing the word eight billion, everyone present was very angry.

"It seems that the French are not sincere. We have no need to cooperate with them. They want 8 billion now. If the price increases several times in the future, we will spend more than 10 billion US dollars and finally buy such a backward product. It’s really not worth it!”

 “That’s right, it’s best for us to cooperate with Easterners!”

Although Krasnopolski’s banner is Africa Laboratory, everyone knows that behind Krasnopolski is the Eastern Mingzhou Group, and that banner is only used to fool foreigners. .

 At this time, everyone at the French Shipbuilding Bureau was also angry.

“What do people in football think? Don’t they know that they can only purchase from us at the moment?”

"Yes, if we quote them 1.8 billion, we will be able to step into the nuclear submarine club. This is definitely worth it. They still don't agree, and they think our price is too high! How much do they want to spend? Spend a normal amount of money. Diesel-electric submarine money to buy our nuclear-powered submarines?”

“It is absolutely impossible for them to want the Barracuda class. This is our most advanced nuclear submarine. We must not sell it to them. We must maintain sufficient underwater advantages.”

“I don’t want to buy the ruby ​​for 1.8 billion, let alone the Barracuda. ​​Even if we give them a quote, they will find it too expensive. They are a bunch of country bumpkins!”

“Do you think they will go to the East for purchasing?”

"It's possible. Dongfang has launched a nuclear power plant a long time ago. However, the power of that thing is too low, just like an AIP submarine. If they want to get that kind of submarine, let them do it. Then they will know that it is useless. .”

 A group of people were very angry.

 East.

Qin Tao was busy in the shipyard. It was already late at night. Zhao Ling took a cup of tea and put it on Qin Tao's table.

"Thanks."

“Just rest, it’s the same in this shipyard with or without you.”

Zhao Ling's words made Qin Tao speechless. We finally planned to stay and work hard. How can you attack us?

 Qin Tao rolled his eyes at Zhao Ling. It seems that he has to teach you a lesson tonight.

"I just received the news from Football Country." Zhao Ling said: "Football Country felt that Krasnopolski's offer was too high, so they went to the French, and then the French quoted a higher price. The Ruby-class nuclear submarine was quoted at US$8 billion.”

 “Eight billion? The French are not that stupid.” Qin Tao was a little curious.

"Yeah, I don't know what happened to the French. Maybe the French said 1.8 billion, but part of the data packet was lost during transmission, and the pronunciation of 1.8 billion became 8 billion. "

 Qin Tao suddenly understood.

 In international communication, the common language is English. People from all countries speak the same language, which facilitates communication. Although the pronunciation is slightly different, it can still be understood.

There is also a big difference in the pronunciation of eighteen and eighty. Eighteen is eighteen, and the phonetic symbol is ['ei'ti:n]. Eighty is eighty, and the phonetic symbol is ['eiti]. Looking at these two phonetic symbols, the last part is different. Specifically, eighteen is followed by a long i sound followed by an n sound, and eighty is followed by a very short i, that is, That is to say, if the following n sound is lost in the data packet during transmission, then the pronunciation of eighteen will become eighty!

Qin Tao doesn't have to worry about how he lost it. He only needs to know the result.

“The French are so screwed. Now the football country knows how to choose.”

"Yes, the football countries are having a meeting, and they should choose Krasnopolski's African laboratory. This project is not only a nuclear reactor, but also requires a nuclear submarine. The displacement recommended by Krasnopolski to the customer is More than four thousand tons.”

 Four thousand tons?

Qin Tao's eyes lit up, isn't this ready-made?

 The distant shore of the ocean, the other side of the earth.

 The meeting is still going on, and everyone has decided to obtain relevant technologies from African laboratories.

“Next, we need to consider how to raise money. Do you think we can exchange it for the iron ore mined by the Mingzhou Group as we did before?”

Soccer Country was the first country to exchange minerals for warships with Mingzhou Group. At that time, there was no package project for a weak country to strengthen its army, so Mingzhou Group came to explore and mine iron ore in person. Soccer Country also obtained its aircraft carrier in this way. of.

 Now, can we continue to use this method? Anyway, the iron ore is there, and Easterners can mine it as long as they don't have to pay for it themselves.

 “We must find Mr. Krasnopolsky,” said Sagastrese.

"Mr. Krasnopolsky is currently at the Nuclear Research Center. After he went there, he began to help study related issues together. He is currently helping to solve key problems. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to invite him over and it would seriously delay our time."

Hearing this, Sagastres nodded: "Okay, let's go there!"

 Ipero, Center for Nuclear Research.

Among Latin American countries, the football country was the first country to start researching nuclear energy. Early theoretical research began in the late 1930s, almost at the same time as the world. One of the important reasons is that they have rich uranium mines. The most intense battles of World War II At that time, the main raw materials used in the Manhattan Project carried out by the United States were nuclear raw materials from football countries.

By 1947, the football country started its own nuclear project, and the founder was their naval officer Alvaro Alberto da Mota Silva. They originally wanted to buy centrifuges from the United States, but the Americans did not sell them, so the football country turned to West Germany and purchased three centrifuges from West Germany for $80,000, which was the key one.

By 1957, the country had obtained its first research reactor, IEA-R1, through the "Peaceful Atoms" program, which was operated by the Sao Paulo Atomic Energy Institute. This was also the first reactor in the southern hemisphere to start operation.

 After several attempts, in 1962, the country finally built its first practical research reactor, the "Argonauts" reactor, which was put into use after completion in 1965.

Anyone with ambition hopes to obtain an explosive nuclear device. Under this idea, nuclear energy research in football countries is also constantly developing. Especially in the 1970s, they signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric to build The first commercially operated nuclear power plant, Angra 1, was completed and put into use in 1984.

Under these cover-ups, football countries established their own nuclear research capabilities. For example, from 1979 to 1983, they sent a large number of overseas students to study reactor safety, nuclear materials, nuclear technology expansion, R&D infrastructure, and human resources management. In the end, 55 doctors, 396 masters, and 252 experts returned to China to establish a key technical team for the nuclear program.

 The nuclear program at that time was in the hands of the military. The Navy had two projects, one was Project Cyclone, which used ultracentrifugal uranium enrichment technology, and the other was Project Remo, which was mainly to develop nuclear reactors for small naval ships.

This nuclear research center studies nuclear reactors for naval ships. Of course, it is very difficult for them to develop independently, even if they already have a commercially operated nuclear power plant. This is similar to the nuclear reactor for naval ships. Big difference.

 After Krasnopolsky arrived, he immediately began to solve problems for them. “The biggest problem with this pressurized water reactor is that the pressure is too low.” When Sagastres and others came over, Krasnopolski was working in front of the computer, adjusting various key data.

“This pressure should be adjusted to 300 atmospheres. In this way, the volume of the pressurized water reactor can be reduced by half and the original power can be achieved.”

“But, we don’t have the relevant technology, so we can’t build this pressure shell at all.” Rodriguez, the person in charge, was a little embarrassed.

"If you can't make it, then buy it. Don't you have a fertilizer industry? You can use the excuse of purchasing fertilizer industry equipment to buy such pressure-resistant containers from the world." Krasnopolsky said: "With With your current design, the internal pressure is too small, and the size of the nuclear reactor is too large, and it simply cannot fit inside the submarine."

In the field of submarine nuclear reactors, apart from the liquid metal nuclear reactors that were used for a short period of time, pressurized water reactors were used most of the time. Compared with other reactors, the characteristic of pressurized water reactors is their small size. Can meet the needs of nuclear submarines.

 The greater the pressure, the smaller the volume under the same thermal power. Only real nuclear submarine reactor designers know how much this pressure is.

 Krasnopolsky came and immediately gave them laymen advice.

 If you can’t make it, buy it!

The football country has huge agricultural production, but all the chemical fertilizers it needs are imported. Because they do not have the manufacturing capacity to manufacture pressure vessels, they cannot complete the equipment required for the ammonia synthesis process and can only import chemical fertilizers. Therefore, they have good reasons to start from When purchasing pressure vessels from outside, send the design drawings to relevant units. As long as you have an excuse, you can easily purchase from relevant suppliers.

“Let’s look at the evaporator again. There is also a problem with the design of your evaporator. The evaporator of a nuclear submarine reactor is completely different from the evaporator of a commercial reactor. Your entire structure is wrong.”

Sagastres stood behind Krasnopolsky and looked at him working hard. He was very satisfied. This man did not ask for any compensation and came here to work for them. Sure enough, the East is his own country. best friend!

“Huh? Why are you here?” At this moment, Krasnopolski saw a person in the reflection of the monitor. When he turned around and looked, he was very surprised.

Sagastres smiled: "I heard that you came here to work, so I came over to take a look. You gave us so many suggestions and helped us a lot. Thank you!"

"You're welcome, these are all what I should do." Krasnopolski said: "You are just trying to figure it out on your own. This won't work. Now that I've seen it, I'm going to give you some pointers."

“Well, it’s almost noon. Should we go have a meal and talk while we eat?”

"good."

The food in the football country is not that good. Krasnopolski has tasted all the oriental food and is not interested in the food in the football country at all. But now, eating is secondary, chatting with each other is important. .

"Mr. Krasnopolsky, thank you for your valuable suggestions here. Let me propose a toast to you first." Rodriguez raised the glass in his hand: "We were indeed researching blindly before and found nothing. A clear direction, your arrival makes us feel like we have a bright light.”

“That’s right. You’ve only come into contact with commercial nuclear reactors. Those reactors don’t care about size, they only care about price. They are completely different from our naval reactors. I’m very happy to be able to help you.”

“Mr. Krasnopolsky, you have seen our nuclear research center. Do you think we are capable of manufacturing the nuclear power plant you designed?” Sagastrese said.

"No, the technology of nuclear power plants is too advanced and you can't make it yourself." Krasnopolski said: "However, the nuclear submarine you make yourself must use your own nuclear reactor."

This sentence confused everyone present. What do you mean by this?

"We only sell you nuclear power supplies, which are for civilian use or scientific research purposes. Your own nuclear submarine must be a nuclear reactor made by yourself and has nothing to do with us." Krasnopols Key explained again.

Everyone shook their heads and still didn’t understand. After talking for a long time, can we make it ourselves?

However, I am too embarrassed to ask further.

"Mr. Krasnopolsky, we started raising funds after we left yesterday, but we found that it was too difficult to raise US$2.4 billion in a short period of time." Sagastrese said: "Can Can’t we use the iron ore from Mingzhou Group to trade?”

“No.” Krasnopolski shook his head: “This project has no connection with Mingzhou Group. I am now representing the African Laboratory.”

 Everyone’s expressions changed.

"We only accept U.S. dollars. I don't know how the Mingzhou Group's mining transactions with you are done. If your warship transaction has been completed, then the subsequent mining should probably be traded in U.S. dollars. In this way, they Use U.S. dollars to mine and we take U.S. dollars.”

 As long as it is washed away in this way, there will be no relationship between the two parties.

They have no right to interfere with Vale's profits, but the ores mined by the Mingzhou Group are different. In the past, iron ore was exchanged for aircraft carriers. What happens after the exchange? You can also convert it into US dollars.

 Sagastres nodded: "Okay, we understand." He turned to look at Irges.

 “Ilges, is our deal done?”

Irges shook his head: "There are still six years."

 Sagastres was speechless.

 Fortunately, Krasnopolski was well prepared.

“You are rich in minerals, not only iron ore, but also uranium ore. Have you ever thought about selling uranium ore?”

At that time, the East was not only an oil-poor country, but also a uranium-depleted country. In order to develop mushroom bombs, geologists wandered around the mountains for several years and finally found uranium mines, which solved an urgent need.

However, the East is definitely not a country with rich uranium reserves. With the continuous development of nuclear power technology, the East is importing more and more uranium ores.

 How much is it specifically?

 Occupies more than 40% of the global uranium ore concentrate trade!

Even in 2020, with the improvement of exploration technology, China issued a statement that it has proven uranium resource reserves of nearly two million tons, of which the mineable part has reached 879,000 tons. But so what? It only occupies 4% of the world's mineable reserves, and domestic uranium production was as high as 84,000 tons that year. If mining continues like this, it will be mined out in ten years.

 Must be imported!

 Importing from football countries is the best choice. Now that football countries want to develop advanced nuclear submarines, of course they can use what they have on hand!

 “Our uranium ore is all sold to the United States.” Rodriguez frowned.

"Yes, they are all sold to the United States. What's the price? Do you know what the international price is? The price Americans buy from you is less than one-fifth of the international price. From the 1970s to now, The price has not changed. You have been enduring the exploitation of Americans, and you don’t want to stand up and resist?”

 Everyone present frowned.

Latin America is the back garden of the Americans. They have to do whatever the Americans say, and they don’t dare to resist at all. Even if the Americans want to destroy their economy, they will just let the Americans do it.

"Right now, the Americans are fighting in the oil region and they don't care about you at all. We can take this opportunity to sign an export agreement for uranium concentrate with our African laboratory. We can use it at a price of 20,000 US dollars per ton." You purchase 100,000 tons here, which is 2 billion US dollars, and the remaining 400 million US dollars are settled with your foreign exchange, so you will naturally have enough money."

Krasnopolski is also very flexible. Just last night, he discussed it with Domestic Communications and decided that it would not be easy for the football country to take out all the money, so it would be more appropriate to exchange it for this mineral. .

 One hundred thousand tons, that is the loading capacity of a bulk carrier. As long as it is carried out secretly, this bulk carrier can deliver uranium ore to the country before the Americans can react!

 (End of this chapter)