Chapter 619: Chapter 285: Nuclear Reactor_2
“Wait a mont.”
Allen Zhang turned around, fetched a towel from the car, soaked it with water, wrapped it around various parts of his body, put on several masks and eye covers, and after getting ready, he asked Dominic and Jennifer to wait outside before he felt reassured to approach the warehouse’s entrance.
“Ok! It’s all set! Let’s go in!”
Even if the energy field inside had weak radiation, it could still be isolated by the wet towel; although it was not very useful, it was just a precaution. If there really was such strong nuclear radiation present, Harvard would have mutated long ago!
Seeing him being so cautious, Harvard couldn’t help but mock, “I’ve already used barium sulfate concrete, lead plates, and graphene materials for radiation isolation. You’re just overdoing it.”
“No more talking, let’s go in,” Allen Zhang urged and decisively led the way into the warehouse.
Upon entering, he saw a buzzing crystal ball emitting purple lightning and neon lights hanging on the walls. The General Sect Leader was shocked.
What the heck? A Magic Crystal Ball?
Oh, turns out it’s conductive glass.
Harvard ca in and explained, “These are just so decorations I used to pass the ti improvising in the warehouse. They don’t consu much electricity. Without sufficient nuclear fuel, the electricity isn’t as abundant as you would imagine. It can only maintain daily use and cannot convert motion energy.”
Allen Zhang noticed so electric saws and welders, as well as steel plates and even fully-ford tools, was this kid a sheet tal crafting expert?
Then he saw a familiar golden-red humanoid figure in the corner and couldn’t hold back his suspicion, “What’s this? Iron Man’s armor?”
Harvard said sowhat awkwardly, “Initially, I was thinking about how to miniaturize the reactor and integrate it into the armor, but I realized I was thinking too much. I can use the reactor, but I can’t disassemble and shrink it. I don’t have that capability.”
“If you could do that, the FBI would have nabbed you as an alien long ago,” Allen Zhang said irritably.
At present, the smallest nuclear reactor dinsions in the world are around 40 cm in diater and 60 cm in length. Such small nuclear fission reactors have a thermal power of about 4 kilowatts and electrical power of approximately 1 kilowatt. The size is still far from Iron Man’s chest-sized reactor.
And that’s built on nuclear fusion black technology. You also needed to manually add nuclear fuel, which isn’t the sa experience one might expect from naval reactors, which are typically around six ters tall and four ters wide.
Seeing the other party hopping around without problems, Allen Zhang directly removed his wet towel protection.
“Where’s the reactor?” After looking around, he couldn’t find the massive object.
He also wondered how the other party managed to transport it here without the truck driver being terrified out of their wits. Would they even agree to transport it?
Allen Zhang didn’t quite understand and asked Harvard.
As Harvard was opening up the warehouse floor, he explained, “Back then, I spent 40 US dollars hiring a garbage truck and a tower crane, pulled it out from the testing grounds alone, and then transported it here for modifications.”
“You’re really a genius,” Allen Zhang remarked.
Soon the floor opened up, revealing the nuclear reactor below, which wasn’t emitting a bright blue glow like in the movies. Although there was so light, it wasn’t much. It looked more like an elliptical furnace with several external pipes and intricate components, which made it look impressive, yet it appeared rather dark and more like a boiler due to lack of regular maintenance.
“So, the question is, for how much do you want to sell it?” Allen Zhang asked.
“I’ve grown tired of playing with it. Even if I had other ideas, I couldn’t realize them. Once the internal nuclear fuel runs out, its best use would barely light a bulb, so it’s better off sold as scrap. I plan to sell it for 5000 US dollars,” Harvard pondered.
Too little?
$5000!?
That’s really touching!! What a bargain.
“I’ll give you $10,000! Please make sure to sell this pile of scrap tal to !” the General Sect Leader imdiately pulled out so cash, walked over, and stuffed it into his hand.
This kid sure is naive.
And warmly extended an invitation, “I’d also like to invite you to work with , help manage and maintain this nuclear reactor. Are you interested?”
“What are you buying it for? Can you get nuclear fuel?” Harvard looked at him in amazent.
The General Sect Leader smiled slightly: “Nuclear fuel? It’s just natural uranium, isn’t it? I learned about it in school. We also need to use graphite and heavy water as moderators. Even the fuel rods with a concentration of 90% are currently priced at 500,000-600,000 US dollars per kg. Lower concentration fuel rods cost even less, with diluted fuel rods going for less than 100,000 US dollars per kg.”
“And even nuclear reactors on aircraft carriers consu only about 0.756 kg of dium-grade uranium per day, equivalent to around 1.6 pounds, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost. A one-ti addition of four tons of nuclear fuel can last for twenty years. For this converted reactor used for electricity generation, it’s just everyday consumption. How much fuel would it burn daily? Using regular diluted fuel rods is enough.”
“I haven’t added fuel before, it basically relies on its own radiation for power generation. Although the reactor already contains so fuel, from what I know, even if nuclear power stations added 1.5 tons of natural uranium at a ti, it would be enough for a year. If it is used for daily power generation, it consus even less than 0.01 pound of diluted uranium per day.”
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