Three Bombs Explode at Once! (Part Two)

To be honest.

When Xu Yun heard Da Yu say he had developed a mercury bomb, this was the expression on his face:

O.o?

You've got to be kidding me.

This was a legendary weapon, for crying out loud!

Afterward, he immediately sought out Lu Guangda, Old Guo, and several other big shots authorized to access the highest-level secrets for a confidential review. The result, naturally, was that the calculations checked out: from a practical standpoint, it really was possible to build a mercury bomb.

A dream had truly become reality.

So they immediately contacted the capital, where the 101 Heavy Water Reactor provided covert assistance.

Speaking of the 101 Heavy Water Reactor, it was also a remarkable nuclear engineering project in Huaxia.

As mentioned earlier, heavy water was a compound made up of two deuterium atoms and one ordinary oxygen atom. Also called deuterium oxide, its molecular formula was D2O, and its relative molecular mass was 20.0275.

That was about 11 percent greater than water's relative molecular mass of 18.0153, which was why it was called heavy water.

Because heavy water absorbed fewer neutrons, heavy water reactors could use natural uranium as fuel instead of enriched uranium.

Seven years earlier.

After extensive discussion, the capital had made the strategic decision that Huaxia should develop its nuclear industry. It had also decided to formally accept the Bear's assistance with Huaxia's research into the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

On April 27 of that year,

the capital sent Liu Boshēng, Qian Bingqiong, and Zhao Zhongyao as a delegation to sign the Agreement on the Use of Atomic Energy for the Development of the National Economy with the Bear.

Against this backdrop,

on May 26, six years earlier, the "one reactor and one device" project officially began construction in Capital FS District.