After reading the report, the four Pentagon officers sitting there asked questions one after another.
"I am the chief officer of the military department, and I don't know much about rare earth metal minerals. However, I know about plasma batteries, which can have an energy density of 1200-1,300 H/kg. "
The first officer asked, "If used in the military, it will change too many design ideas of existing military equipment. It is not an exaggeration to call it a revolution."
"It's just that I find it strange. Hua Xia itself is the largest producer of rare earth metals."
"Why did the Monster Industries choose to set up a rare earth plant in Nigeria?"
Wez replied without hesitation, "Rare earth metal elements include gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, and so on. According to the intelligence, the Monster Industries only refines dysprosium, a type of metal element. "
"So there will be a problem of supply and demand balance here."
"Hua Xia has a huge reserve of rare earth metal minerals, but in order to maintain the stability of rare earth metal prices, they have a corresponding number of rare earth metal minerals mined every year."
"The percentage of dysprosium in rare earth minerals is very low. If in order to meet the single dysprosium demand of the Monster Industries, the mining share of Hua Xia's rare earth metal mine will have to be greatly increased, leading to an imbalance between supply and demand."
"Now the Monster Industries themselves are mining rare earth metal minerals overseas. After they purify dysprosium to meet their own industrial needs, they can also sell the excess rare earth metals to Hua Xia, so that Hua Xia can reduce the share of rare earth mining and play the role of protecting mineral resources."
The chief officer of the military department nodded.
Rare earth metals were strategic resources. Although he was not the chief officer in charge of the Minerals and Energy Department, he knew the important role of rare earth metals in the field of electronic semiconductors and military equipment.
Then an officer asked, what was the purpose of the Monster Industries building nuclear-involved facilities?
"For energy," Wez answered as she swiped a few buttons on the tablet in front of her. When she retracted her hand, a photo appeared on the big screen in the conference room.
It was a standard satellite overhead photo, marked with satellite operating parameters, height from the ground, time, and building proportion parameters that several officers could understand. In the photo, one could clearly see a square building made entirely of concrete at the foot of a mountain.
The parameters showed that the building occupied an area of about 30,000 square meters, and the wall was one meter thick. According to the calculation of the sunlight, the height of the wall reached an astonishing 20 meters.
Inside the wall, there were two buildings that were obviously nuclear reactor rooms side by side. Behind them was a circular, chimney-like cooling tower that was standard for nuclear power plants.
Because Africa's presence was too weak, so weak that the big countries didn't even bother to throw a reconnaissance satellite over their heads.
This satellite photo was taken after the intelligence department applied for a satellite closest to the orbit over Nigeria and executed a temporary orbit change to take a photo.
In the photo, it would be fine if it was just these buildings.
Commercial nuclear power was not a demon locked in a box. Many countries had commercial nuclear power plants.
It is not too unacceptable for Monster Industries to build a medium-sized nuclear power plant in Nigeria, which is extremely energy-poor, in order to facilitate access to a large amount of energy.
After all, Hua Xia was considered an active team in the international commercial nuclear power market and had been working hard to promote its nuclear power to the sea.
But inside this exaggerated concrete wall, there were also two semi-buried square buildings and a fully-sealed factory building.
"According to the data of the ocean-going ship Level carrying industrial-grade gas centrifuges that we had detained in the Straits of Malacca two years ago in the name of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we can preliminarily judge that there are likely to be a large number of key centrifuge equipment that can purify uranium-235 hidden in the two semi-buried buildings."
Wez emphasized the volume of uranium-235. "So you see, Monster Industries also has the technology to purify enriched uranium."
"Our analysis of this technology will not be provided by Hua Xia officially, because most of the enriched uranium is used in the military field, and it is very dangerous. If Monster Industries really needs it, Hua Xia will only supply them with the finished products of enriched uranium. "
"For Monster Industries that can make banshee aircraft and plasma batteries. I am not surprised that they have the technology to make industrial-grade gas centrifuges. " The third officer shrugged his shoulders and said self-deprecatingly, "After all, the centrifuge technology is much simpler than the previous two."
Wez asked, "Aren't you curious about the purpose of purifying enriched uranium?"
"To provide nuclear power plants with higher purity fuel rods?"
"They can't be building nuclear bombs. I don't think so."
"Are they preparing to build nuclear submarines?"
Several generals answered this question in a slightly joking tone.
Enriched uranium could be derived from two different concepts. One was low-enriched uranium with an abundance of about 3%, which was widely used as fuel for nuclear power plants.
The other was highly enriched uranium with an abundance of more than 90%, mostly composed of uranium-235.
This was the most critical material for making nuclear bombs.
Several Pentagon officers believed that Monster Industries was only purifying commercial-grade low-enriched uranium.
Wez showed a strange smile to several officers, which made these officers from the Pentagon subconsciously stop their discussion.
"Some of you guessed correctly."
"Monster Industries is indeed building 'nuclear submarines,' and they have already completed the construction."
The group of officers exclaimed in unison. Their Pentagon was a purely military command organization, and its functions were all related to the military. Monster Industries was only a commercial company. No matter how advanced their technology was, it was still the business scope of other organizations that needed to be responsible for it.
For example, the Intelligence Bureau that was hated by people and gods overseas.
Now they were sitting here and reading without scruples. Many investigation materials that they should not have seen.
This could only mean one thing. The Monster Industries matter was so big that the Intelligence Bureau could not handle it. It could only be handed over to the Pentagon, which controlled the world's strongest military force, to take over.
If they really built a 'nuclear submarine,' the Intelligence Bureau's guys were indeed not enough.
However, this was too absurd.
"Let me explain to you the source of our information."
"Two years ago, after we detained the ocean-going ship Horizontal. The president of Monster Industries personally went to the Strait of Malacca. I don't know how he forced Malaysia to give up on our arrest order, but he made us lose face. "
"But we lost face, and at the same time, we only paid a few phone calls and a little promise."
Weizi pointed to the red phone on the oak table and made a phone call gesture. "We can call the phone again and again."
"But the young president can't go to Malaysia again and again."
"After that, Monster Industries bought two IL-76 transport planes, no longer taking the sea route, but by air."
"I think you know better than I do about the transport capacity of the two IL-76 planes."
"So during that time, the transport capacity of materials between Monster Industries and Nigeria plummeted, which made the young president's head hurt."
"The change happened half a year later."
Speaking of this, Weizi raised her eyebrows, and her tone became erratic. "Our intelligence department suddenly discovered that one day, there was a huge difference in the transport of materials between Monster Industries and Nigeria."
"The intelligence showed that Monster Industries received nearly 5,000 tons of mineral materials from Nigeria, but one of the two transport planes was parked at Zhongyun Airport for engine replacement and maintenance."
"We investigated all possibilities, but we did not find this sudden material transport channel."
"Then …"
"It's 10,000 tons, 20,000 tons, 30,000 tons, 50,000 tons …"
"Monster Industries also sent a huge amount of industrial equipment to Nigeria, but for these equipment, we did not find any transport channel intelligence at all in advance. They were like ghosts that suddenly appeared on the port of Nigeria one day. "
Some of the officers said seriously, "So, the intelligence department suspects that Monster Industries secretly built a 'submarine' that can escape our detection methods?"
"Or even a 'nuclear submarine' with ocean-going capabilities?"
Weizi nodded again. "After eliminating all possibilities, there is only one result left."
"Next, you have to find this secret 'submarine.'"
"Find it and destroy it."
At this moment, Weizi became a cold conspirator, and her tone was as cold as a knife. "Since there is no possibility of negotiation, we have to stand up and stop the technological expansion of Monster Industries."
"Didn't the young president run Nigeria into a 'fortress'?"
"Then we will use the most powerful force to smash this fortress."
"The intelligence department will hand over all the investigation data. You want to make the 'submarine' disappear, so that the Monster Industry will lose all the industries it has in Nigeria and important mineral resources that support plasma batteries and holographic glasses manufacturing materials."
Several officers were silent for a moment, and finally stood up and nodded together.
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