Chapter 3372: Mining slave

"There is such a thing?" Lin Rui frowned.
"Don't underestimate these organizations. In fact, there are many such humanitarian organizations in Western countries, and they undertake a considerable part of aid to Africa. Many countries basically rely on these non-governmental organizations for aid to Africa. Government investment is a small amount. Partly. Because government aid needs to take into account many issues, such as diplomacy, such as fiscal budgets. But civil organizations do not have this consideration. As long as they have money, they can be willful." Black Panther Gulei nodded.
"In that case, we are considered good deeds?" Sergey asked.
"We are mercenaries and take money to do things. Doing good things does not violate our principles. In fact, I am willing to take on some business that can do good things and make money. If there is no such business, then take on some bad things. A business that can also make money. We are determined not to do things that do not make money." Yinlang smiled slightly.
"It sounds interesting, so what do they want us to do?" Lin Rui nodded.
"Nigeria, Guinea, Ghana, Gambia and other West African countries have a considerable number of illegal immigrants flooding into Libya. This is something we cannot stop. But according to the investigation, there is a slave transportation route from Libya and several other countries. Some organized armed forces They kidnapped these illegal immigrants and sold them as slaves and transported them to several other countries. What we have to do is to fight these militants and completely destroy this transportation route. How about, are you interested now?" Silver Wolf looked at Lin Rui and said.
"I still don't have much interest. I think you should leave this to Lincoln in Group B. After all, he is also called Lincoln. It is more appropriate to leave the liberation of the slaves to him." Lin Rui smiled.
"I said earlier, he won't be interested." Black Panther Gulei sighed as he looked at the Silver Wolf. "You should tell him another thing."
Lin Rui frowned, "What else?"
"In fact, there is another mission, about the Olumi Federation and the secret society organization." Silver Wolf sighed.
"I'm more interested in this." Lin Rui nodded and said, "What happened to them?"
"Remember the mission of the last Maghreb Alliance meeting? The terrorist organization attempted to use dirty bombs to attack, and the radioactive materials used to make dirty bombs came from Niger. Specifically, it came from the French company Areva operating in northern Niger. Uranium mine. It has basically been proved that this matter has nothing to do with Areva, because the uranium mine is still in the exploration stage. So we suspect that these radioactive materials should come from looting." Yinlang replied.
"Stealing uranium?" Lin Rui frowned.
"Yes, because these radioactive elements are mainly uranium 235 and uranium 238 extracted from uranium mines, with a natural purity of about 0.7 to 9 percent. Although the uranium they make dirty bombs has not yet reached the weapon level, the concentration It is already quite high. Uranium 235 is one of the main materials for making nuclear weapons. The three isotopes of uranium co-exist in natural uranium ore. Although uranium 235 is the most active and only uranium 235 can produce fission, its content is only about 0. 7%. Only when other isotopes are continuously separated and the abundance of uranium 235 is greater than 90%, can it become weapon-grade highly enriched uranium that can make nuclear weapons.
To obtain 1 kilogram of weapon-grade uranium 235 requires 200 tons of uranium ore, and the conversion between the two requires ultra-precision equipment such as gas centrifuges to complete, and the civilian cannot complete it. According to Areva’s judgment, the batch of uranium products is primary purified uranium-ammonia diuranate. The uranium ore is piled up and soaked in sulfuric acid, and the uranium powder concentrate is leached to obtain a yellow ammonia diuranate containing 60%-80% uranium, commonly known as yellow cake. Only when the abundance is greater than 85-90% can it be called weapon-grade highly enriched uranium, which is mainly used to make nuclear weapons.
These terrorists reprocessed these things to form enriched uranium that has not yet reached the weapon level. And use it to make dirty bombs. "Yinlang said slowly, "Because it is secretly mined, this uranium mine must be very concealed, and it is impossible to use a lot of mechanical equipment. The terrorists should have adopted the most primitive method, artificially excavating. Using slaves and the simplest wooden barrels, linen and other tools, first make diuranate yellow cake like tofu, and then process it. "
"Is it not exposed to radiation when mining uranium manually?" Lin Rui frowned.
"The terrorists don’t care about this. They just tell the slaves that the stones without uranium mines are white, and the stones with uranium mines are red. Let them climb into the mine and chisel with a chisel if they see red areas, if they are still red inside. , They use dynamite to blast the stone. With luck, they can find yellow uranium ore like peanuts.
The slaves smashed the stones with hammers, held them in a plastic basin, washed them in the stream, and obtained uranium ore with less impurities. Old and weak slaves who were not strong enough used an iron sieve to sift the stone powder over and over again to obtain fine uranium powder from the residue. Due to lack of protection, many slaves died of radiation exposure. But terrorists can still obtain a large number of available slaves through the above slave transportation channels. They don't care how many people die. "Black Panther Gulei whispered.
"So the slave trade is also related to this matter?" Lin Rui frowned.
"Yes, terrorists are not fools, they are cruel, but they are not stupid. They know that there is a risk in mining uranium without protection, but they can use these slaves to do it." Silver Wolf whispered.
"How did this news come from? Is it reliable?" Lin Rui frowned.
"The news comes from the intelligence team. They found a slave who escaped by chance. The slave mentioned that there was a terrorist camp in northern Niger where they were engaged in the illegal mining of uranium. In fact, slave trade and transportation, as well as illegal mining. Uranium ore has formed an underground industrial chain. If it is not cut off in time, there will be more similar situations in the future. The grade of uranium in Africa is quite high, and the illegal mining of uranium mines, coupled with ordinary hydrometallurgy, can also get a lot of yellow. cake.
The collusion between these terrorist organizations and secret agencies is no secret to us.
Moreover, the secret agency actually controls a number of large enterprises with certain nuclear processing capabilities. Several previous activities have shown that they may already have the ability to produce weapon-grade enriched uranium. If the raw materials for these yellow cakes continue to flow into their hands in such a cheap way, I am afraid there will be big trouble. "The Silver Wolf whispered.
"Don't forget that they also hold a certain number of dot missiles. Once they get weapon-grade uranium, the possibility of making a tactical nuclear bomb is extremely high." Black Panther Gulei nodded. "If we can follow the slave line, we may be able to find more things."