Chapter 838 A Good Solution

The world abounds in short-legged countries, it must be recognized that the world is not so fair, Australia’s problem is that the agricultural base is so much shorter, but the mining base is too long, long enough to cover up the shortcomings in agriculture.

Theoretically, there is no shortage of minerals in any country, but the difference between a hundred meters below ground and a thousand meters below ground can be so big that you can’t find the minerals that exist. What’s great about Australia’s minerals is that it has everything and it’s buried exceptionally shallow, and that includes uranium.

One of the big reasons why the UK’s alloy tube program was slow to get off the ground was the delay in high-quality uranium at the time.

“Uranium ore is only useful in the military industry!” Pamela Mountbatten didn’t really care about the discovery of uranium ore.

“Wrong, since nuclear reactors can do power, isn’t it logical to use them to generate electricity?” Alan Wilson corrected his wife, “Australia doesn’t even have a perennial river, so you can’t keep burning coal to generate electricity. There are still benefits for Australia if nuclear power plants are built for nuclear power supply.”

Pamela Mountbatten had nodded frequently, but as if remembering something, she asked directly back, “You would be so kind?”

“Use Australia to validate nuclear power, after all, the US and USSR are both working on it too.” Alan Wilson replied with a crown, what if something goes wrong? Even if something doesn’t happen, it’s good to let Australia take the risk of verifying the technology in the UK.

In fact, Britain was the pioneer in nuclear power, and it wasn’t until the 1970s that the United States surpassed Britain as the world’s number one in terms of installed nuclear power.

The UK has maintained its excellent style of getting up early and being late to the party on nuclear power, as with other pioneering technologies.

Like the Comet airliner losing out to Boeing, the Royal Navy being overtaken by the US Navy, and a host of other traditions, it was the US that eventually finished catching up with the US in nuclear power, and again, and again, became the most backward of the pioneers.

Britain in 1956 built Calder Hall plutonium production, power generation dual-purpose graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant after the successive construction of a number of graphite gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant, due to the use of magnesium alloy as a cladding, known as magnesium Knox reactor. Britain was once the country with the largest total installed nuclear power capacity in the world.

Now since the UK has this technology in reserve and Australia has discovered the largest and best quality uranium mine. The problem is simple, all that is needed now is for Pamela Mountbatten, the Power II of the British Empire, to take the British nuclear power technology and bring it to loyal Australia to realize it.

In latter days Australia is anti-nuclear because there is no shortage of coal oil and gas in Australia and it is cheap. It’s the same with or without nuclear power plants, and there is more interest in solar power than in nuclear power.

However, Alan Wilson believes that with Australia’s loyalty to Britain, building a nuclear power plant is definitely not a problem at this time, and this country will not reject Britain.

Alan Wilson even wanted to deploy Britain’s strategic bombers in Australia, but unfortunately, with such an important weapon, Britain definitely could not afford to put it in a secondary direction. Perhaps after the nuclear submarine service, the bomber’s status is reduced, so that it can be done.

After all, compared to the United States, Britain is still very fond of sharing weapons technology, especially to countries like Australia and Canada, as long as Australia pays, everything is not a problem.

“Australia doesn’t lack energy at all, so why would it do that?” Pamela Mountbatten didn’t understand.

“The reason for doing this is, because they don’t lack energy.” Alan Wilson explained, “Australia is so good at getting energy for power generation that’s why it has to be made harder somehow. Anything that guarantees British influence over Australia, let alone nuclear power, should be done, and Australia should be sold nuclear bombs if they like them.”

Doesn’t Alan Wilson understand the Australians? If Australia had a better agricultural situation and could support a population of 100 million on a plate, not to mention Britain, Australians would dare to talk to Americans as if they were farts.

Involving Australia’s security, Australians will not oppose, and today the world’s most secure things is and nuclear side of things, just now Australia discovered uranium, the timing is very appropriate.

There’s too much competition on the European side, and according to the Asian monster houses of a few decades from now, Europe is the real monster house. And the countries are all about the same size, so trying to crush them is impossible.

It’s understandable why Britain was far softer than France and just as reluctant to give up its colonies.

Once you give up your colonies, what’s the difference between Britain and France and Germany? By virtue of their own size, they even struggled to deal with Italy.

Alan Wilson and his wife discussed, decided to see if they could get the government’s support on the uranium issue.

In fact, with Pamela Mountbatten’s previous contract with Australia, the Mountbatten Group can completely get rid of the UK, in the name of the group and Australia to talk about it, just get rid of the country, if the United States also joined in, it may be a chicken and egg.

The Mountbatten Group previously claimed iron ore reserves of two billion tons to reduce the prying eyes of their American counterparts from the reserves. This is useful in iron ore, but uranium can be different from iron ore, the importance is completely incomparable.

This kind of life-threatening things, if there is no country as a backing is not possible, soon, Alan Wilson arrived in Whitehall, informed the news of the discovery of uranium by the Mountbatten Group, but also bluntly said that the government needs to be a backing.

“Uranium mine? How big?” Norman Brooke was shocked in his heart after hearing this, this is a big deal, and he was busy pursuing the question.

“The reserves exceed all the uranium mines that have been discovered, and the quality also exceeds.” Alan Wilson answered without hiding.

It was pointless to hide it, compared to the billions of tons of reserves of iron ore, the reserves of uranium ore were too small and too easy to calculate. There aren’t many samples to go around the world, and blurring the line of sight is simply an insult to the intelligence of other countries.

It would be better to beat a dead horse than to be honest and directly indicate the need for the country’s support.

“You are afraid that your wife’s group, in the mining of uranium, is pressured by the state power?” Norman Brooke a head of the civil service immediately understood Alan Wilson’s intentions.

The Mountbatten Group was running around Australia, constantly searching for minerals that could be mined, including but not limited to coal and iron, natural gas, gold and copper, which were all minerals in the commercial sphere, uranium could be different.

“The point is that the empire also needs uranium mines, and it’s better to have state influence.” Allen Wilson did not hide the determination to hand over the share of uranium, at least in the matter of uranium, he was willing to pull the country into the fold.

Alan Wilson not only contacted the great nobility of Britain to invest in Australia, but also wanted to bring in national capital.

So after this communication with the Cabinet Secretary, the person who would represent Britain and Australia to talk about the uranium mine was already out. Alan Wilson himself was the most suitable choice.

This of course required the approval of the Cabinet, and when Prime Minister Adderley found out about this, he agreed straight away without saying a word. Britain was pushing for research in nuclear power technology, just when it needed high-quality uranium ore.

“One more mission to return to Malaya this time!” Walking out of Whitehall Seventy, Alan Wilson broke his fingers and calculated the current tasks, talking to Australia about uranium ore and advertising for nuclear power. Establishing a chemical industry in the Malayan colony, developing oil in Sarawak, and solving the cost of the battleship Vanguard.

The last point, of course, was the military’s uneasiness with the threat of the Bamboo Curtain. Britain’s levees against a major power still existed.

Allen Wilson is not not the threat of bamboo curtain as non-existent, but some know the inside story, talk about not much fear.

The same thing in a different perspective, there will be different views, a large part of the fear is from the lack of understanding. He wouldn’t believe everything he was told, and the Soviet Union said that communism would prevail. Would the free world simply listen to the Soviet Union now and surrender?

The biggest achievement of this return to London was actually that Alan Wilson and Whitehall had a consensus. The key to defeating the enemies of the free world was to split the relationship between a major power and the Soviet Union.

This was something Whitehall deeply recognized, but it was just that there was no clue as to how to do it. It was time for an expert in Orientalism to answer the question; Alan Wilson could even write Chinese characters, and no one knew more about what Oriental meant than he did.

With an hour of time, a bullshit, hydrology occupies half of the content, but the conclusion is that the Sino-Soviet split sooner or later conclusion of the report came out, the content is actually not important, the conclusion is important.

The content is not all useless content, at least what China wants, the Soviet Union can not give content, or recognized by Whitehall.

When that day comes, this is an important basis for Alan Wilson to advance to the Cabinet Secretary.

Back home, Pamela Mountbatten heard from her husband about the contents of the trip to Whitehall and inquired, “So what are you going to do? To get Australia to cooperate unconditionally.”

“That’s easy, talk more about the threat of the Bamboo Curtain.” Alan Wilson replied with a relaxed demeanor, “Security is Australia’s greatest need, it’s been proven many times before.”

He himself wasn’t a fan of the so-called Bamboo Curtain threats, but he knew that this set of threats worked for many people. Especially to Australia, a former colony that had been terrified by Japan’s southward advance.

“You’re my husband, helping my company on behalf of the state, talking to the Australian government?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired after a moment’s thought, “Will it affect you?”

Alan Wilson was a professional bureaucrat and had also accepted the assignment, which would have been nothing, but the company involved was also his wife’s property, and Pamela Mountbatten was a little worried.

“It’s nothing, it’s all family. We, and the Australians, are all subjects of the Queen. If you think the emotional card isn’t enough, consider bringing the Princess along. The certainty of victory increases again.” Alan Wilson said with a full heart.

“Good idea!” Pamela Mountbatten was very agreeable, the positive influence of the royal family could make things a little easier.