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Unfortunately, Pierce poured cold water on him, "This thing is officially called a plasma arc reactor. It's fusion, not fission, so it's not a nuclear reactor."
Pierce, being quite old, had spent the whole afternoon studying the data. Now, facing the chubby politician, he felt a sense of intellectual superiority.
"Can you arm hundreds or thousands of Iron Man suits?" Senator Stern was only concerned about this issue.
Pierce looked a bit dull and shook his head.
The bald brother, Sitwell, on the side quickly explained for the boss, "According to the blueprints, we can only build a reactor of the same size. Unless we also build a flying mothership, this reactor won't be of much use."
In the room, only the bald brother had some knowledge of technology, so he patiently explained for a while.
The fat Senator Stern frowned and thought for a while. Unfortunately, his brain never thought about peaks, frequencies, and the relationship with electromagnetism. He only knew that even with blueprints, they couldn't build the reactor.
But he had his own solution, "Can we get Daisy Johnson to make a set of Iron Man armor? Then you can get the blueprints, right?"
He thought he proposed a good idea.
Pierce thought for a moment and shook his head again, refusing, "I can't directly suggest to Nick Fury to do something. If we push it secretly, it will take too long."
"Then why not just kidnap her?" Stern suggested again.
This time, Crossbones answered. This warrior, with a somewhat righteous and evil temperament, looked down on politicians. He answered somewhat casually, "Daisy Johnson has extremely strong combat abilities and precise marksmanship. Unless I intervene, no one can capture her. It's better and easier to capture Stark than her."
The problem circled back, and the overall judgment was that capturing the wealthy Stark offered the highest cost-effectiveness. A billionaire, an expert in weapons, if captured and brainwashed to become part of Hydra, would be extremely beneficial.
The plan was settled. They felt it was easier to capture a playboy with little resistance than to kidnap Daisy.
But the next day, Crossbones brought them bad news. He saw Black Widow with Stark, and they seemed to have a very close relationship.
There was no doubt that Nick Fury was behind this.
"All operations are suspended. We can't expose ourselves. Tell Baron Strucker's side that we are working on it." Pierce halted the operation on the spot. Capturing a suit of armor wasn't worth exposing himself.
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With a large investment of materials and abundant manpower, a month later, Daisy assembled a gigantic plasma arc reactor that covered nearly 100 square meters and stood 15 meters tall.
The design parameters fully met the requirements. Fusion was much cheaper and safer than fission, with no pollution. The overall cost was nearly 300 million. Daisy reported the cost as 470 million. There are too many intermediate links and they are too complicated. Nick Fury spent half an hour reviewing it before finally signing and confirming.
Looking at the massive reactor, both former and current directors of S.H.I.E.L.D. sighed.
"This reactor can power the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters for a hundred years." To let them personally experience the effects of the reactor, Daisy connected the entire headquarters' power supply to the reactor.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters wasn't just the three buildings above ground, and its daily consumption wasn't just office equipment like printers and projectors. The main consumption was underground, where they had supercomputers, weapons factories, and advanced scientific laboratories. The underground facilities were five times larger than those above ground, and they consumed a significant amount of electricity on a daily basis.
"Miss Johnson is truly a genius." Pierce genuinely complimented her. There were many elite members of S.H.I.E.L.D., and even more scientists, but Daisy was the only one who could bridge the gap between science and practical application. As a former director, he knew the daily electricity consumption figures. Accumulated over time, they would scare the average person to death.
Nick Fury, who rarely smiled, also expressed his appreciation. However, he requested that Daisy keep the use of the super-sized arc reactor by S.H.I.E.L.D. confidential. He didn't specify why, but Daisy suspected he intended to use the daily electricity consumption as a cover to secure funding from the Security Council.
"Now that this reactor is connected to the headquarters, according to the original plan, we'll produce two more reactors for the helicarrier. You also need hurry to research turbine engine technology."
The two directors quickly made a decision. Daisy Johnson would directly lead the science department. In addition along with her Information department, The Operations department, still under the leadership of the bald brother Sitwell, which handles combat operations. In essence, she was already leading two and a half departments. Now, the position of level 7 agent was a bit low for her.
"Miss Johnson's abilities fully meet the standards of a level 8 agent. John Garrett's position as a level 8 agent is now vacant. I believe Miss Johnson should be promoted to that position." This statement, usually sung by Pierce, was now issued by Nick Fury to maintain the authority of the Director. Since his old friend made the suggestion, he readily agreed.
Nick Fury and even Pierce knew the numbers Daisy previously reported were inflated, but they all tacitly understood this, and readily approved the allocation of 800 million dollars for Daisy to continue producing two more reactors.
As for whether technically the patent ownership of the reactor is still in Tony Stark's hand, no one mentioned.
The news of her promotion spread among the senior agents in less than a day.
Daisy had always been well-liked and being a level 8 agent put her squarely in the leadership ranks. Except for Victoria Hand, who angrily threw a cup on the wall of her office, everyone else congratulated her.
"Promoting quite fast..." There was a hint of sourness in Hill's tone. She had been ordered to participate in the transformation of the helicarrier and, as Nick Fury's absolute confidante, had been appointed the captain of the first Helicarrier.
Hill learned about Daisy's promotion as soon as she entered headquarters. When the two met, her tone was somewhat depressed.
Fortunately, they had a certain understanding between them before, and there was no sign of abnormality from their outward appearance.
"I'll leave my Illiad to you for refitting. Don't overwork yourself, okay? Take care of your body..." Seeing that there was no one around, Hill whispered softly.
Daisy had been researching the integration of the Wakandan turbine engine with the arc reactor continuously for several days. Her hair was disheveled, a clear sign of long hours of work and inadequate rest.
Daisy waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, and Hill quickly completed the handover. S.H.I.E.L.D. had designers for the carrier and engineers for repairs on board. As captain, she didn't need to worry about that. Seeing Daisy was busy, she didn't stay long and left Washington to go enjoy her vacation to her own home in Chicago.
Wakanda's technology was powerful, there was no doubt about that. However, their technology was developed on a different technological basis from the outside world, which presented Daisy with a huge workload.
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