The essence of the generator set of the Black Bone Nuclear Fusion Experimental Device is the set in the middle and high school textbooks, through the heat energy generated by nuclear fusion, the water in the boiler is heated to produce steam, and the steam drives the flywheel to carry out electromagnetic cutting movement in the generator, thereby generating electrical energy.

To put it mildly, three hundred years later, although human science and technology are constantly improving, the way of generating electricity is still at the stage of boiling water.

Pan Xinlong smiled bitterly: "Mr. Jiang, this is also a helpless thing, only boiling water has the highest energy conversion ratio and the smallest loss. ”

There are more advanced and more sci-fi technologies than boiling water, and they abound, but the problem is that these technologies are not efficient and not as stable as boiling water.

A good boiler can stably boil water for decades, which is not comparable to other technologies.

Therefore, Pan Xinlong's words are right, although it is a bit dirty to burn the book, it is practical.

It's very cheesy to watch fireworks and talk about life with a girl, but no matter how serious a person is, he can't do without it.

And often the more serious people are, the more they like to do such cheesy things.

Jiang Bo shook his head and smiled, and said, "Forget it, just boil the water, just boil the water, as long as it is useful, don't dwell on this."

There is still more than an hour to get to midnight, so you should prepare a little, and in a while reporters from major media will enter the control center to shoot on the spot and follow up the report.

If someone interviews them, arrange for a few clever researchers to be interviewed, and whether Professor Zhou and Professor Pan can come forward or not, it depends on your own wishes. ”

"Okay, we know it in our hearts, Mr. Jiang, you can rest assured. ”

"That's good. ”

Time passes.

It was 11:45 p.m.

Nearly 100 media reporters and videographers entered the nuclear fusion control center of the institute in turn.

The clean and tidy control center, which is full of sci-fi atmosphere, overwhelmed the reporters, and the cameramen hurriedly raised their equipment to shoot the scene non-stop.

Tan Jianhua also came here, walked up to Jiang Bo, and said to him: "Mr. Jiang, the ignition of nuclear fusion is about to start, right?"

"It's almost zero. Jiang Bo smiled: "When the ignition is ignited for a while, should the Tan Bureau press the ignition button?"

"Oh, can I?" Tan Jianhua was stunned.

"Of course. ”

"Won't cause any trouble?"

"Just go to the touch screen of the console over there and press a button to start the ignition, and everything else is controlled by AI, even if there is trouble, it has nothing to do with the Tan Bureau. ”

"Okay, then I'll try it!" Tan Jianhua rubbed his hands, and his eyes lit up slightly.

Looking at Jiang Bo's appearance of winning the game, Tan Jianhua couldn't help but start thinking that if the nuclear fusion ignition test was really successful, then it would be of great significance to press the ignition button by himself.

At least, in the future history books, it will be written that Tan Jianhua personally pressed the ignition button to open the era of nuclear fusion in China......

Tsk, it's exciting to think about.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon came to 23:59 on December 31, 2023.

Tan Jianhua stood in front of the console, breathing in the air gently, his eyes staring closely at the countdown on the screen in front of him.

Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six......

"Tan Ju, you can prepare. Zhou Ping reminded beside him.

"Hey!" Tan Jianhua immediately straightened his chest and raised his head, his whole body tensed, and his fingers were placed above the buttons on the screen.

"Three, two, one!"

Ignition!

Tan Jianhua immediately pressed his finger on a red button on the screen at the moment when the countdown jumped to 1.

Nuclear fusion experiments, start ignition!

At the same time, dozens of cameras on the scene were pointed at a huge screen in front of them, clicking and clicking, flashing and shooting.

"It's on!" Zhou Ping said in a low voice.

Under the powerful computing power of the supercomputing center, the powerful AI in the control system of the nuclear fusion device can achieve all-round and accurate control of the nuclear fusion process.

At the beginning of ignition, under the operation of AI, about 10 grams of deuterium-tritium mixture was injected into the vacuum reactor at a ratio of 2:3.

Heating begins, and the temperature in the vacuum reactor begins to rise under specific microwave oscillations.

Because there are only deuterium-tritium raw materials in the reaction chamber, and there are no other substances, the rise in room temperature is actually the rise in the temperature of deuterium-tritium raw materials.

When the temperature rises to a certain level, the electromagnetic binding force between the electrons and the nucleus can no longer bind the electrons and the nucleus, so the deuterium tritium element becomes a plasma state.

Because the temperature continues to rise, the electrons and the nuclei of the deuterium-tritium element become unstable and can no longer stay in place, and they begin to move faster.

If there is no restraint and control, then these particles with temperatures of up to tens of thousands of K, will destroy the nuclear fusion experimental device in minutes.

So, at this time, the role of the magnetic field comes out.

Under the strong magnetic field constraints of the iron-rich superconducting coil, the plasma-like deuterium-tritium raw material begins to move directionally. In fact, it is to rotate around the circular track of the device according to a specific route.

Heating is ongoing.

Ten minutes later, the temperature in the vacuum reaction formula reached the temperature of the inner core of the star, which is a full 20 million K!

The faint blue light and shadow filled the entire vacuum reaction.

At this time, nuclear fusion took place.

Hundreds of millions of deuterium and tritium nuclei, when they collide, no longer bounce off each other, but converge together.

At this time, the helium-4 nucleus is formed and neutrons and a large amount of energy are released.

Due to the enormous amount of energy generated after the continuous occurrence of nuclear fusion, the temperature in the vacuum reactor rises dramatically.

In less than a minute, the temperature has risen from 20 million degrees Celsius to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.

The chain reaction of nuclear fusion was formally formed, and it entered the continuous reaction stage, the boiler received a huge amount of radiation energy, began to rumble and boil, and a large amount of steam drove the blades of the generator set to start cutting magnetic inductance lines to generate electricity......

At this time, a piece of data popped up on the big screen, and the voice of the AI also sounded.

"All the equipment is working fine...... The temperature in the vacuum reaction chamber is 120 million K, the indoor thermal power is 498,000 KW, the total power of the generator set is 271,000 KW, and the energy conversion rate is 54.4%......"

The voice of the AI fell, and after a short silence in the control center, I don't know who took the lead in shouting 'success', and the scene became jubilant!

Nuclear fusion, it worked!

Yes, the ignition of nuclear fusion was successful, completing the metamorphosis from low temperature to ultra-high temperature, and starting the continuous reaction of nuclear fusion.

However, although the ignition was successful, the real challenge has just arrived!

Ten minutes later.

The voice of the AI rang out again.

"The steady-state confinement of 120 million K deuterium-tritium plasma to achieve a nuclear reaction time of 1,000 seconds, 4,100 seconds away from the experimental record of the D5D device in the United States......"

Zhou Ping hurriedly asked: "Report the situation in the device!"

AI: "Hmm...... Everything works fine!"

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