Tang's new discovery is not anything remarkable, because Tang's new discovery was found from the waste generated by the "nuclear power plant" at the bottom of the base, which was recorded by the base's main control computer.

The reason why the energy center at the bottom of the base is said to be a "nuclear power plant" is that Tang Feng can't find a better word to replace this energy center, so he uses "nuclear power plant" instead.

Because there is no clear definition of this "nuclear power plant" in the language of the earth, the main control computer cannot provide Tang Feng with the exact name of this "nuclear power plant".

In fact, the operating principle of this "nuclear power plant" is somewhat similar to that of the "nuclear power plant" on the earth, except that the energy generation efficiency of this "nuclear power plant" far exceeds that of the most advanced nuclear power plants on the earth, and even the energy generation efficiency of the legendary controlled nuclear fusion nuclear power plant is 108,000 miles away from this "nuclear power plant".

According to the records of the main control computer, the raw materials used in this "nuclear power plant" should be transuranic elements, because the atomic number of these raw materials is greater than 92, and these raw materials are unheard of by Tang Feng, and they are new substances that have not been discovered by earthlings until now.

Even scientists on the earth have never said once that the material elements in the universe are far more than the 118 substances written in the "Periodic Table", and there are still a large number of new substances in the universe that have not been discovered by human beings.

The "nuclear power plant" used by the Doug family uses many new elements that Tang Feng has never heard of as raw materials, and then uses methods such as nuclear fusion or even antimatter reduction to release the energy in these transuranic elements, which forms such a "nuclear power plant" that looks absolutely "super energy" in the eyes of earthlings.

The main control computer and core energy of the Hope Base were something that Eric couldn't transform in a short period of time, so when they left, the bottom layer was completely sealed. Except for Tang Feng, who was able to check the operation of the two base cores on the main control computer, others could not access the two cores at all.

It is precisely because of this that when Tang Feng looked at the "nuclear power plant", he found that the operation of this nuclear power plant was really very peculiar.

Because the operation of this "nuclear power plant" is not a one-time operation, but is divided into more than ten stages. Through the main control computer, Tang Feng can intuitively understand the operation of this "nuclear power plant". The core of this "nuclear power plant" is undoubtedly the reactor of transuranic elements, but the core reactor does not use many transuranic elements.

As we all know, in the process of nuclear reactions, in addition to the huge amount of energy that will be released, many new substances will be produced. Just like the chain nuclear fission reaction using uranium-235 as a raw material, when the nucleus of uranium-235 is bombarded by foreign neutrons, one nucleus will absorb one neutron and split into two smaller nuclei, and release 2-3 neutrons at the same time. The neutrons produced by this fission bombard the other uranium-235 nuclei, causing a new fission. This is a chain reaction of fission.

This fission process will release a large amount of energy outward, and at the same time, it will also produce up to 200-300 new elements such as plutonium-239, uranium-238, iodine-129, technetium-99, etc., and these new elements are called "nuclear waste" because they cannot participate in the nuclear reaction process again.

This kind of nuclear waste was once the favorite "food" meal of Star Core. Back then, Tang Feng relied on this large amount of nuclear waste to raise the star core to level five step by step.

The reason why the "nuclear power plant" of the Hope Base will have a very high energy generation efficiency is because this "nuclear power plant" will hardly produce any useless nuclear waste, and all new substances produced in the core reactor will have a corresponding reactor to react. For example, although the new substances produced after the reaction of the core reactor can no longer be used as raw materials from the core reactor, they can continue to be used through another fusion or fission reaction, and this kind of second-stage nuclear reactor is called the second-stage reactor, the third-stage reactor, and the fourth-stage reactor by the main control computer of the base

The entire "nuclear power plant" is composed of 12 reactors, starting from the lowest 12 reactors, that is, the nuclear fission reactors that can be seen on the earth at present, to the core reactors, that is, the reactors that use unknown transuranic elements as raw materials.

It can be said that such a "nuclear power plant" has a utilization rate of up to 100% for raw materials, which is why it produces such an astonishing energy generation rate.

It is as if the transuranic element produced from the tertiary reactor discovered by Tang Feng in the computer records is one of the raw materials of many "nuclear waste" used by the sixth-stage reactor.

This transuranic element is known as "californium-252" on Earth.

If you ask what material is the most valuable on earth, many ordinary people will say that it is gold, diamonds, and a few people will say that it is helium-3, but at least 99% of people will not say that it is californium-252.

It is true that gold, diamonds, which are recognized as high-value items on the planet, a gram of gold is now about $47.44, but what is the price of helium-3? If Tang Feng hadn't transported 50,000 tons of helium-3 from the moon, the price of helium-3 on Earth would have remained at $4 billion per ton, or $40,000 per gram. In other words, one gram of helium-3 is enough to buy a small two-bedroom building in China's third- and fourth-tier cities.

Compared with californium-252, whether it is gold, diamond, or helium-3, they are all weakly exploded.

The current price of californium-252 on the earth is about 27 million US dollars / gram, which is 570,000 times the price of gold!

Californium is a radioactive metallic element with the symbol Cf and atomic number 98. Californium belongs to the actinide series, and is the sixth synthetic transuranic element that can be produced by nature with the highest quality, and all elements heavier than californium must be synthesized to be produced. Californium-252 is one of the fourteen isotopes of californium.

Californium-252 is a highly radioactive substance and one of the finest neutron sources ever discovered. One gram of californium-252, which can release 2.3 trillion neutrons in one second, is an excellent material for nuclear reactors. At the same time, because the californium-252 neutron source can be made very small and thin, which other neutron sources cannot do, so the neutron source is sent to the tumor site of the human cavity organ through a flexible tube, or implanted into the tumor tissue of the human body for treatment, which is one of the best means for human cancer treatment so far.

It's just that although californium-252 has so many advantages, its production is too small, and the lack is simply pitiful.

From the first discovery of this new element in the laboratory, until 1975, a total of 1 gram of californium-252 was produced in the world, and the price of californium-252 at that time was as high as 1 billion US dollars per gram.

It's just that with the progress of human science and technology, this kind of thing can also be "mass-produced" in the laboratory. There are currently two laboratories in the world that can "mass-produce" this element, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States can produce about 0.25 grams of californium-252 per year, and the Nuclear Reactor Research Institute in Russia can produce 0.025 grams of californium-252 per year.

As the saying goes, "scarcity is expensive", the annual production of californium-252, a transuranic element, on the earth is only 0.3 grams, so you can imagine why the price of this thing is so high.

In the hope base of Mars, Tang Feng was pleasantly surprised to find that californium-252 turned out to be a kind of "nuclear waste" produced in a three-stage reactor, although californium-252 can also be used as a raw material to continue the nuclear fusion reaction in the six-stage reactor, but this raw material is not the most important, just a kind of corner and corner, and the main control computer also gave a clear answer, the six-stage reactor can not use this element (to be continued. )