Chapter 407: Super Nuclear Battery

The construction of new aerospace aircraft carriers and warships does not mean that Tianming's work has been completed, and several other equipment have also been developed by him.

One is the fighter docked on the aircraft carrier, if you still use the previous Silver Dragon I. fighter, burning hydrogen fuel, it is very easy to use, but the molecular weight of hydrogen fuel is small, the density is small, and the storage process needs to take up a lot of space, not to mention, the tightness of the container and the pipeline must be absolutely closed, otherwise the hydrogen molecule is easy to leak, and when it encounters an open flame, it will explode.

This is not a problem for Tianming, but it is still too troublesome, because it is an unpredictable risk, and it is okay now, but it does not mean that there will be no problems in the future, and the production and storage equipment of hydrogen is relatively occupied...... After thinking about it, he still planned to build a new type of Silver Dragon fighter.

What kind of power system is better for the new Silver Dragon fighter, this question Tianming found a few energy experts to come over and discussed.

Chemical energy or nuclear energy.

If chemical energy continues, whether it is gasoline, diesel, kerosene, it is similar to hydrogen, and the aircraft runs out of fuel, and it has to return to the deck of the aircraft carrier to replenish the fuel before it can continue to be put into operation.

This leads to the problem of inability to follow.

It would be nice if the aircraft had unlimited cruising ability, and it would save the trouble of refueling and changing the oil every day.

"Then only nuclear batteries can be used, and only nuclear batteries can give fighters this capability." An energy expert said.

In fact, Tianming has studied several kinds of nuclear batteries before.

Nuclear battery is a device that uses α particles, β particles and γ rays decayed by radioactive elements to convert its energy into electrical energy.

The so-called direct conversion type is to use the electrical energy generated by the nuclear battery, or to produce ionized gas, and use its electrical energy. This type of nuclear battery is less efficient at generating electricity. So there are fewer applications.

The most widely used indirect conversion nuclear batteries are thermoelectric nuclear batteries and heat-engine conversion nuclear batteries, which have high power generation efficiency, small size, light weight, long life, and are not easily affected by the external environment.

Several kinds of nuclear batteries produced before Tianming are indirect conversion nuclear batteries, among which a kind of thermodifference nuclear battery is only the size of a suitcase, but the power generation is more than 10kw, as long as two such batteries, the electricity generated in a day. It can be used for a 30-ton aerospace fighter to fly in the air for more than 8 hours.

The nuclear battery produced by the state has a power of about 5kw, and eight pieces can be installed on an aerospace aircraft to ensure that it is basically enough.

Although the power is sufficient, this nuclear battery has a huge flaw, that is, it cannot control its stop releasing energy.

The reason is simple, the decay element is not something you want it to not decay if it does not decay, depending on the length of the half-life, the nuclear battery has a long discharge time. It can continue to discharge for 14 years, but this does not mean that it will not discharge after 14 years, it will continue to discharge until all the decaying elements have decayed.

Nuclear batteries are not ordinary chemical batteries. It does not stop decaying for a moment, it is always in a state of discharge, and once its energy cannot be released, it accumulates more and more. In the end, it is possible to cause the nuclear battery to overheat, increase the internal pressure, and finally explode...... Resulting in radioactive contamination. It's no joke.

Tianming does not want to use this kind of battery, it is too dangerous, and it must be under constant control to be safe to use.

He told several energy experts: "Can we develop such a nuclear battery, which does not decay under normal conditions, but after being stimulated by some kind of light wave or physical conditions, it immediately decays and releases a large amount of energy, just like an electron beam hitting a sapphire to produce a laser, emitting an endless stream of electrical energy." ”

Zhuang Jinhui, 72 years old, is a veteran expert who has studied nuclear batteries for more than 40 years, and the nuclear batteries used in the country-made aerospace aircraft were developed by his team, and he is very senior in the field of nuclear battery research.

It stands to reason that Zhuang Lao is only in his 70s, and his hair should not be completely white, just because the nuclear battery is really bad for the human body, and the long-term nuclear radiation has caused him to suffer from a variety of cancers, and he almost died of lymphoma.

Zhuang Lao said: "Theoretically, there is this possibility, for example, high-energy pulse waves, after irradiating the surface of some substances, can also occur a very subtle reaction, and even change the chemical or physical properties of some substances, but induce nuclear fission, this possibility is very small, because the pulse can only affect the electrons outside the nucleus, if it wants to affect the nucleus, the pulse frequency must be very high." ”

The so-called pulse is a type of electromagnetic wave.

The higher the frequency of the electromagnetic wave, the greater the energy it carries. Some frequencies of electromagnetic waves are harmful to the human body, causing symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, and poor sleep.

And the pulse wave produces a greater danger to the human body, because its waveform is not a sine wave, it has a rectangular wave, a sawtooth wave, a triangle wave, a spike wave, a step wave...... It's weird, but it's powerful.

Tianming nodded, this idea proposed by Zhuang Lao gave him a lot of inspiration, and after he got a crystal pulse signal, he began to study it alone.

He wants to create a special substance, this substance, in a normal state, is no different from an ordinary stone, no matter how you knock it, hammer it, burn it, and electricity it, it will not react, but after irradiating it with a beam of high-energy pulse wave, it will immediately undergo a violent nuclear fission reaction, releasing a large amount of energy, which is no different from ordinary nuclear fuel.

But this fission reaction is better off than a chain reaction, or a nuclear bomb will be detonated with a pulse wave - then this substance is no different from an atomic bomb.

Therefore, after the fission of this substance, it is best not to affect the surrounding atoms, even if it releases a large number of high-energy neutrons.

Of course, the best-case scenario is that after fission, only a few ordinary substances are generated, and no free neutrons are produced.

At one time, Tianming synthesized 1 million new elements.

His divine consciousness has now reached 800,000 magazines. It is hundreds of thousands of times that of ordinary people, if he glares at a person with his eyes, maybe he can really scare that person to death, and the mental oppression is too great.

With such a great sense of consciousness and the simultaneous control of 1 million elements, the problem is not too big, so he started to do it.

A strong pulse wave acts on these millions of elements, and hundreds of thousands of colorful lights are instantly generated in the energy space - these lights are all pulse waves irradiating these elements, and the electronic energy level transition releases light quantum guides, and some light is infrared or ultraviolet light. It cannot be seen with the naked eye, but under Tianming's divine sense, it is found that hundreds of thousands of elements emit invisible light.

Regardless of whether it emits visible or invisible light, most of the elements are basically excluded - because Tianming does not observe whether it emits light or not, but whether the elements have fissioned.

After the first batch of 1 million elements were tested, they were not found.

After the second batch of 1 million elements, three were found, but these three elements were very fragile, even if they were hit with ordinary high-speed atoms. will induce nuclear fission, not to mention pulse wave induction.

After the third batch of 1 million element tests, more than 20 elements were found, of which 6 elements were very suitable. Unfortunately, these six elements are all decay-prone elements, and once the number of atoms increases, decay reactions can easily occur.

All 3 million elements failed. Tianming had to try to find some patterns.

"Nuclear Energy No. 1 element will not decay, can I create several structures according to the internal structure of Nuclear Energy No. 1? But what about elements that can change under a pulse wave? ”

He began to make observations.

Tianming found that the internal structure of the nucleus is a bit like building a house, the triangle is much more stable than the quadrilateral or polygon, and the three-dimensional frame structure is much stronger than the single-sided structure.

Like C60 (footballene), it is composed of 60 carbon atoms, forming a three-dimensional spherical molecule, with 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons on the surface, and finally constitutes a stable substance.

Zooming out, the neutrons and protons inside the nucleus actually constitute a similar stable state, and if the internal structure of the nucleus is not stable enough, it is naturally prone to fission.

After only a few hundred realizations, Tianming found the proton-neutron stable dìng module - as long as the atomic nucleus is built according to this module, not to mention nuclear energy No. 1, nuclear energy No. 10 and nuclear energy No. 1 Tianming can produce it.

He did just that, starting with Nuclear Energy No. 2, and produced 10,000 nuclear energy materials at one time, numbering 10,000.

Then there is the pulse wave irradiation.

"There are 331 elements that have changed."

Change the pulse frequency to increase the power output.

"18 elements have fissioned, it succeeded, I succeeded!"

Tianming's hands danced excitedly.

After three days in a row, Tianming screened 18 elements, and finally selected the nuclear energy element 2078, which is black in appearance, and under the irradiation of pulse waves with a frequency of 185 megahertz, a violent fission reaction occurred, decomposing into 8 stable dìng elements with small atomic weight, and releasing 8 free neutrons and a large amount of energy that do not cause fission of other atoms.

Since the relative atomic mass of nuclear energy 2078 element is much larger than that of nuclear energy 1, which is 1098, which is almost 3 times that of nuclear energy 1, the result is that its density is very large, about 68g/cm3, and the weight of nuclear energy 2079 element is the size of a brick, and the weight is close to 100 kilograms.

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When Tianming brought this element to Zhuang Lao, the old professor almost trembled, and kept shouting: "How is this possible? That's impossible! ”

After a long time, Zhuang Lao calmed down, and then went to the real room with Tianming to start the research and development of new nuclear batteries.

First, the energy density of nuclear fuel was tested.

"One gram of the substance is equivalent to about 3.26 tons of coal, and after being made into a nuclear battery, as long as it is charged with 1 kilogram, the nuclear battery can last for at least a few years." ”

Zhuang Lao immediately added: "The important thing is that this nuclear substance can be artificially controlled, or even precisely controlled, and it can produce as much power as it wants, without any changes when not in use, clean, efficient, safe and reliable, it is simply a perfect material that can only be dreamed of!" ”

"Okay, let's hurry up and produce nuclear batteries."

Tianming first produced 1 ton of nuclear energy No. 2078, then made it into a thin "fuel rod" similar to a pencil lead, and then put it into a small container similar to an ordinary household battery, and then installed a power generation device and a pulse wave transmitter, and soon, under the guidance of Zhuang Lao and other experts, a nuclear battery shaped like a fire extinguisher was built.

"Test the power generation."

5kw…… 10kw…… 20kw…… 50kw

"Report, the maximum transmission power is 55kw, and the internal pressure of the battery is too high to be higher."

"Okay, that's enough, 55kw is enough!" Zhuang Lao said excitedly.

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The new nuclear battery was successfully developed, and Tianming produced 10,000 nuclear batteries named "Golden Core".

Five days later, using these nuclear batteries, Tianming developed a nuclear-powered Silver Dragon II fighter, nicknamed the "Demon Dragon", and Lin Mo piloted this type of fighter for a successful test flight.

Later, Tianming built a Whirlwind-200 helicopter that uses nuclear power as an energy source, and the Whirlwind-200, as the name suggests, can lift 200 tons of heavy objects at a time.

In addition, the engineering mecha that Tianming had made, he also improved it slightly, and after installing a gold core battery for it, he created a mecha called "Giant Beast", with a pair of steel fists weighing more than half a ton, and any object hit by it was the result of turning into powder, but this kind of mecha Tianming only built one, mainly for his own fun, but there was no mass production.

Most importantly, the development of a new type of nuclear battery in Tongguò has laid a solid foundation for the research of transformative spar energy in the near future.

…… (To be continued......)