Lao Shi and Liu Peijia have been standing in the energy cabin for almost three hours, the energy cabin is a red container more than two meters high, the control system and the reactor are integrated, open the hatch and enter, the first entry is the control room, the second entry is the fusion reactor, the energy cabin of Cassini station does not know how long it has stopped working, when Lao Shi and Liu Peijia entered, it had become an ice cave, and the display was frozen hard.

Liu Peiji stood in the control room, looking through the observation window, the energy chamber was divided into two parts by a thick partition, and the fusion reactor was wrapped layer by layer and placed on the inside of the container.

"Can you do it, old history?" Liu Peijia turned his head and glanced at Shi Teng, "You've been tinkering there for almost three hours, and you haven't put a single fart out of this thing." ”

Stone sat cross-legged on the floor, staring at the removed control panel, frowning and not saying a word.

Liu Peijia looked in through the observation window, he could only see a part of the containment of the fusion reactor, the silver hemispherical surface, with short and thick control rods inserted on it, the fusion reactor is permanently sealed in the shell, including the partition is welded to death, Shi Teng and Liu Peijia can't touch the reactor itself - they don't need to touch the reactor, the miniature fusion reactor is probably the most sophisticated and complex object on the planet, if you want to operate on it, it will be a big project, and you have to return to the factory, It is completely impossible for a few laymen like Liu Peijia and Shi Teng to do it.

The principle of the Cassini station micro fusion reactor is still the deuterium-helium-3 thermonuclear reaction, which belongs to the first generation of micro reactors, and the deuterium-tritium fusion reactor earlier than it has to change neutron absorbing materials every three or five times so it cannot be portable, and today's micro fusion reactors have developed to the second generation of double helium 3 fusion, and there are even daydreams of cold fusion out of tune.

The fusion reactor has a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius inside when it is working, relying on a strong magnetic field to confine the plasma in a vacuum cavity with a diameter of less than two meters, unlike the sun, which simply relies on the volume of the reactor to maintain the reaction.

They can only hope that there is nothing wrong with the fusion reactor itself.

"I'm trying to restart the reactor." Steng patted the maintenance manual in his hand, "This has been down for twenty years, God knows what's going on inside the reactor, and I'm still looking at the control system of this ...... The biggest problem now is that we can't order this thing. ”

"How?" Liu Peijia asked, "I have a lighter." ”

"That's great." Steng pouted, "I'll help you make a hole in the reactor's shell, please reach in and light it with a lighter." ”

"So what do you say?" Liu Peijia rolled his eyes, "How can I help?" ”

"This thing is ignited by an instantaneous pulsed laser." Stong pointed to the partition inside the container, "Attack the target with a strong laser, and the moment of irradiation, it will produce a high temperature close to 100 million degrees Celsius and a high pressure of tens of thousands of atmospheres to achieve the reaction conditions of fusion, such harsh ignition conditions cannot be done with a lighter, unless you have a lightsaber, use the lightsaber to stab at the center of the reactor, and it can be restarted." ”

"Lightsaber?"

"Xie Xiaofeng, Skywalker." Shi Teng snorted in a low voice, "The sword qi spans 30,000 miles, and the sword frost and frost 14 states, do you know what a nuclear-powered lightsaber is?" ”

"Okay, old history, nonsense, the others are still waiting for us to go back." Liu Peijia waved his hand, "How do you restart the fusion reactor?" ”

"See that clear lid on the panel?" Stong held out his hand.

Liu Peijia leaned over, "I saw it." ”

"Open that lid." Stern instructed.

Liu Peijia reached out and opened the protective cover.

"See that red button in there? What is written on it? ”

“RESET。”

"yes, that's the button." Stong nodded, "Poke it." ”

"Poke it?"

"Yes, stab it, stab it hard, stab it quickly...... Poke with your hands. ”

Liu hesitated for a few seconds, then pressed the red button hard, then took a step back and looked around, waiting for the fusion reactor to change.

But nothing happened.

"That's all there is to restart the fusion reactor, open the lid, press the restart button, and close the lid." "I've been stabbing the reboot button more than 20 times in the last three hours, but the fusion reactor hasn't moved at all, which means that something must have gone wrong with the reactor and caused us to fail to restart," Stong explained. ”

Liu Peijia suddenly became half cold.

The reactor could not start, and they were dead.

On a planet with an average temperature of minus 180 degrees Celsius, without an adequate supply of electricity, sooner or later they will freeze into popsicles.

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"Fusion reactors are designed to last more than 50 years, which means that even if they have been running non-stop since 20 years ago, they still have several years of life." Shi Teng sat in the cables and parts all over the ground and muttered, he and Liu Peijia disassembled the entire control system, "The probability of the reactor itself having problems is very small, it is fully enclosed and almost undisturbed by the external environment, and it is more likely that the control and ignition system has failed......"

If the fusion reactor is compared to an aerial bomb, then what Stenden and Liu Peijia lack is a fuse.

As long as there is a fuse, they can detonate this bomb.

"I said before that the reactor starts with a high-energy laser, but high-energy lasers also consume electricity." Stong continued, "That's why we couldn't restart the reactor because the ignition was dead. ”

"That's easy to do." Liu Peijia was very happy, "Then it's okay to charge the igniter, how to charge it?" Is it okay to use the batteries of the Iron Float? ”

Steng glanced at him, his eyes like he was looking at an idiot.

"I'm afraid not." Shi Teng shook his head and slapped the maintenance manual in his hand into Liu Peijia's hand, "You see, the ignition of the energy capsule has a separate external power supply system, and the core is a very, very large capacitor...... Usually its job is to charge this capacitor all the time, to ensure that this thing is fully charged, in case the reactor goes out, the capacitor can provide energy for the igniter. ”

"How big is this capacitor?"

"Very, very, very big." Shi Teng used three times in a row, and then sighed, "It can generate ultra-high voltage and current in a very short period of time to provide energy for the long-pulse laser igniter, and the instantaneous power of the long-pulse laser igniter is as high as six million megawatts, which is equivalent to the total installed capacity of three hundred Three Gorges Hydropower Station. ”

Liu Peijia was stunned.

300 Three Gorges Hydropower Station?

This is also too exaggerated, where to find such a strong electricity?