"This explosion process is very short, only a few picoseconds, as long as there are three or four such explosions per second, and they continue to be carried out, the energy released is equivalent to a million-kilowatt power station!"

Chen Chen heard Xiao X's explanation, and immediately nodded, "I still know a little about the tokamak device, but I remember that the tokamak should have a big flaw, there is another inertial confinement fusion reactor, does this Earth Federation also have a similar device?" ”

"Yes, the tokamak device representing the magnetic confinement does have great defects, because the core of the tokamak device is the emergence of the magnetic field, and to generate the magnetic field, you need to use a coil, and if there is a coil, there will be a wire, and if there is a wire, there will be resistance."

Little X replied, "The closer the tokamak device is to practical use, the stronger the magnetic field, and the greater the current that needs to be passed through the wire, so the resistance of the wire appears, and the resistance will reduce the efficiency of the coil, and at the same time, it will limit the strength of the current, and the tokamak device will not be able to generate enough magnetic field." ”

"Therefore, superconducting technology is very important, and today's Earth Federation is to make low-temperature superconductors into coils, so that the problem of the amount and loss of current can be solved, so the combination of superconductors and tokamak devices is called - ultra-tokamak devices."

"At present, there are only three continents in the Earth Federation that exist in the ultra-tokamak, namely North America, Middle-earth, and Europe, of which there are five in North America, two in Middle-earth, and one in Europe."

"As for inertial confinement fusion reactors, such equipment can be found in many countries and continents around the world, but the one that is really famous is the National Ignition Facility Project, or NIF, in North America."

"This device can focus 2 million joules of energy through 192 laser beams onto deuterium-tritium pellets with a diameter of 3 millimeters, and each laser beam emits a temperature of about 3 billionths of a second, producing a high temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius and a pressure of more than 100 billion atmospheres, which in turn triggers nuclear fusion."

"Understood."

Chen Chen snapped his fingers, "That is to say, magnetic confinement nuclear fusion uses a strong magnetic field to confine deuterium and tritium in a magnetic container and heat it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve a fusion reaction, while inertial confinement uses ultra-high-intensity lasers to irradiate deuterium and tritium in a very short time to achieve fusion reactions." ”

After understanding this, Chen Chen looked at the nuclear fusion reactor technology of the "Elysium Space" plane, and suddenly became enlightened.

To put it simply, the focus of the two technologies is not the same, and the fusion reaction effect of the magnetically confined ultra-tokamak device is good and does not require repeated ignition, but its disadvantages are that it is large in size, not flexible enough, and the cost of electrical energy required to maintain a strong magnetic field is not low.

As such, the Transtokamak device is used as a reactor for a nuclear power plant in the Elysium plane.

The advantage of inertial restraint is that the equipment can be manufactured very small, and the on/off fire control performance is also relatively good, but the disadvantage is that it needs to consume a lot of energy to generate laser light to continuously ignite.

Therefore, the inertial restraint device in the Elysium plane is used as a spaceship engine.

Chen Chen checked these two technologies and compared them with the nuclear fusion devices of the countries of the Earth Federation, and found that the reason why the "Elysium" plane was able to manufacture these two nuclear fusion devices was that in addition to some conceptual reasons, the biggest advantage was the superconductor at room temperature.

Ambient superconductors can reduce the liquid helium cooling system of ultra-to-carack devices, greatly reducing the complexity and cost of super-tokamak devices.

The same is true for inertial restraint devices, where superconductors at room temperature can multiply the energy released by the laser ignition device several times, continue to enhance the energy of the laser, and even form a laser effect called "ultra-high field", which can instantly produce 200x10 energy to the 15th power, which is 100,000 times higher than the total global electrical energy production, but takes less than one trillion of a second.

With this energy, the fuel formed by deuterium and tritium can reach the critical point of nuclear fusion in an instant, without having to be as complex and huge as the NIF device, which is not efficient enough.

However, the only regret is that if you want to make a mature ultra-tokamak, you still need to use a high-offset metal, but Chen Chen does not have the conditions to make this high-offset metal for the time being, and if you want to produce this metal, you need the help of a particle accelerator.

Chen Chen couldn't help but turn the information to the information of "High Offset Metal" and read it carefully.

In fact, the so-called high-offset metal is actually a metal aluminum, but it is not normal aluminum, but an isotope of aluminum.

Generally speaking, aluminum is a metal that does not produce isotopes, but with the help of particle accelerators, it can be artificially interfered with and manufactured.

For example, a high-offset metal made of aluminum, which is essentially an aluminium element with a high number of excess neutrons, first relies on superconductivity at room temperature to form a strong magnetic field, and then uses a particle accelerator to emit iron atoms across the strong magnetic region.

Because the magnetic field in the region of the strong magnetic field has reached the energy level of tearing atoms, when passing through the magnetic field, the iron atoms will disintegrate, in which the electrons will fly to one side of the magnetic field, and the protons will fly to the other side, leaving only the neutrons unaffected and continuing to fly forward.

After that, as long as these neutrons are collected by a resonance machine, and then the electrons are glued to the surface of the neutrons with a strong electric combinator, virtual particles can be formed.

Because virtual particles are negatively charged, they can be used to bombard aluminum atoms as long as the particle accelerator is used again to accelerate the virtual particles to sub-light speeds.

Because they reach sub-light speeds, under the huge kinetic energy, these virtual particles can overcome the repulsion force and force into the interior of the aluminum atoms, so that the aluminum atoms will be filled with a large number of neutrons, resulting in the deviation of the elemental structure, so it is called a high-offset metal.

Due to the high imbalance of neutron content, it is extremely insensitive to energy conduction, completely ignores thermal weapons and wave weapons, and coupled with the super strength and toughness of metal, it is far superior to any alloy, and it is even claimed to be the toughest substance in the solar system.

Since he could not make a super-tokamak device, Chen Chen could only settle for the next best thing and build a reactor with another inertial restraint device.

To build such a reactor, Chen Chen needed to purchase many components of a high-precision laser facility and modify them into devices that could emit ultra-high-field lasers.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen couldn't help but touch his chin.

It seems that when it's time for that group of consortia to work, isn't the reason why they united this group of people in the first place for the influence behind them?