As a nuclear fusion research institution, the Qinling Plasma Research Institute certainly has heavy water reserves.

As for tritium, it needs to be manufactured in a tritium manufacturing plant, after all, tritium has a half-life of a little more than 12 years, and it is radioactive, so it will not be made when it is not used.

The wealthy Galaxy Consortium has a tritium manufacturing plant near the Qinling Plasma Research Institute, which is one of the supporting facilities of the Plasma Research Institute.

Since it was the first test, the DT reaction material added up to 10 grams, so the plant quickly produced enough tritium, and with the heavy hydrogen (deuterium) electrolyzed from the heavy water, the raw materials were ready.

February 3rd.

"Wait and see, the materials are ready." Fei Anming came to the side of the neutron press and said.

"Great, take it and give it a try." Liu Jingguan suddenly became excited.

"Don't worry, after all, DT is radioactive, we don't want to be here, just let the robot take the place of work." Fei Anming pulled Liu Jingguan and said.

"Okay!" Liu Jingguan is not an unreasonable person, after all, 10 grams of DT nuclear fusion will produce a very large amount of energy, and if you are not careful, you may blow up the laboratory.

So how much energy can a 10-gram DT fusion reaction produce?

In fact, we can deduce from nuclear fission that the energy released by the fission of 1 kilogram of uranium-235 is equivalent to the energy released by the combustion of 2,700 tons of standard coal.

A fusion reaction of the same mass can generally produce 4 times the energy of nuclear fission, and 1 kilogram of DT fusion reaction can produce about 10,800 tons of energy equivalent to standard coal.

10 grams of DT is equivalent to the energy of 108 tons of standard coal, the United Nations stipulates that the calorific value of standard coal is 7Mcal/kg (29300.6kJ/kg), and the domestic calorific value of each kilogram of standard coal is 7000 kcal.

Speaking of a common unit of energy in our daily life, the unit of electric energy is kilowatt-hours (degrees), theoretically 1 ton of standard coal is equivalent to 8130 kilowatt-hours.

That is to say, 10 grams of DT nuclear fusion reaction can theoretically produce 878,040 kWh of electricity, of course, this word theoretically represents an unattainable value.

And the instant release of 870,000 kilowatt hours of energy, in this case, you must be cautious, after all, they are playing with such a thing as a neutron press for the first time, and there are still a lot of things to understand, so there is no big mistake in being careful.

All the researchers left the laboratory where the neutron press was displayed, and in a control room where Fei Anming, Liu Jingguan and others came, the staff was remotely controlling the robot.

"Inject D material."

"Inject T material."

In a vacuum chamber shaped like a football ball, DT gas is quickly injected into it.

"After injection, start the condensed matter vacuum chamber."

Cracking sound...... This is the sound of the sudden formation of condensed matter NN-8-1 and the neutron ionization phenomenon produced by DT raw materials, and the impact of a part of the electrons and plasma on the wall of the outer vacuum chamber.

"The condensed matter vacuum chamber has been formed and can be moved on to the next step." The staff turned their heads to look at Fei Anming and Liu Jingguan, the two bigwigs, after all, at this kind of historic moment, we still have to respect the bigwigs.

"You're the director, shout!" Liu Jingguan said with a smile.

"Then you're welcome!" Fei Anming rubbed his hands, obviously a little nervous: "Start neutron squeezing." ”

Drip! The staff immediately pressed the switch.

In the quiet neutron press, the DT gas that has been wrapped in the condensed matter vacuum chamber is squeezed in the middle of the vacuum chamber by the sudden NN-8-1.

In an instant, DT is ionized into plasma by NN-8-1, but this is not over, NN-8-1 is squeezing DT inch by inch, as if to crush them.

"The temperature and light radiation in the vacuum chamber are rising."

As soon as the staff's voice fell, the DT in the condensed matter vacuum chamber had been compressed to the extreme, and after breaking through the critical point, the nuclear fusion reaction instantly produced a chain reaction.

In the vacuum chamber, countless DTs began to react frantically, the D nuclei and the T nuclei were squeezed together, and the Coulomb barrier between the nuclei could no longer withstand this pressure and was forced to begin to fuse.

The D nucleus has one neutron and one proton, while the T nucleus has two neutrons and one proton, and their product is helium-3.

Helium-3 is made up of two protons and one neutron, so two neutrons must be released during the DT reaction.

However, in the condensed matter vacuum cavity, neutrons cannot leave here, and suddenly the DT reaction becomes more intense, because except for photons and neutrinos that can penetrate the wall of the condensed matter vacuum cavity, other electrons, neutrons, protons, and nuclei cannot escape.

These substances are frantically concentrated in the vacuum chamber, causing the pressure inside to soar again, and the pressure soaring makes the fusion reaction easier.

[Alert!] Alert! The light radiation is outside the set range. ］

"What's going on?" Fei Anming hurriedly asked.

"The dose of light radiation exceeds our estimate, by more than 60%, and is rapidly climbing." The staff was also sweating profusely.

"Hurry up and refrigerate."

"The refrigeration equipment has been activated."

Although the staff reacted quickly, the layer of graphene composite FRP material outside the condensed matter vacuum chamber was inevitably burned through.

This shows how intense the nuclear fusion reaction inside is.

"How so?" Fei Anming said puzzled.

"If we are not mistaken, it should be that the pressure in the vacuum chamber is too great, so that helium 3 also fuses." Liu Jingguan touched his chin and said what he thought.

"You're saying that helium-3 is also going to nuclear fusion?" Fei Anming thought about it and felt that this was the most likely.

The energy produced by the DT nuclear fusion reaction can be calculated according to the mass-energy equation, and they are all leaders in the field of nuclear fusion, and it is impossible for them to make such a big mistake.

If it does not reach the predetermined value, it can be said that the reaction is not sufficient, but if it exceeds the value, the possibility of helium-3 participating in nuclear fusion is very high, after all, energy cannot appear for no reason, right?

The whole reaction lasted for 267 seconds, and the rugby-shaped graphene fiberglass layer had been burned to tatters, and many places were in a state of melting.

Many surveillance cameras and sensors in the laboratory have also been destroyed by the leaked light radiation, and if someone is in the laboratory, it will definitely be a consequence of death or injury.

"The energy of the light radiation exceeded the projection, which was 2.7 times the original estimate."

"Loss ...... Inspection Equipment"

Departments reported the situation quickly.

"Don't close the condensed matter vacuum chamber for the time being, there may be strong radiation residue in it." Liu Jingguan commanded.

"Okay."

The staff was busy, and the experiment was completed, but there were a lot of these hands.

After proper treatment, the condensed vacuum chamber did have a very large radiation dose.

Liu Jing looked at the analysis report of the reaction product and was a little frightened: "There is a large amount of carbon 14 in the final product. ”

"No wonder, the optical radiation value exceeded the expected 2.7 times, and the DT nuclear fusion to carbon-14 was already carried out in several layers of nuclear fusion reactions." Fei Anming was shocked by the result.

"If there is enough material to react and the pressure is raised, it may be possible to directly fuse to the level of iron atoms." Liu Jingguan sighed.

Fei Anming nodded and said: "It is indeed possible, but this experiment still exposed some problems with the neutron press, and we need to deal with these problems." ”

"Let's have a discussion!" Liu Jing thought for a while and said.

Soon Fei Anming summoned a meeting of researchers and engineers from the Qinling Institute of Plasma to discuss the matter of the neutron press.

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