Lu Jinming, president of the aerospace business group, and Feng Yunde, head of the Materials Research Institute, walked into Zhou Yu's office one after another.

Two other people also came to Zhou Yu's office.

These two people are Xu Rui, a high-temperature materials scientist at the Institute of Materials, and Zhong Haiyang, a theoretical scientist in nuclear physics at the Institute of Basic Sciences.

Zhou Yu looked at Xu Rui and asked solemnly again: "Scientist Xu, are you sure you want to follow the astronauts to the space laboratory?"

He received Xu Rui's application to go to the space laboratory to conduct research, so he gathered these people together to discuss the incident together, because Xu Rui's research results were too important.

The success or failure of this research result is related to the controllable nuclear fusion technology of Xinghuo Technology.

Xu Rui said solemnly: "I have to go to the space laboratory to observe the process of material molding, and I really have to go."

Even if neutrino communication transmits information at the speed of light, there is a communication delay between the Earth and the space laboratory, and the experimental process changes rapidly, and we simply don't have time to give orders. ”

Feng Yunde also introduced: "In the process of making materials for controlled nuclear fusion reactors, the process of manufacturing extreme materials is affected by the environment and impurities that cannot be removed from the raw materials, and the whole reaction process is very changeable.

It is necessary to operate a quantum computer program according to the actual situation of the material to control the changes in the reaction process.

This material cannot be manufactured on the ground, only through nuclear power factories, and people must be sent to space laboratories.

Ordinary people can't operate it yet, they must be the R&D personnel of this project.

Mr. Zhou, you proposed the theoretical design of this material and participated in the development process of this project, only me and Scientist Xu participated. ”

Zhou Yu looked at Zhong Haiyang, his opinion was an important reference for deciding whether Xu Rui would go to heaven or not.

Zhong Haiyang sighed and said: "Now the nuclear fusion project has stalled, all the theoretical work has been calculated, and the only thing left is to build a nuclear fusion reactor."

The most critical materials are lacking to build a fusion reactor, which needs to withstand temperatures of 50 million degrees Celsius and the enormous pressures of fusion reactions.

In order to allow the nuclear fusion reaction we designed to continue in a reciprocating cycle.

The conditions are extremely difficult, and the temperature in the center of the sun is only about 20 million degrees Celsius.

This is because the density of matter in the center of the sun is very high, and the pressure is very high, so the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions is much lower. ”

Zhong Haiyang showed a brief principle of nuclear fusion reaction, and at the same time introduced: "At present, the international mainstream nuclear fusion is realized by tokamak devices.

It is essentially a huge electromagnetic field, through which the ionic cluster composed of deuterium and tritium is compressed.

When the pressure, density, and temperature reach the right conditions, the nuclear fusion reaction begins.

This is only a relatively mature theory, but it is too difficult to compose this electromagnetic field, and many difficulties need to be overcome, and the safety of the nuclear fusion device must be ensured.

The most important thing is that its reaction process is not easy to control, and no controllable nuclear fusion reaction technology has been developed for such a long time.

The idea of our company's nuclear fusion reaction is completely the traditional idea, as long as we find a way to withstand the ultra-high temperature and super pressure released by the nuclear fusion reaction process.

A fusion reactor can be used to form a fusion reactor with this extreme material.

The way this fusion technology is implemented is very simple, and its only difficulty is the production of this extreme material.

This material is very strong if it can withstand the environment in which the nuclear fusion reaction takes place. Then the material can be placed in the center of the sun without being melted. ”

When Zhong Haiyang spoke, he also used 3D dynamic drawings to show the process of nuclear fusion.

This is a reactor made of extreme materials, and inside the reactor there are many hollow thumb-thick cylindrical long rods made of extreme materials.

For a nuclear reaction to take place, the first step is to heat a mixture of helium-3 to a plasma state.

Helium-3 was selected as the raw material for thermonuclear reactions, mainly because helium-3 does not release neutrons and does not cause radiation during thermonuclear reactions.

100 tonnes of helium-3 would provide the world's total energy for one year.

The temperature is high enough that the electron energy is free from the nucleus, allowing the nucleus to move freely.

Only then is it possible to make direct contact with the exposed nuclei, which requires a high temperature of about 100,000 degrees Celsius.

In the second step, since all nuclei are positively charged, the same charge will be repulsed, and the strong electrostatic repulsion must be overcome for the two nuclei to come together.

The closer the two nuclei are to each other, the greater the repulsive force generated by the static electricity, and it is only when they are close to each other that the strong interaction force will play a noticeable role, pulling them together to form a new nucleus, thus releasing a huge amount of energy.

To achieve this, there must be a sufficient amount of pressure and a very high density of raw material composition.

Thermonuclear reactions can be achieved under the condition that the pressure, material density and temperature are suitable.

In order to overcome the repulsion between the nuclei with positrons, the nuclei need to travel at an extremely fast speed, and for the nuclei to reach this state of operation, they need to continue to be heated.

Under the pressure and material density conditions of a fusion reactor, the fusion material needs to be heated to 50 million degrees Celsius.

This causes the Brownian motion of the particles to reach an insane level, and the higher the temperature, the faster the nucleus moves. So much so that they do not have time to hide from each other.

The nuclei of three helium-3 atoms fuse into a single carbon nucleus, releasing powerful energy in the process.

After a period of operation, the reactor inside the reactor no longer needs to be heated by external energy, and the temperature of nuclear fusion is enough for the nucleus to continue to fuse.

This process can continue as long as the carbon nuclei are removed from the reactor in time and the new helium-3 ionic gas is fed into the reactor in time.

A small portion of the energy produced by nuclear fusion remains in the reaction body to sustain the thermonuclear reaction, and the vast majority of the energy is converted into electricity through a thermoelectric generator.

Zhou Yu looked at the information played by Zhong Haiyang, this is the controllable nuclear fusion that Xinghuo Technology is preparing to develop.

As Zhong Haiyang said, the principle of this controllable nuclear fusion technology path is not complicated.

No one has used this method before, and it is this way that was simply impossible before.

A material has to withstand temperatures of up to 50 million degrees Celsius and the enormous energy released by nuclear fusion reactions.

This extreme material was not possible to succeed before.

Only Xinghuo Technology's space factory processes high-density materials with almost no gaps through rational processing technology and complex interatomic arrangement.

This extreme material can be used as a site for nuclear fusion reactions.

"Scientist Xu's proposal is tempting, and the helium-3 thermonuclear reactor is a technology that must be conquered in the future."

Zhou Yu sighed with emotion, he looked at Lu Jinming and asked: "As a person who has not undergone strict training, can Scientist Xu Rui take the space shuttle and reach the space laboratory safely?"

Lu Jinming responded confidently: "Mr. Zhou, as long as you control the flight power of the space shuttle, you can carry ordinary people."

We have strengthened the astronauts' bodies mainly to adapt them to long-term life in space.

Traveling back and forth to space for a short period of time, anyone can do it as long as there are no physical defects. ”

Zhou Yu heard Lu Jinming's assurance, and ordered with a serious expression: "Scientist Xu has worked hard to officially launch the controllable nuclear fusion project."

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