On January 1, 2027, the gears of time slowly turned, and people celebrated the arrival of the new year.

Zhou Yu is also celebrating, but instead of celebrating the New Year, he is celebrating that the controllable fusion reactor design meets the requirements.

After the core components of a controllable nuclear fusion reactor made of high-temperature extreme materials arrive on Earth.

Scientists at the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project began designing controlled fusion nuclear reactors.

A controlled nuclear fusion reactor is a complex project, and the now mature nuclear fission reactor simply cannot provide effective assistance for this project.

With the help of quantum computers, scientists can only build a controllable nuclear fusion reactor from scratch bit by bit.

Zhou Yu came to the controllable nuclear fusion project team of the Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute.

The main persons in charge here are Zhong Haiyang, a theoretical scientist of controlled nuclear fusion, Xu Rui, a materials scientist, and Ma Shan, an engineering expert.

Zhou Yu saw them and said with a smile: "New year, new atmosphere, as soon as the new year arrived, I heard the gratifying news that the design of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor was completed."

Zhong Haiyang said with emotion: "We have solved the theoretical and technical difficulties of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, but we have transformed a theory into an engineering that can be applied.

There are so many difficulties that we can't even imagine, but through our joint efforts, these problems have been overcome one by one.

Now that a qualified controllable nuclear fusion reactor has been designed, it is ready for construction. ”

"Is a controlled fusion reactor just qualified? How about its specific performance. Zhou Yu immediately asked.

Zhong Haiyang explained: "Mr. Zhou, we designed a controllable nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, and we have not yet built a controllable nuclear fusion reactor.

Now we can only say that this controllable nuclear fusion reactor design meets our requirements.

Once a controlled fusion nuclear reactor is built, it is unknown whether it will exceed our design or will not meet the goals of the design.

We can only guarantee that this controlled nuclear fusion reactor for experiments will be able to complete the controlled nuclear fusion reaction at a minimum, so that we can collect enough data for the controlled nuclear fusion reaction. ”

After Ma Shan heard Zhong Haiyang finish speaking, he immediately continued: "As long as there are no problems in the construction of the project, the performance of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is still very powerful.

Controlled nuclear fusion reactors generate 50 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which is almost twice the total annual power generation capacity of the world.

Nuclear fusion reactors consume 1.6 tons of helium-3 nuclear raw material per year.

The amount of helium-3 in the lunar soil on the Moon is another million tons, even if the Earth's energy consumption continues to increase according to the current situation.

The Earth uses only nuclear fusion reactors to generate electricity, relying only on helium-3 in the lunar soil, which is enough energy for us to use for tens of thousands of years. ”

Zhou Yu was not surprised at all when he heard that the nuclear fusion reactor had such a terrifying amount of electricity.

All the gaseous stars in the universe that are known to emit their own light release energy through thermonuclear reactions.

The most obvious example is the sun, which has been burning for billions of years and can burn for billions more.

Thermonuclear reactions can bring a huge amount of energy to a huge celestial body like the sun, and humans will inevitably bring an incredible amount of energy if they use it slightly.

Every change in energy promotes great changes in society.

In ancient times, people could only slash and burn and cut wood for wages, and the utilization rate of energy in nature was very low.

The first industrial revolution brought the energy of coal to the stage, and whoever mastered this energy would have an absolute advantage.

The second industrial revolution is that fossil energy and electricity go hand in hand.

The Third Industrial Revolution is the main arena for new energy sources such as nuclear energy, wind energy, and solar energy.

Only nuclear energy, a huge source of energy, can support the high energy consumption of modern society.

The United States now consumes more energy in a month than it did in an 18th century.

At present, even if human beings use energy, they are still constrained by energy.

Nuclear power has not yet become the mainstream of the world, and the mainstream of power generation is still relying on fossil fuels.

One of the important reasons is that the dangers of nuclear power have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After all, the powerful popularity of nuclear weapons has made everyone aware of the consequences of an accident in a nuclear reactor.

This is the reason why Zhou Yu decided to choose helium-3 as the raw material for nuclear reactors, helium-3 for thermonuclear reactions, it does not produce neutrons and therefore has no dangerous nuclear radiation.

Cheaper deuterium tritium, which has been stored in desalination plants, is almost within reach.

However, if these two materials are used as raw materials for nuclear reactors, in the event of an accident at a nuclear reactor, a huge amount of nuclear radiation will turn the surrounding area into a dead land.

The emergence of helium-3 controllable nuclear fusion reactors, a truly clean nuclear energy source, can really make human civilization no longer worry about the lack of energy.

Zhou Yu was thinking when he heard Xu Rui's voice sound.

"The key to our controllable fusion reactor is controllability.

The thermonuclear reactions it carries out are not disorderly development, but according to our needs, let them react at a certain rate.

Engineer Ma Shan just said that the maximum power of the nuclear fusion reactor is actually the lowest power of the reactor to generate electricity according to the minimum power for the nuclear fusion reaction to occur.

We can also terminate the thermonuclear process of a fusion reactor at any time.

As long as the material reaction is completed and there is no foreign material input, the temperature inside will quickly decrease and the nuclear fusion reaction will be terminated.

We have taken safe and effective measures to ensure that our security measures are effective.

The safety measures are the most troublesome for us in the design of nuclear fusion reactors.

Even if we carry out a clean thermonuclear reaction, we must ensure the safety of the nuclear fusion reactor.

Otherwise, a single accident would have dealt a fatal blow to everyone's confidence, and the controlled fusion reactor would have no idea how many more years it would have to be refrigerated. ”

After Zhou Yu heard their introduction, he looked at the structure diagram of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor.

At the center is a thermonuclear reactor consisting of 33 hollow tubes of high-temperature resistant limit materials.

The hollow tube is covered with gaseous polysilicone styrene, a thermally conductive material.

At the core of the thermonuclear reaction, polysilicone styrene is directly a gaseous substance, but it still does not affect its strong thermal conductivity.

Polysilicone styrene still retains its gaseous state because the pressure outside the hollow tube is very low.

This is not a place where thermonuclear reactions take place, but places where heat exchange takes place, there is no need to maintain the ultimate pressure, one standard atmosphere is enough.

There is a thermal conductive material such as polysilicone styrene, and a high-power thermoelectric generator is connected to it on the other side.

The internal temperature of polysilicone styrene can be kept below 10,000 degrees Celsius, which is not enough to ionize the polysilicone styrene material and destroy its thermal conductivity.

Xinghuo Technology's mature high-power thermoelectric generator converts the heat from polysilicon styrene into electrical energy.

The structure of a controlled nuclear fusion reactor is similar to that of a geothermal power station.

It's just one more step to convert nuclear energy into thermal energy.

It is this change that has increased the technical difficulty of the entire project by more than an order of magnitude.