Chapter XXXIX Special Emergency Session

"There's a special emergency meeting going tomorrow, I wonder if you'll be able to attend?" Liang Changjiu said, "Originally, you were just seriously injured and still need to recuperate, and it is really inhumane to let you go to such a meeting now." But this meeting is very important, only you and I have been to the scene, you are an expert in this field, there are some things that you know more deeply than me, so whether you can participate in this conference is very important, and it is related to the question of whether the whole controllable nuclear fusion can continue to continue to build in the next step. ”

Ling Moyu saw the clue, this is to participate by himself no matter what, he still wants to participate in his heart, to see what caused such an unscientific thing to happen.

"As long as you don't lock me up as a radiation source, I'll definitely participate." Ling Moyu said.

"How is it possible, we have already tested you, all the organs of your body are normal, and no radiation exceeds the standard, although you have participated, I have prepared everything you need to participate in the meeting." Liang Changchang said excitedly.

"You've already planned it, everything is ready, you can't do it if you don't participate!" Ling Moyu said, although he couldn't see it, it was estimated that Liang Changjiu would make a big red face.

The next day, the meeting was held at a nearby military base, apparently to facilitate Ling Moyu's participation in the meeting. The people who participated in the meeting were all authorities in physics, and Professor Fang Zigui also participated, and it was very gratifying to see that Ling Moyu was safe and sound.

Before the meeting began, Ling Moyu was standing in front of the window in the corridor, thinking about what had happened recently, when suddenly someone called his name, turned his head and saw a soldier running towards him, it turned out to be Liao Songcheng, he had been promoted to major. When the old people met, the two happily clasped hands tightly, "Why did you get here?" Ling Moyu asked.

"General Huo is now transferred to the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense to preside over the work, and I also followed the general over, this time there was a nuclear explosion in the fusion device, and we are responsible for the full investigation, in view of the seriousness of the incident, General Huo came in person." Liao Songcheng said.

Saying that General Huo had already come over, Ling Moyu found that General Huo had been promoted from major general to lieutenant general, he enthusiastically stretched out his big hand and held Ling Moyu's hand tightly and said, "I met Dr. Ling again, this time I made a new contribution, your performance is perfect, we need you very much." ”

"You've won the prize, it's what I should do." Ling Moyu is not modest, this is his true words, personal honor and disgrace are nothing to him.

"Don't be modest, I'll listen to your opinions when we discuss it later, the journal you brought back plays a very important role and is very important for future work." General Huo said.

The meeting began, and the meeting was presided over by Professor Dou Lishan, a well-known domestic physicist and an authority on nuclear physics, and his assistant introduced the specific situation of this incident.

Ling Moyu has been recuperating in the hospital for the past few days, although he got the log of the control center, he didn't have time to look at it at that time, and he was not very clear about the ins and outs of the whole incident.

The anomaly was discovered by the fusion center a month ago, and the fusion energy caused by the same fusion material has become high and low compared to the theoretical value, which is recorded in the logbook, but no one paid much attention to it. The energy released by fusion is related to many factors, and people in the field believe that the energy measurement is inaccurate due to the operation, the aging of the instrument, or the measurement itself.

Ten days later, the fusion energy changed more drastically, which attracted everyone's attention, especially in a few times the energy released by fusion has exceeded the theoretical value by 5-10 times. This makes the personnel on site very confused, if it is understandable that the energy released is low, it means that the fusion is not sufficient, and the reaction conditions are not well prepared.

The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental principles of the universe, and according to the theory, the maximum amount of energy that a certain fusion material can produce is certain. For example, the energy released by the complete fusion of deuterium and tritium extracted from 1 liter of seawater is equivalent to the energy released by the complete combustion of 300 liters of gasoline, but if the energy released by the fusion of deuterium and tritium extracted from 1 liter of seawater reaches the energy of 3,000 liters of gasoline combustion, where does the excess energy come from?

The first thing the experts at the fusion center considered was that there was a problem with the measuring instrument, and the measuring instrument was completely overhauled, and even the core components were replaced, and the result was still super energy release.

So some people have suggested that the fusion of deuterium and tritium produces a helium nucleus and a neutron and releases energy, is it possible that the helium nucleus will further fuse and release energy?

However, this idea was immediately rejected, because the conditions required for helium nuclear fusion are more extreme, and this device can just meet the conditions for hydrogen nuclear fusion, how can it be possible to achieve the conditions for helium nuclear fusion?

Helium nuclear fusion generally occurs at the end of the life of a star, when the internal temperature of the star reaches 100 million to 200 million degrees, the nuclear fusion of helium begins, and the reaction makes the energy released by the star quickly exceed one million times that of a normal star, which is the so-called helium flash. To achieve such high temperatures, it is impossible with existing installations.

Huang Weixuan and some front-line researchers proposed to stop the fusion experiment first, and then carry out the experiment after finding the cause to prevent problems in the experiment. Especially if there is really a helium nucleus involved in the fusion reaction, it is possible to explode terrifying energy in an instant, and there will be a very destructive accident such as a helium flash!

The leaders of the center and some experts disagree, they believe that there is no such thing as helium nuclei participating in fusion, and only by increasing the number of experiments can we find out where the problem is, and find the problem can be easily solved.

The two factions were at loggerheads, and in the end, the administrative leadership of the center decided to continue the experiment and increase the fusion materials used in the experiment, hoping to increase the frequency of abnormal conditions by increasing the reaction efforts, so as to determine what the problem was as soon as possible.

In the last experiment, the fusion material used was increased to three times the usual amount, which is the limit of the vacuum chamber's endurance, and it is about to explode in the large vacuum chamber. The journal only records the contents of this day, and at the beginning of the day everything was normal, and the values were stable, but just when the beaters thought that the experiment would be completed smoothly, the energy of the reaction increased rapidly, and it went out of control.

Finally, the valve of the vacuum chamber brought back by Ling Moyu from the scene was also introduced, and it was found that it contained some uranium components after testing, where did these uranium come from? Will you participate in the reaction?

After the assistant introduced, the situation was like this, if he could listen to Huang Weixuan, there would be no such thing, thinking of his friend, Ling Moyu felt sad for a while, and it was even more unspeakable uncomfortable when he thought of his child, if the administrative leader was a knowledgeable expert and could treat this matter in a scientific spirit, the tragedy would not have happened.