Chapter 53 Laser Ignition Scheme
Yu Yifeng's heart moved, and he looked down, there were several detailed conjecture reports inside.
Most of these reports are computer simulations under ideal conditions, and there have been no real experiments, so they can only be regarded as conjectures......
The helium-3 nuclear bomb, to put it bluntly, is to add another layer of helium-3 to the outside of the hydrogen bomb, and use the ultra-high temperature of the hydrogen bomb explosion to ignite helium-3.
Could it be a four-hydrogen nuclear bomb with another layer of hydrogen on top of the helium-3 bomb? This is a thought that many people take for granted.
However, in the report, Professor Ding Yidong clearly pointed out that the success rate of this scheme is extremely low and basically impossible.
Because the power of the nuclear explosion is so strong, in the moment of the explosion, the entire nuclear bomb device will be destroyed, and the powerful shock wave will wash away all the elements. At that time, the outermost hydrogen layer was blown farther away in an instant.
The temperature of the core of the explosion is extremely high, but a little outside, the temperature will quickly drop by several orders of magnitude, and there will not be enough temperature and pressure to ignite the hydrogen layer.
Ding Yidong believes that the design of the helium-3 layer is already very extreme, because the ignition conditions of helium-3 are much lower than those of tetrahydrogen fusion. Add another layer of hydrogen to the outside, and these things will just blow up, not ignite......
Fusion between four atoms is infinitely harder than fusion of two atoms! So the reaction conditions are also infinitely higher, and this ring structure is suitable for helium-3 nuclear bombs, but not for tetrahydronuclear bombs.
So, what to do? If the "hydrogen layer" can be placed in the center of the nuclear explosion, there may be a little more possibility......
The Wild Wolf Design Bureau can be said to have many crazy people, and they don't think about this problem, and they will even hit the wall when they walk. In the event of a nuclear explosion, how to ensure that the hydrogen layer is not blown away, but stays honestly at the center point? That's a hard question!
Geniuses and madmen themselves are a line between them, and after thinking and meditating, they really came up with several "ideal solutions"!
Yu Yifeng was stunned and quickly flipped down.
The first, the "pomegranate-type" four-hydrogen nuclear bomb. The entire four-hydrogen nuclear bomb is spliced together by small conventional nuclear bombs, and the whole structure looks like a pomegranate, hence the name.
Each small nuclear bomb is covered with a layer of hydrogen and then stacked on top of each other.
Figuratively speaking: each "pomegranate" is an ordinary small nuclear bomb, and the "flesh of the pomegranate" is the hydrogen layer of the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb.
According to this scheme, as long as all the "pomegranate boys", that is, all small nuclear bombs, are detonated at the same time, so many hydrogen layers, there will always be some that will be ignited, right?
According to the results of computer simulations, such a scheme is theoretically feasible.
It's really a whimsical idea, a "pomegranate-type" four-hydrogen nuclear bomb, which looks a little weird......
Professor Ding Yidong also left a comment below: "This scheme does have a certain feasibility, after multiple nuclear bombs are detonated at the same time, the shock waves of the explosion squeeze each other, and huge pressure and ultra-high temperature will be generated in the extrusion area, and the hydrogen layer inside may be ignited......
"But how should this be done by exploding at the same time? If one of the bombs had exploded 0.1 or 0.01 seconds earlier, the entire device would have been destroyed immediately, and the imaginary area of high temperature and pressure would not have existed......
Yu Yifeng thought about it calmly, it is true, these small nuclear bombs, that is, ordinary hydrogen bombs or helium-3 nuclear bombs, their explosions were still ignited by atomic bombs. The explosion of the atomic bomb is uncertain, and it is entirely possible that it will be a few tenths of a second.
The principle of the atomic bomb, that is, the fission chain reaction of a large number of radioactive elements, will only be completely detonated when the scale becomes larger and larger, and when it reaches its limit, there is a random process here, and there is no way for humans to control it, and there is no way to estimate the exact time of the explosion.
Between each other, a difference of 0.1 seconds is entirely possible!
Yu Yifeng's brows furrowed tightly, and when he finally saw a reliable plan, he was killed immediately, and it was almost unsolvable......
Because of the inconsistent time of the explosion, this "pomegranate-shaped" design scheme may eventually ignite some ordinary hydrogen, but the effect will definitely not be very good.
It cost a lot of money, but it can only increase the power a little, and it is not what he wants.
"It's a bit of a problem!" Yu Yifeng muttered in his heart.
Of course, the people in the Wild Wolf Design Bureau were not willing to fail like this, and they gathered the wisdom of many people to improve the pomegranate-type scheme.
The "pomegranates" in the middle are simply gone, only the nuclear bomb on the skin is left!
According to this improved scheme, the entire four-hydrogen nuclear bomb is like a leather ball, and the outer skin is a dense small nuclear bomb, and only the inner core is the hydrogen layer. This design is a bit like a "ring structure", but it is the opposite of a normal hydrogen bomb, which ignites the inner ring by detonating the outer ring!
"According to this design, if the nuclear bomb group in the outer layer explodes at the same time, while producing ultra-high temperatures, the shock waves will squeeze each other inward, which will exert great pressure on the hydrogen layer of the inner core!"
Professor Ding Yidong gestured with his hand and said excitedly, obviously, he was very satisfied with this plan, and it was very likely that he designed it himself......
Think about it, nuclear bombs from all directions and corners explode at the same time, and the central area must be squeezed by the shock wave from all directions, and this huge pressure, coupled with ultra-high temperatures, it is finally possible to completely ignite the hydrogen layer of the core!
At that time, the incomparably powerful four-hydrogen nuclear bomb will really explode, and this is the final plan for the four-hydrogen nuclear bomb!
"At least theoretically it is completely feasible and works better than the pomegranate type!" Ding Yidong nodded with satisfaction as he spoke.
However, there still seems to be a problem......
In the final analysis, this solution still has to use the atomic bomb to detonate, and its explosion time is unpredictable, and it is possible to be 0.1 seconds faster or 0.1 seconds slower, and this problem is still unsolved.
If an atomic bomb had exploded earlier, the entire installation would have been destroyed.
Yu Yifeng thought about it, and still asked this question to Ding Yidong: "Professor Ding, how should the explosion be done at the same time?" ”
"Alas...... This is also our biggest headache, if we use the atomic bomb again, it will be unsolvable! Ding Yidong did not have a discouraged expression on his face, but a perked face.
"I think it's better to abandon the atomic bomb!" He said quite proudly, "The ignition of ordinary nuclear bombs does not use atomic bombs, we can use another laser ignition instead!" ”
The atomic bomb can be called the gatekeeper of the hydrogen bomb, because the reaction requirements of the hydrogen bomb are relatively high, at least tens of millions of degrees Celsius. The explosion of an atomic bomb can easily reach this temperature, triggering nuclear fusion. So usually, hydrogen bombs are detonated by atomic bombs.
In fact, if you want to detonate a hydrogen bomb, you don't necessarily need to use an atomic bomb, as long as the temperature is high enough. This brings about two other methods, which can be achieved in two ways: laser and ultra-high temperature microwave heating.
What Ding Yidong said is laser ignition, which is based on facts.
In 2012, the U.S. National Ignition Facility successfully fused 192 laser beams to produce an even more powerful laser pulse that instantly generated a peak power of 500 trillion watts. Such a super-powerful laser pulse, although it is only for a very short time, is theoretically more than enough to ignite a hydrogen bomb!
"If Americans can do it, our new human civilization should be able to do it too!" Ding Yidong said excitedly.
Yu Yifeng finally moved in his heart, even if such a laser system can't ignite the hydrogen bomb, he still wants to do it, at least it can be regarded as an ultra-long-range space weapon!