Chapter 263: Nuclear Power Plant, Space Architecture
Hearing Zhang Gaoming say this, several people laughed, and Xu Zhengping diverted the topic.
After seeing the lander, several people flew off to the nearest SS-Defense Subsystem base under construction.
According to the plan, the first phase will build ten SS-defense system subsystem bases on the far side of the moon, and these ten subsystem bases will be evenly distributed on the far side of the moon.
Soon, the group flew over the base of the SS-Defense Subsystem, which had recently been under construction.
Su Zhe and the others were floating in the air at a height of 20 kilometers, using the long-distance imaging function of the armored spacesuit to look at the busy construction machinery and personnel on the ground.
These construction machines are specially made for the lunar environment, which is very different from the construction machinery used on Earth.
And most of these construction machinery are unmanned, either automated or remotely controlled.
As for the personnel.
Now on the entire construction site, there are only a few wearing armored spacesuits, and more are remotely controlled humanoid bionic robots.
At this time, there is a huge deep pit in the ground.
At the bottom of the pit there are a large number of construction machinery and personnel.
From time to time, there are light blue beams from the air into the deep pit, the reason why there is a light beam, this is to supplement the construction machinery and personnel in the deep pit.
In the four directions around the pit, there are four smaller pits.
Similarly, there are construction machinery and personnel in these four pits.
These five pits can be understood at a glance that this is laying the foundation.
A little further away from these five pits, there is also a deep pit about twenty kilometers away.
Not far from this pit is a large complex of buildings.
After Zhang Gaoming's introduction, it was known that the largest pit among the five pits was the main part of the SS-Defense System Subsystem base.
Its diameter is thirty kilometers, and its depth is five hundred meters.
The crater itself is a crater with a diameter of 28 kilometers and a depth of 300 meters, which happened to be used.
The surrounding four pits were newly opened and were used to build four nuclear power plants.
According to Zhang Gaoming, the super explosives made by using the deliberateness of iron atoms are extremely easy to use.
The controllability of blasting is unusually high, and there are no special requirements for the blasting environment.
Whether it is a low-power blast or a super-powerful blast, it can be easily set up and controlled.
There is no need to worry about the appearance of duds at all.
As for the deep pit twenty kilometers away, it is the place where uranium ore was dug from the foundations of the base of the SS-defense subsystem.
Not far away is a building materials processing factory.
After listening to Zhang Gaoming's introduction, when the group was about to go down to have a look, a humanoid bionic robot flew up quickly from the ground.
At first glance, the name on the head of this humanoid bionic robot is Zhou Dashi, a doctoral student at the School of Architecture of Lingzhou University of Technology and one of the initiators of space architecture.
Several people greeted each other, and under the leadership of Zhang Gaoming and Zhou Dashi, Su Zhe and the three of them lowered their altitude to take a closer look at the facilities being built on the ground.
The first thing to visit is the main part of the SS-Defense Subsystem base under construction, which is the huge crater.
Since the Moon's gravity is only one-sixth of that of the Earth, it is relatively much less difficult to construct.
I looked at the SS-Defense System subsystem base under construction, and then looked at the construction site of the four nuclear power plants that are laying the foundation.
"We have a lot of ideas about the SS-Defense System subsystem base, and its energy supply was a big problem at first, but now it's not a problem." Zhang Gaoming said.
The SS-defense system is very powerful, and the amount of energy that can be consumed is astronomical.
Comparatively speaking, the SS-Defense system is energy-intensive in the detection process, but compared to the use of dead-light weapons.
There is no comparison at all.
It's good now.
With the super battery, also
Such staggering reserves of uranium were discovered.
Whether it relies on the light pillar project or the nuclear power plant, there is no problem with the supply of energy.
The former uses the energy supply of solar energy to collect solar energy from the solar collection station in the light pillar project.
This collected solar energy is converted into a specific wavelength of light, which is transmitted to the light energy transmission station.
Finally, the transmitted light energy is absorbed by the SS-defense system subsystem base, and finally stored in the energy storage occupied by the super battery.
As for nuclear power plants, it's simple.
Crucially, the nuclear power plants under construction are based on sixth-generation nuclear power plant technology.
The harvesting of energy is no longer boiled water.
Instead, the energy generated by the fission of uranium-235 is directly converted into light energy through the special materials on the periphery.
Coupled with the newly discovered uranium mines, even without the light pillar project, the SS-Defense System subsystem base can be sustained for a long time.
Xu Zhengping looked at the construction site and said to Su Zhe: "With your help, the Northwest Nuclear Industry Research Institute has successfully built the sixth generation nuclear power plant, but it is a pity that the sixth generation nuclear power plant has not been miniaturized, otherwise its use will be greatly increased."
If you really want to talk about it, Su Zhe has made a significant contribution to the success of the sixth generation nuclear power plant.
Overall, the core of the sixth generation of nuclear power plants is a material capable of converting the energy carried by high-energy rays and high-energy particles into light energy.
The basic theory of this material was provided by Su Zhe and verified by experiments by the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Industry.
This material is not only used in armored spacesuits, but also needs it for controlled nuclear fusion.
In addition, the surface of very heavy equipment and facilities in space is coated with this material.
Not only can it collect energy, but it can also intercept high-energy rays and high-energy particles.
"Headmaster! It's no shame that our Jiutian Research Center and the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Industry have been doing research on the miniaturization of the sixth generation nuclear power plant." "I believe that if we are given some more time, we will be able to achieve the miniaturization of the sixth generation nuclear power plant," Fan said.
The miniaturization mentioned here is not miniaturization in the traditional sense.
For example, a huge nuclear power plant can be turned into an aircraft carrier or a nuclear submarine.
By miniaturization, he meant being able to miniaturize the sixth generation of nuclear power plants to the size of only a No. 5 battery.
At that time, its use will increase dramatically.
Of course, today's sixth-generation nuclear power plants also have huge uses.
As it is being built now, it will provide energy to the SS-Defense System subsystem base, and the Sky Space Station also has a sixth-generation nuclear power plant, as well as a station in the space city under construction, and some other space facilities will use sixth-generation nuclear power plants.
"Yes! I also think I'll be able to get smaller soon." "But I'm not just satisfied with the miniaturization of the sixth-generation nuclear power plant, I also want to develop a nuclear battery that can be recycled and miniaturized, and if it is built, its energy density will be much greater than that of today's super batteries."
In his vision, a real nuclear battery can be discharged and charged.
What is to be done is nothing more than the cyclic process of nuclear fission and fusion.
However, it is very, very difficult to achieve such a nuclear battery.
It is necessary not only to master mature nuclear fission technology, but also to master mature nuclear fusion technology.
Maturity here does not refer to existing nuclear fission technology.
Truth be told, the technology of nuclear fission is still in its infancy.
Now, there are only so many elements that can achieve fission. Such as uranium-235 and so on.
Only when you can fission all the elements on the periodic table at will can you say that you have mastered the mature nuclear fission technology.
The same goes for mature nuclear fusion.
Compared with nuclear fission, nuclear fusion is even more tragic.
Even hydrogen-hydrogen fusion, which has the lowest fusion conditions, cannot be controlled, let alone other elements.
"Recyclable nuclear batteries." Zhang Gaoming asked puzzled, "
Are you referring to nuclear batteries that can be charged and discharged at the same time?"
"Yes!" Su Zhe affirmed, "To be precise, it is a nuclear battery that can both charge and discharge, because such a nuclear battery can not only release electrical energy, but also light energy."
"This ...... It's hard to do!" Xu Zhengping said.
"Of course! Such a nuclear battery is just our idea, and we don't know when it will be realized." Fan Xiaoming explained.
Although it is an assumption, there is a scientific research team of 500 people in the Nine Days Research Center who has been sitting in this area of research.
To put it simply, the research team is working on nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.
If you want to say that the project studied by this scientific research team is an application, then there is another scientific research team that is different.
This research team, which also has 500 people, is studying the particles themselves, doing basic research.
If the former is engaged in engineering technology, then the latter is engaged in theory.
"Yes! Yes! These are not urgent, they need to be accumulated from generation to generation, and they may be realized when they will be realized." Zhang Gaoming sighed.
With that, several people left the site where the sixth-generation nuclear power plant was built and came to the uranium mine twenty kilometers away.
It is a pit four hundred meters deep.
At this time, there are many humanoid bionic robots and construction machinery working together to mine these uranium ores.
Zhou Dashi pointed to the bottom of the pit and said, "The first site of the SS-Defense System subsystem base was here, but we didn't expect to dig uranium ore when we dug 300 meters, and it was still a super rich ore, so we had no choice but to relocate the site."
Participating in the construction of the base of the SS-defense system subsystem this time, he really did not expect such a big discovery.
It was so coincidental that such a large uranium mine was discovered on the moon.
At the time of Zhou Dashi's introduction, the humanoid bionic robots and construction machinery in the pit were rapidly evacuating.
Evacuated from one side of the pit to the other, and hid behind the bunker.
Although the depth of this pit is only 400 meters, the diameter of the pit is 20 kilometers.
When Su Zhe and the others who were floating in the air were really puzzled, Zhang Gaoming explained: "It's about to be blasted to bomb the mine, by the way, the bombing uses the super explosives you developed."
After a while, the pit began to shake.
Then, half of the pit collapsed.
Floating in the air at an altitude of one kilometer, Su Zhe and the others all felt shocked.
Xu Zhengping was a little surprised and said, "This ...... That's the power of super explosives, it's spectacular."
After the blasting of the pit was over, the humanoid bionic robots and construction machinery that were hiding behind the bunker were dispatched one after another.
The mined uranium ore was continuously transported to the building materials processing plant not far away.
"Don't look at us mining uranium, in fact, uranium mining is only incidental, our main purpose is to get building materials." "Speaking of which, I would like to thank Dr. Zhou and your School of Architecture for providing the technology to use the resources on the moon to make building materials."
Zhou Dashi's School of Architecture.
To be honest, he admired.
Before the massive moon landing was achieved, the School of Architecture proposed space architecture.
He began to study building materials, building structures, building techniques, and so on in different cosmic environments.
Take the moon, for example.
Before the moon landing was underway, these people were working on how to build high on the moon.
After the successful landing on the moon, it was studied even more deeply, after all, there were a large number of samples collected on the moon.
The School of Architecture at Lingzhou University of Technology proved to be a success.
As far as he knows, the School of Architecture has become the No. 1 college of Lingzhou University of Technology.
It not only has traditional majors such as civil engineering and surveying and mapping, but also many new interdisciplinary majors.
Such as building materials science, building physics, building chemistry, building ecology, etc.
Put the Faculty of Architecture
When I brought it up, I didn't know that I thought it was a science and engineering university.
"There! There! The reason why our School of Architecture is like this is because of the guidance of Professor Su and Professor Fan, who reminded us to study space architecture as early as possible, and we should be most grateful to Professor Su and Professor Fan." Zhou Dashi said.
Space Architecture!
As Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming said at the beginning, it has huge development prospects.
The most important thing is that with the development of space architecture, various disciplines can be integrated into architecture and used in architecture.
The construction of the SS-Defense Subsystem base, the permanent construction of the Moon, the construction of the Firmament space station, the full-scale development of the Moon, and so on, all of which were involved in their School of Architecture.
Now, the School of Architecture has not only become the first college of Lingzhou University of Technology, but also an authority on space architecture.
In their school of architecture, they did space architecture.
At first, other colleges and universities were laughing at them, saying that their architecture school was whimsical.
Saying that the architecture on the earth has not yet been figured out, I think about space architecture.
He can understand the reason why these universities are like this, after all, these people think that it is impossible for human beings to go into space on a large scale in a short period of time.
There is no use in space architecture.
But after the successful moon landing, the wind direction directly changed.
Those universities and research institutes have come to their architecture schools to learn from their experience.
As a result, their school of architecture has become the authority of sky architecture, and even the school of architecture with other universities has become more and more powerful.
"We're just talking about it, but it's your own effort." Su Zhe said.
"Yes! Even if we say it clearly, if you and Dean Guo Ziming don't pay attention to it, it will be in vain." Fan Xiaoming said.
"That's right!" Xu Zhengping said, "I was surprised when Dean Guo mentioned that he wanted to develop space architecture, but I still agreed, and now I see what a wise decision it was, and thus laid a solid foundation for us to build a permanent base on the moon and fully develop the moon."
With that, several people flew to the building complex not far away, that is, the building materials processing plant and uranium ore refining plant.