Huaguo announced the construction of a controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor, and it is not only the United States that is in a hurry.

Almost all countries that can afford to build controlled nuclear fusion experimental reactors on their own, or participate in the ITER program, are anxious about the overnight busyness of the sudden news.

Europe, German.

In the Planck Plasma Research Institute, after hearing the news, Professor Tillman Lund, who was busy planning to restart the spiral stone 7X to do a deuterium-tritium raw material fusion ignition operation and collect neutron irradiation data, looked confused.

"Demonstration piles? Are you sure? ”

Shocked and stunned for a long time, after digesting the news, Tillman swallowed his saliva and asked in surprise.

On the other side, Robert Mack, the director of the Planck Plasma Institute, nodded and said, "The news from the media over there can't be fake. ”

"It's incredible, it's unbelievable, did they solve the first wall material problem? How was it solved? And the problems of tritium self-holding, tearing of the magnetic plane of the tokamak device, etc., which have already been solved? You know, the demonstration pile and the can are two completely different things. ”

Tillman Lent couldn't help but throw out a series of questions, he had too many doubts in his heart.

Robert Mack sighed and said, "No one has heard that these problems have been solved, except for the two-hour high-density plasma running experiment, that Professor Xu has never made the progress public. ”

"Don't talk about us, it's the United States, I don't know where they are going, and the United States is also anxious because of this, and is increasing its infiltration, hoping to obtain more information."

After a pause, he continued to sigh with emotion: "I have to say, this time that Professor Xu really made a big deal. ”

"The demonstration reactor, ITER's original expectation will not start until 2025 or even 2035, but this time it has been directly advanced by several years."

On the side, Tillman Lent couldn't help but ask: "I just want to know how he solved the problem of neutron irradiation in the first wall material, and what kind of material he used." ”

Robert smiled bitterly and said, "How can this kind of technology involving the core of controlled nuclear fusion be circulated. ”

"However, there are sources that the first wall material may be related to the kind of radiation technology that Professor Xu developed to deal with nuclear waste."

"'Nuclear β radiant energy gathering and conversion technology'?"

"Well, it's this."

Hearing this, Tillmanrent thought about it, and he had naturally heard of this technology applied to nuclear waste.

Two years ago, the government used technology in exchange for Huaguo to build a nuclear waste power station in Bavaria, and then prepared to transfer the nuclear waste from 17 nuclear power plants across the country and dispose of it at one time.

This was a good thing for German, which was dependent on Tsarist Russia for energy.

After all, they were originally limited by the trouble of nuclear waste being extremely difficult to dispose of, and they were ready to gradually shut down all nuclear power plants.

But now, after the problem of nuclear waste has been dealt with, nuclear power plants have been promoted on a large scale.

Of course, the energy problem is still a big problem for them.

Otherwise, the EU would not have increased its investment in controlled nuclear fusion.

It's just that the sad thing now is that they seem to be left behind by Huaguo.

Regardless of how anxious countries were about the news, the financial markets reacted the moment the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project announced the construction of a demonstration reactor through the news media.

Wall Street, like those in the field of nuclear fusion, these financial elites who usually sit in their offices and blow air conditioners are also in a cold sweat at the moment, panicked and anxious.

In particular, financial institutions in fossil fuel areas such as coal, oil, and natural gas are close to selling their stocks and futures with all their might.

Does the construction of the demonstration reactor mean that the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion is coming soon?

The ultimate energy source of human civilization's dream, if it is really realized, fossil energy and other things will have to be swept into the dust of history, right?

Oil and natural gas are okay, even if they are separated from the attributes of fuel and energy, they also have the attributes of chemical raw materials.

However, although coal can indeed obtain some chemical raw materials through gasification and distillation, the importance of energy attributes accounts for more than 90% of its various attributes.

What's more, China is also the world's largest coal consumer superpower, and the annual import of coal from other countries is an astronomical amount.

There are even some countries, such as Indonesia, West Asia, Filipino and other South Asian countries, that export coal to China to obtain economies, and even account for a very high proportion of their own economic GDP.

If one day, China no longer needs their coal, the consequences can be imagined by everyone.

Although there is still a long way to go between demonstration reactors and truly commercial fusion reactors, no one knows how many years, or decades, or even decades it will take to get there.

But for the market, when this kind of news is released, it will itself create panic.

Of course, it is also certain that some capital predators are fishing in troubled waters to add fuel to the fire.

In any case, the decline in fossil fuels is doomed.

If in the future, the news of controlled nuclear fusion comes out of the mouth of Professor Xu again, I am afraid that it is not impossible for the fossil energy-related plates to be directly smashed through.

The anxiety of Western countries and the heavy fall of the stock futures market, Xu Chuan can think of these, but he doesn't care very much.

He was more concerned with the construction of the demonstration reactor than with these things.

This is a super project, although from the very beginning the Qixia controllable nuclear fusion engineering base has been divided according to the standards of demonstration reactors, and some experiment-related configurations have also been made according to the standards.

But the experimental reactor and the demonstration reactor are, after all, two completely different things.

Comparatively speaking, the demonstration reactor has a lot more supporting equipment.

For example, ultra-vacuum pumps, plasma exchange systems, generator sets, power grid control. A series of related supporting equipment is not available in the experimental reactor.

In fact, Xu Chuan is also in the research institute, discussing these matters with the two academicians arranged by the nuclear industry group.

"There are six groups of generator sets for the first time, and the space for four groups is reserved, there is no problem with this, just follow your requirements Academician Xu."

"It's just that in terms of the way of generating electricity, we still use heat engines?"

"If we use a heat engine, we have a complete design and construction drawing, and it can be used with a little modification, which is very convenient."

In the office, Wang Yongnian and Hou Chengping, academicians of the Nuclear Industry Group, and Xu Chuan and Peng Hongxi exchanged details about the supporting equipment for the construction of the demonstration reactor.

Hearing this question, Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Using nuclear fusion to boil water, to be honest, this is a bit too big and overused. ”

On the other side, Academician Hou Chengping shook his head and said: "But it is undeniable that boiling water is still the most efficient way of generating electricity that we can make at present." ”

Since Watt and Faraday ushered in the age of steam and electromagnetism, no matter how energy and social technology have changed, in terms of electrical energy, how to generate electricity, there has never been much change.

Boiling water is still the most common and efficient means of generating electricity.

Although countries are constantly optimizing this set of technologies, they have never departed from it.

There's a joke about it:

"Hey, look! We have discovered xx new energy again. ”

"What can we do with it?"

"We can use it to boil water!"

Black humor joke, but it is a very real reflection of the current level of human technology in power generation.

Anyway, with the current human technology, it is difficult to directly convert chemical energy and nuclear energy such as coal and oil into electrical energy on a large scale.

It's still the same as Watt and Faraday two hundred years ago.

First find a way to convert the internal energy of water, then the water vapor pushes the steam turbine to convert it into kinetic energy, and then cut the magnetic inductance line to convert it into electrical energy.

Modern thermal power is essentially by boiling water with fuel (coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, garbage, etc.) to produce water vapor, convert its kinetic energy into the kinetic energy of turbine rotation, and then drive the generator set.

If it is expanded, hydropower and wind power can actually be planned into this category, and the core mechanism is the same.

The only difference is solar power generation, and the core is the photogenerated volcanic effect.

In addition, there is a little-heard of biopower generation, which uses the electricity generated by a special synthesis of the organism itself, but it has not been really used commercially, and is still being studied in the laboratory.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It is undeniable that the efficiency of boiling water is indeed one of the most efficient power generation technologies in the past. ”

"For mainstream heat sources such as coal combustion, solar energy, nuclear fission, and geothermal, there is no other material that can replace water, which seems like a big deal, until the supercritical carbon dioxide cycle technology matures."

"It can be said that as the source of life, water is a very magical thing, and human beings are lucky that such a good material can be used to generate electricity in addition to drinking."

After a pause, he smiled and continued: "But when it comes to efficiency, the efficiency of boiling water is not necessarily the highest. ”

"Especially when it comes to controlled nuclear fusion."

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