Chapter 120: Pay Attention to Laser Inertial Confinement and Ignite Deuterium-Tritium Fusion!
"A few kilograms"
Chen Yi thought for a while: "That's okay, this time the deuterium-tritium pile is mainly to test the magnetic confinement, and a few kilograms is enough." ”
"That's enough."
Lao Zhang nodded, and then seemed to think of something, and reminded: "The documents that were given to you recently, remember to read them." ”
"The laser weapon technology on the opposite side has made a breakthrough, and it is necessary to pay attention to the development of their controllable nuclear fusion."
"Technological development is not a single item, but a ring of links, and a breakthrough in this ring may lead to technological updates in other rings."
"Laser. Controlled nuclear fusion? ”
Chen Yi looked stunned and asked, "Laser inertial restraint system?" ”
"Yes, laser inertial constraints."
"The laser breakthrough on your side, after the Shenguang IV in Hudu updated the equipment, used the new laser for target shooting, and successfully achieved the fusion ignition of the deuterium-tritium target pellet."
"It's just that the manufacturing cost of the target pill, tritium self-sustaining, and the neutron irradiation of the deuterium-tritium reaction are still difficult to solve."
"Now Shenguang IV is ready to skip deuterium-tritium fusion, improve the laser absorption rate of the target shot, increase the power of the laser, and try deuterium-helium fusion."
"Most of the helium-3 elements you gave to the EAST fusion project team are now going to Shenguang IV"
"If the deuterium-helium target pellet is successfully ignited, the inertial restraint is promising, and the success rate of practicability and commercialization will be infinitely improved."
Professor Zhang roughly talked about the recent development of inertial restraint, and then took the middle-aged strong two out of the base.
Compared with the media publicity, there is more international cooperation, and the magnetic confinement nuclear fusion device is familiar to the public.
There is another way to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at the theoretical level.
That is the big brother scientist Basov in the last century, and academician Wang Ganchang, the two of them respectively proposed laser inertial confinement fusion.
That is, it imitates the ignition pattern of the hydrogen boy.
By irradiating the target pellet with a laser, the fuel in the target pellet is compressed until it is compressed to a state of extreme high temperature and high pressure, and a fusion reaction occurs.
As we all know, the hydrogen boy is a conjoined twin.
It looks like a hydrogen boy on the outside, but in fact, there is a matching little boy.
The explosion process is to ignite the fusion layer of hydrogen through the explosion of the little boy, so as to realize the explosion of the hydrogen boy.
The process was not based on the hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius generated by the Little Boy's explosion.
Instead, with the help of the X-rays produced by the little boy's explosion, the hydrogen fuel was violently irradiated and compressed through the X-rays, and finally the hydrogen boy was ignited and exploded.
After all, X-rays are light, and light travels faster than all matter.
Only with the help of X-rays can the hydrogen boy be ignited before he is blown up by the little boy.
As for what kind of design and what kind of configuration, so that the little boy can complete the ignition of hydrogen fuel in the nanosecond time of explosion.
This is the top secret of the first level of the world, which is only mastered by five administrators.
It is said that the first configuration was made on the opposite side.
After that, Big Brother got a little information through the swallow and picked it up.
Dai Ying mastered the incense in his blood through the assistance of the other side.
Then, with the efforts of academicians and a group of bigwigs who have long since died and have been incognito all their lives, they used a hand-cranked computer to come up with another configuration.
When Fasilan saw it, he had it all, but my family didn't have it yet, so I couldn't do it in a hurry.
In a hurry, it is easy to mess up, resulting in a visit, accidentally throwing away a full set of nuclear reactor materials in China, and finally only finding a few different pieces of paper, and going back to practice for a few years can also be picked out.
Of course, all of the above is hearsay.
The first top-secret information, the foundation of the five administrators, it is impossible for the outside world to know the specific details.
But this configuration is very secret, it is difficult to get it, but it is a fact that it is one top and one top.
Because the third brother has been masturbating with a little boy for decades, he is about to burst into flames, and he doesn't see half a hair.
Laser inertial constraints, which generate X-ray compression through laser compression or even through lasers, are almost the same as the ignition configuration of the Hydrogen Boy.
In such a special case, the project that led to inertial fusion was not carried out internationally, but was studied by each country alone.
In terms of attention and popularity, laser inertial confinement fusion may not be as good as the tokamak device and stellar simulator device of the magnetic confinement route.
However, as a project that can not only study controlled nuclear fusion, but also explore the deep fusion mechanism, improve the power of hydrogen boy and miniaturize hydrogen boy.
Countries have invested a lot more in this area than in magnetic restraint devices.
"Laser inertial constraints, this thing, has been the opposite side leading all these years."
"The domestic Shenguang IV has completed fusion ignition, and the opposite side must also be completed."
"It is estimated that the cost of the target pill is the problem of deuterium-tritium fusion, and it cannot be commercialized"
Chen Yi recalled some of the internal information he had seen before, and understood that technology is a whole, and it means that the whole body is involved.
"Forget it."
"Professional matters such as comprehensive strategy are still left to professional people."
"I still pick up my own deuterium and tritium pile, light a fire, and actually verify the improvement scheme of magnetic confinement."
"No matter how awesome the other side is, this can't be compared to hanging force."
Chen Yi thought for a while, and simply ignored it.
The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and the enemy will not be able to stop himself if he wants to advance.
In the past, the production area took out a batch of superconducting wires that were produced and produced, as well as some other basic accessories, improved microwave generators, etc.
According to the scheme calculated by yourself, open the coil knitting with automation equipment and the to-kamak device.
Because of my previous research on ion thrusters and polar magnetic variable impulse plasma engines, I have read a lot of technical information and basic principles related to magnetic fields.
After learning and mastering the literature and materials provided by the EAST nuclear fusion project team.
For the design and control of magnetic fields with magnetic confinement, Chen Yi now says that he is the second in the world, and absolutely no one dares to call him the first.
The next day.
A sealed jar containing 5 kilograms of tritium was delivered.
At the same time, it is considered that Chen Yi may not be too lazy to go to the beach to filter heavy water and then electrolyze deuterium.
In addition to the tritium element.
The package also included 200 kilograms of deuterium.
The third day after receiving the deuterium-tritium element.
According to the plan that Chen Yi has long had in his heart, a complete set of automated industrial equipment in the production area works at full power.
One is 5 meters in diameter, 8 meters in height and weighs 108 tons.
The tokamak, which is a few laps smaller than the EAST fusion device but more powerful in practice, stands in an empty laboratory in the corner of the base.
[Item: Superconducting Magnetic Confinement - Tokamak Device]
[Attributes: Energy x174, Magnetic Confinement x167, Power x172, Control x146.7, Efficiency x126.4, Strength x27.2, Beauty x14.7]
[The detection device has reached the limit beyond the conventional field, and the consciousness wave consumption of subsequent adjustments has been increased by a thousand times.] 】
[Note: This is a magnetic confinement device that touches the quantum realm, with great power and a powerful magnetic field, it can hold hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius of plasma in a cage.]
Perhaps, you can put in some fusion elements when it is fully activated and witness the deep mysteries of the star.
But be careful, different fusion elements have different products, use it, please pay attention to safety. 】
"The initial attribute surpasses the conventional realm, and the consumption of the adjustment consciousness wave is increased by a thousand times."
"Also, there are different fusion elements and different products in the remarks evaluation, so you should pay attention to safety tips"
Chen Yi looked at the metal fat pier-like magnetic restraint device, looked at the deuterium-tritium element tank that had been connected to the device, and probably understood the meaning of paying attention to safety in the remarks.
Neutron irradiation by deuterium-tritium fusion.
Deuterium-tritium fusion, the reaction produces a helium-4 ion + a high-energy neutron, and 17.6 MeV energy.
Neutrons are not charged.
It cannot be constrained by a magnetic field.
The high-energy neutrons produced by this reaction will shoot out from inside the device in all directions like super cannonballs, destroying them wherever they go.
Neither the DNA of life nor the nucleus of material elements can escape its destruction.
Destroy everything, but also from the level of the atomic nucleus.
This is the neutron irradiation that deuterium-tritium fusion is the most difficult to solve.
In the face of such neutron irradiation, any kind of material is a foam in the face of neutron bombardment from the atomic nucleus level.
It doesn't last long before it denatures, becomes brittle, and crumbles again.
Shattered debris.
Because the nucleus of an atom is stuffed with extra neutrons, it is equivalent to DNA being modified.
The elements of the material also transmutate into other elements.
The vast majority of these transmuted elements are still radioactive elements.
But such a high-energy neutron is not completely isolated and banned.
Because this is the key to solving the problem of tritium self-sufficiency.
Tritium, half-life 12 years.
An element that is almost non-existent in nature.
It can only be produced by reactors, and the current international market price is 30,000 knives per gram.
In the past, when breeder reactor technology was not good, 1 gram required more than 100,000 knives.
Such a precious element.
If it is all replenished by the outside world, the fusion reactor is burned.
That is the value of producing 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity and the value of consuming 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, which cannot be burned by large camels and dogs.
The real solution is to add a lithium-6 breeding layer to the deuterium-tritium fusion reactor.
With the help of high-energy neutrons from the deuterium-tritium reaction, lithium-6 is bombarded to produce a helium-4 ion and tritium.
The tritium is then recovered and re-injected into the reactor to achieve tritium self-sustaining.
"My purpose this time is mainly to obtain the change data of the confined magnetic field during the actual fusion, so as to provide a basis for further optimization and improvement of the magnetic field structure of magnetic confinement."
"It's not really deuterium-tritium fusion."
"Therefore, this neutron irradiation, as well as the problem of tritium self-sustaining, does not need to be considered."
"The half-life of free neutrons is 15 minutes, so after the test is started, wait a day."
"When all neutrons are naturally decayed and exhausted, pay attention to it, and the radioactive elements produced by the high-energy neutron bombardment transmutation can ensure absolute safety."
Chen Yi thought about it and came up with a safe test plan.
Even, he tried to think for a while.
How to solve the problem of neutron irradiation and tritium self-sustaining.
Discovery simply can't be solved.
It is also necessary to isolate the radiation of neutrons.
It is necessary to put neutrons to solve tritium self-sustaining.
These are two completely contradictory issues.
Deuterium-tritium fusion should go to the garbage dump, and the world belongs to deuterium-helium fusion.
Determine the test protocol.
Chen Yi quit the lab.
Not far away, a high-grade cement pouring room with steel plates and carbon fiber layers sandwiched inside, can withstand tens of thousands of tons of equivalent impact.
"It's a pity that there are still too few consciousness waves."
"It also takes four or five days to build a fusion reactor, otherwise the system will be adjusted much faster."
It is doped with beryllium elements.
Thick glass that can reflect neutrons.
Chen Yi looked at the tokamak fusion pile, took out the remote control, and pressed the start button.
The consumption is multiplied by a thousand times, and adjusting one attribute point is 200,000.
The 200 million consciousness waves obtained by the live broadcast of the moon landing, excluding the rations for the Xuannu, are not enough to completely adjust this magnetic restraint device.
In addition, after the adjustment, it will take four or five days to rebuild a device.
In this case, in terms of efficiency and cost performance, it is far less rapid than Chen Yi's own collection of data and research upgrades.
With the accumulation of technology and knowledge mastered by Chen Yi.
The current system adjustment is more about the application of new technologies and breakthroughs in new technological barriers.
Ordinary equipment that can be pulled out by yourself,There is no need to use the system.,It's more cost-effective to pull it out by yourself.。
Buzz!
The subtle sound of evacuation is transmitted through the microphone in the laboratory.
After the vacuum extraction is completed, the magnetic field is activated, the deuterium and tritium elements are injected, and the microwave generator raises the temperature of the elements.
A faint glow of plasma began to emerge inside the fusion reactor.
This ray, like water and silk, is constantly rotating around the doughnut-like confined magnetic field.
The monitoring screen next to Chen Yi, the magnetic field data of magnetic confinement, began to be refreshed in large quantities.
The temperature of the plasma in the upper right corner, as well as the energy consumed by start-up, are also constantly increasing.
1 million.
5 million.
Million.
30 million.
70 million.
100 million.
In less than two hours.
The deuterium-tritium plasma inside the fusion reactor has soared to 100 million degrees Celsius.
Energy monitors have begun to detect subtle energy production.
Obviously, at this temperature, a very small amount of deuterium-tritium is already fused.
Chen Yi took a look at the energy consumed by the fusion reactor from the start to this time, and then looked at the energy produced by the detected fusion.
Well, 768.7 million to 1.
Very powerful data.
"Xuannu, the temperature has been raised to 124 million." Chen Yi calmly gave the order.
Airplanes!
The sound of electricity soared all at once.
The deuterium-tritium plasma inside the doughnut suddenly spun into the shape of a fluid.
The energy monitor detects the value of the energy generated, which also soars by three orders of magnitude.
"Increase the coil power, increase the magnetic field strength, shrink the volume of magnetic confinement, and start the high confinement mode!"
With Chen Yi's instructions, the volume of the magnetic confinement that was originally running smoothly began to shrink slowly.
When contracted to a certain range.
Suddenly.
Boom.
The light that shines like the sun blooms in the restraint field.
Monitor the fusion energy data at a rapid spike in improvements.
The temperature of the plasma in the magnetic confinement field also soared to 230 million degrees Celsius.
The full-scale nuclear fusion of the deuterium-tritium element was ignited.
The plasma, which expands at high temperature, begins to impact and extrude the confined magnetic field, and slowly pushes the confined range of the magnetic field back
PS: The first chapter, there are two more chapters tonight, continue to be ten thousand more.
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