Chapter 13: A Huge Breakthrough
As the main person in charge of this research, Shen Gongyi was naturally in the crowd of celebrations, and at this time, after hearing Ye Qiuli ask him to introduce and evaluate this experimental device, he did not shirk it, and immediately took over the topic and said loudly: "Since Mr. Ye asked me to say it, then I will say it directly." Our fusion reactor is still a product of the theory of magnetic confinement, but it is at least 100 years more advanced than the one put into use in the United States.
I believe that several of its main features can also be directly seen from the appearance, the first point is that it is small, so small that it is only the size of a family car. This is the most important point, and it is the focus of our research, and it seems that the results are still very satisfactory.
The main construction material of this reactor is a super material synthesized by Ye Zong, which is not only super hard, but also can withstand high temperatures of nearly one million degrees. In this way, we can directly heat the gas of deuterium, tritium or helium-3, the raw material of the nuclear fusion reaction, to the plasma state, and very simply separate the nuclei for the fusion reaction......
Hearing Shen Gongyi's praise for the super materials he provided, Ye Qiuli was a little embarrassed, these materials were not synthesized by him through modern technology, but completely refined by refining methods, which was a little bit of a drawback. Although he is also looking for scientific and technological means to make these materials, he has not yet achieved complete success.
If you want to refine these materials through scientific and technological means, you need an extremely large amount of energy, and you can only wait for the first-generation fusion reactor to pass the inspection, and after you can use it, you can use the huge energy provided by the reactor to manufacture it on a large scale.
Looking at the expressions of all the colleagues around him, Shen Gongyi didn't notice that Ye Qiuli was a little distracted, and continued to introduce excitedly: "In addition to the strong materials, the fusion reactor we built also uses a new concept magnetic field generation equipment carefully designed by Mr. Ye, completely abandoning the traditional tokamak magnetic field device.
This device does not need to build a large number of longitudinal field coils and polar field coils, but only a simple spherical superconducting coil architecture, which can generate a closed magnetic field strong enough to bind the reactor body and accept our control ......"
This time, after feeling Shen Gongyi's admiration, Ye Qiuli did not have the slightest embarrassment, because this new magnetic field structure was indeed designed by him, and it was a small magnetic field generator that he replaced the transformed small magnetic field generator according to a fully enclosed seal prohibition recorded in the "Changfeng Baojian", and changed the forbidden formation structure to be built by a superconducting coil, and the forbidden operating energy was replaced by the strong magnetic field force generated after the current passed through the superconducting coil.
Although this transformation loses the flexibility and variability of the prohibition, it allows the magical methods of the Xiuzhen civilization to be reproduced by ordinary humans through technology. This is also the first major breakthrough that Ye Qiuli made after combining the cultivation civilization with the scientific and technological civilization, and the spherical structure that Shen Gongyi said was actually the operation of this forbidden formation, but it was only transformed by him.
After briefly introducing the first two significant features of the miniature fusion reactor they built, Shen Gongyu became more and more excited to explain the third revolutionary breakthrough: "As for the third important feature, that is, the material for constructing the closed magnetic field is the eternal superconducting material specially manufactured by Mr. Ye. This is the first eternal superconducting material invented in human history, and we have done experiments, from -273 °C to millions of degrees, this material has always maintained superconducting characteristics, and it has not changed in the slightest due to changes in temperature.
This characteristic is completely incomparable with the previous superconducting materials of more than minus 200 degrees! It can be said that it is precisely because of the emergence of this eternal superconducting material that finally contributed to the success of our research.
The traditional fully superconducting tokamak device needs to maintain the ultra-low temperature of the superconducting coil at all times, and be vigilant against the superconducting failure caused by the increase in temperature, which not only requires the addition of complex superconducting protection devices, but also has huge hidden dangers in stable operation. The fusion reactor device we designed and manufactured, due to the use of superconducting coils made of new materials, does not need to add many protective devices, not only the structure is simplified a lot, but the stability of operation is also greatly increased......
Listening to Shen Gongyi excitedly introduce the third advantage of this device, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.
This superconducting material is also something that he specially refined using refining methods, the correct name should be called Mithril, which is a material often used by cultivators in the process of refining, the hardness is not high, but the toughness is excellent, the ductility is also very good, and the plasticity is very strong;
The reason why Ye Qiuli thought of using Mithril as a superconducting material was because he suddenly realized that the reason why superconducting materials have superconducting properties is because the resistance in them is zero, and there will be no failure when the current passes, so there will be all kinds of magical phenomena and effects, and there is not much mystery in nature. Under normal conditions, silver is the metal with the least resistance, and the higher the purity, the better the conductivity, and if silver is refined to an absolutely pure state, it is likely to bring him some unexpected surprises.
After realizing this, Ye Qiuli immediately refined part of the essence of metal silver - Mithril through refining methods, and did a special superconducting experiment, and the result was naturally a great success, the top-grade refining material Mithril really has superconducting properties, and it will not be affected by temperature changes, it is the most perfect superconducting material they are striving for, and the new magnetic field architecture he developed is also based on this.
Compared with conventional ultra-low temperature superconducting materials, Mithril not only has excellent performance and a wide range of applications, but can also be refined and purified from ordinary silver. Although 10,000 taels of pure silver can be refined into one or two Mithril, and the energy consumption is extremely huge, it seems that the gains outweigh the losses, but after really using it in the right place, it is definitely worth the money, and the loss of refining Mithril is not worth mentioning at all in the face of small controllable nuclear fusion.
After talking about the above advantages, Shen Gongyi briefly mentioned other secondary features of this experimental fusion reactor device: "The above three points are the most revolutionary breakthroughs in this small controllable nuclear fusion reactor we have built. More intelligent control systems and other parts are slightly inferior in comparison, but they are still at the forefront of human technology.
To sum up, the fusion reactor device in front of us has a small size, simple structure, stable operation, high efficiency and high power, and has successfully fulfilled the design requirements of Mr. Ye. As for the shortcomings, it is that the cost is relatively high, and several new materials are very difficult to make, and the cost is very amazing. ...... Of course, this is just our own comparison, and if we really compare it to the fusion reactors that the Americans have built at hundreds of billions of dollars, we are as cheap as Chinese cabbage!"
In the end, Shen Gongyi couldn't help but smile, obviously very satisfied with what he had achieved so far.
......Although everyone already knew about its revolutionary breakthrough when the device was successfully built, after listening to Shen Gongyi's explanation, they still couldn't help but applaud and celebrate the unprecedented success of the research, especially those who did supporting service work in the secondary auxiliary departments, such as materials research, and the response was even more enthusiastic, and the success of the experiment also had their heavy credit.
After strict testing and confirmation of the success and effectiveness of the newly built small controllable nuclear fusion reactor device, Ye Qiuli did not bother with the matter except for instructing that the energy generated by fusion be used for the refining and manufacturing of new materials, so that the new fusion device could be assembled again and continuously improved in actual use, so that he no longer bothered about the matter and handed over all the rest to Shen Gongyu to be responsible for handling. As for himself, he took the design data of the entire set of devices to a top-secret workshop that only he knew, and began to assemble the long-awaited spaceship.
Ye Qiuli is not going to use this experimental fusion reactor as the core power of the spacecraft he is about to build, after all, the purpose of their previous construction of it was mainly to verify whether the design of a miniature controllable nuclear fusion reactor is reasonable and feasible. Even with the success of the research so far, the fusion reactor is still a prototype, crudely built, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
That kind of frizzy first-generation product was not what Ye Qiuli wanted, especially since he had just successfully advanced to the Jindan stage, and the innate true fire had further evolved into the Jindan Yuan Huo, which was even more powerful, and could completely refine materials with better performance to replace the materials used in the previous experiments. With this in mind, he naturally wanted to improve the entire installation to create a smaller, more powerful reactor as the power core of the spacecraft.
Having said that, the success of the research on a miniature controllable nuclear fusion device can still be regarded as a revolutionary breakthrough. Whether it is for all the staff involved in the research, or for Ye Qiuli, who personally presided over this project, it is of great significance, no matter how much emphasis and praise are given, there will be no excess.