Nuclear power has come out, you say you are an undergraduate?

Chapter 24 Preliminary Research on Nuclear Energy!
In the Nuclear Theory Research Laboratory of Nanjiang University, Su Chuan tightened his clothes.

This is the third day of autumn, and the chill is becoming more and more obvious.

The leaves outside the window were falling one after another, and the countdown on the task panel in Su Chuan's mind was less than forty days left.

In the laboratory, Su Chuan was meditating while looking at the densely packed formulas on the blackboard.

Nuclear research is not an easy subject in any country in the world.

One of the most difficult points is how to obtain sufficient quantities of high-purity uranium and plutonium.

The way to obtain high-purity raw materials is nothing more than gas diffusion and centrifugation.

The cost of gas diffusion is said to be so high that basically no one can afford it.

The cost of centrifugation is not low, at any rate, several big countries can resist it.

If it is a small country, it has to use half of the electricity in the country to support the operation of the centrifuge. In this way, the production capacity is still not enough.

What Su Chuan is currently solving is to change the operation mode of the centrifuge, improve efficiency, and extract high-purity uranium and plutonium with high efficiency and high quality.

If this is done, the difficulty of nuclear experiments will be greatly reduced, because there will be enough material to carry out actual experiments.

It can save countless capital costs for Daxia!

In terms of nuclear energy and power, there is even more room for exploration!

Second, how to control the instantaneous thrust of the nuclear reactor.

This is a pair of contradictions. The nuclear reactor has a low thrust and cannot fly, but the thrust is too large and cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, the thrust needs to be released slowly. How to accurately control the thrust generated by the nuclear reactor on various equipment is also a major problem.

Fortunately, on this point, Su Chuan already has a direction in his recent ideas.

Several nuclear hub devices have been set up, but most of them are just ideas. After all, there are not enough conditions to directly conduct specific research on nuclear tests.

You can only do calculations on paper like the ancestors of Daxia.

Then there's the issue of cooling.

Nuclear reactors generate a lot of heat when they operate at high speeds.

How to cool down is a big problem, especially in the process of lifting off and returning to the earth, when the inside and outside are high temperature, once it cannot be cooled, it means that the nuclear reactor will become a nuclear bomb!
This appears to be extremely dangerous.

So for Su Chuan, these are the main problems of nuclear research, and the rest of the secondary problems are basically listed on his drawings these days, and the solutions are listed.

However, after dozens of days of research, Su Chuan still encountered a bottleneck.

After all, most of the personnel engaged in nuclear research have a foundation of several years or even more than ten years, while Su Chuan only has half a month.

Even with the blessing of the system, it still lacks some.

And these days, the principal and tutors have persuaded Su Chuan to consider whether to change his major.

After all, the field of nuclear research is not an ordinary major, let alone a college student who has basically never had much contact with this field.

At the beginning, the principal and the tutor often mentioned this matter.

But for Su Chuan, this decision is irreversible.

Gradually gave up.

At this time, in the theoretical research room, Su Chuan was almost buried in the pile of manuscript paper.

Countless books piled up into mountains.

The blackboard in front is full of dense formulas.

The most conspicuous thing in the middle is the formula for the nuclear reactor, which was specially circled by Su Chuan.

U+n=Nd+Zr+3n+8e
Below the formula, the derivation process is written, and another derivation method is even given.

On his left, a few books are piled up densely filled with numbers and annotations.

"Fundamentals of Nuclear Power Plant Structural Design and Structural Analysis", "Basic Design of Nuclear Reactor Engineering", "Introduction to Nuclear Reactor".

At this time, Su Chuan's eyes were red, his face was slightly pale, and he muttered to himself.

"K is a neutron, U235 has two kinds of radiation reactions..."

"In this case, can it prove that my formula is valid?"

Countless possibilities were deduced in Su Chuan's brain, and he kept denying them.

Finally, after a few hours, Su Chuan smiled helplessly, threw away the pen in his hand, and sat down.

It's been four full days, and even though he doesn't want to admit it, he's hit a wall.

He thought that as long as he worked hard, he would be able to make a breakthrough, but it turned out that he was wrong.

The bottleneck this time is not like when we just started research before, as long as we thoroughly understand the theoretical basis and combine some previous experience, we can solve it step by step.

But this time the bottleneck is multifaceted.

The first is that after so many days of research and study, Su Chuan has reached the first-class level in nuclear research at that time, and basically all the basic problems are not difficult for him. Problems to overcome.

The second is that although I have so many theoretical ideas, I lack experimental samples and no real experiments, so I can't get accurate data, which makes some steps impossible!
Su Chuan shook his head, planning to stop for now.

He is very clear that his current state is not suitable for further research.

Scientific research sometimes needs inspiration.

At this moment, Su Chuan's cell phone vibrated slightly.

A notice came through.

[Notice: Nuclear energy and technical engineering professional examination will be held tomorrow]

【Examination location: Nanming Building, Nanjiang University】

Su Chuan rubbed his eyebrows and murmured, "Is it an exam..."

"Okay, just relax."

The next day, in the morning.

Su Chuan changed his clothes and had a good night's sleep last night.

This is the first time he has left the laboratory in more than ten days.

The autumn wind was refreshing, and the pedestrians around were all graduate students wearing glasses and white coats.

Holding a few thick books in his hand.

Although it is an exam, the nuclear energy major is different from other majors.

In the exam, bringing some books is clearly required by the exam.

These are some materials you can use as a reference in the exam. After all, this professional exam is not about what to test but just points.

Instead, ask questions and ask you to write solutions.

Entering the classroom, the test papers were quickly handed out.

Su Chuan looked at the several topics on the test paper and was stunned.

【Characteristics of Y decay?】

【Definition of radioactivity and its expression?】

[Please list the most stable nuclear reaction equation and process. 】

Are the current exams so difficult?
The first few questions are fairly basic, but the latter questions are more interesting.

Fortunately, during this period of time, these problems have been perfectly solved in Su Chuan's hands.

He couldn't help smiling slightly, raised his pen and wrote down a formula on the answer sheet.

A formula that no one has proposed and demonstrated yet!
(End of this chapter)