Planet Builder

Chapter 5: Refining of nuclear materials

   "Of course you can't buy it directly, but in our daily life, there are some things that can be extracted from a trace amount of material." He Xingzhou directly searched the Internet and discarded the smoke alarm.

"The smoke detector has americium 241 in its probe. Americium 241 emits alpha particles. Take out the americium 241 from hundreds of smoke detectors and wrap them with aluminum foil. When the alpha particles hit the aluminum atoms in the aluminum foil At that time, a nuclear reaction will occur, releasing neutrons."

   "In this way, the raw material for the neutron gun used to strike the nuclear fuel rod is available."

   He Xingzhou has found a smoke alarm manufacturer on the Internet. He carefully searched for the manufacturer’s information and found the manufacturer with americium 241 in the probe raw materials. Then he went to the second-hand website and bought hundreds of them in wholesale.

   "This is okay?" The three roommates exclaimed, "Then this is just the raw material for the neutron gun, what about the material for the nuclear fuel rod?"

   He Xingzhou continued: "Old-fashioned vapor lampshade surface coating compounds contain thorium-232. Bombarding thorium with neutrons can produce uranium-233, which is the material for nuclear fission."

   He bought those second-hand car lampshades on the second-hand website, and he also bought hundreds of them.

   "The nuclear raw materials extracted from these materials are very scarce, and it is impossible to make a nuclear reactor that can generate sustainable and stable power generation. But it is enough for me. I only need to produce a nuclear fission reaction once." He Xingzhou said.

   Hearing what he said, the three roommates were really convinced, but he didn't even think of this level.

   "I suddenly believed that you might succeed!" Wang Jiahao said.

   "Boss is really six, wait and see!" Feng Tao said with emotion.

   "I have nothing to say, just wait for the nuclear reactor to appear!" Zhang Yang also took it.

   He Xingzhou said, "I will have to trouble you for help at that time, such as refining raw materials and shooting videos."

   "Wrap it on us!" The three immediately agreed.

   He Xingzhou started his own micro-reactor manufacturing plan, and the items purchased on the Internet arrived one by one, because they were all second-hand junk goods, and the cost was less than budgeted.

   These things piled up the entire dormitory. As the roommates were looking forward to He Xingzhou’s masterpiece, they had no opinion on this, and even started to help.

   In the dormitory, Wang Jiahao took a cell phone and shot at He Xingzhou. They were making a video.

   He Xingzhou said to the video: "Hello everyone, my name is He Xingzhou, I am a student of Capital University of Science and Technology."

"Because I wanted to verify my idea, I decided to build a miniature nuclear reactor myself. To this end, I wrote a complete experimental plan. The plan has been approved by the relevant departments. I would like to remind everyone here to proceed. Nuclear tests are subject to approval. Please do not conduct dangerous experiments without authorization."

   "My reactor mainly includes five structures, the active area, the neutron reflection layer, the control and regulation system, the cooling system, and the protective layer."

"Now I'm in the first step, collecting nuclear fission reactor materials. I have some second-hand smoke alarms here. At its probe, there is a small amount of americium 241, which only makes the seed reflection layer, which is to hit the nuclear material. The raw material for the atomic neutron gun."

   "The following process will be carried out in the laboratory, because it cannot be spread at will, so the video will be cut out."

   He Xingzhou used these waste materials to extract some americium 241 in the laboratory.

   He plans to make a series of videos while experimenting, called "University Students Make Nuclear Reactor".

   He deliberately registered an account on the video website B station, named his ID "Planet Builder", and then chose to publish his first video.

After the release of   , He Xingzhou did not manage his account, but started his second step, making the basic equipment of the reactor.

   He Xingzhou’s construction of a miniature nuclear fission reactor only caused a few days of attention among his classmates, and then no sound was heard.

  In this era of information explosion, there will be a huge amount of new things every day, and everyone thinks that He Xingzhou is just a whim and can't make nuclear reactors successful, so in just a week, few people are paying attention to this matter anymore.

   Only physics professors such as Zhang Boyan have always been paying attention.

   On station B, there will be videos posted with many video bloggers every day, and most people see the videos of those big UP owners.

   While newcomers post videos, there is very little chance of being seen by others.

   The first video released by He Xingzhou has only four views. And these four clicks were all ordered by him and his roommate, and there was no new audience.

   "This won't work, no one has watched this video at all!" Wang Jiahao is helping He Xingzhou edit the second video.

   "Maybe everyone saw the title and thought it was fake. And there are no fans, and big data is not recommended." He Xingzhou said, "No matter what, release the second issue first."

   "The second video is called "Nuclear Reactor Made by College Students-Phase Two, Pressure Cooker Making Active Reaction Zone"."

   After editing the video, He Xingzhou released the video again.

   Because there are no fans, this video was sent out naturally and no one watched it. However, the new video will enter the background of the video editor for review, and some resources will be promoted for videos that the video editor thinks are of interest.

   He Xingzhou's video entered the background of a certain video editor of the technology video channel.

   "Recently, the UP owners of the technology channel are getting more and more hips!" Video editor "Xiaomu" works while working, UU reading www.uukanshu. com complained to colleagues at the same time.

   "There was a lot of content before, but now it's all about mobile phone reviews and electric car reviews, and there are no hot videos."

   For editors, the more popular videos, the better the editing performance.

   "It's all like this." said his colleague "Ant", "The main reason is that the newcomer's creativity is too boring. I won't shoot anything other than the evaluation video of technology products, and naturally, there will be no explosions."

  They were chatting, Xiaomu suddenly saw a new video appearing in the background: "University Students Make Nuclear Reactor-Phase II, Pressure Cooker Making Active Reaction Zone".

   "Huh?" He had an impression of this video, and he had seen the first episode before.

   He only watched it for a minute and then turned it off, because he thought the UP master was the title party, so what else to make a nuclear reactor? Isn't this funny? Who has this ability!

   And the content of the first issue is also very boring. It is about extracting elements. At that time, Xiaomu felt boring and false, so he didn't give any promotion.

   Seeing that he was actually out of the second issue today, Xiao Mu curiously clicked in and took a look.

   In the video, He Xingzhou's face appeared. He was in the laboratory, transforming a pressure cooker.

"Hello everyone, this is He Xingzhou. In the last issue, we have refined americium 341, the raw material for the neutron reflecting layer. Today we are going to make the active area, which is the place where the nuclear reaction occurs. The main raw material we use is stainless steel. Two pressure cookers, one small water pump, one electric fan, one radiator, several small-diameter plastic pipes, and several conductive wires."

   "Use this to make a nuclear reactor? Am I funny?" Although the first reaction in my heart was not to believe it, Xiaomu was more curious about this video, and he continued to watch it.

  

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