The rise of nanometers

Unknowingly, the time came to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Yutani base.

Yugu, the place where the sun rises.

Huang Xiuyuan, Wan Gaofeng and others, in the main control room of Tanggu No. 1, after more than ten days of inspection, it was finally time for the official test of this behemoth that was pregnant with the Golden Crow.

Wan Gaofeng turned around and said, "Chairman, everything is ready."

"Then let's get started!"

"Yes." Wan Gaofeng was also a little excited: "Tanggu No. 1 is officially started for testing. Everyone is in their places."

The control room was immediately busy.

"People in the core area, please evacuate."

"Repeat, core area personnel..."

In the nuclear fusion target area, which is surrounded by thick lead plates, composite materials, and light energy composite power generation panels, a positron current layer begins to appear.

Wan Gaofeng shouted excitedly: "Start."

The staff pressed the switch.

Instantly, a specially-made deuterium target pellet fell from the small hole above, showing a free fall motion, and was then held steadily in mid-air by the superconducting magnetic field.

Twelve high-energy laser beams were shot from lasers in all directions, hitting the deuterium target pellet accurately.

The ultra-high temperature of the high-energy laser, coupled with the accompanying ultra-high pressure, allows the deuterium element to quickly reach the critical point of the nuclear fusion reaction.

In an instant, the deuterium element exploded into a chain reaction.

The detectors scattered around quickly detected a large number of neutrino signals, and the temperature detectors discovered the temperature of the target pill, which rose sharply in an instant.

A nuclear fusion explosion of deuterium is essentially the detonation of a small hydrogen bomb.

As a symbol of nuclear reactions and an unstoppable special particle, neutrinos were the first to be detected by neutrino detectors.

Neutrons, nuclei, electrons, and photons are sprayed in all directions.

Due to the upper and lower electrostatic fields and the bottom magnetic field, in addition to neutrons and photons, electrons, fusion nuclei, and reaction waste (mainly other materials in deuterium pellets) can only be ejected in the horizontal direction.

Neutrons rush into the positron current layer one after another, are neutralized by positrons, turn into protons, and release neutrinos.

The deuterium pellets falling from above did not stop, but continued to fall, and then the laser was focused on the target to produce a nuclear fusion reaction.

The positron current layer, which is always running at high speed, is controlled by the electrostatic field and enters the heat exchange system.

The positron flow carrying high-energy protons passes through the proton divertor of the heat exchange system. Finally, these high-energy protons act on the hot proton buffer layer, and the temperature of the buffer layer rises rapidly.

The hot water pipes connected to the buffer layer are also running rapidly, bringing the heat from the buffer layer to the steam turbine system through water circulation.

The steam turbine begins to rotate, converting thermal energy into mechanical energy, which in turn generates electrical energy by cutting magnetic lines of induction.

The temperature of the high-temperature water vapor after passing through the steam turbine has dropped a lot, and then passing through the waste heat thermoelectric power generation system to absorb the heat carried by the hot protons, increasing its thermal efficiency to 73%.

The 7,500-megawatt Yuya No. 1 is now operating at full capacity and can output 7,500 megawatts of electricity per hour, or 7.5 million kilowatt-hours per hour.

This electric energy is not wasted, but is input into the supporting carbon powder energy storage plant and the heavy water refining plant to be built in the future.

Huang Xiuyuan saw that the power generation capacity was higher than the designed rated power, reaching 7513 to 7524 megawatts.

Apparently Wan Gaofeng also noticed this situation. He explained: "This is the heat energy generated by the annihilation of positrons and negative electrons. Our positron manufacturing system consumes 35 megawatts of electricity per hour."

"Yeah!" Huang Xiuyuan nodded. In fact, he knew the source of this part of the energy without explaining it.

Wan Gaofeng did not pay attention to the power generation, but arranged researchers in an orderly manner to detect problems in the actual operation of each system.

Although many simulation experiments have been done before, and deuterium pellet laser focusing targeting was briefly tested, a system cannot be perfect from the beginning.

Sure enough, as the running time ticked by.

The conditions of each subsystem of Yutani No. 1 are also truly reflected.

The first is the thermal proton buffer layer. Although thermal protons are not as scary as thermal neutrons, after more than an hour of continuous bombardment, the buffer layer suffered severe hydrogen embrittlement and swelling.

"Unexpectedly, it seems that a molten salt heat exchange system must be used to replace the heat exchanger and buffer layer." Wan Gaofeng said while recording the situation.

Huang Xiuyuan asked: "Do you plan to use molten salt?"

"Yes, the main problem with molten salt is the corrosion resistance of the inner pipes, high temperature and high pressure. The company has designed several molten salt systems."

Huang Xiuyuan nodded. He knew that the Suiren Department's Scientific Research Department had two laboratories specializing in molten salt power generation systems.

The so-called molten salt power generation system actually changes the heat exchange medium from water to molten salt. This is also one of the cutting-edge directions of current fission reactors.

Wan Gaofeng expressed some of his thoughts.

They plan to inject hot protons and hot nuclei directly into the molten salt, abandoning the buffer layer.

However, in this way, nuclei will continue to accumulate in the molten salt. These nuclei are the products of deuteron fusion. The products of complex nuclear fusion are not necessarily 100% clean.

After all, nuclear fusion will eject a large number of neutrons. Once these high-energy neutrons collide with atoms, they are likely to stimulate the transformation of atoms and turn them into radioactive substances.

Regarding this situation, Wan Gaofeng had already anticipated: "Chairman, my plan is to replace the molten salt regularly. When the radioactive concentration in the molten salt exceeds the standard, these molten salts will be replaced."

After speaking, he looked at the radioactivity concentration of the buffer layer at this time:

"Based on full power operation, it will take at least eight months for the radioactive concentration of the molten salt to exceed the standard, and our company can handle these radioactive materials."

"Just make sure it's safe, and you can make improvements while running it."

The current Yutani No. 1 definitely needs further improvement and optimization. In terms of nuclear waste processing, Suiren's technology is among the best in the world.

In fact, the pure deuteron fusion reaction is roughly like this: D+D=T, helium three and neutrons.

Of course, this is a theoretical situation. In fact, there is no pure deuterium fusion. After all, it is a deuterium pellet, which is firmly held by a magnetic field. Some lithium and carbon must be doped into the deuterium pellet.

Therefore, other complex products will be produced during the entire reaction process.

In the past, these complex nuclear wastes might have become a difficult problem to deal with.

But now it is different. The tritium and helium-3 in these nuclear wastes will be extracted again and then mixed with deuterium elements to make new nuclear fusion target pellets.

Other radioactive materials such as carbon 14 will be used as nuclear batteries, radioactive sources, etc.

The Suiren family's nuclear industry will become increasingly larger as Yugu No. 1 is put into use.

The Wanfeng team tested Yugu-1 in an orderly manner, and Yugu-1 ran for a full week.

During this period, they discovered more than a dozen problems, large and small.

When Huang Xiuyuan received a preliminary test report of Tanggu No. 1, the time had already arrived on March 11.

In the preliminary test report, 14 problems were discovered, and the Wanfeng team also provided solutions one by one. Among these problems, there are no fundamental problems that cannot be solved.

After all, Huang Xiuyuan solved the core problem of neutron irradiation, and Wan Gaofeng solved the problem of the tokamak device being unable to recombine the positron flow.

These two problems have been solved, and the other problems are just minor problems. The commercial mass production of controllable nuclear fusion is just a matter of time and engineering.

After Huang Xiuyuan read the report, he immediately instructed the Tanggu base to prepare for the transfer and prepare to go to the desert area of ​​Western Australia to establish Tanggu No. 2.

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