Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 159

On the way back, unable to stand up to everyone's repeated questioning, Zhong Chengcheng explained his thoughts to the team members in general.

The idea of ​​using the principles of ion engines for controlled nuclear fusion blew everyone away.

What a wild idea!

After discussion, everyone agreed that this idea was very likely to be successful, and the difficulty was the collision in the vacuum chamber.

Zhou Hu vividly compared this to the fact that the waves behind the Yangtze River push forward the waves ahead!

Yang Xi provided a clue. During his research on Zhurong's electric push, he observed that in the high-speed movement of charged ions, if the charged ions moving in the same direction have a "rear-end collision accident", there is a phenomenon that is contrary to common sense.

It is the huge repulsive force to be overcome by the collision and polymerization of charged ions when they move relative to each other. At this time, it will become gravitational force. At this time, the mutual polymerization of atomic nuclei is more likely to occur, and the conditions for realizing fusion are not so harsh.

The movement of charged ions is the most complicated movement phenomenon, and the possibility of two charged ions moving in the same direction is very small, but this possibility has been greatly increased in Zhong Cheng's conceived mechanism.

It is indeed very possible to realize controllable nuclear fusion in this way.

Yang Xi's discovery once again strengthened everyone's confidence. Can controllable nuclear fusion really be realized in their hands?

10 month 4 day.

Zhong Cheng's team returned to the R&D center, and a dozen people plunged into the computer room of Fuxi No. [-].

Let's work together and divide the work to build a brand new "ion engine" in the Taixu experimental system.

Since there are ready-made models of Zhurong electric pusher, super tokamak, stellarator, etc., the construction work is very smooth.

10 month 8 day.

A brand-new controllable nuclear fusion device was born in the Taixu Experimental System.

This device mainly consists of four parts:

One is the ionization chamber that ionizes deuterium and lithium atoms, using the principle of an ion engine;

The second is the high-energy acceleration channel for accelerated heating of charged ions, which adopts the acceleration principle of the Hadron Collider;
The third is the vacuum chamber where the fusion reaction occurs, which has been reformed by absorbing the advantages of super tokamak, stellarator and other devices;

The fourth is the condensing power generation device for cooling and speed reduction, which is the normal principle of thermal power generation, and wind power devices are used at the end.

In the following time, a simulation test was carried out in the Taixu experimental system, and the operating parameters were constantly adjusted to find the minimum conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.

This process also requires a large number of simulation experiments.

Zhong Cheng's plan is to start with the temperature of the ionization chamber pushed by Zhurong Electric at 3000 degrees Celsius, and each increase of 1000 degrees Celsius will be a temperature zone.

The speed of charged ions starts from 300 km/s when the injection speed is driven by Zhu Rong, and every increase of 10 km/s is a speed zone.

The two are matched with each other and the test is carried out incrementally. At the same time, it is necessary to continuously adjust and improve the corresponding test device capabilities.

If it was not carried out in the Taixu experimental system, the time and money spent would be unimaginable.

This process is a very boring process.

After 15 days, more than a dozen people were divided into eight groups to test separately, and the total number of tests reached 3678 times, but no fusion reaction was found in the test.

Zhou Hu proposed to simply increase the test conditions to 1 million degrees Celsius, and then push it backwards.

But Zhong Cheng rejected this idea. Nuclear fusion can occur without this device at 1 million degrees Celsius. What is there to try?

The effect of pushing backwards and upwards is the same. It is necessary to find the most suitable point between 3000 degrees and 1 million degrees, and the lower the better.

If only one temperature condition is easy to handle, you can use the equalization method to quickly screen.

But adding a speed condition, and the speed is directly related to the temperature, then the only stupid way to use the exhaustive method is the most suitable.

It was past 10 o'clock in the morning on October 23, and under Zhong Cheng's persuasion, the others went to the leisure area on the 2th floor to rest.

In the computer room of Fuxi No. [-], only Zhong Cheng, Yang Xi, and Luo Na are left. These two people specialize in ion engines. They are the main force, and they are unwilling to leave the computer room no matter what.

At this time, the test conditions in the vacuum chamber have been raised to 270 million degrees Celsius and 2700 kilometers per second.

The temperature is not too "high", but the speed has almost reached 0.01 times the speed of light, and the length of the high-energy acceleration channel has reached 256 meters.

If the increase continues like this, the nuclear fusion reactor they built may be several kilometers in length, then they will really be building a hadron collider.

Zhong Cheng had a headache, and the requirement for the entire device to increase the temperature was increasing exponentially.

That means that the cost of nuclear fusion power plants is increasing exponentially. If it reaches the sky-high price of a super tokamak device, the practicability of his nuclear fusion power plant will become less and less.

Does it make sense to spend tens of billions to build a 100 million-kilowatt nuclear fusion power plant, which costs much more than hydropower?

Maybe, but not too much.

"what!"

At this moment, Zhong Cheng heard a scream, and he turned his head to look.

I saw Lorna jumped up from her seat excitedly, and kissed Yang Xi unexpectedly.

She shouted excitedly: "Yang Xi, team leader, a fusion reaction has occurred!"

"what?!"

Zhong Cheng and Yang Xi instantly forgot what Lorna did just now, and they put their heads in front of Lorna's operation screen to check the test data just now.

After searching, the two quickly found an exciting record in the system database.

In the experiment just now, a deuterium ion and a tritium ion collided with each other in the vacuum chamber, and atomic nuclei polymerized with each other to generate a new helium ion with a heavier mass.

At the same time, during the collision process, a neutron escapes from the bondage of the atomic nucleus and is released, and what the release of this neutron shows is a huge energy release.

The system recorded that local high temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees appeared at that moment.

"We made it!"

After confirming again and again, Zhong Cheng and Yang Xi also stood up excitedly and gave a strong bear hug.

It's not easy!
At this time, Zhong Cheng was about to praise Lorna, but found Lorna standing aside blushing. Yang Xi reacted and blushed too.

Zhong Cheng said happily: "Yang Xi, what are you still doing in a daze, come back with a kiss!"

Yang Xi and Lorna: "Ah!"

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With this discovery, Zhong Cheng is not ready to rest anymore, and he can't rest in his current mood.

Each of the three operated a terminal, and further tested the experimental conditions of 270 million degrees Celsius and 2700 kilometers per second to find the most suitable point.

With this starting point, the experiment will go much smoother!

Through continuous tests, at 6 o'clock in the morning, 1% of the deuterium and tritium ions in the vacuum chamber had undergone fusion reactions.

Through system calculation, the ratio of energy input to output, that is, the energy gain factor—Q value, has exceeded the critical value of "1".

The controllable nuclear fusion simulation was successful!

(End of this chapter)