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Chapter 161 The Reactor Is Waiting for Ignition
"Jiang Ming, how far has controllable nuclear fusion progressed?"

After everyone calmed down a bit, Chen Tianshuo spoke.

Accompanied by Chen Tianshuo's words, the scene was completely silent.

Everyone wants to know the specific progress of nuclear fusion.

After all, the technical difficulty of nuclear fusion is here, and it is very difficult to make a major breakthrough. It is already very difficult for Jiang Ming to lead the research and development team to this level.

"Old Chen, just wait for the ignition!"

Jiang Ming said calmly.

"what!"

Old Chen couldn't help but speak anymore.

Good guy, this group of people can do it. They built a controllable nuclear fusion reactor without making a sound, and when it reached the point of ignition, Mr. Chen couldn't believe it.

Immediately, Chen Tianshuo looked at Cheng Ning and Wang Shengxian, hoping to see different answers from their eyes.

How could Cheng Ning and Wang Shengxian not know what Chen Tianshuo was thinking, instead of shaking their heads as imagined, they nodded excitedly.

Seeing this, how could Chen Tianshuo not know that controllable nuclear fusion has really reached the stage of ignition.

No wonder the higher-ups arranged for me to come to the scene.

And sure, as long as you come by yourself, you won't be disappointed.

This is not a question of being disappointed or not, this is simply ecstatic.

After all, for a person who has studied nuclear physics all his life, there is nothing more exciting than seeing the success of controlled nuclear fusion research.

Such an achievement, this time by yourself, is worth it!
"it is good!"

"Come and tell us about this reactor."

Chen Tianshuo couldn't bear it any longer, and wanted Jiang Ming to explain the situation in detail.

After all, with the nuclear fusion reactor on site right in front of him, and the results of years of research projects, how could Chen Tianshuo bear it.

Not only Chen Tianshuo couldn't help but the experts behind him were also full of anticipation.

Seeing the expectant looks in everyone's eyes, how could Jiang Ming offend everyone?

Afterwards, Jiang Ming started from the control room and introduced slowly.

"First of all, this is the control room, which is also the brain of the nuclear fusion reactor. It can monitor the operation of the entire reactor in real time, and can start and stop the reactor at any time."

Jiang Ming briefly introduced.

"Let Mr. Cheng explain the specific details to you."

Because it is a review, you need to know the detailed information of the reactor, so you need to explain the design process in detail.

This part was done by Cheng Ning, so it was best for Cheng Ning to introduce it.

Cheng Ning is very familiar with the control system of the reactor. In terms of details, Cheng Ning introduced the design principle and operation process of the fusion reactor control system in detail.

Occasionally, the expert group also raised some questions and asked Cheng Ning to explain.

It has to be said that Cheng Ning, as the director of the Xia Institute of Nuclear Physics, is quite experienced in the review of this kind of expert group.

Cheng Ning introduced it in a simple way, which can be said to be very sophisticated.

The members of the expert group nodded straight after listening.

The second part is the highlight of the nuclear fusion reactor, the introduction of the reactor.For this part, Jiang Ming has to do it himself.

"The fusion nuclear reactor uses a tokamak device as the core, and is mainly composed of superconducting coils, cooling systems, and laser generators."

"The entire reactor is composed of two sets of tokamak devices. The first one is called the control tokamak, which is responsible for the control of the reactor, and the second one is called the reaction tokamak, which is where the main reactor is located."

"The tokamak device is made of a superconducting metalloene alloy. As for the high-temperature-resistant material of the entire device, it is made of a special high-temperature-resistant material."

Jiang Ming was not as complicated as Cheng Ning said, but gave a brief introduction.

This part is the key technology, and Jiang Ming's introduction is not very detailed, so after Jiang Ming's introduction, everyone's question came:
"Mr. Jiang, how do you solve the problem of superconductors? I haven't seen any low-temperature control equipment for temperature control of superconductors?"

When some experts asked this question, they also asked other people's minds.

After all, a high-temperature superconductor, the so-called high temperature, is also a temperature of minus two hundred degrees Celsius.

To maintain such a low temperature, it is necessary to lay a large number of pipelines and use liquid nitrogen circulation to cool the superconductor.

The required construction cost and use cost are very high.

But everyone looked around, and it seemed that there was no corresponding equipment.

"Traditionally, the high-temperature superconductor has a superconducting limit temperature that is too low. It is not worth it in terms of construction and maintenance costs. Based on this, we have developed a new type of superconductor, a room temperature superconductor, and an ene alloy."

"Alloys have excellent superconductivity. According to our tests, this superconductor will exhibit superconductivity at room temperature, which is [-] degrees Celsius above zero. Above and below this temperature, superconductivity Performance will gradually disappear."

Jiang Ming explained.

"What, [-] degrees Celsius shows superconducting properties?"

Hearing Jiang Ming's words, the experts at the scene were stunned.

Is this still a superconductor? You know, in the current industry, it is not easy to be able to achieve minus [-] degrees Celsius. Now it is good, you just say that the value of superconductivity at [-] degrees Celsius is a few hundred degrees away. , you are just kidding, don't be kidding.

"Yes, this is the performance of our newly researched ene alloy."

Jiang Ming said.

"Oh, is there a test report?"

Chen Tianshuo asked.

"Yes, Mr. Cheng, bring the report to Mr. Chen."

Jiang Ming said to Cheng Ning.

Immediately, Cheng Ning took out a report from the thick folder next to it, and handed it to Chen Tianshuo.

Chen Tianshuo opened the report and read it carefully.

After Chen Tianshuo finished reading all of them, Chen Tianshuo burst into admiration.

"It's not easy!"

After Chen Tianshuo read it, other experts took over the report and studied it carefully.

Looking at the data in the report, everyone was amazed.

From the test data, the performance of ene alloy is better than everyone imagined, and it is more than enough to be used in nuclear fusion reactors.

The breakthrough of this ene alloy alone is not simple, and this superconducting alloy can be used in various industries.

For example, on a maglev train or a superconducting computer, the performance of the system will be doubled after using this alloy.

Thinking of the application prospects of this olefin alloy, everyone's eyes lit up.

Let’s talk about nuclear fusion first. This alloy alone makes this trip worth the money.

Everyone hurriedly recorded this alloy, and it will be of great use in follow-up research.

Jiang Ming felt amused when he saw everyone recording in a hurry.

"Therefore, ene alloys can exhibit superconducting properties at room temperature, so there is no need for corresponding low-temperature refrigeration equipment. Of course, the superconducting temperature control of ene alloys still needs to be done, but compared to the temperature of minus two hundred degrees, The temperature threshold has been raised a lot."

Jiang Ming explained.

Well, everyone agrees with Jiang Ming's explanation.

After all, by increasing the temperature limit, many problems become simpler.At least there is no need for a large amount of nitrogen as a refrigerant, and the reduction in cost and technology is not 01:30.

Of course, the most important thing is the reduction of technology, and the direct commercialization of what was originally in the laboratory, and the contribution is quite a lot.

"How is temperature protection done?"

Another expert asked next to him, and he immediately got to the point.

After all, although there is a tokamak device that can restrain the nuclear fusion reactor, the temperature around the reactor is also extremely high. Without high-temperature resistant materials, the device will break down after a short period of time.

This is also an important factor limiting controllable nuclear fusion.

"For high-temperature resistant materials, we combine Lingying materials in aerospace to improve them."

Jiang Ming said.

"Oh, so it's Ling Ying."

Some experts are very clear about this kind of Xia Guo's top materials, and they suddenly realized.

"But Lingying material, according to the performance index given, will not exceed [-] degrees, and the maximum will be [-] degrees, which is far from meeting the requirements."

The old experts said so.

"Yes, Lingying can't meet the requirements. We improved it and added a heating layer on its surface, which greatly improved its high temperature resistance. According to our tests, the current limit of high temperature resistance is almost 15 Celsius."

Jiang Ming said lightly, as if it was not a big deal.

When the experts next to him heard this, they all looked like they had seen a ghost.

What kind of fairy operation is this? It is incredible to be able to raise the limit of high temperature resistance to 15 degrees Celsius.

If this material can be applied in large quantities, it must be able to exert unexpected effects.

After all, high-temperature-resistant materials are very important, and they are needed in some large-scale equipment.

It can reach the standard of 15 degrees Celsius, and its performance simply kills existing products.

Thinking of this, many experts wrote down this magical high-temperature resistant material in their notebooks.

"As for the laser generator, there's nothing to say, it's just that the power is higher and the duration is longer."

Jiang Ming briefly explained the laser generator.

Everyone expressed their understanding of this. Laser technology is not a technology that restricts controllable nuclear fusion. Long ago, local high temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees can be achieved.

It's just that although there is no problem in realizing it, the duration is destined not to be too long.

Of course, controllable nuclear fusion requires an instantaneous energy output, and there is no special requirement for time.

"As for the last part, it is the cooling tower of the nuclear fusion reactor!"

Jiang Ming said.

"The nuclear fusion reactor, because it involves a large number of heat generating devices, the cooling tower will be very large. Moreover, the efficiency of heat dissipation in different areas is different, so the cooling device of the entire reactor is specially designed to deal with this Complex thermal scenarios.”

Jiang Ming said while pointing to the large number of cooling structures on the periphery.

"Of course, the energy taken away by the cooling tower is mainly to drive the operation of the generator so that it can generate a steady stream of electricity."

Jiang Ming continued.

In the next two days, Jiang Ming led a team of experts to introduce the entire fusion reactor, especially some details. These experts asked very detailed questions.

After the experts had finished studying the actual reactor, Jiang Ming brought these experts to the meeting room and explained the data collected in the recent research to the expert group one by one.

This explanation is mainly test data, which is used to prove that the verification of each group is no problem.

For example, the reaction tokamak device, after testing, the strength of the central magnetic field can reach 5000T, even at the edge, the magnetic field strength has reached 2000T, which far exceeds the requirement of 1000T calculated in theory.

In addition, it is the limit temperature generated by the laser generator, which can last up to 500ms after testing.

Regardless of the short time of 500ms, but the actual nuclear fusion reaches the critical value, it takes less than 100ms, and the redundancy of the system is still very high.

As for the entire cooling system, after simulation experiments, the temperature non-uniformity is less than 1%, which is a very high value.

After all, the temperature of the general environment is [-] degrees Celsius, and with so many machines, the highest temperature is [-] degrees Celsius.

There is only a 1% difference in temperature non-uniformity, which means that at the periphery of the nuclear fusion reactor, the temperature difference is at most 0.05 degrees, which is a very low value.

Jiang Ming showed these experimental data one by one to tell the experts that we have verified this reactor in detail according to the technical requirements.

Of course, although the expert group was very excited about the information provided by Jiang Ming, the review experts were also very careful.

All values ​​should be re-checked to ensure the authenticity of the data.

After all, such a major project cannot be sloppy.

Many people may say, what if Jiang Ming and the others falsify data at a high cost.

In fact, the expert group retested all the data in order to find unreasonable points.

All data is unified and associated. In many cases, the data cannot be changed as you want.

If you change one place, a loophole will appear in another place. In many cases, this kind of loophole is not something you can find if you want to find it.

The expert group will use different tools to perform reverse calculations. Only when the calculated results are consistent can the test data be proved to be true.

These old experts are all people who have studied nuclear physics for a lifetime, and have never seen any tricks.

For the review of controlled nuclear fusion, it is quite strict.

Everyone seems to find some problems in it.

But after a week-long review, although there are some problems, they are all insignificant improvement items.

The major defects or non-conformities of controllable nuclear fusion have not been audited.

This means that the controllable nuclear fusion reactor developed by Jiang Ming is theoretically feasible, and in practice, the data is real and effective.

Seeing the suggestions given by the expert group, Jiang Ming was not particularly emotional. After all, the reactor was built by himself, and Jiang Ming knew its situation better than anyone else.

But Cheng Ning and Wang Shengxian felt differently. Although they had confidence in their hearts before, they were inside the project department after all.

This time, academician Chen led a team to conduct the review, and gave a consistent conclusion, which means that the controllable nuclear fusion has fully met the conditions for ignition.

(End of this chapter)