"This explosion process is very short, only a few picoseconds. As long as three or four such explosions occur every second and continue continuously, the energy released is equivalent to a million-kilowatt power station! "
When Chen Chen heard Xiao Does the Earth Federation have similar devices?"
"Yes, the tokamak device that represents magnetic confinement does have big flaws, because the core of the tokamak device is the emergence of a magnetic field. To generate a magnetic field, you need to use a coil. If there are coils, there will be wires, and if there are wires, there will be resistance. .”
Little The intensity of the current cannot produce a sufficient magnetic field for the tokamak device."
"So, superconducting technology is very important. Today's Earth Federation is making low-temperature superconductors into coils, which can solve the problem of current amount and loss. Therefore, the combination of this superconductor and tokamak device, It’s called a super tokamak.”
"Currently, there are only three super-tokamaks in the Earth Federation, namely North America, Central Continent, and Europe. Among them, there are five in North America, two in Central Continent, and one in Europe."
"As for the inertial confinement fusion reactor, this kind of equipment is available in many countries and continents around the world, but the one that is really famous is the National Ignition Facility Project in North America, or NIF for short."
"This device can focus 2 million joules of energy onto deuterium and tritium pellets with a diameter of 3 millimeters through 192 laser beams. Each laser beam lasts about three billionths of a second and generates a high temperature of 100 million degrees. The pressure exceeds 100 billion atmospheres, triggering nuclear fusion."
"Understood."
Chen Chen snapped his fingers, "In other words, magnetic confinement fusion uses a strong magnetic field to confine deuterium and tritium in a magnetic container and heat it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve the fusion reaction, while inertial confinement uses ultra-high-intensity lasers. , irradiating deuterium and tritium in a very short period of time to achieve fusion reactions."
After understanding this, Chen Chen suddenly became enlightened when he looked at the nuclear fusion reactor technology in the "Elysium Space" plane.
To put it simply, the two technologies of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement have different focuses. The magnetic confinement super tokamak device has good nuclear fusion reaction effect and does not require repeated ignition. However, its disadvantages are its large size and flexibility. It is not enough, and the cost of electrical energy required to maintain a strong magnetic field is not low.
Therefore, the super tokamak device is used as a reactor in a nuclear power plant in the plane of "Elysium".
The advantage of inertial constraints is that the equipment can be made very small, and the on and off fire control performance is relatively good, but the disadvantage is that it requires a large amount of energy to generate laser to continuously ignite.
Therefore, the inertial restraint device is used as a spacecraft engine in the "Elysium Space" plane.
Chen Chen reviewed these two technologies and compared them with the nuclear fusion devices of various countries in the Earth Federation. He found that the reason why the plane of "Elysium" was able to create these two nuclear fusion devices was due to some conceptual reasons. The biggest advantage is room temperature superconductors.
Room-temperature superconductors can reduce the need for liquid helium cooling systems in super tokamak devices, greatly reducing the complexity and cost of super tokamak devices. Coupled with the stability of high-excursion metals, mature nuclear fusion devices are naturally a matter of course.
The same is true for the inertial restraint device. Room-temperature superconductors can multiply the energy released by the laser ignition device several times, continue to enhance the energy of the laser, and even form a laser effect called "ultra-high field". This laser can instantly produce Producing 200x1015 watts of energy is 100,000 times greater than the world's total electrical energy production, but it takes less than one trillionth of a second.
With this energy, the fuel formed by deuterium and tritium can reach the critical point of nuclear fusion instantly, without having to be as complicated and huge as the NIF device, which is not efficient enough.
But the only regret is that if you want to make a mature super tokamak, you still need to use high-excursion metals. However, Chen Chen does not have the conditions to make such high-excursion metals yet. If he wants to produce this kind of metal, Need help from a particle accelerator.
Chen Chen couldn't help but turn to the information on "High Deflection Metal" and read it carefully.
In fact, the so-called high offset metal is actually a kind of metal aluminum, but it is not normal aluminum, but an isotope of aluminum.
Generally speaking, metals like aluminum do not produce isotopes, but with the help of particle accelerators, artificial interference and production can be carried out.
For example, high-excursion metal made of aluminum is essentially an aluminum element with a high number of excess neutrons. It first relies on room-temperature superconductivity to form a strong magnetic field, and then uses a particle accelerator to launch iron atoms through the strong magnetic region.
Because the magnetic field in the strong magnetic field has reached the energy level of tearing apart atoms, when passing through the magnetic field, the iron atoms will disintegrate. The electrons will fly to one side of the magnetic field, while the protons will fly to the other side, leaving only The neutron is not affected and continues to fly forward on its flight path.
Afterwards, just use a resonance machine to collect these neutrons, and then use a strong electric combiner to stick the electrons to the surface of the neutrons to form virtual particles.
Because virtual particles are negatively charged, as long as the particle accelerator is used again to accelerate the virtual particles and accelerate to a sub-light speed state, they can be used to bombard aluminum atoms.
Because they have reached sub-light speed and under huge kinetic energy, these virtual particles can overcome the repulsion and force themselves into the interior of aluminum atoms. In this way, aluminum atoms will be filled with a large number of neutrons, causing the element structure to shift, so they are called Called high deflection metal.
Due to the highly imbalanced neutron content, it is extremely insensitive to energy conduction and completely ignores thermal energy weapons and wave weapons. Coupled with the super metal strength and toughness, it is far better than any alloy. The data even calls it The toughest material in the solar system.
Since it was impossible to build a super tokamak device, Chen Chen could only resort to the next best thing and build another type of reactor with an inertial restraint device.
In order to build this kind of reactor, Chen Chen needed to purchase many components of high-precision laser facilities and modify them to create a device that could emit ultra-high-field lasers.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen couldn't help but touch his chin.
It seems that it's time for that group of consortiums to do their work. Isn't the reason why we united this group of people in the first place just for the influence behind them