Section 282

"Tsk, then I still hope it can be realized." Tang Fucheng said: "If this thing can be realized first in our country, it will be great!"

As he spoke, he also shook his head and left Xiao Yi's office.

Xiao Yi smiled softly.

I don't know if it can be realized, but if it can be realized, it will definitely be realized in China first.

[Perfect Engineering] Start.

The huge UO structure fusion device appeared in his mind.

With a thought, the UO device in his mind began to run.

Perfect Engineering allows him to "see with his own eyes" what changes will happen inside this device after it is running.

For example, the precise magnetic levitation fluid control furnace specially used to produce MHT-7 was also made by him using Perfect Engineering.

Soon, the current was passed into the simulated HTSC-1 superconducting circuit, forming a strong magnetic field, and after the deuterium-tritium fuel was injected, the heating began.

Under various heating devices, the fuel temperature was quickly heated to hundreds of millions of degrees.

Deuterium-tritium fusion reaction begins. Under the magnetic field strength of 25T, all charged plasmas are well controlled and will not touch the inner wall at all.

Only the neutrons that are constantly generated, because they are not controlled by the magnetic field, continue to hit the first wall material.

However, the first wall material at this time is not just MHT-7. It can be seen that some small holes are specially carved on the MHT-7 wall material.

And in these small holes, some metal liquids are adsorbed.

These metal liquids are liquid lithium.

There is another key issue to achieve nuclear fusion on Earth, that is tritium.

There is a lot of deuterium in seawater, but there is not a lot of tritium. Of course, perhaps with the discharge of nuclear wastewater from a certain country into the sea, the tritium content of seawater can be increased a little.

However, the extraction of tritium is quite troublesome and costly, and it is much more complicated than deuterium.

Therefore, it is obviously not good to use tritium extracted from the outside to maintain nuclear fusion.

However, perhaps it is the ingenious design of the Creator that enables tritium to be generated when neutrons bombard lithium, thereby achieving tritium self-sustaining in the nuclear fusion reaction.

In the past, scientists of controlled nuclear fusion thought about how to make a tritium breeding lithium blanket, and consider it with neutrons by covering the surface of the inner wall of the nuclear fusion. As for liquid lithium, it is also a good choice.

However, since liquid lithium may react with the inner wall material at high temperature, some ordinary graphite materials, or carbon fiber, will react with lithium at high temperature.

However, for diamond-like carbon materials, this reaction can be inhibited.

For example, diamond-like carbon film can inhibit the reaction with liquid lithium, but this material may still react with liquid lithium due to structural changes under extreme conditions such as high temperature and irradiation.

However, MHT-7 does not have this problem. MHT-7 itself is also a material similar to diamond in structure, and its internal structure brings more stable chemical properties. Therefore, it is considered to be optimized to a certain extent for diamond-like carbon film, which completely avoids the reaction with liquid lithium in extreme environments.

For this reason, Xiao Yi can add liquid lithium to this new structure without any scruples.

These liquid lithiums pass through the internally designed channels and finally enter the reactor. When high-energy neutrons hit the surface of these liquid lithiums, they immediately react and generate tritium, which will continue to be added to the nuclear fusion reaction to maintain the fusion.

By controlling the injection amount of liquid lithium, the self-sustaining rate of tritium can be maintained at 1, so that the nuclear fusion reaction can continue without stopping.

And this is also an optimization of the UO structure by Xiao Yi during this period of time.

Of course, it is not just that. In other aspects, the UO structure has basically reached perfection.

Some of the problems that existed before have now all been solved.

Even under the simulation of perfect engineering, this UO structure can already generate electricity!

And the final conversion efficiency reached 62%!

Not only did it reach the efficiency he planned, but it even exceeded it by two percentage points!

It can be said that if he was still hesitant about whether nuclear fusion could be realized before, then now he has only one thing to say: if it cannot be realized, he will eat it directly.

"After this New Year, we will officially start construction."

By that time, it will be gradually clear.

At least his UO structure will definitely show that his research on nuclear fusion has reached a very in-depth level, and it will probably attract a lot of attention at that time.

Fortunately, the King of Understanding in the United States has just taken office, and it is highly likely that he will not pay too much attention to this matter for a while.

Well, it is a good time to grow.

"Get off work!"

After drinking a cup of tea, he will take a good rest until the end of the New Year.

In addition, he has to prepare a smaller UO structure to prepare for that time.

After all, not everyone can agree that he will build a new fusion device larger than the tokamak planned to be built by ITER.

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Chapter 240 Meet Luo Mingya again

As time passed quietly, the Spring Festival finally arrived.

People in China are enjoying the Spring Festival.

Xiao Yi's family was no exception.

"Cheers!"

The family of three toasted to celebrate.

Then they began to enjoy the New Year's Eve dinner.

Xiao's mother has now resigned and is enjoying life with peace of mind. Now she has developed her interest in cooking. Now she is also a chef, and the New Year's Eve dinner is very rich.

While enjoying the delicious dishes, they also chatted.

Xiao's father and mother asked Xiao Yi about his recent research.

They have always been very curious about such things. Although they don't understand, it doesn't prevent them from being interested in it.

And Xiao Yi is also very happy to share some things in his research with his family.

For example, talk about what happened in class, or what happened when tutoring students, etc.

Xiao's father and mother listened with relish, and then Xiao's father suddenly asked: "By the way, I saw someone discussing what you are studying on the Internet some time ago. It seems to be called nuclear fusion? It's also said that it's the principle of the atomic bomb. Are you studying the atomic bomb?"

Xiao Yi pulled the corner of his mouth, what the hell is the atomic bomb, what?

Should he be awarded a medal for two bombs and one satellite?

However, he patiently explained what an atomic bomb is, what nuclear fusion is, and what controlled nuclear fusion is.

Father Xiao suddenly realized and said, "So, once this thing is developed, all of us humans will not lack electricity?"

Xiao Yi nodded: "Theoretically, if calculated based on the current average electricity consumption of humans, humans will indeed not lack electricity. The current resources on Earth are enough for millions of years."

"Tsk tsk, millions of years." Father Xiao shook his head: "I don't know what the Earth will look like by then."

Xiao Yi spread his hands.

No one knows this question.

According to the speed of development of human science and technology, perhaps in millions of years, human civilization can be called a god-level civilization?

"You work hard and try to develop this nuclear fusion. By then, we will use electricity at 1 cent per kilowatt-hour."

Father Xiao patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder with a smile, then raised the glass and said, "Come on, another drink!"

Soon, they clinked glasses again.

"By the way, I heard that professors are also divided into levels? There are four levels?"

Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Yes."

"What level are you now?"

"Level one."

Father Xiao was amazed: "Level one professor? Isn't that almost the same as academician?"

Xiao Yi shrugged and said indifferently: "I think so. It's no big deal anyway. It's just level one."

Father Xiao rolled his eyes: "It's no big deal. You kid, you are starting to act cool in front of your father, right?"

Before Xiao Yi could speak, his mother glared at him: "What else? What cool things can you say in front of your son?"

Father Xiao snorted: "I have an awesome son, does he?"

Mother Xiao: "..."

Xiao Yi: "..."

At this time, Xiao Yi also realized where the next topic was going to lead to.

As expected, the two of them looked at him and said, "By the way, Xiao Yi, when are you going to find a girlfriend?"

"I'm already 22 this year. You said before that it's not urgent to get married because you haven't reached the legal age. You should be anxious now, right?"

Xiao Yi pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "There's no need to rush when you reach the legal age. You can get married at any time anyway. It just depends on whether you can find someone you like."

"Everything depends on fate."

"That's right."