The Technology Tree of Xueba

Lu Jinming, president of the aerospace business group, and Feng Yunde, head of the Materials Research Institute, walked into Zhou Yu's office one after another.

Two other people also came to Zhou Yu's office.

The two people are Xu Rui, a high-temperature materials scientist at the Institute of Materials Research, and Zhong Haiyang, a theoretical scientist in nuclear physics at the Institute for Basic Sciences.

Zhou Yu looked at Xu Rui, and asked solemnly again: Scientist Xu, are you sure you want to follow the astronaut to the space laboratory?

He received Xu Rui's application to do research in the space laboratory, so he recruited these people together to discuss this incident, because Xu Rui's research results are too important.

The success or failure of this research achievement is related to Xinghuo Technology's controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Xu Rui said solemnly: I have to go to the space laboratory to observe the process of material forming in person, I really have to go.

Even if neutrino communication transmits information at the speed of light, there is a communication delay between the earth and space laboratories, and the experimental process changes instantaneously, and we have no time to give orders.

Feng Yunde also introduced: In the process of making materials for controllable nuclear fusion reactors, the manufacturing process of extreme materials is affected by the environment and impurities that cannot be removed from the raw materials, and the entire reaction process is very changeable.

It is necessary to operate the quantum computer program to control the change of the reaction process according to the actual situation of the material.

This material cannot be manufactured on the ground, it can only be manufactured through nuclear power plants, and people must be sent to space laboratories.

Ordinary people can't operate it yet, they must be the R\u0026D personnel of this project.

Mr. Zhou, you proposed the theoretical design of this material, and only me and Scientist Xu participated in the development process of this project.

Zhou Yu looked at Zhong Haiyang, his opinion was an important reference for deciding whether Xu Rui would go to heaven or not.

Zhong Haiyang sighed and said: Now the nuclear fusion project has come to a standstill, all the theoretical work has been calculated, and the only thing left is to make a nuclear fusion reactor.

The manufacture of nuclear fusion reactors currently lacks the most critical materials, which need to withstand high temperatures of 50 million degrees Celsius and withstand the enormous pressure of nuclear fusion reactions.

Only in this way can the nuclear fusion reaction we designed go on in circles.

This condition is extremely difficult, and the temperature in the center of the sun is only about 20 million degrees Celsius.

This is because the density of matter in the center of the sun is very high, and the pressure is also very large, so the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions is much lower.

Zhong Haiyang showed a brief principle of nuclear fusion reaction, and at the same time introduced: Now the international mainstream nuclear fusion is realized by the tokamak device.

Its essence is a huge electromagnetic field, which compresses ion clusters composed of deuterium and tritium elements.

When the pressure, density, and temperature reach the right conditions, the nuclear fusion reaction begins.

This is just a relatively mature theory, but it is too difficult to form this electromagnetic field, and many difficulties need to be overcome, and the safety of the nuclear fusion device must also be ensured.

The most important thing is that its reaction process is not easy to control, and no controllable nuclear fusion reaction technology has been developed for such a long time.

The thinking of our company's nuclear fusion reaction is completely traditional thinking, as long as we find one that can withstand the super high temperature and super pressure released by the nuclear fusion reaction process.

Using this extreme material to form a nuclear fusion reactor can realize nuclear fusion reaction.

The implementation of this nuclear fusion technology is very simple, and its only difficulty is the production of this extreme material.

This material is very strong, if it can withstand the environment in which nuclear fusion reactions occur. Then this kind of material can be placed in the center of the sun without being melted.

When Zhong Haiyang was speaking, he also used 3D dynamic pictures to show the process of nuclear fusion.

This is a reactor made of extreme materials. Inside the reactor, there are many hollow, thumb-thick cylinders and long rods made of extreme materials.

For a nuclear reaction to take place, the first step requires heating a mixture of helium-3 to a plasma state.

Helium-3 is selected as the raw material for the thermonuclear reaction, mainly because the thermonuclear reaction process of helium-3 will not release neutrons and will not cause radiation.

100 tons of helium-3 can provide the total amount of energy used by the whole world for one year.

The temperature is high enough that the electrons can break free from the nuclei, allowing the nuclei to move freely.

At this time, it is possible to make direct contact between the exposed atomic nuclei, which requires a high temperature of about 100,000 degrees Celsius.

In the second step, since all nuclei are positively charged, the same charge will repel, and two nuclei must overcome strong electrostatic repulsion to get together.

The closer the two nuclei are, the stronger the repulsion force generated by static electricity will be. Only when the distance between them reaches about three trillionths of a millimeter, the strong interaction force will play a significant role. Pulled together to form a new nucleus, which releases enormous energy.

To achieve this step, there must be sufficient pressure and the density of the raw material composition must be very high.

The conditions for achieving a thermonuclear reaction are suitable pressure, material density and temperature.

In order to overcome the repulsive force between atomic nuclei with positrons, the atomic nuclei need to run at an extremely fast speed. To make the atomic nuclei reach this operating state, it is necessary to continue to heat up.

Under the pressure and material density conditions of a nuclear fusion reactor, the nuclear fusion material needs to be heated to 50 million degrees Celsius.

The Brownian motion of particles reaches an insane level, and the higher the temperature, the faster the nuclei move. So that they have no time to hide from each other.

Three helium-3 nuclei fuse into a single carbon nucleus, releasing powerful energy in the process.

After the reactor has been in operation for a period of time, the internal reaction body no longer needs to be heated by external energy sources, and the temperature of nuclear fusion is sufficient to continue the fusion of atomic nuclei.

As long as the carbon nuclei are removed from the reactor in time and new helium-3 ion gas is fed into the reactor in time, nuclear fusion can continue.

A small part of the energy generated by nuclear fusion remains in the reaction body to maintain the thermonuclear reaction, and most of the energy is converted into electrical energy through the thermoelectric generator.

Zhou Yu looked at the material played by Zhong Haiyang. This is the controllable nuclear fusion that Xinghuo Technology is going to develop.

As Zhong Haiyang said, the principle of this controllable nuclear fusion technology path is not complicated.

No one used this method before, but this method was simply a fantasy before.

A material has to withstand high temperatures of up to 50 million degrees Celsius and withstand the huge energy released by nuclear fusion reactions.

This kind of extreme material has never been possible to succeed before.

Only the space factory of Xinghuo Technology, through reasonable processing technology, processes high-density materials with almost no gaps according to the complex arrangement of atoms.

Only this extreme material can be used as a place for nuclear fusion reactions to occur.

Scientist Xu's proposal is tempting. The helium-3 thermonuclear reactor is a technology that must be overcome in the future.

Zhou Yu said with emotion, he looked at Lu Jinming and asked: Scientist Xu Rui, as a person who has not undergone strict training, can he take the space shuttle and reach the space laboratory safely.

Lu Jinming responded confidently: Mr. Zhou, as long as the flight power of the space shuttle is controlled, it can carry ordinary people.

We carry out physical enhancements for astronauts, mainly to enable astronauts to adapt to long-term life in space.

Traveling to and from space in a short period of time, as long as there is no physical defect, anyone can do it.

Hearing Lu Jinming's assurance, Zhou Yu ordered with a serious expression, Scientist Xu has worked hard and officially launched the controllable nuclear fusion project.