The Technology Tree of Xueba

On January 1, 2027, the gears of time are slowly turning, and people are celebrating the arrival of the new year.

Zhou Yu is also celebrating, but instead of celebrating the New Year, he is celebrating that the design of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor meets the requirements.

The core components of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor made of high-temperature-resistant extreme materials arrived on the earth.

Scientists in the Controlled Fusion Project began designing a controlled fusion nuclear reactor.

The controllable nuclear fusion reactor is a complex project, and the mature nuclear fission reactor cannot provide effective help for this project at all.

Scientists can only build a controllable nuclear fusion reactor bit by bit from scratch with the assistance of quantum computers.

Zhou Yu came to the controllable nuclear fusion project team of Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute.

The main persons in charge here are Zhong Haiyang, a theoretical scientist of controllable nuclear fusion, Xu Rui, a materials scientist, and Ma Shan, an engineering expert.

Seeing them, Zhou Yu said with a smile: New year, new weather. As soon as the new year arrives, I heard the joyful news that the design of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor has been completed.

Zhong Haiyang said with emotion: We have solved the theoretical and technical difficulties of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, but we have transformed a theory into an applicable project.

There are too many difficulties encountered, some of which we cannot even imagine, but through our joint efforts, these problems have been overcome one by one.

Now a qualified controllable nuclear fusion reactor has been designed and is ready for engineering construction at any time.

Is the controllable nuclear fusion reactor just qualified? How about its specific performance? Zhou Yu asked immediately.

Zhong Haiyang explained: Mr. Zhou, we are the first to design a controllable fusion reactor, and we have not yet built a controllable fusion reactor.

Now we can only say that this controllable nuclear fusion reactor design can meet our requirements.

After the controllable fusion nuclear reactor is built, whether it exceeds our design or fails to achieve the design goal is an unknown.

We can only guarantee that the controllable nuclear fusion reactor used in the experiment can at least complete the controllable nuclear fusion reaction, so that we can collect enough data on the controllable nuclear fusion reaction.

After Ma Shan heard Zhong Haiyang's words, he immediately went on to say: As long as there are no problems in the construction of the project, the performance of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is still very strong.

The annual power generation of controllable nuclear fusion reactors is 50 trillion kWh, which is almost twice the total annual power generation in the world.

A nuclear fusion reactor consumes 1.6 tons of nuclear material helium-3 a year.

The content of helium-3 in the lunar soil on the moon is one million tons, even if the energy consumed by the earth continues to increase according to the current situation.

The earth only uses nuclear fusion reactors to generate electricity, and only relies on the helium-3 in the lunar soil, which is enough energy for us to use for tens of thousands of years.

Zhou Yu was not surprised at all when he heard that the nuclear fusion reactor produced such a terrifying amount of power.

All gaseous stars that emit light by themselves in the known universe release energy through thermonuclear reactions.

The most obvious example is the sun, which has been burning for billions of years and can burn for billions more.

Thermonuclear reactions can bring huge amounts of energy to a huge celestial body like the sun. As long as human beings use it a little, it will inevitably bring incredible huge amounts of energy.

Every change of energy promotes great changes in society.

In ancient times, people could only use slash-and-burn farming and logging for salary, and the utilization rate of natural energy was very low.

The first industrial revolution brought the energy of coal to the stage, and whoever masters this energy will have an absolute advantage.

The second industrial revolution is the hand in hand of fossil energy and electric energy.

The third industrial revolution is the main arena for new energy sources such as nuclear energy, wind energy, and solar energy.

Only such a huge energy source as nuclear energy can support the high energy consumption of modern society.

The United States now consumes more energy in a month than it did in a year in the 18th century.

Even though human beings use energy now, they are still restricted by energy.

Nuclear power has not yet become the mainstream of the world, and the mainstream of power generation still relies on fossil energy.

One of the important reasons is that the danger of nuclear power has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After all, the strong reputation of nuclear weapons allows everyone to understand what kind of consequences will be caused if an accident occurs in a nuclear reactor.

This is why Zhou Yu decided to choose helium-3 as the raw material for nuclear reactors. Helium-3 undergoes thermonuclear reactions, and it does not produce neutrons and therefore has no dangerous nuclear radiation.

Desalination plants have already stored a lot of cheaper deuterium-tritium, which is within reach.

However, if these two materials are used as raw materials for nuclear reactors, once an accident occurs in the nuclear reactor, a huge amount of nuclear radiation will turn the surrounding area into a dead zone.

Helium-3 controllable nuclear fusion reactor, the emergence of this kind of truly clean nuclear energy, can truly make human civilization no longer worry about the lack of energy.

When Zhou Yu was thinking, he heard Xu Rui's voice.

The key to our controllable nuclear fusion reactor is controllability.

The thermonuclear reaction it carries out is not a disorderly development, but according to our needs, let them react at a certain rate.

What Engineer Ma Shan just said was the highest power of the nuclear fusion reactor. In fact, the reactor can also generate electricity according to the lowest power of the nuclear fusion reaction.

We can also terminate the thermonuclear reaction process of nuclear fusion reactor at any time.

The helium-3 in the hollow tube of the high-temperature limit material is limited. As long as the material reaction is completed and no foreign materials are input, the temperature inside will drop quickly, and the nuclear fusion reaction will be terminated.

We have taken safe and effective measures and can guarantee that our security measures will work.

Safety measures are the fusion reactor designs that give us the most headaches.

Even if we perform clean thermonuclear reactions, we must ensure the safety of nuclear fusion reactors.

Otherwise, if there is only one accident, it will deal a fatal blow to everyone's confidence. The controllable nuclear fusion reactor does not know how many years it will be refrigerated.

After Zhou Yu heard their introduction, he looked at the structural diagram of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor.

At the center is a thermonuclear reaction site composed of 33 hollow tubes of extreme high-temperature-resistant materials.

The hollow tube is covered with a heat-conducting material called gaseous polysilicon styrene.

The most core place of thermonuclear reaction, polysilicon styrene is a gaseous substance directly, but it still does not affect its strong thermal conductivity.

Polysilicostyrene remains gaseous because the pressure outside the hollow tube is very low.

This is not a place for thermonuclear reactions, but a place for heat exchange. There is no need to maintain extreme pressure, and a standard atmospheric pressure is enough.

There is a thermally conductive material such as polysilicon styrene, and its other side is connected with a high-power thermoelectric generator.

The internal temperature of polysilicon styrene can be kept below 10,000 degrees Celsius, which is not enough to ionize the polysilicon styrene material and destroy its thermal conductivity.

Xinghuo Technology's mature high-power thermoelectric generator converts the heat derived from polysilicon styrene into electrical energy.

The specific structure of a controllable nuclear fusion reactor is similar to that of a geothermal power station.

It just has an extra step of converting nuclear energy into thermal energy.

It was this change that increased the technical difficulty of the entire project by more than an order of magnitude.