Chapter 991 Visit Su Lian’s behemoth!

Chapter 991 Visit Su Lian’s behemoth!

If Yang Ming had wanted to visit Su Lian's technologies before Qian Ke Nian Ke, it would have been impossible.

He might even be treated as a spy.

Now that Gore has come to power, Sulian has become very different from before.

In Gore's view, he and Sulian wanted to move closer to the west.

Among them, the very practical reason is that Su Lian has no money and hopes to get financial support from Europe and the United States.

When Yang Ming, Huo Jianning, He Chaoluo, Lin Xiuzhi and others got into the car, they left the villa and headed to a suburb of Moscow.

It's very mysterious there.

Before this, at least Europe and the United States did not know such a place.

This is a place under the Sulian Academy of Sciences used to study artificial suns.

In addition to a large amount of soil below this place being excavated, a huge basement was built below, and many buildings were built above.

These buildings cannot be blown up with nuclear bombs.

Now, when Yang Ming and others came by car, he found that there were still many soldiers guarding the outside.

When the identities of Grachev and Alexandrov were confirmed, Yang Ming and others were able to enter.

Back then, when Yang Ming and others came to Moscow for the first time, he was a little shocked when they visited the Moscow Metro.

At that time, the Moscow Metro was not only the largest in the world, but it was also built like a palace of art.

Now that Yang Ming and others came to this building, he was really shocked.

This building exists like a monster on the ground. The outer wall alone is very thick. No wonder even nuclear bombs can't blow it up.

Go inside.

Yang Ming still saw many staff members wearing work clothes working here.

These should be Su Lian's scientific and technological talents.

Among them, the most important research project here is.

Artificial sun.

The main components of this artificial sun are underground.

In other words, there are also large buildings underground.

Along the way, except for the bright lights here, Yang Ming felt that everything here seemed very different from this era.

It's deep here.

Yang Ming and others took the elevator down. He found that in addition to sufficient heating, there was also sufficient oxygen.

In addition, there are many wires, lines, and various pipes here.

In fact, if there is a problem with these wires, lines, and pipes, researchers working in them will also be in danger.

When Yang Ming and others came out of the elevator.

Yang Ming didn't know how many meters underground this place was, but it just showed that it was the fifth underground floor.

In other words, it is at least ten meters deep, which seems to be about the same depth as an ordinary subway.

Yang Ming and others followed Alexandrov out.

Yang Ming and others saw a large space that looked like a hexagon.

Then standing in the corridor here, Yang Ming and others looked over.

I saw a huge creature there.

This is an artificial sun and a large-scale fusion energy experimental reactor.

"Sir Yang, this is the artificial sun developed by our Sulian." Alexandrov said at the side.

This device is a superconducting tokamak that can produce large-scale nuclear fusion reactions.

The center of the device is a high-temperature deuterium-tritium plasma ring, in which there is a plasma current of 15 megaamps, a nuclear fusion reaction power of 50 kilowatts, and the release of up to 1020 high-energy neutrons per second.

The plasma ring is in a ring-shaped envelope of shielding cladding, which will absorb 50 kilowatts of thermal power and all neutrons produced by nuclear fusion reactions.

Outside the cladding is a huge annular vacuum chamber. There is a deflector on the lower side connected to the vacuum chamber, which can discharge the waste gas after the nuclear reaction.

The vacuum chamber is threaded through 16 large superconducting toroidal field coils (ie longitudinal field coils).

The toroidal superconducting magnet will generate a toroidal strong magnetic field of 5.3 Tesla. It is one of the key components of the device and is worth more than billions of dollars.

Passing through the center of the ring is a huge superconducting coil barrel (central solenoid), and there are six large toroidal superconducting coils, namely poloidal field coils, outside the toroidal field coil.

The functions of the central solenoid and the poloidal field coil are to generate plasma current and control the plasma configuration.

In fact, the above-mentioned system of the appearance model of the thermonuclear fusion experimental reactor developed internationally is entirely covered in a large Dewar and is located on the base, forming the main body of the experimental reactor. Distributed outside the body are four 4-megawatt high-current particle accelerators, a 10-megawatt steady-state millimeter electromagnetic wave system, a 10-megawatt radio frequency wave system and dozens of advanced plasma diagnostic measurement systems.

The entire system also includes a large power supply system, a large tritium factory, a large water supply (including deionized water) system, a large high vacuum system, a large liquid nitrogen, and a liquid helium cryogenic system, etc.

Nowadays, Sulian's artificial sun seems simpler.

In fact, it's not simple either.

Su Lian started research and development in the 1950s and began to invest a lot of money.

Moreover, it has been updated many times.

"Sir Yang, as a fusion energy experimental reactor, it is necessary to confine a high-temperature plasma composed of deuterium and tritium at hundreds of millions of degrees in a "magnetic cage" with a volume of 837 cubic meters to generate 50 kilowatts of fusion power for a duration of 500 seconds. The thermal power of 50 kilowatts is equivalent to the level of a small thermal power station. This will be the first time that humans have obtained sustained high-temperature plasma with a large number of nuclear fusion reactions on the earth, producing controlled fusion energy close to the scale of a power station. .”

"Mr. Dean, do you mean that Su Lian's artificial sun can generate electricity?" Yang Ming asked.

"No, the current reactor can only last for about 10 seconds at a time. According to our speculation, it will take at least half an hour for the artificial sun to be able to generate electricity normally."

Now it only lasts 10 seconds?

Yang Ming knew that the current technology was like that.

Even later, research and development was being carried out all over the world, but the highest in China could only last 100 seconds, which is 1.7 minutes.

At that time, the artificial sun developed in China was still not commercially available.

At this time, it was only 1985. I am afraid that domestic research and development is still far from Sulian's.

When Yang Ming looked there, Huo Jianning, He Chaoluo, Lin Xiuzhi and others were all surprised.

This thing can actually reach a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius in an instant, which is really terrifying. Although it can only last for ten seconds now, in their opinion, it is still terrifying.

If all the heat energy generated by this artificial sun is converted into electrical energy in an instant, it can indeed provide a lot of electricity.

Yang Ming and others finished their visit here.

Alexandrov and Grachev looked very happy to see the shocked look of Yang Ming and others.

But, on the other hand, they no longer have enough funds for research and development.

Yang Ming knew that there might not be much to this behemoth of an artificial sun. What was really valuable, in Yang Ming's opinion, was the talents inside.

If these talents are taken away, a new artificial sun can be replicated in Hong Kong at any time.

At this time, Lin Xiuzhi asked an interesting question.

"Boss, why do we still develop these artificial suns when there is clearly a sun now?"

yes?

Why?

Obviously the sun can bring solar energy.

At this time, Alexandrov looked at Yang Ming and said, "Sir Yang, your secretary is a very smart little girl, and she asks very good questions."

There is a sun, why do we need to build an "artificial sun"?

Alexandrov said that because coal, oil, and natural gas are in danger of being depleted in the future, there is also a certain amount of environmental pollution.

New energy sources such as wind energy, water energy, and solar energy are limited by weather or geographical conditions, making it difficult to meet demand.

Some people may ask, if there are already many commercial nuclear power plants, why do we still need to build artificial sun?

Current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission reactions, which require limited reserves of elements such as uranium and plutonium, and also produce radioactivity.

Even nuclear power plants are very dangerous.

Historically, on April 1986, 4, the No. 26 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded.

Successive explosions sparked fires and released large amounts of high-energy radiation into the atmosphere, covering large areas.

The radiation dose released by this disaster was more than 400 times that of the round bombs exploded in the East during World War II.

The total cost of this disaster was approximately US$200 billion, making it one of the costliest disasters in modern history, second only to the Kashima nuclear accident.

The "artificial sun" uses nuclear fusion reactions, and one of the required raw materials, deuterium, has huge reserves on the earth and is almost inexhaustible.

According to calculations, the deuterium contained in 1 liter of seawater can produce the energy of burning 300 liters of gasoline after nuclear fusion reaction, and the products are not harmful.

In other words, artificial sun is much safer than nuclear power plants.

Therefore, nuclear fusion energy is considered the ideal "ultimate energy source."

If an "artificial sun" is realized in the future, what changes will it bring?

There may be three main aspects of change. First, the energy crisis will be solved. Energy prices will be very low. Some activities that are difficult to carry out due to energy consumption restrictions, such as seawater desalination and interstellar spaceflight, can be carried out on a large scale, which will bring about huge changes in production and life. progress.

Secondly, the products of nuclear fusion are helium and neutrons, which do not emit harmful gases. The greenhouse effect, acid rain, and haze on the earth will be greatly reduced or even eliminated, and the ecological environment will be improved.

Furthermore, the raw materials for nuclear fusion energy can be obtained from seawater, and human disputes caused by energy issues will be greatly reduced.

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