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The time has come to February 23, 2020.

The underground square that was previously used to house the tokamak device has now been turned into the venue for Golden Crow 1.

The useless tokamak device was dismantled by Qinling Plasma, and the room-temperature superconductors that could still be used were sold to the X-ray base next door and rebuilt, and a large amount of money was collected by the way.

Including other items from the tokamak device, a total of 12.6 billion Mars coins were recovered, and the money was used to build Golden Crow 1.

Liu Jing watched the progress of Jinwu 1. They have conducted 6 nuclear fusion power generation tests in the past few days and obtained a lot of valuable data.

The critical point of the DD nuclear fusion reaction was determined, as well as the critical point that would not allow the DD nuclear fusion reaction to enter the helium nuclear fusion stage.

In addition, they discovered the phenomenon of superluminal radiation, which explains the reason why the optical radiation dose exceeds the predicted data. Because neutrons and electrons cannot escape the vacuum cavity, and are further squeezed by the accumulated pressure, they will continue to release a part of the mass-converted photons.

In the pressure-DD nuclear fusion reaction, the light radiation energy output reaches about 56%, and about 27% of the energy is converted into heat. This heat will be conducted through NN-8-1.

The remaining 17% of energy is the kinetic energy of electrons, atoms, neutrons, neutrinos and the like that are difficult to utilize.

Optical radiation can be used to generate laser power, while thermal energy can only be used temporarily to boil water to generate power.

"My design is pretty good, right?" Zhang Huaide pointed at Golden Crow 1 and said.

"Very good." Liu Jingguan had no doubts about Zhang Huaide's ability.

Compared with the first prototype they tested, the layout and appearance of Jinwu-1 are very different. The prototype is lying on the ground, while Jinwu-1 is upright.

Jinwu No. 1 is composed of four vertical vacuum chambers. In order to both boil water and generate laser power, the vacuum chamber has been specially designed. The entire rugby-shaped vacuum chamber is coated with a layer of reflective film on the inside. These reflective films can reflect most of the light radiation from nuclear fusion.

Zhang Huaide asked the Institute of Optics to help design the direction of the reflective film. This plan was designed after hundreds of thousands of simulations at the supercomputing center.

Through these specially designed reflective films, the light radiation generated by nuclear fusion can be concentrated in three directions outside, forming three light radiation release windows.

There are four vacuum cavities with a total of 12 light radiation release windows. These light radiation release windows are used to connect the laser power generation pipelines.

The reason why it is designed as a laser power generation pipeline is mainly to avoid excessive light radiation dose and burning the power generation equipment. Through an 800-meter-long laser power generation pipeline, the energy of light radiation is converted into electrical energy layer by layer to achieve dispersed light radiation. Dosage Purpose.

As for how to boil water, it is even simpler and cruder. The vacuum chamber is modified to be made of materials with very good thermal conductivity, and then the four vacuum chambers are immersed in fresh water.

It is equivalent to the boiler directly wrapping four vacuum chambers and part of the laser power generation pipeline.

Judging from the design drawings, the height of the vacuum chamber is 6.4 meters and the maximum radius is 1.6 meters, while the boiler area has a radius of 16 meters and a height of 15 meters.

There are two steam turbine power generation systems next to the boiler area.

According to the design, the four vacuum chambers do not work together, but are similar to the working principle of an engine. Injection of DD - neutron compression - fusion energy release - discharge of helium ash. These four links are in the four vacuum chambers. Cycles back and forth.

The DD injection port is above the vacuum chamber, and the helium ash discharge port is below the vacuum chamber.

Although Zhang Huaide has designed many tokamak devices and stellarators, designing a neutron press was still the first step in a sedan chair, so the designed reaction capacity was one kilogram of DD per chamber.

A single chamber cycle takes 20 minutes. Since the three steps of DD injection, neutron compression, and helium ash discharge are very short, vacuum chambers 1 and 3 are generally used for fusion energy release, and vacuum chambers 2 and 4 are used for the other three steps. link.

Equivalent to four vacuum chambers, two of them will release energy at the same time, consuming 2 kilograms of DD raw materials every 20 minutes.

"You are all here!"

Zhang Huaide and Liu Jingguan, who were talking, knew who was coming as soon as they heard the sound.

"Fei Suo, you are finally willing to come back." Zhang Huaide turned around and joked.

"Not only did I come back, I also brought the laser power generation equipment of Jinwu 1. As for the steam turbine power generation system, it is still being customized. I customized related equipment from China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry." Fei Anming said with a smile. .

Since the Galaxy Consortium does not have a steam turbine manufacturing company, Fei Anming needs to customize it from CNNC and Daiichi Heavy Industry.

"Fei Suo, you came back at the right time. Jinwu 1's vacuum chamber, neutron condensed matter generator, DD injection system, helium ash discharge system, and control system are all completed." Liu Jingguan told Fei Anming about the situation. one time.

"That is to say, the only remaining ones are the boiler system, laser power generation system, steam turbine system and substation system?" Fei Anming asked.

"After completing these four systems, Golden Crow 1 will almost be completed." Liu Jing nodded and said.

"Then what are you waiting for? The laser power generation system has arrived at our warehouse." Fei Anming looked more anxious than Liu Jingguan and the others.

"Fei Suo, the laser power generation system will not run again. When will the steam turbine and substation equipment be developed?" Zhang Huaide asked.

"The substation equipment will arrive next week. It is produced by a subsidiary of Guodian. As for the steam turbine, it may not arrive until April." Fei Anming said helplessly.

"Then just wait! We can take advantage of this period of time to perfect and optimize Jinwu No. 1." Liu Jingguan also knows that large steam turbine systems need to be customized. This kind of thing can only be customized and produced, otherwise no manufacturer would dare to produce it in advance. .

However, domestic manufacturers that can produce 1 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets are making a fortune this time. The Qinling Plasma Research Institute placed an order for 60 units at once.

Don’t think that a 1 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator set is ordinary. This thing is at the top level in the world.

You must know that Dongtang's largest thermal power station in China had a total installed capacity of only 6.5 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to 6.5 1 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generating units.

The Qinling Plasma Research Institute ordered 60 units at once, which shows how huge it is.

As for whether 60 1 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator units are too many, in fact it is not much at all, because 2 kilograms of DD are consumed every 20 minutes, which is 6 kilograms of DD in one hour. The nuclear fusion of 6 kilograms of DD can produce huge amounts of energy. of heat.

The comprehensive power generation efficiency of this heat used to boil water is about 40%. 40% is 56 million kilowatt hours, which can be satisfied by at least 56 1 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets.

The remaining 4 units are backup units.

Jinwu 1 only boils water to generate electricity, which can generate about 480 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

The laser power generation system is expected to generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

The two systems combined should be 2.18 trillion kilowatt hours, and Dongtang’s total domestic power generation in 2019 was 13.4 trillion kilowatt hours.

From here we can see how terrible nuclear fusion power generation is. A Jinwu-1 consumes 52 tons of DD nuclear fuel a year and can produce 2.18 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity.

The cost of 1 ton of DD nuclear fuel is 400 million Mars coins, and 52 tons is 20.8 billion Mars coins. The fuel cost equivalent to 104 kilowatt hours of electricity is 1 Mars coin.

Don’t forget how DD nuclear fuel is produced. It is produced through multiple distillation electrolysis. Using cheap electricity produced by nuclear fusion to produce DD nuclear fuel can reduce the production cost of DD nuclear fuel. It is simply a perfect virtuous cycle.

Once Jinwu No. 1 is officially put into use, the electricity price will really be extremely cheap. The reduction in electricity price costs can effectively reduce all production costs and form a virtuous cycle.

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