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If the problem of laser head efficiency is not solved, the overall energy consumption of the photon engine will be difficult to reduce.

Once space navigation is carried out on a large scale, this problem will seriously affect the endurance of the spacecraft. If this problem is not solved, and the same energy is consumed, the endurance range of the Human Innovation Alliance's spacecraft will be less than half that of the Anluo planet.

This will not only increase the cost of navigation, but also increase the consumption rate of fuel resources. For future plans, this problem must be solved.

Of course, in view of the current tense situation, the Human Innovation Alliance's first sublight speed spacecraft has been designed. This is a light spacecraft with a single photon engine and an overall mass of approximately 3,000 tons. It is a typical experimental spacecraft.

"Li Xiang, we are divided into two groups. You are responsible for developing alternative materials, and I am responsible for the artificial synthesis method of radium element." Huang Haojie gave the order directly.

Li Xiang nodded. He was not good at synthesizing elements because it involved nuclear physics.

Institute of Materials Research, Branch 11.

This institute is located deep underground in the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province. It was formerly the nuclear physics research base of the Dongtang Academy of Sciences and is now merged into the 11th Branch of the Institute of Materials.

It specializes in research and development of nuclear materials.

Huang Junjie's stand-in robot took the train through the underground tunnel and entered the secret research institute base deep underground.

"The head of state is welcome to come and inspect the work." Chen Xiangqian, director of the institute, and Pavlo Korostlov, chief engineer, said quickly.

Bang bang bang... Others clapped and welcomed.

"Thank you for your hard work. You're welcome. I'm here just to develop the artificial synthesis of radium." Huang Haojie waved to everyone.

"Mr. Führer, I am very happy to meet you. I am Pavlo Korostlov, the chief engineer of the No. 11 Materials Branch." Pavlo Korostlov excitedly held Huang Haojie's hand and said .

"It turns out to be Mr. Pavlo Korostlov from the Moscow Institute of Nuclear Physics. I'm very happy to meet you. Let's chat while walking." Huang Haojie said.

"It's a great honor." Pavlo Korostlov said quickly.

Chen Xiangqian, who was on the side, also quickly led the way to the inside of the institute. He and Pavlo Korostrov introduced the internal situation of the institute to Huang Junjie as they walked.

"Has the equipment I sent here three days ago arrived?" Huang Junjie asked Chen Xiangqian.

Chen nodded forward and replied, "We've arrived."

"Take me there."

"Okay, head of state, please come with me."

After a while, the group of people came to a laboratory. In the wide space, a piece of equipment similar to a nuclear fusion reactor was standing in it.

Huang Haojie asked Zhong to take over the supercomputer of this laboratory and began to test the condition of the equipment.

[Master, the equipment is in good condition and can be used for experiments. ]

Huang Junjie turned to Chen Xiangqian and ordered: "Get 1 kilogram of titanium."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Chen Xiangqian hurriedly arranged for the titanium single material.

Pavlo Korostrolov asked with great interest: "Does Mr. Führer intend to artificially synthesize radium through nuclear fusion?"

"Exactly." Huang Junjie replied with a smile while inputting parameters into the device.

"Titanium element?" Pavlo Korostrolov touched his thick beard and thought about it. Titanium is element 22, with a relative atomic mass of 47.8; and radium is element 88, the most stable isotope relative to atoms. The mass is 226.

If titanium is to be synthesized into radium, element 44, ruthenium, must be passed through the process. Of course, the nuclear fusion reaction may not be complete in one step. It is most likely that element 26, iron, will be produced first, and then proceed step by step.

Pavlo Korostlov had also previously imagined synthesizing heavy elements from light elements, but this was too difficult to achieve.

Generally speaking, the artificial synthesis of radium is usually done by bombarding elements heavier than radium with neutrons, causing the nuclear fission of heavy elements to become relatively lighter radium.

However, this method has a fatal flaw, which is the issue of element abundance in nature. The larger the element number, the smaller the relative abundance. The abundance of radium element is relatively high, and using elements heavier than it to make radium element is obviously not worth the gain.

After a while, Chen Xiangqian took 10 kilograms of elemental titanium from the experimental materials warehouse.

Huang Haojie used an experimental auxiliary robot to put 1 kilogram of elemental titanium powder into the reactor. This equipment is indeed a modified nuclear fusion reactor.

When the nuclear fusion reaction switch is pressed, the elemental titanium powder in the reactor is instantly crushed by the powerful neutron ionization generated by the NN-8-1 material, and the nuclear fusion reaction begins.

The thermoelectric power generation system and ion power generation system attached to the reactor began to generate electricity. Soon with the output of electrical energy, titanium atoms were nuclear fused into iron atoms.

Once the atoms reach the iron stage, it means that the nuclear fusion reaction begins to enter a dividing line. The nuclear fusion reaction before the iron atom can output energy, while the nuclear fusion reaction after the iron atom shows a negative output of energy. state, energy must be replenished before the nuclear fusion reaction can continue.

Huang Haojie continued to operate the nuclear fusion reactor, allowing the iron atoms inside to continue nuclear fusion. Under the powerful neutron ionization compression, the iron atoms had to yield to synthesize copper nuclei and zinc nuclei, which were then composed of copper nuclei and zinc nuclei. Nuclear to selenium nuclear fusion...

Half an hour later.

The 1 kilogram of elemental titanium in the reactor has become a mixture of element 87 francium, element 88 radium, and a small portion of element 89 actinium.

The experimental robot took out a piece of silver-white metal mixture from the reactor and put it into a special storage box.

Because whether it is element 87 francium, element 88 radium, or element 89 actinium, these elements are all radioactive, especially in amounts up to 1 kilogram, which greatly increases their radioactivity.

"Take this piece of metal and check the specific content of radium." Huang Haojie ordered Chen Xiangqian and Pavlo Korostlov.

"Okay, Head of State." The two of them quickly took the storage box and headed to the specialized laboratory.

Huang Haojie was looking through the experimental data just now while inspecting the element synthesis furnace. This method of synthesizing elements can indeed achieve large-scale production, provided there is sufficient energy. It is obviously very difficult to use huge energy to forcibly create heavy elements. Extravagant behavior.

But now the Human Innovation Alliance has to use this method to manufacture radium elements, because this is related to the efficiency of the photon engine.

More than an hour later, Pavlo Korostrov came over excitedly with a test report: "Führer, your experiment was very successful. The content of radium is about 42%."

After Huang Junjie flipped through the report, he ordered Pavlo Korostrov: "I will leave the element synthesis furnace here, and you can produce 50 kilograms of radium elements as soon as possible."

"Yes." Pavlo Korostrov agreed quickly. He knew the importance of radium. Before a substitute for the beta-ray laser head material was developed, they could only produce it in this way regardless of the cost. Radium element.