Great Power Technology
Chapter 513 Target Pill Technology
Regarding Hassan's strategy of "becoming friends with the Chinese first", no matter how stubborn Mingsen is, he has to admit that this is probably the most reliable and feasible solution at present.
However, it is one thing to have a plan, but it is another thing to implement the plan. He has no idea where to open a breakthrough.
After all, the contradiction between the two countries has been around for a long time. It can even be said that from the moment the country of China was born, the relationship between the two countries was destined to be antagonistic or even hostile.
And this state of antagonism has indeed lasted for a long time. Except for the occasional honeymoon period in decades, most of the time, the two countries were in a state of tension.
It was not until China achieved information hegemony through RSA decryption technology that this situation eased.
Therefore, it is not easy to "make friends" with them, even if they are just friends in the academic field.
Especially when designing major projects and major scientific development directions.
You can't be like those who engage in commercial bribery and put the money in a tea box to the other party, and then tell the other party, "This is the money you used to buy national bonds, and now I will pay you back part of it." Right?
He had been worrying about this problem for a long time, but what he didn't expect was that the opportunity came to him so naturally.
On September 10, when the whole world was excited about China's major breakthroughs in BCI technology and believed that mankind was about to enter a new era, the Chengdu Huashu Institute released an even more exciting news:
The Shenguang-4 inertial confinement nuclear fusion device is about to conduct its first ignition experiment.
Before this official ignition, the China Institute of Physics and Physics had conducted verification experiments on each component of the fusion device, and judged that the device had reached experimental benchmark conditions.
Laser, positioner, target pellet, first wall. Even for the divertor device, which is currently the most difficult to solve, China has achieved technological progress and will have no problem supporting small-scale nuclear fusion in a short period of time.
Everything seemed perfect, but during a routine meeting at Birmingham National Laboratory, Minson got an important message.
In the conference room, key members of the Healy organization sat together and discussed the news about the upcoming experiment of the China Shenguang No. 4 device.
"So, what you are saying is that China's Shenguang-4 project is likely to still fail to meet the standards for nuclear fusion power generation that can be truly applied?"
The speaker was Aldo. In the past period of time, he had been busy approving and processing various matters related to the consciousness uploading project, which took up a lot of his energy. After all the resources required for the project were basically in place, he Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the news about inertial confinement nuclear fusion released by China forced him to get busy again.
There is no way, this news has a huge impact on our side. After all, our national ignition device has been leading the opponent for nearly 10 years before, but now, the national ignition device is still undergoing reconstruction and upgrading, while the other party has already He began to say that he would achieve steady-state discharge on Shenguang 4.
The researcher opposite nodded and replied:
"Yes. To explain this problem, we introduce a concept, which is the difference between nuclear fusion ignition and steady-state discharge."
"In fact, with our current technological level, it is not difficult to ignite an inertial confinement fusion device. A long time ago, China's EAST device has achieved 120 million degrees Celsius plasma operation for 100 seconds, which is close to the time required for fusion to occur. Temperature conditions. The later Shenguang-3 project truly achieved fusion, but the duration was extremely short."
"However, the fact that fusion can occur does not mean that the energy of fusion can be used."
"The core issue for a fusion reactor to be able to carry out commercial discharge applications is that it needs to carry out controlled and stable combustion, rather than continuously emitting a bunch of high-energy pulses."
"Even if the triple product Lawson criterion for self-sustainability of the fusion reaction is reached, if it cannot discharge in a steady state, the fusion device must consume a large amount of additional energy every time it is ignited to heat the plasma to the fusion parameters."
"In other words, taking the inertial confinement device as an example, a large part of the electricity generated by the fusion reaction must be reinvested into the laser igniter, causing serious energy consumption."
"This would be a serious problem for fusion power generation where the technology is immature and the Q value - the ratio of energy output to energy input - is relatively low."
Having said this, the researcher paused for a moment, took a sip of water and then continued:
"Judging from the data currently released by China and the detailed parameters in the fields where we have cooperated, the design of this Shenguang 4 device is very complete and can definitely achieve self-sustainment of the fusion reaction. However, it still has many problems. question."
"These problems are likely to make it difficult to achieve steady-state discharge, greatly weakening the practical significance of Shenguang 4."
Aldo on the opposite side nodded and replied:
"I understand what you mean, so what you want to say is that this Shenguang No. 4 device is not a true nuclear fusion reactor, but a 'prototype reactor' for verification and experimentation?"
"Yes, that's it. But it is still a major breakthrough, which is undeniable. In this field, the gap between us and China has begun to widen rapidly."
"According to feedback from the laboratory, if our device wants to achieve self-sustaining fusion reaction, it will take at least five years."
Hearing this, Aldo sighed and said:
"The development of science and technology is like this. Who knows if one or two geniuses will suddenly appear in others, leading to explosive breakthroughs - after the application of BCI technology, they will make more and more breakthroughs."
"We will not discuss this issue. Now I would like to ask, from your professional point of view, what are the main reasons that make you think that steady-state discharge cannot be achieved?"
The researcher handed the material in his hand to Aldo. A lot of content was densely marked on it, which looked extremely messy. Fortunately, although the fonts were scrawled, they could still be distinguished.
"We analyzed several deficiencies, including that the divertor performance did not meet expectations, such as the new material used in the first wall that had not been rigorously verified, etc."
"However, we believe that the most likely reason for the failure of the experiment is that the material of the ablation layer outside the fusion target pellet is lagging behind."
"From a parameter perspective, they still use the traditional HDC-W-CH ablation coating. Although this coating can ensure the uniform burning of each layer of coating during the ablation process, it will His performance was very unstable.”
"The main reason is that the plasma expansion curve is inconsistent during the ablation process. Therefore, once the X-ray radiation field in the black cavity of the target pill fluctuates unpredictablely, the ablation progress of the entire ablation layer will be affected."
"This problem cannot be solved by increasing the laser power and target pellet intensity. In fact, we have been exploring for a long time, and finally decided to use simple silicon material to make the target pellet ablation layer spherical shell, and finally solved it."
"Right now, the ablation layer material is still one of our biggest secrets, and we think if they still use the ablation layer material as written in the parameters, steady-state discharge is possible, but the odds are slim."
Aldo nodded and replied:
"Okay, I've basically understood the situation. This is good news, but it's also bad news."
"The good news is, they're not too far ahead and we still have a chance to catch up."
"But the bad news is that the entire human energy industry may have to be delayed for a while."
"But, overall, this is a good thing for us. Okay, let's move on to the issue of the national ignition device - when do you plan to start the new ignition method?"
The meeting lasted for two hours, and the issues discussed were extremely professional and complex. Aldo had a splitting headache. When the meeting was finally announced, his mind had almost stopped spinning.
At this time, the most important thing to him was no longer the life and death of mankind, nor the struggle between China and itself, but to go home quickly, take a hot bath, and have a good sleep.
While he was packing up the materials on the table, he was about to get up and leave, but at this moment, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
Aldo put down the things in his hands helplessly and said:
"God bless, Minson, tell me you didn't come to me for resources this time. I'm going crazy. I know the consciousness upload project is important, but the Healy organization really doesn't have that many resources to give you. .”
"No, it's not."
Mingsen interrupted his complaint, and then said slightly teasingly:
"This time it's not about resources, but it could be a lot worse for you."
Hearing this, Aldo's heart tightened, and then he asked tentatively:
"What are you going to do again?"
Mingsen smiled, lowered his voice and replied:
"I want to hand over our nuclear fusion target technology to China."
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