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260 - Laser Components

"This kind of explosion process is very short, only a few picoseconds, as long as three or four such explosions occur every second, and continue continuously, the energy released is equivalent to a million-kilowatt power station! "

When Chen Chen heard Xiao X's explanation, he nodded immediately, "I still know a little about the tokamak device, but I remember that the tokamak must have serious defects, and there is another inertial confinement fusion reactor. Does the Earth Federation have a similar device?"

"Yes, the tokamak device that represents magnetic confinement does have a lot of flaws, because the core of the tokamak device is the appearance of a magnetic field. To generate a magnetic field, a coil is needed. If there is a coil, there will be a wire, and if there is a wire, there will be a resistance. .”

Little X replied, "The closer the tokamak device is to practicality, the stronger the magnetic field is, and the greater the current needs to pass through the wire, so the resistance of the wire appears, and the resistance will reduce the efficiency of the coil and limit the efficiency of the coil. The strength of the current cannot make the tokamak device generate enough magnetic field."

"So, superconducting technology is very important. Today's Earth Federation uses low-temperature superconductors as coils, which can solve the problems of current flow and loss. Therefore, the combination of superconductors and tokamak devices, It’s called a super-tokamak.”

"Currently, there are only three super-tokamaks in the Earth Federation, namely North America, Middle Continent, and Europe. There are five in North America, two in Central Continent, and one in Europe."

"As for the inertial confinement fusion reactor, this kind of equipment is available in many countries and continents around the world, but the one that is really famous is the one in North America; the Facility Project, referred to as NIF."

"This device can focus 2 million joules of energy through 192 laser beams onto deuterium-tritium pellets with a diameter of 3 mm. Each beam of laser light lasts for about three billionths of a second and generates a high temperature of 100 million degrees. The pressure exceeds 100 billion atmospheres, which in turn triggers nuclear fusion."

"Understood."

Chen Chen snapped his fingers, "In other words, magnetic confinement nuclear fusion uses a strong magnetic field to confine deuterium and tritium in a magnetic container and heats it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve fusion reactions, while inertial confinement uses ultra-high-intensity lasers , irradiating deuterium-tritium in a very short time to achieve fusion reactions."

After understanding this, Chen Chen looked at the nuclear fusion reactor technology in the plane of "Elysium", and suddenly became enlightened.

To put it simply, the two technologies of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement have different emphases. The nuclear fusion reaction effect of the magnetic confinement ultra-tokamak device is good and does not require repeated ignition, but its disadvantages lie in its large size and flexibility. Not enough, and the cost of electricity required to maintain a strong magnetic field is not low.

Therefore, the super-tokamak device is used as a reactor in a nuclear power plant in the plane of "Elysium".

The advantage of inertial restraint is that the equipment can be made very small, and the control performance of turning on and off the fire is relatively good, but the disadvantage is that it needs to consume a lot of energy to generate lasers to continuously ignite.

Therefore, the inertial restraint device is used as a spaceship engine in the "Elysium" plane.

Chen Chen looked up these two technologies, and compared them with the nuclear fusion devices of the countries of the Earth Federation, and found that the reason why these two nuclear fusion devices were able to be produced on the "Elysium" plane was that apart from some conceptual reasons, the biggest The biggest advantage is the room temperature superconductor.

Room-temperature superconductors can reduce the liquid helium cooling system of the super-tokamak device, which greatly reduces the complexity and cost of the super-tokamak device. Coupled with the stability of high-offset metals, a mature nuclear fusion device will naturally come into being.

The same is true for inertial confinement devices. The room temperature superconductor can double the energy released by the laser ignition device several times, continue to increase the energy of the laser, and even form a laser effect called "ultra-high field". Produce 200x1015 watts of energy, which is 100,000 times higher than the total global electric energy production, but it takes less than one trillionth of a second.

With this energy, the fuel formed by deuterium and tritium can instantly reach the critical point of nuclear fusion, without having to be as complicated and huge as the NIF device, and the efficiency is not high enough.

But the only regret is that to make a mature super tokamak, you still need to use high-deflection metals, but Chen Chen has no conditions to manufacture such high-deflection metals yet. If you want to produce this metal, Need the help of a particle accelerator.

Chen Chen couldn't help turning to the "High Excursion Metal" material again, and read it carefully.

In fact, the so-called high-deflection metal is actually a kind of metal aluminum, but it is not normal aluminum, but an isotope of aluminum.

Generally speaking, metals such as aluminum do not produce isotopes, but with the help of particle accelerators, it can be artificially interfered and manufactured.

For example, the high-deflection metal made of metal aluminum is essentially an aluminum element with a high number of redundant neutrons. It first relies on room temperature superconductivity to form a strong magnetic field, and then uses a particle accelerator to launch iron atoms through the strong magnetic region.

Because the magnetic field in the strong magnetic field area has reached the energy level of tearing atoms, when passing through the magnetic field, the iron atoms will disintegrate, in which electrons will fly to one side of the magnetic field, and protons will fly to the other side, leaving only The neutrons are not affected, and continue to keep the flight path and fly forward.

Afterwards, as long as these neutrons are collected by a resonance machine, and then electrons are glued to the neutron surface by a strong electric coupler, virtual particles can be formed.

Because the virtual particles are negatively charged, as long as the particle accelerator is used to accelerate the virtual particles again and accelerate to the sub-light speed state, they can be used to bombard aluminum atoms.

Because they have reached the speed of sub-light, under the huge kinetic energy, these virtual particles can overcome the repulsive force and forcibly penetrate into the interior of aluminum atoms, so that the aluminum atoms will be filled with a large number of neutrons, causing the element structure to shift, so they are called Known as high excursion metals.

Due to the highly unbalanced neutron content, it is extremely insensitive to energy conduction, and completely ignores thermal weapons and wave weapons. In addition, its super strong metal strength and toughness are far better than any alloy. It is even called the solar system in the data. The toughest substance in the world.

Since it was impossible to manufacture a super-tokamak device, Chen Chen could only make the next best thing and make another reactor with an inertial restraint device.

To manufacture this kind of reactor, Chen Chen needs to purchase many components of high-precision laser facilities, and modify them to manufacture a device that can emit ultra-high-field lasers.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen couldn't help touching his chin.

It seems that it's time for that group of consortia to work. Wasn't the reason why they united with this group of people in the first place for the influence behind them?

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