Homo sapiens.

Chapter 225 Firefly Configuration

After reading the secret reports of Flying Fish Company and Aoba Airlines, Li Qingye saw another piece of good news.

This good news was reported from the Black Tiger Canyon.

At this time, the side of the Black Tiger Canyon.

Dr. Levi's is "in the mine."

The so-called mining area is actually a hidden underground experiment site. On the surface, this site is a lead-zinc mine affiliated to Qingye Mining Company.

Often by detonating explosives, some seismic waves are blasted, disguised as signs of mining underground minerals.

For explosions of hundreds of kilograms, the subtle seismic waves generated will generally not arouse suspicion, although they will be detected by seismic monitoring stations.

The underground of this "mining area" has already been hollowed out, and it has been built as an experimental site. In addition to an underground tunnel, there are five underground spaces of different sizes.

At this time in the No. 3 experimental field.

Dr. Reeves, along with his colleagues and research assistants, was busy assembling a basketball-sized device.

The core of the device is a small vacuumed space, the size of which is about the size of a sesame seed.

Surrounding this ultra-small sub-vacuum space, there are 16 cones. The top of these cones has a device similar to the tip of a ballpoint pen. The "ball" held by the "pen tip" is a mass. 0.01 grams of uranium-99.99 with a purity of 235%.

That is to say, the uranium fuel of this device is 0.16 grams.

The remaining space of the cone was filled with TNT explosives, and a total of 4.8 kilograms of TNT was filled.

A sphere of 16 cones encased in a layer of composite material 30mm thick.

For this composite material layer, the innermost layer is an alloy radiation reflective layer, the middle is a high-temperature resistant composite ceramic layer (which can withstand a high temperature of 5836 degrees Celsius), and the last outer layer is a super-strong integrated alloy, which is enough to withstand the internal TNT explosion for 3.2 seconds.

And the innermost alloy radiation reflection layer has another very special function, which can mutate into a superconductor under ultra-high pressure.

At the same time, metal powder is added between the TNT and the gold alloy radiation reflection layer, which will generate a large amount of electron flow at the moment of explosion, and then excite the mutant superconductor, forming a strong magnetic field, which will restrain the explosion for 3.2 seconds.

That is to say, after detonating the TNT core, the entire explosion energy will be bound inside the sphere for 3.2 seconds.

Don’t underestimate the 3.2 seconds, it is because of these 3.2 seconds that the uranium-235 balls on the top of the cone are instantly squeezed into the vacuum space of Naya by high temperature and pressure, thereby forcing fierce nuclear fission between the uranium-235.

Due to the existence of the magnetic field, the energy of the nuclear explosion was not released immediately, but was squeezed in the core area.

The advantage of this design is that the fuel utilization rate of nuclear fission rises sharply, and the critical mass of nuclear fuel explosion can be reduced to a few milligrams level.

The "Firefly" No. 3 in front of him is an ultra-small atomic bomb secretly developed by the Black Tiger Canyon Base.

This is also one of the few solutions selected by Levi's with a group of scientific researchers, combined with various new materials from Homo sapiens, and simulated tens of billions of times through supercomputing.

The entire Firefly No. 3 weighs 17.3 kilograms and is equipped with 0.16 grams of uranium-99.99 with a purity of 235%. The explosive equivalent is 2.72 tons and the nuclear fuel utilization rate is 85.6%.

After assembly is complete.

Levi's and others in protective clothing left the experimental field and came to a special data monitoring room.

"The third test begins."

"Activate the transportation system."

The electric rail car carrying Firefly 3 slowly drove to the test explosion site of the experimental field.

The entire test explosion site is 343 meters deep underground. It is a hemispherical cavity with a radius of 50 meters. There are several layers of artificial structures around it to reduce the explosion shock wave.

"Detonate!"

3.2 seconds later.

boom……

A small fireball exploded in the center of the test site, followed by optical radiation, ionizing radiation, thermal radiation and shock waves.

Various data collectors feed back the detected data to the biological computer in the monitoring room.

The seismic wave monitoring equipment installed in the surrounding area only detected a weak seismic wave with a power of only a few hundred kilograms of TNT.

But in fact, Firefly 3 produced an explosive equivalent of 2.72 tons of TNT.

After reading the data, Levi's nodded with satisfaction: "The firefly-type ultra-small atomic bomb is now ready for mass production."

"The next step is to improve the old warhead," said another researcher.

The reason why they developed this ultra-small atomic bomb is mainly for three purposes.

One is for nuclear explosion experiments.

This goal has been achieved. They successfully conducted three ultra-small nuclear explosion tests at the underground test site near Black Tiger Canyon.

And the outside world knows nothing about it.

The core factor of being able to hide it from the outside world is that the explosion yield is small enough, with an average yield of only a few tons. In addition to the shock-absorbing structural layer of the experimental site, even if the outside world detects it, it will only think that it is blasting underground minerals.

The second purpose is to improve the utilization rate of nuclear fuel.

目前智人公司每个月可以提炼150～180公斤铀235，大概可以制造3枚30万吨当量的原子弹（烈日30），单枚烈日30需要52公斤铀235原材料，核燃料利用率仅有30%。

At present, there are 42 Lieri 30 pieces in stock, and there are also 283 kilograms of high-purity uranium-235 raw materials.

After switching to the new configuration of the firefly type, it also achieves an explosive equivalent of 30 tons, but the firefly type only needs 18 kilograms of uranium-235 raw materials.

This means that after all the Lieri 30 in stock are transformed into firefly-type atomic bombs, about 120 firefly-type atomic bombs with an equivalent of 30 tons can be produced.

third purpose.

It is to improve the atomic trigger of the B43 hydrogen bomb. After all, the atomic trigger of the B43 was designed by America more than 50 years ago. Not only is the waste of nuclear fuel serious, but the radioactive pollution is relatively high, and plutonium is still used as the raw material.

Levi's not only wants to use a firefly-type atomic bomb as a hydrogen bomb trigger, but also intends to improve the configuration of the B43.

B43 hydrogen bombs in the early days often had a relatively low utilization rate of nuclear fuel, only about 15% to 20%.

The Lieyang 43, which imitates the B100, currently requires 50 kilograms of deuterium as a raw material to achieve an explosive equivalent of 100 million tons.

Levi's, through supercomputing and the current firefly-type atomic bomb explosion experiment, has found the direction of the miniaturization of the hydrogen bomb and also found a solution to improve the fuel utilization rate of the hydrogen bomb.

For a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, it is estimated that the explosive equivalent can be compressed to the minimum level of 1 ton (the atomic trigger produces 350 kilograms of TNT energy), but the volume is difficult to compress, and the weight is about 20 kilograms.

According to the model and data simulated by Levi's and others in the supercomputer, the fuel utilization rate of the firefly-type hydrogen bomb can also reach about 80-90%.

If the charge of 50 kilograms of deuterium is still maintained, the power can reach 630 million tons equivalent, which is a full increase of 6.3 times.

This power is obviously excessive, and the weight of the warhead is 900 kg, which is not conducive to lightweight.

Dr. Levi's is already discussing with engineers in the nuclear engineering department to develop a new warhead with an equivalent of 10 tons and a weight of less than 100 kilograms.

This is also the core idea of ​​the current powers, which is to use hydrogen bomb warheads with an equivalent of hundreds of thousands of tons, and then load several sub-warheads in one missile.

Ten 10-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs are several times more lethal than one 10-ton equivalent hydrogen bomb.

In terms of cost performance, medium-yield cluster hydrogen bombs are the current mainstream solution.

The firefly-type hydrogen bomb has another advantage, that is, the reaction is more thorough, resulting in a lower residual amount of radioactive substances, which can basically be called a clean nuclear bomb.

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