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Chapter 989 Visit Sulian's behemoth!
If Yang Ming wanted to visit Sulian's technology before Qiernianke, it would be impossible.

Even, he may be treated as a minor.

Now that Gore has come to power, Su Lian has become very different from before.

In Gore's view, he and Su Lian wanted to move closer to the West.

Among them, there are very practical reasons, Su Lian has no money, and hopes to get financial support from Europe and the United States.

When Yang Ming, Huo Jianning, He Chaoyu, Lin Xiuzhi and others got into the car, they left the villa and went to a suburb of Mosco.

It's very mysterious there.

Before this, at least Europe and the United States did not know such a place.

This is the place under the Sulian Academy of Sciences that is used to study the artificial sun.

In this place, except that a large amount of soil below was dug out, a huge basement was built below, and many buildings were built above.

These buildings cannot be destroyed by nuclear bombs.

Now, when Yang Ming and others came by car, he found that there were still many soldiers guarding the outside.

When the identities of Grachev and Aleksandrov were confirmed, Yang Ming and others were able to enter.

Back then, when Yang Ming and others came to Moscow for the first time, he was a little shocked when they visited the Moscow subway.

At that time, the Moscow subway was not only large in scale in the world, but also built like a palace of art underneath.

Now that Yang Ming and others came to this building, he was really shocked.

This monster-like building on the ground, the outer wall alone is very thick, no wonder even nuclear bombs can't blow up here.

go inside.

Yang Ming still saw many staff members in work clothes working here.

These should be Sulian's scientific and technological talents.

One of the most important research projects here.

artificial sun.

The main object of this artificial sun is underground.

In other words, there are also large buildings underground.

Along the way, except for the bright lights here, Yang Ming felt that everything here seemed very different from this era.

It's deep here.

Yang Ming and others took the elevator down, and he found that in addition to sufficient heating, there was also sufficient oxygen.

In addition, there are a lot of wires and various pipes inside.

In fact, if there is a problem with these wires and pipelines, the researchers who stay and work in it are also in danger.

When Yang Ming and others came out of the elevator.

Yang Ming didn't know how many meters underground this place was, but it just showed that it was the fifth floor below ground.

In other words, it is at least a dozen meters deep, which seems to be about the same depth as an ordinary subway.

Yang Ming and others followed Aleksandrov out.

Yang Ming and others saw a large space like a hexagon.

Then standing in the corridor here, Yang Ming and others looked over.

Saw a huge monster over there.

This is the artificial sun, and it is also a large-scale fusion energy experimental reactor.

"Sir Yang, this is the artificial sun developed by our Sulian." Aleksandrov said.

This device is a superconducting tokamak capable of producing large-scale nuclear fusion reactions.

The center of the device is a high-temperature deuterium-tritium plasma ring, in which there is a plasma current of 15 megaamperes, the nuclear fusion reaction power reaches 50 kilowatts, and up to 1020 high-energy neutrons are released per second.

The plasma ring is in the annular envelope of the shielding cladding, which will absorb the thermal power of 50 kilowatts and all the neutrons produced by the nuclear fusion reaction.

Outside the cladding is a huge annular vacuum chamber.There is a deflector connected to the vacuum chamber on the lower side, which can discharge the waste gas after the nuclear reaction.

The vacuum chamber is threaded in 16 large superconducting toroidal field coils (ie longitudinal field coils).

The toroidal superconducting magnet will generate a toroidal strong magnetic field of 5.3 tesla, which is one of the key components of the device and is worth more than billions of dollars.

Passing through the center of the ring is a huge superconducting coil barrel (central solenoid), and six large toroidal superconducting coils, ie, poloidal field coils, are arranged outside the toroidal field coil.

The role of the central solenoid and the poloidal field coil is to generate plasma current and control the plasma configuration.

In fact, the appearance model of the thermonuclear fusion experimental reactor developed internationally at present, the above-mentioned system is entirely covered in a large Dewar, which is located on the base to form the main body of the experimental reactor.Four 4-megawatt high-current particle accelerators, a 10-megawatt steady-state millimeter electromagnetic wave system, a 10-megawatt radio frequency wave system and dozens of advanced plasma diagnostic and measurement systems are distributed outside the body.

The whole system also includes large-scale power supply system, large-scale tritium plant, large-scale water supply (including deionized water) system, large-scale high vacuum system, large-scale liquid nitrogen, liquid helium cryogenic system, etc.

Today, Su Lian's artificial sun seems to be simpler.

In fact, it is not simple.

Su Lian began to invest a lot of money in research and development since the 50s.

Moreover, several updates have been carried out.

"Sir Yang, as a fusion energy experimental reactor, a high-temperature plasma composed of deuterium and tritium with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees must be confined in a "magnet cage" with a volume of 837 cubic meters to generate a fusion power of 50 kilowatts for a duration of 500 hours. seconds. The thermal power of 50 kilowatts is already equivalent to the level of a small thermal power station. This will be the first time that humans have obtained continuous high-temperature plasma with a large number of nuclear fusion reactions on the earth, producing controlled fusion energy close to the scale of a power station .”

"Mr. Dean, do you mean that Su Lian's artificial sun can generate electricity?" Yang Ming asked.

"No, the current reactor can only last for about 10 seconds each time. According to our speculation, it will take at least half an hour for the artificial sun to generate electricity normally."

It only lasts 10 seconds now?
Yang Ming knew that the current technology was like that.

Even later, the whole world is researching and developing, but the highest in China can only last 100 seconds, which is 1.7 minutes.

At that time, the domestically developed artificial sun was still not commercially available.

At this time, it was only in 1985, and I am afraid that the research and development in China is far away from Sulian.

When Yang Ming was watching, Huo Jianning, He Chaoyu, Lin Xiuzhi and others were all surprised.

This thing can reach a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius in an instant, which is really terrifying. Although it can only last for ten seconds now, in their view, it is also very scary.

If all the thermal energy generated by this artificial sun is converted into electrical energy in an instant, it can indeed provide a lot of electricity.

Yang Ming and others finished their visit here.

Alexandrov and Grachev were very happy to see Yang Ming and others shocked.

However, on the other hand, they no longer have enough funds to research and develop.

Yang Ming knew that this behemoth of artificial sun might not be worth much, but what was really valuable, in Yang Ming's opinion, was the talents inside.

If these talents are taken away, a new artificial sun can be copied in Xiangjiang at any time.

At this time, Lin Xiuzhi asked a very interesting question.

"Boss, why do we have to develop these artificial suns now that there are suns?"

yes?

Why?

Obviously the sun can bring solar energy.

At this time, Alexandrov looked at Yang Ming and said, "Sir Yang, your secretary is a very smart little girl, and she asked good questions."

If there is a sun, why build an "artificial sun"?
Alexandrov introduced that because coal, oil, and natural gas are in danger of being depleted in the future, there is still a certain amount of environmental pollution.

New energy sources such as wind energy, water energy, and solar energy are also limited by weather or geographical conditions, making it difficult to meet needs.

Someone may ask, there are already many commercial nuclear power plants, so why build an artificial sun?
Current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission reactions, which require limited reserves of elements such as uranium and plutonium, and also produce radioactivity.

Even nuclear power plants are very dangerous.

Historically, on April 1986, 4, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded.

Successive explosions set off fires and released large amounts of high-energy radiation into the atmosphere, covering a large area with fallout.

The radiation dose released by this disaster was more than 400 times that of the round bullets that exploded in Japan during World War II.

The total loss of this disaster is about 2000 billion U.S. dollars, and it is one of the most costly disasters in modern history after the nuclear accident on the island.

The "artificial sun" uses a nuclear fusion reaction, and deuterium, one of the raw materials required, has a huge reserve on the earth, which is almost inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

According to calculations, the deuterium contained in 1 liter of seawater can produce the energy of 300 liters of gasoline combustion after the nuclear fusion reaction, and the products are not harmful.

In other words, artificial suns are much safer than nuclear power plants.

Therefore, nuclear fusion energy is considered to be an ideal "ultimate energy source".

If an "artificial sun" is realized in the future, what changes will it bring?
There may be three main aspects of change. First, the energy crisis will be resolved, and energy prices will be very low. Some activities that are difficult to carry out due to energy consumption constraints, such as seawater desalination and interstellar spaceflight, can be carried out on a large scale, which will bring huge production and life. progress.

Secondly, the products of nuclear fusion are helium and neutrons, and no harmful gases are emitted. The greenhouse effect, acid rain, and smog on the earth will be greatly reduced or even disappeared, and the ecological environment will be improved.

Furthermore, the raw materials for nuclear fusion energy can be obtained from seawater, and the disputes caused by human beings due to energy issues will be greatly reduced.

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