Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 189 Neutron Irradiation
When Huang Haojie was immersed in the research of holographic projection technology.

The Luhe X-ray base welcomes a group of guests.

"Is this a room temperature superconductor?" Director Wan looked at a piece of silver-white metal in front of him.

Another gray-haired old man touched the metal excitedly.

They are the top scholars in China who are currently researching fusion power generation, including Hefei Tokamak, Wuhan Stellarator, Southwest Circulation and other research institutes, and they all sent heavyweight experts and scholars here today.

Obviously, anyone can hide the fact that Yinhe Technology has developed a room-temperature superconductor, except the higher-ups.

After all, among the security personnel of the X-ray base, there must be a lot of people above.

The gray-haired Shen Beihai is an expert at the Hefei Tokamak Research Institute. He knows the significance of room-temperature superconductors.

"I didn't expect that the Academy of Sciences has invested so much money, and you can't even see a splash, but Yinhe Technology has quietly produced a room-temperature superconductor. The future is awesome!" Yang Gang from the Southwest Circulation Research Institute shook his head and laughed.

"I heard that Yinhe Technology is also engaged in fusion power generation, and it may produce results someday." Wu Libiao of Wuhan Stellarator joked.

"It's not that easy. Normal-temperature superconductors just reduce the difficulty. There are a lot of problems about plasma control, neutron irradiation, and the material of the first wall. No matter how powerful Huang Haojie is, he is still alone." Yang Gang was helpless. Said.

Shen Beihai also came over. Obviously, as domestic nuclear physics experts and scholars, they are old acquaintances with each other.

"At least they have money to use, and room-temperature superconductors make them even more powerful."

Hearing Shen Beihai's words, several people also became envious and jealous.

After all, the money for the national team is not easy to get, and the funds are not much. After all, the country is now multi-line in parallel, and tokamak, stellarator, and laser ignition (inertial restraint) are all underway.

Typically, there are too many monks and too little food, and the funds are finally dry, especially for stellarators that are not valued, the funds are pitifully small.

"As far as their X-ray base is concerned, we can't afford it." Zhang Dafeng of the Shenguang Laser Project smiled wryly.

After all, the power of the lasers of the Shenguang project is obviously hundreds of times that of the X-ray base. The problem is that the total start-up time of the Shenguang lasers throughout the year is less than one hour.

The X-ray base of Yinhe Technology is almost at full power 365 days a year, except for maintenance and replacement of spare parts, it is in operation at other times.

This electricity bill alone can bankrupt the Shenguang project, not to mention a lot of other things.

Wan, director of Equation and Hefei Tokamak Research Institute, said as he walked.

"Mr. Fang, do you know that your room temperature superconductors are for sale?"

Equation shook his head:

"Director Wan, it's not that we don't want to sell it, but that you can't bear the cost. Even if I give you the cost price, a kilogram of room-temperature superconductor will cost at least 5 Chinese yuan, and your tokamak device will need at least one or two hundred tons. room temperature superconductor."

Having said that, the equation stops.

Director Wan couldn't help being speechless. According to this price, room temperature superconductors alone would cost 50 to 100 billion Wah.

"What's more, the production capacity of our base is less than 500 tons a year. Galaxy Group's superconducting chips and other aspects require room-temperature superconductors. I will give you a quota of 50 tons at most."

Director Wan struggled to think, even if it was 50 tons, it was still an astronomical figure.

"I heard that Yinhe Technology is also developing nuclear fusion power generation. I wonder how your progress is?" Yang Gang came over and asked.

"The progress is not too big. We built a small device in Qinling Mountains more than a month ago. Only the person in charge there knows the details." Fang Fang did not hide anything, after all, there is no need to hide anything like this.

The people engaged in nuclear fusion power generation in China are all disciples or colleagues of Yang Gang and others. Only nuclear fusion power generation has not yet entered the practical stage, and the whole world is communicating.

"May I communicate with your Qinling Research Institute?" Yang Gang asked eagerly.

Equation stall said:
"You can submit the exchange application to the Institute Management Committee of Galaxy Technology, and they will review your application. If it is approved, it is fine. If it is not approved, there is nothing I can do."

After communicating with a group of scholars from the national team, Director Wan and the others also wavered.

After all, room temperature superconductors are good, but the price and service life make them have to consider the issue of money.

After the exchange was over, they hurried back to report to the higher authorities asking for money.

In addition, Yang Gang from the Southwest Circulation Research Institute and Wu Libiao from the Wuhan Stellarator Research Institute applied for academic exchanges with the Institute Management Committee of Yinhe Technology.

the other side.

Deep in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains.

Galaxy Technology is one of the few research institutes outside Shanmei, and the Plasma Research Institute is located here.

In addition, there is the second X-ray base of Yinhe Technology, which is not far from the Plasma Research Institute.

The laser power of this X-ray base has reached an astonishing 5 million kilowatts, which is 100 times that of the Luhe X-ray base.

After a series of research, they found that the service life of room temperature superconductors has a great relationship with the laser power of the laser.

The Qinling X-ray Base and Plasma Research Institute are probably located between Sifang Mountain and Zhongnan Mountain in Shangluo City, Qin Province.

The reason why it was built here is mainly for safety, not for nuclear fusion power generation and explosions, but to avoid external factors.

After all, Yinhe Technology is no small matter now. Many people are staring at Yinhe Technology, not only the people on the ground, but also the satellites above their heads.

Therefore, it is safer to move the base to the Qinling Mountains in the hinterland of the country.

In fact, this base has already been approved for construction in June.

The X-ray base and the plasma research institute are connected together.

Equation was soon transferred from the Luhe X-ray Base to the person in charge of the Qinling X-ray Base, and the person in charge of the Plasma Research Institute was Fei Anming, who was recruited by Yinhe Technology from Dongtang Academy of Sciences.

The Qinling X-ray Base and the Plasma Research Institute have invested a total of 600 billion Chinese yuan.

Yinhe Technology is the only domestic private enterprise engaged in nuclear fusion power generation research.

Now there are about 300 researchers in the Plasma Research Institute, plus other security guards, cleaners, chefs, and people from the Qinling X-ray Base, there are a total of nearly 2000 people here.

Although Fei Anming and others have built a small tokamak device, Yinhe Technology does not follow the tokamak route in terms of nuclear fusion power generation.

Among the various nuclear fusion power generation routes around the world, whether it is a tokamak, inertial restraint, or stellarator, there are many problems.

The problems of tokamak are neutron irradiation, superconducting strong magnetism, plasma control, first wall material and so on.

The stellarator can be regarded as a variant of the tokamak, and there are a lot of problems. Although the stellarator solves the problem of plasma control, the complex structure and magnetic field control are also a big problem.

As for inertial bondage, it would be tears to say it.

The inability to continue alone is a big problem. Other problems are similar to the tokamak, such as neutron exposure.

What is neutron irradiation?
During nuclear fusion, neutrons are produced when atomic nuclei fuse.

And neutrons are uncharged, which means that the strong magnetic force cannot bind neutrons, and these high-energy neutrons will continuously bombard the surrounding first wall material, causing the first wall material to deteriorate and tiny pits to appear.

These pits will attract plasma to invade the first wall material, thus producing hydrogen or helium bubbles.

Obviously this is an endless loop.

Because none of the materials known to mankind can contain the damage caused by neutron irradiation.

(End of this chapter)