Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 394 The rising sun
As a nuclear fusion research institution, Qinling Plasma Research Institute certainly has heavy water reserves.

As for tritium, it needs to be specially produced by a tritium manufacturing factory. After all, the half-life of tritium is a little more than 12 years, and it is radioactive. It will not be produced when it is not used.

The wealthy Galaxy Consortium has a tritium manufacturing plant near the Qinling Plasma Research Institute, which is one of the supporting facilities of the Plasma Research Institute.

Since it was the first test, the total amount of DT reaction materials was 10 grams, so the factory quickly produced enough tritium to match the heavy hydrogen (deuterium) electrolyzed from heavy water, and the raw materials were ready.

2 month 3 day.

"Wait and see, the materials are ready." Fei Anming came to the side of the neutron squeezer and said.

"Great, bring it here and have a try." Liu Jingguan immediately became excited.

"Don't worry, DT is radioactive after all, we don't want to be here anymore, just let the robot do the work instead." Fei Anming pulled Liu Jingguan and said.

"Okay!" Liu Jingguan is not ignorant. After all, 10 grams of DT nuclear fusion will generate a huge amount of energy, and the laboratory may be blown up if you are not careful.

So how much energy can 10 grams of DT nuclear fusion reaction produce?
In fact, we can deduce from nuclear fission that the energy released by the fission of 1 kg of uranium 235 is equivalent to the energy released by the combustion of 2700 tons of standard coal.

The nuclear fusion reaction of the same mass can generally produce 4 times the energy of nuclear fission, and 1 kg of DT nuclear fusion reaction can produce energy equivalent to about 10800 tons of standard coal.

10克DT就相当于108吨标准煤的能量，联合国规定标准煤的热值为7Mcal/kg（29300.6kJ/kg），国内规定每千克标准煤的热值为7000千卡。

Let’s talk about a common energy unit in our daily life, the unit of electric energy is kilowatt-hours (degrees). In theory, 1 ton of standard coal is equivalent to 8130 kilowatt-hours.

That is to say, 10 grams of DT nuclear fusion reaction can theoretically generate 878040 kWh of electric energy. Of course, this word in theory represents a value that is difficult to achieve.

And the instantaneous release of 87 kWh of energy, in this case, they must be cautious. After all, it is the first time for them to play with something like a neutron squeezer, and there are still many things they don't understand.

All the researchers left the laboratory where the neutron squeezer was displayed. In a control room where Fei Anming, Liu Jingguan and others came, the staff were remotely controlling the robot.

"Inject D material."

"Inject T material."

Inside the football-shaped vacuum chamber, DT gas is quickly injected into it.

"After the injection is complete, start the condensed matter vacuum chamber."

Crackling... This is the sound made by the sudden formation of condensed NN-8-1 and the neutron ionization phenomenon of DT raw materials, and a part of electrons and plasma hitting the outer vacuum chamber wall.

"The condensed matter vacuum cavity has been formed, and we can proceed to the next step." The staff turned to look at Fei Anming and Liu Jingguan, two big bosses. After all, at such a historic moment, we should respect the big bosses.

"You are the director, you can call!" Liu Jingguan said with a smile.

"Then I won't be polite!" Fei Anming rubbed his hands, obviously getting nervous: "Start the neutron squeeze."

drop!The staff immediately pressed the switch.

In the quiet neutron squeezer, the DT gas that has been wrapped in the condensed matter vacuum chamber is squeezed in the middle of the vacuum chamber by the sudden NN-8-1.

In an instant, DT was ionized by NN-8-1 and turned into plasma, but this was not over yet, NN-8-1 was squeezing DT with every inch, as if to crush them.

"The temperature and light emission of the vacuum chamber are rising."

As soon as the staff finished speaking, the DT in the condensed matter vacuum chamber was already compressed to the extreme. After breaking through the critical point, the nuclear fusion reaction instantly produced a chain reaction.

In the vacuum chamber, countless DTs began to react crazily, D nuclei and T nuclei were squeezed together, and the Coulomb barrier between the nuclei could no longer bear the pressure and was forced to start to fuse.

The D nucleus has one neutron and one proton, while the T nucleus has two neutrons and one proton, and their product is helium-4.

Helium 4 is composed of two protons and two neutrons, so two neutrons must be released in the DT reaction.

But in the condensed matter vacuum cavity, neutrons cannot leave here, and the DT reaction suddenly became more intense, because except for photons and neutrinos that can penetrate the condensed matter vacuum cavity wall, other electrons, neutrons, protons, and atomic nuclei cannot escape.

These substances are crazily concentrated in the vacuum chamber, causing the pressure inside to soar again, and the soaring pressure makes the nuclear fusion reaction easier.

[alarm!alarm!Optical radiation is outside the set range. ]
"What's going on?" Fei Anming asked quickly.

"The optical radiation dose has exceeded our estimated value, which has exceeded 60%, and is rising rapidly." The staff also began to sweat profusely.

"Quick emergency refrigeration."

"The refrigeration equipment has been activated."

Although the staff reacted quickly, the layer of graphene composite FRP material outside the condensed matter vacuum chamber was inevitably burned through.

This shows how intense the nuclear fusion reaction inside is.

"How could this happen?" Fei Anming asked in puzzlement.

"If we guessed correctly, it should be that the pressure in the vacuum chamber is too high, causing helium 4 to fuse as well." Liu Jingguan touched his chin to express his thoughts.

"You mean helium 4 has also undergone nuclear fusion?" Fei Anming thought for a while, and felt that this was the most likely possibility.

The energy generated by the DT nuclear fusion reaction can be calculated according to the mass-energy equation. They are all leaders in the field of nuclear fusion, and it is impossible for such a big mistake to occur.

If it does not reach the predetermined value, it can be said that the reaction is not sufficient, but if it exceeds the value, the possibility of helium 4 participating in nuclear fusion is very high. After all, energy cannot appear for no reason, right?
The whole reaction lasted for 267 seconds, and the football-shaped graphene fiberglass layer had been burned to pieces, and many places appeared to be in a molten state.

And many surveillance cameras and sensors in the laboratory were also destroyed by the leaked light radiation. If someone was in the laboratory, it would definitely result in either death or injury.

"The light radiation energy exceeded expectations, and was 2.7 times the original measured value."

"Detection equipment loss..."

All departments promptly reported the relevant situation.

"Don't close the condensed matter vacuum chamber for now, there may be strong radiation residue inside." Liu Jingguan ordered.

"Ok."

The staff is busy, the experiment is completed, but there are a lot of these hands-on.

After proper treatment, there is indeed a very large radiation dose in that condensed matter vacuum chamber.

Liu Jing looked at the analysis report of the reaction product and was a little frightened: "There is a large amount of carbon 12 in the final product."

"No wonder, the light radiation value is 2.7 times higher than expected, DT nuclear fusion to carbon 12, which has already undergone several layers of nuclear fusion reactions." Fei Anming was very shocked by this result.

"If there are enough reaction materials and the pressure is increased, maybe the nuclear fusion can directly reach the level of iron atoms." Liu Jingguan sighed.

Fei Anming nodded and said: "It is indeed possible, but this experiment still exposed some problems with the neutron squeezer, and we need to deal with these problems."

"Let's hold a discussion meeting!" Liu Jing said after thinking about it.

Soon Fei Anming called a meeting of researchers and engineers from the Qinling Plasma Research Institute to discuss the neutron squeezer.

(End of this chapter)