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Now that the cooperation has been reached, and by combining the loose space technologies available to both parties, we can begin deuterium extraction and fusion reactor manufacturing.

Although the cost is also very high, in order to save the lifespan of Lao Xia's dwindling nano-manufacturing system, a significant portion of the components have to be manufactured by Agor, which not only results in high costs but also low production volumes.

Of course, the Agor people's terms of exchange were also very simple: they needed a large number of fusion reactors to maintain the basic operation of the underwater city and the orbital station that had crashed into the sea. Many of those ancient devices were already on their last legs, which was why the Agor people rarely interacted with land dwellers.

It wasn't just because of simple arrogance and people's reluctance to be friends with monkeys; their own equipment was also aging rapidly, and its carrying capacity was declining at an alarming rate. It simply couldn't support large-scale trade and negotiations with land dwellers. In fact, a considerable number of Agorians had to be "exiled" to alleviate the burden on the underwater city.

Ultimately, their fuel plant can still operate, but the reactor is truly impossible to build. Building a plant on land would be impossible because the industrial and technological level of the land-dwellers is too low, and who knows when they would be able to manufacture it. Underwater industrial production is also not feasible because the underwater environment simply cannot manufacture some of the key components.

Given that the Agors and Kazdel are separated by Iberia and Rembiton, and that southern Kazdel is still under the control of the Regent, it is unreasonable to transport such consumable materials as deuterium fuel over long distances.

Therefore, it is necessary to use water here to extract deuterium fuel and manufacture fuel rods to power the reactor that Xia Lin already has and the new nuclear power plant to be built in the future.

"Nuclear power plant? What's that?" The little tiger tilted its head. It understood the words "core" and "power plant" individually, but what did they mean together?

"A power generation technology that uses the energy of atomic nuclei to generate electricity..."

"Atomic nucleus, oh, that, how is that done?" The little tiger remembered the knowledge he had read in his textbooks, the chemistry of the Terrans...

It's hard to explain in a few words. Because of Originium Arts, which falls somewhere between early chemistry and alchemy, many of the procedures are indeed quite similar to alchemy.

"Using high pressure and high heat to bind them together, they form a helium nucleus and release energy..." A very simple explanation for laypeople.

"No, that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking how to contain this energy?" Beatrice certainly knew the principle; after all, she had read through elementary school textbooks!

"The most crucial aspect of electromagnetic force is preventing the core of this thing from overcooling and shutting down..."

A super coil is needed to heat the plasma. However, Originium is a great help, giving the reactor a significant advantage in maintaining the reaction temperature.

Furthermore, regarding how to convert it into electricity, Originium particles and steam can serve as better mediums than water—there's no need to boil water to propel the turbine.

The Originium effect field is used to absorb heat energy from the plasma sphere for charging. Then, supersaturated high-energy Originium vapor is introduced into the discharge chamber. The wet reactor is used to release the saturated energy in the form of ultra-high voltage current. The reacted Originium vapor is introduced into another stage of circulation and flows into the reactor.

The generated current is used partly to heat the Originium particles located in the furnace core using another Originium device to maintain the reaction temperature and pressure of the plasma ball, and partly to be output externally.

This is much larger than the Covenant's gravity confinement reactor, but it is also much easier to manufacture, at least within the current Agorian extreme construction range.

However, once the Agorians have built this nuclear power plant, their energy pressure will be relieved, the capacity of those industrial clusters will be improved, and the difficulty of subsequent construction will be further reduced.

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Wet nuclear power plants:

Tower preheating unit - heats the injected fuel to the first stage.

Fox-type heating coils further heat the fuel until it reaches an ultra-high temperature plasma of 8 million K.

J-type repulsive mechanism - compresses ultra-high temperature plasma spheres to achieve high reaction pressure, igniting nuclear flame.

Multi-leaf cooler exchanger - exchanges cooling pipelines and removes waste heat.

The ultra-large blade-cooled coils cool the reactor core shell to around -270 degrees Celsius.

Wet Parts Maintenance Cycle Manufacturing Center - Utilizing all the biological blood and nerve tissue required to manufacture wet parts;

Power pipe - ultra-high temperature Originium steam confinement and circulation pipeline;

Power Generation Room - Extracts Originium energy into electricity.

Substation - converts the source metal current into normal, usable ultra-high voltage AC output.

Neutron barrier - blocks some neutron products, preventing damage to wet piping.

Waste treatment center - handles biological waste caused by neutron radiation and normal malfunction of wet components, meeting Level 3 nuclear and biological protection standards.

Control brain center - biological computer control center and management wet device nervous system, controlling the output of all wet device systems.

The regulating rod—a supercooled Originium component—quickly absorbs reactor energy upon falling, causing the plasma sphere to automatically stop reacting due to depressurization and low temperature, thus regulating the reaction rate and facilitating emergency reactor shutdown.

Exhaust furnace - discharges the over-reacted Originium waste gas, which, after passing through a filter, is normally discharged as a white, high-temperature smoke column.

Crystallization mesh - treats raw material waste gas, recrystallizes it, and avoids pollution.

Circulation tube - wet tissue fluid circulation system.

The heat exchange coil exchanges energy with the Originium medium and the plasma sphere, and the energy is converted into supersaturated overpressure Originium vapor.

Fuel rods - fuel bars filled with deuterium fuel, Agor or Covenant specifications.

Chapter Seventy: People's joys and sorrows are not shared.

Chapter 70

In Saltwind, Iberia, the Agor Legion from the deep sea and the Iberian Judgment Army almost completely razed the city to the ground. Hai Si and the infected inhabitants were all burned to the ground, leaving only a bare, half-collapsed megacity on the coast. The fishbone-like dome was covered with scaffolding, and the Iberians were trying to repair this floating city.

As Agor's forward base deep inland, this place is filled with makeshift tents, engineering machinery, and fixed weapons. More supplies and equipment are being concentrated here, and new mega-facilities are being built on the ruins of the city.

Wet nuclear power plants are much larger than conventional nuclear power plants, but their power generation efficiency is much lower for the same volume.

Because the blade cooling unit has its limits, even with the use of the JK-type double confinement system, the reaction rate of the plasma sphere is maintained at about one-thousandth, rather than the theoretical value of four-thousandths.

The ion heating coil, made using Ke Shi Fu wet components, is about half the size of a football field. It is used to distribute the waste heat from the reactor, which caused the wet components to fail. The total length of all the capillaries combined is almost enough to circle Terra.

If it weren't for biological tissue tubes, it would be impossible to manufacture them using metals without a century or two of research.

This greatly reduces the thermal and neutron radiation damage, allowing the reactor coils to operate for extended periods.

In addition to the particle heating coils and the double-layer confinement system, the bio-circulation center, which is almost the size of a building, is also of paramount importance.

The circulating core, composed of thousands of tissue culture chambers, continuously processes the wet components damaged by high temperatures and radiation, then manufactures new ones to replenish them.

Strictly speaking, living organisms are the most resistant to radiation. As long as the rate of destruction and repair are roughly equal, they can withstand the demands of this kind of work.

Of course, they are also much more fragile than electronic and mechanical equipment. Therefore, they require very rapid repairs. Theoretically, the combined effect of the bio-circulation center's repair and replenishment rate and the protection of multiple thermal neutron barriers can sustain the reactor's long-term operation.

The main purpose of building the reactor on the coast is to facilitate the Agors' refueling and the discharge of waste heat and exhaust gases, using seawater as a buffer, since the Agors are not susceptible to carnage.

Although Agor and Iberia have allocated as much engineering manpower and resources as possible to the construction of the power plant, only about 80% of the main building construction has been completed so far, and more equipment and control components are still being installed.

In particular, the installation of the most critical reactor core could only be completed by Argoor engineers.

With a series of clicks, the component consisting of four pillars slowly sank into the coolant and gradually entered the spherical igniter at the bottom.

"Control rod installation complete." "Constraint cavity docking!" The annular constraint cavity is docked and locked with the igniter. "All units check status."

The only part of the reactor that hasn't been installed yet is the generator unit. However, the reactor itself is close to being usable.

After a flurry of activity, all the core reactor components transported from Kazdel have been installed, including the most expensive igniter.

"Ready, ignition, test run!" As long as it can run stably for more than 1000 seconds, it means that most of the theoretical design requirements have been met.

The next step is to further install the remaining pressurization and cooling systems, as well as more complex power generation and heat exchange systems, to transform the idle reactor into a power plant capable of outputting energy.

"Injecting Deuterium Fuel" Approximately a few milligrams of deuterium fuel are injected into the igniter. Subsequently, the tower igniter directly uses Originium particles to create a low-temperature plasma sphere. As the heating system is turned on, the plasma sphere rapidly heats up and pressurizes, transforming into an instantaneous ultra-high temperature ion sphere that quickly ignites the injected deuterium fuel.

Compared to a normal laser igniter, this is more like using the simplest ignition method of fusion—fission ignition—to create one nuclear fireball to ignite another.

"Secondary reactor and constraint open." The plasma sphere was injected into the constraint ring and began to rotate rapidly around the constraint ring under the drive of electromagnetic force, emitting tremendous heat. The Originium effect field device has not yet been installed, which is a huge test for the cooling unit.

The blade cooling coils reached peak power in the second second after startup, the heat exchange system was almost red-hot and discharged a large amount of waste heat, the core coolant emitted blue Cherenkov radiation at a visible speed, and finally, accompanied by a kind of whistling sound in the air, the entire reactor entered the operating state.

"1107 seconds, overheating trip!" The restraint and heating systems went offline one after another, the cooling unit began maintenance, and the reactor gradually stopped reacting under depressurization. Besides, the few milligrams of fuel injected wouldn't have burned for long anyway.

"The basic effect has been achieved. All units have been overhauled, and then the generating units have been installed."

The Originium Effect Power Generation Unit consists of multiple vertical components built around the confinement ring. It forms an Originium Effect Field perpendicular to the confinement ring, through which plasma passes, much like passing through an electromagnetic field. Based on the energy absorption effect of the Originium Effect Field, a portion of the thermal energy is exchanged to the Originium medium within the power generation unit.

The latter melts, saturates, and sublimates into Originium vapor carrying a large amount of saturated energy in a very short time. It then passes through a series of power generation chambers, releases the energy in the form of electricity, and then recondenses, processes, and returns to the reaction chamber after being converted into a negative energy state to form a cycle.

The whole process was complex, tedious, and inefficient, but it was the makeshift method the Terrans used when they couldn't get their hands on the original technical components.

"Originium Arts, it's really useful! I never thought it could be done like this..." Grandia, as the Technology Administrator, was utterly amazed by the outsider's imagination. What is Originium Arts?

To put it simply, it's a bio-industrial component, a solution for Terra to replace equipment with human labor after it loses or loses some of its technological and industrial power following the Great Migration.

Each individual is a part of a giant interstellar machine, preserving the achievements and manufacturing capabilities of civilization in this most rudimentary "manual" way. Normally, after a portion of the equipment is handcrafted, it should enter a mechanized state to manufacture proper fusion reactors from the early days of civilization.

However, it was also for this reason that the Terrans were unable to develop a sophisticated civilization and industry for a long time, and their social system was constrained by this hereditary ability, remaining in the era of bloodline nobility for a long time.

After all, for people in the era of cold weapons, industrial ion cutters and similar tools were not much different from divine weapons, and were not even much different from miracles.

For a long time, the Agors were unaware of this use. After all, theoretically, it would require unifying Terra and piecing together as many of these disorganized industrial parts as possible. Considering the randomness of genetics, it was as troublesome as assembling a bunch of random, unqualified parts into a sophisticated and complex industrial device, especially since there might not even be enough of these parts.

After all, there are some Originium Arts that you simply can't find that many people to use. For example, the Ye Leng system. Theoretically speaking, to achieve this effect using Terra's manual methods, you would need at least 200,000 white rabbits working tirelessly around the reactor under intense radiation.

Therefore, before that, no one would have thought of using Originium Arts to create more advanced equipment and nuclear power plants, until Old Xia successfully came up with this rudimentary method from another perspective.

When most of the time it can only be done by hand and you can't find enough artisans, most people think of either expanding the training mechanism to cultivate more artisans or automating the process. Absolutely no normal person would think of cloning two hundred thousand or even a million copies of the biological organs and nervous system related to artisans and using them as consumables to forcibly manufacture them by hand.

This method, which no normal person could possibly think of, is what is now in front of Goredia. On the surface, it still appears to be an automated, mechanized nuclear power plant that utilizes extremely advanced biochemical and nanotechnology.

In reality, the entire process, including cooling, power generation, confinement, and ignition, is no different from cloning billions of people, stacking them together, and squeezing a nuclear reaction with your fist.

The product is a perfect combination of advanced and backward, mechanical and manual techniques. It is achieved using the most advanced technology in the most backward way, or it can be said to achieve the most advanced technical effect with the most backward means.

"Oh, Agor has successfully completed the test run. They have promised to build a large power plant on land to produce various power components and equipment." The doctor was delighted with this news. Agor's power components are very advanced, which means that aviation, surface fleets and ground vehicles can be greatly improved, and we will no longer have to use the stuff from the old man.

"However, in the short term, they still cannot supply us with equipment; priority should be given to Iberia for reconstruction. But both the Iberian Grand Inquisitor and the Governor have stated that once Iberia resumes production, they will sign a further cooperation or even alliance agreement with us." After all, providing help in times of need is worse than adding to existing prosperity.

"Then we need to accelerate the advance on the southern front. If it can't be used for war, it can at least be used for construction." It will be at least five or six years before these power plants have enough capacity to supply the doctor.

"Speaking of which, how's your daughter? Have you decided on a name yet?"

"Well, not yet, but Beatrice is considering a name."

Mr. Xia said that he hadn't considered this issue yet, since choosing a name is a very... difficult thing for any parent.

Moreover, in a sense, it is also a very important thing for children. Having a strange name may leave them with psychological trauma for life, and unfortunately, this is something they cannot decide for themselves.

"However, I no longer need to be on the front lines for the management of the mountainous areas. The preliminary engineering plan has been finalized, and all I need to do now is to check on the situation periodically."

"I still need to do the training work myself; the people you sent are completely useless..."

“That’s the best agricultural expert we could find…” the doctor said with some helplessness. They were all recruited from Victoria and Casimir.

"They don't even understand genetics, what use are they besides throwing them into the ground and into greenhouses?"

"I don't think a normal agricultural expert needs to study all that stuff you're talking about, right? I'm not saying they don't need to study genetics, but it doesn't have to be to that extent, does it?"

The professor really wanted to complain about this. Besides, Terra's agricultural technology wasn't very advanced to begin with, and its genetics and biochemistry technologies were still at the stage I was thinking about—just look at the experiments conducted by Rhine Life and Loken Water Tank, which were touted as advanced.

"Then what use are they to me? Simple seedling cultivation and selection hybridization are things that I can ask Yelena to do. What I need are 'creators' who can perform genetic manipulation and are skilled in using viral tools."

Instead of farmers who simply plant seeds I've already edited—something I can do with Yelena and the Yeti team by equipping them with sufficiently advanced gear.

"Then you might be disappointed. Scholars like Terra are really hard to find," the doctor complained. "If we had such a powerful being, would Oripathy still be a terminal illness? You might as well let me resurrect Precys to assist you; she's an expert in this field."