Chapter 991 Visit Su Lian’s Behemoth!

If it was before Chernenko, Yang Ming wanted to visit the technology of Su Lian, which was impossible.

In fact, he might be treated as a spy.

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

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

Among them, the very realistic reason is that Su Lian has no money and hopes to get financial support from Europe and the United States.

When Yang Ming, Huo Jianning, He Chaoxuan, Lin Xiuzhi and others got on the car, they left the villa and went to a suburb of Moscow.

It is very mysterious there.

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

This is a place under the Su Lian Academy of Sciences for studying artificial suns.

In addition to the large amount of soil below being dug away, a huge basement was built below, and many buildings were built above.

These buildings cannot be blown up by nuclear bombs.

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

After confirming the identities of Grachev and Alexandrov, Yang Ming and others were able to enter.

Back then, when Yang Ming and his friends first came to Moscow, he was a little shocked when he visited the Moscow subway.

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

Now when Yang Ming and his friends came to this building, he was really shocked.

This building that existed like a monster on the ground had very thick walls outside. No wonder even nuclear bombs couldn't blow it up.

Going inside.

Yang Ming still saw a lot of staff in work clothes working here.

These should be the scientific and technological talents of Su Lian.

Among them, the most important research project here.

Artificial sun.

The main object of this artificial sun is underground.

In other words, there are also large buildings underground.

Along the way, Yang Ming felt that everything here seemed very different from this era except that it was brightly lit here.

It's very deep here.

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

In addition, there are many wires and various pipelines inside.

In fact, if there are problems with these wires and pipes, the researchers working inside will also be in danger.

When Yang Ming and others came out of the elevator.

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

That is to say, it was at least more than ten meters deep, which seemed to be about the same depth as an ordinary subway.

Yang Ming and others followed Alexandrov out.

Yang Ming and others saw a large hexagonal space.

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

They saw a huge monster 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 Su Lian." Alexandrov said on the side.

This device is a superconducting tokamak that can produce 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 500,000 kilowatts, and up to 1020 high-energy neutrons are released per second.

The plasma ring is in the annular envelope of the shielding blanket, which will absorb 500,000 kilowatts of thermal power and all neutrons produced by the nuclear fusion reaction.

Outside the blanket is a huge annular vacuum chamber. There is a filter connected to the vacuum chamber on the lower side to discharge the waste gas after the nuclear reaction.

The vacuum chamber is penetrated by 16 large superconducting toroidal field coils (i.e. 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 tube (central solenoid), and six large toroidal superconducting coils, i.e. poloidal field coils, are arranged outside the toroidal field coils.

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

In fact, the appearance model of the thermonuclear fusion experimental reactor currently developed internationally is the entire system covered in a large dewar, located on the base, forming the main body of the experimental reactor. Outside the main body, there are four 10-megawatt high-current particle accelerators, a 10-megawatt steady-state millimeter electromagnetic wave system, a 20-megawatt radio frequency wave system and dozens of advanced plasma diagnostic measurement systems.

The entire system also includes a large power supply system, a large tritium plant, a large water supply (including deionized water) system, a large high vacuum system, a large 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 has invested a lot of money since the 1950s.

Moreover, it has been upgraded many times.

"Sir Yang, as a fusion energy experimental reactor, it is necessary to confine a high-temperature plasma composed of deuterium and tritium with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees in a "magnetic cage" with a volume of 837 cubic meters, generate 500,000 kilowatts of fusion power, and last for 500 seconds. 500,000 kilowatts of thermal power is equivalent to the level of a small thermal power station. This will be the first time that humans have obtained a continuous high-temperature plasma with a large number of nuclear fusion reactions on Earth, and produce 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, now this reactor can only last about 10 seconds each time. According to our speculation, it must last at least half an hour before the artificial sun can generate electricity normally."

It can only last for 10 seconds now?

Yang Ming knew that the current technology was just like that.

Even later, the whole world was developing it, but the highest domestic one could only last for 100 seconds, which is 1.7 minutes.

At that time, the artificial sun developed in China could not be used normally for commercial purposes.

At this time, it was just 1985, and I am afraid that the domestic research and development was far from Su Lian's.

When Yang Ming was watching, Huo Jianning, He Chaoxuan, Lin Xiuzhi and others were all very 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, it is also terrifying in their opinion.

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

Yang Ming and others finished the tour here.

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

However, on the other hand, they no longer had enough funds for research and development.

Yang Ming knew that this artificial sun might not be worth much. What was really valuable, in Yang Ming's opinion, was the talent inside.

If these talents were taken away, a new artificial sun could be copied in Hong Kong at any time.

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

"Boss, why do we still have to develop these artificial suns when we obviously have the sun now?"

Really?

Why?

The sun can obviously bring solar energy.

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

Why do we still need to build an "artificial sun" when we have the sun?

Alexandrov introduced that because coal, oil, and natural gas are in danger of depletion in the future, there is also a certain amount of environmental pollution.

New energy sources such as wind power, hydropower, and solar energy are limited by weather or geographical conditions and are difficult to meet needs.

Some people may ask, aren't there many commercial nuclear power plants now? Why do we need to build an artificial sun?

Current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission reactions, and the required uranium, plutonium and other elements are limited in reserves, and they also produce radioactivity.

In fact, nuclear power plants are very dangerous.

Historically, on April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded.

Continuous explosions caused a fire and emitted a large amount of high-energy radioactive materials into the atmosphere, and these radioactive dust covered a large area.

The radiation dose released by this disaster is 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 200 billion US dollars, which is one of the most costly disasters in modern history, second only to the Fukushima nuclear accident.

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

It is estimated that the deuterium contained in 1 liter of seawater can generate the energy of 300 liters of gasoline after nuclear fusion reaction, and the product is harmless.

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

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

If the "artificial sun" is realized in the future, what changes can it bring?

There may be three main aspects of change. First, the energy crisis will be solved, and the price of energy will be very low. Some activities that are difficult to carry out due to energy consumption restrictions, such as seawater desalination and interstellar spaceflight, can be carried out on a large scale, which will bring great progress in production and life.

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

In addition, the raw materials for nuclear fusion energy can be obtained from seawater, and the disputes caused by human energy issues will be greatly reduced.

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