Chapter 403 Supercritical Fission Reactor

a week ago.

In cyberspace, Lear is digging into his memories——

In his original world, in 2035, through a series of efforts, nuclear energy technology made a huge breakthrough.

This breakthrough was not a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion, but a breakthrough in environmental protection agreements. After countries tacitly agreed not to report or limit illegal emissions, Lear and his research team created a new nuclear fission technology.

The fission reactor created by this revolutionary multi-element nuclear fission technology is called a supercritical fission reactor, or SCFR.

As the name suggests, the supercritical fission reactor is based on a mixed fuel of uranium-235, plutonium-239, uranium-233 and thorium-232 heavy elements as the core. Compared with traditional fission reactors, the energy conversion efficiency is 50% to 66% higher. The energy density is more than three times that of traditional reactors.

Even better, the research team found a neutron flux control algorithm for controlling violent and complex multi-stage chain reaction algorithms, which greatly improved the fuel utilization rate. When the total amount of energy is the same, the reactor has no fission nuclides. The probability of conversion to radioactive waste is significantly reduced.

These waste materials can also be reintroduced into the reaction cycle through the waste conversion module carried by SCFR.

With higher energy output, less nuclear waste, and greater power, SCFR should have become the most powerful power generation technology before the breakthrough of nuclear fusion. Unfortunately,

[Little Octopus: Brother, why didn’t we deploy such a powerful technology from the beginning? It feels like all problems have been solved. 】

Little Octopus is not a scientific AI, but it is not difficult to understand the theoretical data listed by Lear.

A simple summary is that this technology is simply awesome in terms of theoretical value. In comparison, the controllable nuclear fusion, which is always a bit worse, is not so good——

Even if there is a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion, it is still unknown when its energy efficiency will surpass this technology.

Leal remembered the basics of every implementation of the technology, but he was not a computer.

SCFR is a super reactor. The theory, implementation algorithms, technologies used, etc. cannot be fully recorded by the human brain.

All he can do is recall this technology as much as possible, and then, with a determined attitude, lead his new research team to turn the technology into reality again.

With the help of the little octopus, the data classification was completed quickly——

Regarding its question, Lear stopped to think, just sighed, stretched out his hand and stroked the smooth data surface of the small octopus.

There are some words he can only tell the little octopus in cyberspace: only this unexpectedly born AI knows his most core secrets.

[Lille: I used to think so too. Many people think so: if a certain technology achieves a breakthrough, all problems will be solved, right? 】

[Lear: But the result is that human history has been making breakthroughs in one technology after another, and the shape of society has been changing]

[Lear: The result is that no matter how technological breakthroughs occur or how the world changes, there is always one thing that remains unchanged. 】

【Little octopus:(o_O)?】

[Little Octopus: What is it? 】

Lille copied a large amount of data, which came from the Internet. When they were compiled and presented in front of the cyber modulator, what Lille saw was a strange, disorderly, and bizarre city.

This city makes people get lost, satisfies people's curiosity, and stimulates people's desire to explore.

Soon, Lear used computing power to build several programs based on some of this data to purposefully clear the corresponding data.

These programs search for data in the city that they think should be cleared, and then use the defeated data for their own purposes——

Soon, these programs became powerful enough to devour each other, and finally the two largest programs were left, triggering a huge confrontation.

The whole process is like a chain reaction. Once it reaches a certain stage, the reaction accelerates and can no longer be controlled.

All the memory used to store data has been programmed for its own use, and is driven by the program to charge towards the final enemy.

The last two programs stopped running after losing their basic logical structure, and they were entangled with each other like a huge mushroom cloud of distortion.

All data has lost its readability and nothing meaningful exists in this memory sector anymore.

Lear picked up one of the fragments and fed it to the little octopus. The latter chewed it twice and spit out the data spores intact——

[Little octopus: (×ω×`)! 】

Lear smiled and scratched its head, looked at the completely collapsed sector, and answered the little octopus's question:

[Lear: Nuclear energy and radiation have developed incredible functions in my world, but in the end, what they still cannot solve is war. 】

[Lille: War never changes. 】

SCFR's excellent data amazed all researchers!

A medium-sized SCFR power station covers an area of ​​10 to 20 hectares and can reach 500 megawatts of power, which is enough to supply some medium-sized cities and industrial areas!

Leal looked at the things on the screen with some emotion, waiting for the researchers to chew on the contents.

Among them, Dr. Otto, who was a master of atomic physics, saw at a glance that this design was feasible.

But feasibility does not mean simple implementation, otherwise someone would have done it long ago.

The difficulty of SCFR is that the neutron pass rate control algorithm needs to be summarized based on a large number of nuclear tests. This "large number" rough estimate probably requires the whole world to enter a period of nuclear energy flooding and engage in a nuclear arms race before it is possible to build such a Effect.

The neutron pass rate algorithm requires a complete set of advanced neutron modulation systems to implement, in which the mirror material used to reflect neutrons needs to be nanometer-thick, arranged layer by layer in the reactor, and the neutron pass rate is controlled based on the algorithm.

Due to the complex and changeable reaction conditions in the reactor, the central control must have supercomputer-level calculation speed and be equipped with an autonomous learning AI with basic intelligence.

Obviously, this difficulty can be solved: Bloom is an expert in software and hardware in the computer field today.

The next thing that needs to be solved is the thermal management system: SCFR’s power generation module can use steam turbines like traditional technology, but in that case, the performance of SCFR will not be fully released.

Traditional nuclear power plants need to use a heat engine. The heat energy evaporates water, and the gas drives the turbine to generate electricity. The nuclear energy is converted into thermal energy, then into mechanical energy, and finally into electrical energy.

SCFR's finished product technology concept uses magnetic fluid power generation technology to directly convert the working fluid into high-temperature plasma. The movement of charged particles in the magnetic field directly generates current, eliminating the need to convert into mechanical energy. The energy conversion rate can easily exceed that of traditional thermoelectricity. Station limit.

There are still many difficulties in turning this technology into reality, but it happens that Dr. Otto is an authority in this regard.

Before Lille could make arrangements, Otto took the initiative and said:

[Otto: Let me solve the problem of magnetic fluid power generation technology. You may not believe it when I tell you. When I first designed the octopus arm, I hoped that this arm could help me control some ultra-high temperature plasma. 】

Dr. Otto is also an authority on nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion technology will produce a plasma similar to the sun in the core, so this has long been his subject.

Even if this difficulty has not been completely overcome, traditional heat engines can still be used to generate electricity, which happens to be an area in which Dr. Toombs holds multiple patents.

The last difficulty is not a technical difficulty, but a practical difficulty.

[Lille: Very good. 】

[Lille: Let’s talk about the last question. 】

[Lille: All companies that may provide nuclear raw materials have rejected our purchase applications, and we can only mine them ourselves——]

[Lille: It just so happens that Uranium Ten Company plans to sell the mining rights of the Mkuju River uranium deposit, which is near Tanzania. We bought it. 】

Everyone nodded, it was a very reasonable suggestion.

But the question is, why does Lear have to discuss it with them when buying something?

Lille looked at them and slowly added:

[Lille: Roxon Energy Company is also interested in acquiring this mining area. 】

This is where these scientists lack sensitivity.

When giant companies want to buy something, sometimes it’s not their financial resources that make them compare.

But force.