Chapter 279

It's hard to say whether he can still stay here in a few months, and the same goes for the director in front of him.

Even if their vice president wins, there is still a question whether they will be replaced by then.

Why are they still worrying about this kind of thing?

Even if Xiao Yi can really create nuclear fusion, it won't be possible in a few months.

Then they won't be the ones to take the blame.

"Forget it, you can just keep an eye on me as before."

After packing up the documents, the Secretary of State, who was a little uninterested for a moment, said, "I'm going to go to our Madam President first."

The CIA director shrugged: "Okay, Mr. Secretary."

…

The White House's attention ended in this way. There is no doubt that Xiao Yi and the EAST-S plan will no longer need to worry about these things for a long time to come.

At this time, the Plasma Institute was already preparing for future plans.

The EAST-S plan is divided into three steps: design, construction and ignition.

Among them, design is naturally the most important.

It is necessary to come up with a sufficiently complete design, and in terms of specific technology, it must be at least a little more innovative than the current EAST. Otherwise, it is just an enlarged version of EAST, which obviously cannot convince the public.

And this requires Xiao Yi, the chief designer, to play a role.

As the chief designer, this is what I am responsible for.

As for the subsequent construction and ignition, it is relatively simple and can be completed as long as there is a design drawing.

Of course, this is the plan for EAST-S.

As for the sun-making plan, we haven't considered that much yet. There is only one goal now, and that is to verify the feasibility of the overall technology!

The overall technology includes many aspects, and the first wall material is one of them.

Since the ultimate goal of the Sun-Making Project is to realize a controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor, its overall technical specifications must naturally be aligned with the standards of a controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor.

For example, the first wall material should have a service life of at least more than five years. Of course, judging from the current performance of MHT-7, five years is obviously far more than that.

In addition, the feasibility of power generation technology and the method of power generation are key, which determines the final energy utilization efficiency.

According to the existing efficiency of various boiling water, the theoretical value of the total conversion efficiency of the energy generated by nuclear fusion can reach 50-60%.

Of course, the theoretical value is only a theoretical value, and in reality it will always be lower. For example, the designed power generation efficiency of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) currently under construction is about 30-40%.

Taking these efficiencies into consideration, Xiao Yi finally set an overall conversion efficiency of 50-60%.

In the fusion reaction, about 80% of the energy is released in the form of high-energy neutrons. This energy will be absorbed by the first wall material and converted into heat energy for output. The remaining 20% ​​of the energy is charged particles.

For that 80% energy, assuming that the final conversion can reach about 45%, and then the remaining 20% ​​energy of charged particles can be converted using magnetic fluid power generation technology.

After all, magnetic fluid power generation technology is a power generation technology that can break through the Carnot limit. Its conversion efficiency is as high as 60-70%. Therefore, it can convert the 20% of charged particles, and the conversion efficiency can be 12-14%.

In this way, the overall conversion efficiency of nuclear fusion has a chance to reach more than 50%, or even 60%!

This will be a conversion efficiency that far exceeds that of other forms of power generation, and it is also a major advantage of nuclear fusion.

According to calculations, with the same quality of fuel and nuclear fusion power generation with a conversion efficiency of 60%, the power generation is 17,352 times that of thermal power and 7.41 times that of nuclear fission. Fusion will not cause pollution, while thermal power and nuclear fission will cause pollution. Extremely serious.

So, this is the superiority of nuclear fusion!

…

Time passed quietly and it was early November.

The general election in the United States is in full swing and is about to end.

On the Plasma Institute side, preparations are being made for another ignition of EAST.

The purpose of this ignition is to verify the feasibility of the first wall material of the sun-making project.

Of course, nominally, this ignition is to provide more data support for EAST-S.

"The MHT-7 has been put in, right?"

In the command room, Xiao Yi asked.

"It's already been put in."

Zhao Zhanyou said: "I also checked it myself, and the two pieces are numbered A-7 and B-10."

Xiao Yi nodded.

To verify the first wall material, of course it must be placed in a nuclear fusion environment and actually face high-energy neutrons.

So Xiao Yi also worked overtime and produced two large MHT-7s.

And now, they are ready.

Soon, all preparations were completed and the ignition experiment began.

"ignition!"

The ignition button was pressed, and after maintaining the temperature above 100 million degrees for about 200 seconds, the experiment was stopped.

After complete cooling and the internal radiation dropped to a safe value, staff took out several pieces of the first wall material inside.

Take these materials away for observation.

"No. A-7, there is no change in nature!"

"No. B-10, there is no change in nature!"

"All the other materials have undergone neutron transmutation and other situations!"

As the result came out, Xiao Yi smiled.

Perfect!

Chapter 238 UO Structure

Although Xiao Yi had already expected the result, he was satisfied with the measurement result, not to mention the others around him.

At this time, their faces were full of shock and disbelief.

"I didn't expect...it's so strong."

Zhao Zhanyou murmured.

He had read the experimental report given by Xiao Yi before, but seeing this scene with his own eyes made him speechless for a while.

He knew too well how terrible the destructive power of those 14.1MeV neutrons was.

He once thought that there was no material in the world that could withstand the long-term invasion of these high-energy neutrons, but now, his idea was finally denied.

Beside him, Li Jiangan's eyes were red. As the old man who had invested the most energy and time in nuclear fusion among so many people present, he and Zhao Zhanyou knew how impossible this material made them feel.

But the difference was that he was more than 20 years older than Zhao Zhanyou, and he knew more clearly the process from expectation to dullness, and finally to despair.

And finally, his dead ardent expectation was finally restored at this moment.

Even in his heart, he began to dare to think that he could see the day when controlled nuclear fusion was successfully realized in his lifetime.

The excitement in his heart made his silence particularly intense.

In addition to their three main leaders.

There were other people present.

These people also knew about the Sun-making Plan.

After all, after so many days, their Sun-making Plan team naturally could not have been only the three of them.

This kind of plan always needs to be known by people at all levels, otherwise when they issue orders that are a bit inconsistent with the EAST-S plan in the future, the people below will not be confused.

Therefore, the team of the Sun-Making Project has now expanded to 30 people, and will continue to expand in the future.

Of course, when expanding, they will inevitably conduct an investigation on the expansion targets. For example, those who are usually very tight-lipped and will not easily reveal anything are their main development targets.

In this process, the National Security Department will also provide them with help. After all, the confidentiality level of the Sun-Making Project is quite high.

At this time, these people are also very excited.

"Fuck, this material, can people really make it?"

One person said in amazement.

This person is Zhao Jia, who is the person in charge of the plasma institute to dismantle the armor of the first wall material inside EAST. The person in charge of dismantling must be able to feel that the two materials A-7 and B-10 are different from other materials, so this person was also absorbed into the Sun-Making Project without any surprise.

When he learned that there was a Sun-Making Project with a name that was obviously more lofty behind the EAST-S plan, he was so excited that he didn't expect that he would be able to join such a secret plan one day.

After seeing such radiation resistance with his own eyes, although he did not have the excitement of Zhao Zhanyou and Li Jiangan, based on his understanding of science, he also knew how incredible this material was.

"You kid, do you know that this material was developed by Chief Xiao? You said it is not something that humans can make?"

Another person next to him laughed when he heard his exclamation.

"It was actually developed by Chief Xiao?"

Zhao Jia showed an expression of "as expected": "Yes, only Chief Xiao has such ability."

But then he shrugged and said: "To be honest, I feel that if Chief Xiao admits that he is an alien one day, I am willing to believe it. As for now, I really don't believe he is a human. He is simply a god."