Section 290
Until the applause gradually stopped, Xiao Yi picked up the microphone and said with a smile: "Okay, everyone, I declare that this ignition test has been a complete success, and we have also achieved an unexpected achievement, that is, the Lawson criterion!"
As the chief designer announced the success, the whole audience fell into applause again.
Reaching the Lawson criterion is indeed a pleasant surprise for them.
"Of course, I also know that everyone may still have regrets, such as not being able to try to hit 1000 seconds, or even higher, but what I want to say is that with this time, there will definitely be a next time, and maybe, the next time will be another more brilliant achievement than 1000 seconds."
"So, everyone, please look forward to it!"
"In addition, to celebrate today's success, starting tomorrow, all members will have three days off!"
This pushed the atmosphere of the whole audience to another climax.
Almost everyone cheered.
"Ohhhhh!"
"Long live Chief Designer Xiao!"
"Chief Designer Xiao is awesome!"
Probably only the group of people from the Institute of Western Physics were not particularly happy.
You are on vacation, what about them?
Now they just want to know, why?
Why?
Didn't they come here just to see if this UO structure is really feasible?
How come they are not far from achieving nuclear fusion?
What the hell...
Looking at the people around them who were cheering and jumping for joy, they deeply realized a sentence: human sorrows and joys are not connected, they just feel noisy.
"Mr. Chu, what do you say now?"
Li Jiangan smiled and looked at Chu Lansheng next to him.
Chu Lansheng snorted coldly and said, "I still don't agree."
"Wow? You are really stubborn." Li Jiangan glared and mocked immediately.
"You are not the chief engineer, what does it have to do with you? I want to talk to Chief Engineer Xiao." Chu Lansheng laughed, and then he walked towards Xiao Yi.
"Hey!" Li Jiangan followed him, he wanted to know what this old bitch wanted to say.
Chu Lansheng came to Xiao Yi and said, "Chief Engineer Xiao, I feel that your UO structure is still a little bit off."
"Your magnetohydrodynamic generator will eventually come into direct contact with plasma. How can the channel material of your magnetohydrodynamic generator withstand the long-term effects?"
When Li Jiangan heard this question, he cursed, "Old man, you are asking questions knowingly, right?"
They are all the same material, so why do you need to ask so many questions?
But Chu Lansheng ignored him and looked at Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi smiled and replied, "When the channel material is severely worn, the magnetic field will be adjusted to keep the plasma running in the O-tube. At this time, the U-tube is in a safe state, and then the magnetohydrodynamic generator can be replaced."
This is indeed a key issue. The magnetohydrodynamic generator will eventually face high-temperature plasma directly, so the wear rate will inevitably be faster than the wall materials in other places. According to Xiao Yi's calculations, it will need to be replaced about every 2-4 years.
However, thanks to the function of the UO structure, it can be replaced without stopping the machine, so there is no need to worry.
However, Chu Lansheng seemed a little dissatisfied with this answer and asked, "But you can't keep changing it!"
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows. He probably guessed Chu Lansheng's purpose.
And Li Jiangan also guessed it at this time: "You old thing, you are pretending here. What do you want? Do you think we can't see it?"
Chu Lansheng decisively stopped pretending and completely changed his attitude. He begged: "Please, Chief Engineer Xiao, let me see your new material!"
"You also know that such materials are exactly what we who study nuclear fusion have been pursuing for a lifetime."
Li Jiangan next to him immediately pointed at him and laughed: "Chu Lansheng, Chu Lansheng, you have this day too!"
Chu Lansheng still ignored this old rival.
Anyway, as long as he can see that material now, his dream will come true.
The ultimate purpose of his coming here today is to see this material that can resist high-energy neutrons.
Xiao Yi looked at the sincere eyes of the old academician, and finally, he nodded and agreed.
...
Time passed quickly.
Before the relevant news came out, the domestic nuclear physics field first heard Chu Lansheng's announcement: In the future, everything related to controlled nuclear fusion will be completely subject to all instructions of Chief Engineer Xiao, and whatever Chief Engineer Xiao says is what it is.
As soon as this announcement came out, a lot of people were confused.
It's strange. Didn't Academician Chu confront Xiao Yi before?
Why is it like this now?
However, before they could ask, another piece of news came in a more turbulent way.
The UO structure verification device successfully achieved a long-term operation of 1 megaampere plasma current, 150 million degrees, and 370 seconds, and successfully achieved the Lawson criterion during the operation. At the same time, it achieved nuclear fusion power generation for the first time in China, and magnetohydrodynamic power generation for the first time in the world, with a power generation capacity of 30MW!
In an instant, all nuclear physicists who learned of the news were stunned.
Then, the whole society was boiling.
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Chapter 245 Can't let it happen
Almost that afternoon, the relevant news had spread in China.
At first, only some scientific media reported on this matter, but as more and more people saw the news, it undoubtedly became popular.
Perhaps it was due to the nine-year compulsory education, so even if you don’t know what nuclear fusion is, you can roughly understand how much help this technology can bring to human civilization if it is broken through.
The infinite energy alone is enough to make everyone excited.
So, all major media began to compete to report on this matter, not to mention those self-media. Faced with such a traffic carnival, bloggers and UP hosts in the technology circle said that they were alive, and then it seemed to fill up all platforms, including the top of the hot search list, which was almost all about this matter.
This kind of popularity is almost catching up with the time when Black Monkey was first launched. That is, this matter is ultimately scientific, and it is not as popular as games. Otherwise, it would be no problem for this popularity to be on par with Black Monkey.
[EAST-S verification device UOmini successfully achieved the three scientific goals of controlled nuclear fusion 1 megaampere discharge, 150 million degrees, and 370 seconds of long-term operation. Humanity has once again taken an important step in the realization of controlled nuclear fusion! ]
[Controlled nuclear fusion is not far away? How important is controlled nuclear fusion to mankind? ]
[UO structure - the structure most likely to achieve nuclear fusion? ! Take you into Xiao Shen's nuclear fusion! ]
[Humanity achieved the Lawson criterion in a controlled nuclear fusion experiment for the first time! And achieved magnetohydrodynamic power generation! ]
[……]
Various eye-catching headlines made netizens who paid attention to this matter click in.
When you open Weibo and enter the hot search list, the first hot search is: [China's controlled nuclear fusion makes another important breakthrough! ], and after clicking in, it is an article published by Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
【At 15:34:07 on August 30, the UOmini device jointly developed and built by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Science Island Laboratory officially achieved the outstanding results of 1 megaampere discharge, 150 million degrees, and 370 seconds of long-term operation. In the process of the experiment, it also successfully achieved the Lawson criterion and successfully achieved magnetohydrodynamic power generation, with a power generation capacity of 30MW, a power generation time of 50 seconds, and a consumption of about 4.42 mg of fuel, with a total power generation of about 416 degrees!
Compared with thermal power, according to data from the National Development and Reform Commission, China's thermal power plants consume 320g of coal per degree of power generation, and generating 416 degrees of power generation is equivalent to burning 133.12 kilograms of coal!
The gap is even as high as 10 million times!
Therefore, we can say that this is the closest experiment to achieving controlled nuclear fusion since humans began to study controlled nuclear fusion, and it is also the experiment that can best prove the potential of controlled nuclear fusion power generation.
Moreover, we can also proudly declare that this is a major achievement completed by our Chinese researchers.
Infinite energy, absolutely clean energy, energy that can move civilization towards the future, this is the significance of controlled nuclear fusion power generation to mankind.
Let us look forward to our scientists being able to accomplish this feat step by step, and let us look forward to the arrival of the nuclear fusion era in our lifetime.
You may also want to talk about it in the comment area. What changes do you think will happen to life when controlled nuclear fusion power generation is really realized~]
The number of likes and comments on this article has exceeded 10,000, and netizens in the comment area have also expressed their own ideas.
[I heard that nuclear fusion can be used for free electricity. Is it true? ]
[Maybe? The cost of nuclear fusion power generation is estimated to be less than one thousandth of that of thermal power generation, or even one ten-thousandth. Maybe the country is now advocating that everyone save electricity, and then it will advocate that everyone use electricity desperately. ]
[I was moved when I heard it. 】
【What good news! Nuclear fusion concept stocks have all risen. I guess coal futures have fallen. That's awesome. It's like nuclear fusion has really been realized. Why has lithium also increased in price? 】
【Because the nuclear fusion fuel tritium needs to be generated with lithium, the price has increased. Don't you see that superconducting concept stocks have increased in price again? Nuclear fusion also requires a lot of superconductors. 】
【Then there should be no need to worry about drought in arid areas, right? Nuclear fusion should be able to directly bring seawater to arid areas, right? 】
【So, can Lop Nur be restored? ]
[You dare to think... well, it seems that you can really think about it]
[Although it is a bit difficult, it must be said that there is a good chance. Controlled nuclear fusion requires deuterium and tritium fuel, of which deuterium mainly comes from seawater. It is generally carried out by electrolysis of water. This process can help desalinate seawater. Of course, don't forget that the process of nuclear fusion power generation requires the method of boiling water. The process of boiling water can directly desalinate seawater. The fresh water produced in this process must be quite a lot. By that time, it will no longer be a river flowing eastward. It will be completely possible to flow eastward or westward. At that time, there will be no need to send a river of clear water to Shangjing. Maybe the water will have to be sent from Shangjing to the northwest. ]
[Okay, the seawater that covers 70% of the area will also become an endless treasure house for mankind. ]
[A few years ago, I posted a comment on Weibo, saying that Xiao Shen would be able to achieve nuclear fusion within 10 years. Now it seems that it will take less than 10 years. No matter what, Xiao Shen is awesome! 】
【Xiao Shen is awesome! 】