Chapter 439: Fusion Light

The dark blue nebula trembled slightly at a frequency invisible to the naked eye, and expanded until it was maintained by a strong magnetic field on the first wall of a principle reaction chamber, showing off its mysterious brilliance and being extremely beautiful.

The staff at each node took their positions and stayed at their posts. All the R&D personnel held their breath and clenched their fists. At this moment, all of their eyes were focused on the Golden Crow Star Simulator Orbital Device lying in front of them. They knew very well that at this moment, in the belly of this giant beast, the most terrifying heat energy on this planet was brewing...

On Earth, before controlled nuclear fusion, the highest temperature should be the core of the Earth, which is only about 6,800 degrees; the core of the sun is the hottest place in the solar system. This is because there are high concentrations of elements such as hydrogen and helium in the core. Their atomic nuclei constantly collide with each other, producing high-temperature and high-pressure nuclear fusion reactions... equivalent to countless hydrogen bomb explosions, that is, hydrogen nuclei fuse under ultra-high temperatures to release nuclear energy, and the temperature is as high as 15 million degrees Celsius.

However, at this moment, the temperature of the fusion reaction plasma in the Jinwu Stellar Simulator exceeded the limit of hundreds of millions. At this temperature, if there was an accidental leak, people in this range might see a beam of light, or nothing at all, and then the hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature would have vaporized everything around it, completely and extensively killing people.

This is also the reason why many people are terrified when it comes to the word "nuclear". They worry about whether controlled nuclear fusion is really safe, whether it is really controllable, and whether the stellarator device is safe!

In fact, this is a joke to researchers who are familiar with the field of controlled nuclear fusion. But Mr. Wu has made safety the core of his work. Nuclear fusion is not nuclear fission. As long as there is no deliberate operating error, safety is still very certain.

Not to mention, Mr. Wu was directly at the closest point to the fusion reaction of the Jinwu device, so what did they have to worry about? Rather than worrying, they were more proud. While the international community was still using hydrogen to conduct experiments to reduce damage to the reaction wall materials and temperature control under fusion reactions, they were already using nuclear fuel, hydrogen isotopes, and a mixture of deuterium and tritium.

Both the fission of heavy atoms and the combining of light elements effectively produce nuclear energy. These two opposing energy mechanisms are a direct result of the nature of the nuclear force, a force that binds the nuclei of atoms of different elements together.

The behavior of these nuclear forces can be conveniently shown as a graph of "binding energy" versus atomic number.

If we analyze it from a material perspective, without Mr. Wu's help, any of them can easily give a simple physical image to explain the shape of the binding energy curve, explaining why light elements or heavy elements are ideal sources of nuclear energy, while elements in the middle are not.

This is through the comparison of the energy equivalents of different types of fuels, which ultimately established that humans have such a strong interest in nuclear reactions that produce nuclear energy. A simple formula is: fossil fuels: fission: fusion = 106t crude oil = 0.8t uranium = 0.14t deuterium

It can be seen that the mass of nuclear fuel with the same energy equivalent is 10E6 times less than that of fossil fuel, which can greatly save fuel and is beneficial to environmental protection. The reason for such a big difference is that the basis of nuclear reaction and chemical reaction is different.

Based on the basic principles of nuclear fusion, researchers conducted in-depth discussions and explanations. They ultimately concluded that the chemical reactions that occur during fossil fuel combustion are related to the rearrangement of the electronic structure of the reaction molecules, and that the main process is governed by electromagnetic forces.

Nuclear reactions, whether fission or fusion, involve interactions at the atomic level. The initial fuel will be converted into other chemical elements. The process is dominated by nuclear forces, and the energy released is far greater than the energy of chemical reactions, which can achieve a million-fold energy gain.

The most fundamental basis of controlled nuclear fusion reaction originates from here.

Human beings discover fun inadvertently, seek progress in fun, and in progress, let the light of scientific research bring changes to human technology!

The camera team that followed Chu Hengyuan to carry out the secret interview mission, at this moment, used almost silent movements to record the rigorous and orderly actions at the scene. They recorded in detail that the first successful ignition of the domestic stellarator device, the Jinwu Project, occurred at 10:01 on October 1, National Day. By the deadline, they had not seen it yet.

Even though they are almost completely unfamiliar with the field of controlled nuclear fusion, because they are news people and pay a lot of attention to domestic and international news, they still have some common sense and remember that controlled nuclear fusion at home and abroad is measured in seconds.

However, at this moment, what puzzled and shocked them was that, ten minutes had passed since they took the photo, and the huge statue inside the glass wall of the observation room was still running steadily. Ten minutes, six hundred seconds, their old swan, is there such amazing data at home and abroad? Moreover, if this data is measured in seconds, it is still rising steadily while they are thinking about it!

This is... This is their China. Is their China going to create a miracle? It is going to break the world record! As soon as they thought of this possibility, everyone's eyes sparkled. As journalists, they were sensitive. This was going to be big news for them, and there was going to be a big move in the country!

"Mr. Wu, the Jinwu device is running stably and is still within the tolerance range!" It has been ten minutes, and Academician Wan Funian reported with a smile on his face. This is already five or six times the data they have on the Tokamak. However, this data is not the end. In fact, it is very likely that it is just the beginning. Thinking about this, they can't help but feel excited.

They succeeded. They developed the domestically produced Jinwu star simulator. All their efforts and contributions could be expressed better than ever before!

The light of controlled nuclear fusion has been successfully ignited and lit up from the East, from their Chinese capital Shangjing. They believe that this light will illuminate the whole world!

"Maintain stable operation, maintain stable material input, check the generator set, check the power reserve conversion, pay attention to the recovery data..." Before the ignition, Yi Lao made an emergency breakthrough and kept up with the project progress. He made a preliminary breakthrough and sent the magnetohydrodynamic power generation unit with the initial design. During the assembly, Wu Tong connected the device to the Jinwu device...