Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 396 The Golden Crow Spreads Its Wings
The time came to October 2020, 2.

The underground square where the tokamak device was placed was previously used, and now it has become the site of Jinwu No. 1.

The useless tokamak device was dismantled by Qinling Plasma, and those normal-temperature superconductors that were still usable were sold to the X-ray base next door for refurbishment, and a large sum of money was collected by the way.

Including other items of the tokamak device, a total of 126 billion Martian coins were recovered, and the money was used to build Jinwu 1.

Liu Jing watched the progress of Jinwu 1. These days they conducted 6 nuclear fusion power generation tests and obtained a lot of valuable data.

The critical point of the DD fusion reaction is determined, and the critical point that does not allow the DD fusion reaction to enter the helium fusion stage.

In addition, they discovered the phenomenon of superluminous radiation, which explained the reason for the super-predicted data of the optical radiation dose. Since neutrons and electrons cannot escape the vacuum cavity, after being further squeezed by the accumulation pressure, they will continue to release part of the mass conversion photons.

In the compression-DD nuclear fusion reaction, the light radiation energy output reaches about 56%, and about 27% of the energy is converted into heat, and this heat will be conducted through NN-8-1.

The remaining 17% energy is hard to use electrons, atomic kinetic energy, neutron kinetic energy, neutrinos and the like.

Optical radiation can be used for laser power generation, while thermal energy can only be temporarily used to boil water for power generation.

"Is my design not bad?" Zhang Huaide said, pointing to Jinwu No. 1.

"Very good." Liu Jingguan had no doubts about Zhang Huaide's ability.

Compared with the first prototype they tested, the layout and appearance of Jinwu No. 1 are very different. The prototype is lying on the ground, while Jinwu No. [-] is vertical.

Jinwu 1 is composed of four vertical vacuum chambers.In order to boil water and generate laser power, the vacuum chamber is specially designed. The inside of the entire football-shaped vacuum chamber is coated with a layer of reflective film. These reflective films can reflect most of the light radiation of nuclear fusion.

The direction design of this reflective film was designed by Zhang Huaide with the help of the Institute of Optics. After hundreds of thousands of simulations by the supercomputing center, this plan was designed.

Through these specially designed reflective films, the light radiation generated by nuclear fusion can be concentrated in three directions outside, forming three light radiation release windows.

The four vacuum chambers have a total of 12 light radiation release windows, and these light radiation release windows are used to connect the laser power generation pipelines.

The reason why it is designed as a laser power generation pipeline is mainly to avoid excessive light radiation dose and burn the power generation equipment. Through a laser power generation pipeline with a length of 800 meters, the energy of light radiation is converted into electrical energy layer by layer to achieve dispersion of light radiation. purpose of dosage.

As for how to boil water, it is more simple and crude. The vacuum chamber is transformed into a material with a very good thermal conductivity, and then the four vacuum chambers are immersed in fresh water.

It is equivalent to the boiler directly wrapping four vacuum chambers and a part of the laser power generation pipeline.

From the design drawing, the height of the vacuum chamber is 6.4 meters, the maximum radius is 1.6 meters, while the boiler area has a radius of 16 meters and a height of 15 meters.

There are also two steam turbine power generation systems beside the boiler area.

According to the design, the four vacuum chambers do not work together, but are similar to the working principle of the engine, injecting DD - neutron compression - fusion energy release - exhausting helium ash, these four links are in the four vacuum chambers in a reciprocating cycle.

The DD injection port is above the vacuum chamber, and the helium ash discharge port is below the vacuum chamber.

Although Zhang Huaide has designed many tokamak devices and stellarators, it is the first time for a girl to design a neutron squeezer, so the designed reaction capacity is one kilogram DD per chamber.

A cycle of a single chamber takes 20 minutes. Since the three steps of injecting DD, neutron compression, and discharging helium ash are very short, generally, vacuum chambers 1 and 3 are used for fusion energy release, and vacuum chambers 2 and 4 are used for the other three stages. link.

Equivalent to four vacuum chambers, two of them will release energy at the same time, consuming 20 kg of DD raw materials every 2 minutes.

"You are all here!"

Zhang Huaide and Liu Jingguan, who were talking, knew who was coming as soon as they heard the voice.

"Fei Suo, you're finally willing to come back." Zhang Huaide joked as he turned around.

"Not only did I come back, but I also brought the laser power generation equipment of Jinwu 1. As for the steam turbine power generation system, it is still being customized. I have customized related equipment from China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry." Fei Anming said with a smile .

Since the Galaxy Consortium does not have a steam turbine manufacturing enterprise, Fei Anming needs to order from China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry.

"Fei Suo, it's time for you to come back. The vacuum chamber, neutron condensed matter generator, DD injection system, helium ash discharge system, and control system of Jinwu 1 have all been completed." Liu Jingguan explained the situation to Fei Anming. one time.

"That is to say, the boiler system, laser power generation system, steam turbine system and substation system are left now?" Fei Anming asked.

"Complete these four systems, and Jinwu No. 1 can be almost completed." Liu Jing nodded and said.

"Then what are you waiting for, the laser power generation system has arrived at our warehouse." Fei Anming looked more anxious than Liu Jingguan and the others.

"Fei Suo, the laser power generation system will not run away again. When will the steam turbine and substation equipment be scientifically researched?" Zhang Huaide asked.

"The substation equipment will arrive next week. It is produced by a subsidiary of Guodian. As for the steam turbine, it may not arrive until April." Fei Anming said helplessly.

"Then just wait a bit! This is a good time to perfect and optimize Jinwu No. [-]." Liu Jingguan also knows that large-scale steam turbine systems need to be customized, and this kind of thing can only be customized, otherwise which manufacturer would dare to produce in advance .

However, domestic manufacturers that can produce 100 million-kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets have made a lot of money this time. Qinling Plasma Research Institute placed an order for as many as 60 units at once.

Don't think that a supercritical steam turbine generator set of 100 million kilowatts is very common. This thing is at the top level in the world.

You must know that the largest thermal power station in Dongtang has a total installed capacity of only 650 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to 6.5 supercritical steam turbine generator sets of 100 million kilowatts.

The Qinling Plasma Research Institute ordered 60 units at once, which shows how huge it is.

As for 60 sets of 100 million kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets, is it too much? In fact, it is not much at all, because every 20 minutes consumes 2 kg of DD, which is 6 kg of DD in one hour. 6 kg of DD nuclear fusion can produce huge of heat.

这些热量用来烧开水的综合发电效率40%左右，40%就是5600万千瓦时，至少56台100万千瓦的超临界蒸汽轮机发电机组才可以满足。

The remaining 4 units are spare units.

Jinwu 1 can generate about 4800 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year just by boiling water.

The laser power generation system is expected to generate 1.7 trillion kWh of electricity a year.

The sum of the two systems should be 2.18 trillion kwh. In 2019, the total domestic power generation of Dongtang is 13.4 trillion kwh.

From here, we can see the horror of nuclear fusion power generation. A Jinwu 1 consumes 52 tons of DD nuclear fuel a year and can produce 2.18 trillion kWh of electricity.

而1吨DD核燃料成本是4亿火星币，52吨就是208亿火星币，相当于104千瓦时电能的燃料成本是1火星币。

Don’t forget how DD nuclear fuel is produced. It is produced by multiple distillation electrolysis. Using cheap electricity produced by nuclear fusion to produce DD nuclear fuel can reduce the production cost of DD nuclear fuel. It is a perfect virtuous circle.

Once Jinwu No. 1 is officially put into use, the electricity price will be extremely cheap. The reduction in electricity price costs will effectively reduce all production costs and form a virtuous circle.

　Today's update!mwah!

　　
　
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