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Chapter 99 – Wake up the “Golden Crow”

In the test site, the spherical tokamak device here is only 20 meters in diameter. Compared with the large-scale circulation fusion devices weighing tens of thousands of tons in other countries, it is considered a “small man”.

It is undoubtedly much more difficult to form high temperature and strong magnetic field and control the output energy of fusion reaction in a smaller device.

In order to build this spherical tokamak device, in three years, a total of more than 50,000 construction workers and experts have fought for it, overcome various difficulties, and broke through more than 10,000 world-leading technologies!

In particular, the new normal temperature and pressure superconducting materials, high temperature and high pressure superconducting materials and the inner wall materials of the fusion device have become a new milestone in the history of human materials!

“Golden Crow”, this is the name of the device, which means the “artificial sun” made by humans.

“Report, the last inspection is completed, there is no abnormal situation.” A researcher reported.

In the main R&D team, Du Xingyu, Zhou Ziang and others are seriously reviewing various data.

Although it has been simulated in the computer countless times, everyone still has no idea when it comes to conducting fusion reaction experiments.

This is the energy source of stars. Can human beings really control it?

“Let’s start.” Du Xingyu whispered, he had been waiting for too long.

With a technology simulator, he has never worked on a project for five years. On the science and technology simulator, in order to reach the current level, he has consumed one billion energy points and conducted countless simulations. From materials to device design, every detail is a huge workload.

“Prepare to wake up the Golden Crow!” Although Zhou Ziang was old, his eyes were firm. He is eighty-four years old and there is not much going on. This may be the last big project in his life.

But as long as it can be done, it will inevitably be left in history, and there will be no regrets in this life!

More than 50,000 participants are paying attention to the entire project team. They are nervous and full of expectations.

It can be said that this experiment has a bearing on the future of all mankind. Now the fusion devices made in several other countries, including the latest one in the United States, cannot be used to power the “asteroid striker”.

The time left for mankind is running out!

In the main control room, everyone looked at every piece of data through monitoring equipment.

“Start ignition!” Du Xingyu pressed the button. The ignition here refers to heating the fusion reactor.

Only when the reaction raw materials are heated to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius can the fusion reaction occur.

The raw material deuterium and tritium is kept in the center of the spherical tokamak under the restriction of the magnetic field.

The laser igniter began to heat the raw material, and hundreds of lasers hit the target at almost the same time. The temperature of the reactant rose rapidly, from several thousand degrees Celsius to tens of thousands, tens of millions, until it reached more than 100 million degrees Celsius!(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“How is the condition of the inner wall?” Senior researcher Luo Yongzhen was a little worried. Such a high temperature, even without direct contact, would test the inner wall very harshly. If the inner wall is melted, this test will simply fail.

The fusion reaction has begun, countless particles impact the isolation layer, and the divertor filters the discharged shell layer charged particles into a separate chamber. The charged particles bombard the baffle and become neutral particles and are pumped away. At the same time, a large number of neutrons escaped and hit the inner wall.

A huge amount of energy is being generated, and the “Golden Crow” at this moment is gradually waking up!

“This is just the beginning!” Du Xingyu whispered, “High-temperature plasma has been generated, pay attention.”

At this time, the discharge reaction has begun, and a strong current is released through the output device.

“Starting to output!” Everyone looked forward to it. At least so far, the Golden Crow device has begun to output energy.

“The cooling system is stable.”

“The output frequency has increased by two million percent within ten seconds… The Q value has reached 1.7!”

“Within the external radiation safety value.”

Time is still in the past, it is too early to say that the test is successful!

“Fifty minutes!” A researcher was excited looking at the time. This output time has surpassed the U.S. nuclear fusion reaction device, becoming the world’s largest!

“The energy released has exceeded 49 times the investment!”

“This time, are we going to succeed?” When everyone was full of expectations, the meter showed that the fusion reaction began to weaken.

“What’s the matter?” Zhou Ziang asked suspiciously.

“The high-temperature plasma has decreased! The temperature inside the device is dropping, and the nuclear fusion reaction is about to stop!” Du Xingyu frowned. Although they have broken the world record this time, they still failed to succeed in one fell swoop.

“Failed again?” Someone’s face dimmed.

“No.” Du Xingyu was not discouraged and encouraged everyone: “The nuclear fusion has stabilized for almost an hour. This time the problem should not be serious. Cool the device first, and then detect the problem.”

“Come again!” Every scientific researcher here has experienced countless failures. This blow is nothing. They quickly regrouped and began to look for problems.

At two o’clock in the morning, Du Xingyu in the Institute of Atomic Energy, after inspecting nuclear fusion residual materials, finally found the problem.

“It’s a waste!” Du Xingyu said, “After fusion, the temperature of the alpha particles in the plasma is reduced, and helium ash is produced. Our magnetic confinement is too strong, which prevents the helium ash from being discharged in time. When a certain amount is accumulated, the fusion reaction stops It’s like when burning a boiler, there is too much ash, and the burning cannot continue.”

“So we need to find a new magnetic confinement scheme to discharge the helium ash while ensuring the control of the plasma!” The nuclear physics expert next to him immediately understood what he meant.

“Yes!” Du Xingyu immediately started the simulation study. He believed: “Tomorrow, tomorrow we will definitely be able to come up with a new plan!”

The next day, the Jinwu project underwent a new plan transformation, and the nuclear fusion control experiment began again.

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The meeting of the Human Guardian Alliance has reached its fifth day, and a new plan has been generated.

This time, all parties acquiesced to the emergence of plans such as PlanB and PlanC. Because countries have discovered that, perhaps, human beings cannot withstand the catastrophe of asteroids.

If things really get to the worst, humans will send some elites into space to build cities on Mars and wait for the disaster on Earth to pass.

Of course, this is only the final plan. At present, everyone is still mainly through the crisis through joint efforts. Up to now, every country dare not have any reservations and will cooperate fully.

Therefore, the General Assembly began to elect the highest commander of the Guardian Alliance.

“At present, we have four candidates, namely Buckhaus, a cosmologist from Germany, O’Connor, a space defense expert from the United States, Peter Vinoch, an astrophysicist from the bear country, and a famous Chinese Multi-field scholar, Mr. Du Xingyu.” The conference supporter announced.

Regarding the selection of commanders, all parties agreed that we should break the rules and let professional leaders be non-professionals. That’s why these experts were nominated. As for other matters, there are naturally competent people in related fields to help.

Although Du Yuxing did not personally attend the scene, he still became one of the candidates. After all, the entire “Death Star Crisis Response Plan” was proposed by him, and he is leading the several successful projects.