"The time of this kind of explosion process is very short, only a few picoseconds. As long as three or four such explosions occur every second and continue continuously, the energy released is equivalent to a million-kilowatt power station!"
Chen Chen heard Little X's explanation and immediately nodded. "I know a little about the tokamak device, but I remember that the tokamak should have a big flaw. There's another kind of inertial confinement fusion reactor. Does the Earth Federation have a similar device?"
"Yes, the tokamak device that represents magnetic confinement does have a big flaw because the core of the tokamak device is the emergence of a magnetic field. To generate a magnetic field, coils are needed. With coils, there are wires, and with wires, there are resistors."
Little X replied, "The more practical the tokamak device is, the stronger the magnetic field is needed and the greater the current must be passed through the wire, so the resistance of the wire will appear. Resistance will reduce the efficiency of the coil and limit the strength of the current, so the tokamak device can't generate enough magnetic field.
"Therefore, superconducting technology is very important. Today, the Earth Federation is making low-temperature superconductors into coils, so they can solve the problem of the amount of current and loss. Therefore, the combination of this superconductor and the tokamak device is called — the super tokamak device.
"Today, there are only three continents in the Earth Federation that have super tokamaks, namely North America, Mainland China, and Europe. Among them, there are five in North America, two in Mainland China, and one in Europe.
"As for the inertial confinement fusion reactor, this kind of equipment is available in many countries and continents around the world, but the truly famous one is the National Ignition in North America.
Project, referred to as NIF for short.
"This device can focus 2 million joules of energy through 192 laser beams onto a deuterium-tritium pellet with a diameter of 3 mm. Each laser beam is fired for about three billionths of a second, producing a high temperature of 100 million degrees and a pressure exceeding 100 billion atmospheres, which then triggers nuclear fusion."
"Understood."
Chen Chen snapped his fingers. "In other words, magnetic confinement nuclear fusion uses a strong magnetic field to confine deuterium-tritium in a magnetic container and heat it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve a fusion reaction, while inertial confinement fusion uses ultra-high-intensity lasers to irradiate deuterium-tritium in a very short time to achieve a fusion reaction."
After understanding this, Chen Chen looked at the nuclear fusion reactor technology in Elysium's dimension and suddenly saw the light.
To put it simply, the emphasis of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement technologies was different. The magnetic confinement super tokamak device had a good nuclear fusion reaction effect and did not need to be ignited repeatedly. However, its shortcomings were that it was large in size, not flexible enough, and the cost of electricity to maintain a strong magnetic field was not low.
Therefore, the Super Tokamak device was used as a nuclear power plant reactor in the Elysium plane.
The advantage of inertial confinement was that the device could be made very small, and the control of the ignition was also better. However, the disadvantage was that it required a lot of energy to generate lasers to continuously ignite the ignition.
Therefore, the inertial confinement device was used as a spaceship engine in Elysium.
Chen Chen read through these two technologies and compared them with the nuclear fusion devices of various countries in the Earth Federation. He found that the reason why Elysium's dimension could manufacture these two types of nuclear fusion devices, in addition to some conceptual reasons, was that the biggest advantage was the room-temperature superconductor.
The room-temperature superconductor could reduce the liquid helium cooling system of the Super Tokamak device, greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the Super Tokamak device. Coupled with the stability of the high-offset metal, a mature nuclear fusion device was naturally formed.
The same was true for the inertial confinement device. The room-temperature superconductor could increase the energy released by the laser ignition device several times, continuing to enhance the energy of the laser and even forming a laser effect called "ultra-high field". This laser could instantly produce 200x10 to the power of 15 watts of energy, which was 100,000 times higher than the total global output of electricity, but it took less than a trillionth of a second.
With this energy, the fuel formed by deuterium and tritium could reach the critical point of nuclear fusion in an instant. There was no need to be as complicated and huge as the NIF device and the efficiency was not high enough.
However, the only regret was that to make a mature Super Tokamak, a substance like the high-offset metal was still needed. However, Chen Chen did not have the conditions to manufacture this kind of high-offset metal for the time being. To produce this metal, he needed the help of a particle accelerator.
Chen Chen could not help but turn to the information on "High-Offset Metal" and read it carefully.
In fact, the so-called high-offset metal was actually a kind of metal aluminum, but it was not normal aluminum, but an isotope of aluminum.
Generally speaking, metals like aluminum did not produce isotopes, but with the help of a particle accelerator, artificial interference and production could be carried out.
For example, the high-offset metal made of aluminum was essentially an aluminum element with a high number of excess neutrons. First, it relied on room-temperature superconductivity to form a strong magnetic field, then a particle accelerator was used to launch iron atoms through the strong magnetic field.
Because the magnetic field in the strong magnetic field area had reached the energy level of tearing atoms, when passing through the magnetic field, the iron atoms would disintegrate. The electrons would fly to one side of the magnetic field and the protons would fly to the other side, leaving only the neutrons unaffected and continuing to fly forward in their flight trajectory.
After that, as long as these neutrons were collected by a resonator and the electrons were glued to the surface of the neutrons using a strong electric combination, virtual particles could be formed.
Because virtual particles were negatively charged, as long as a particle accelerator was used again to accelerate the virtual particles and accelerate them to a sub-light state, they could be used to bombard aluminum atoms.
Because they had reached a sub-light speed, under the huge kinetic energy, these virtual particles could overcome the repulsion force and forcibly penetrate into the interior of the aluminum atoms. In this way, the aluminum atoms would be filled with a large number of neutrons, causing the elemental structure to shift, so it was called a high-offset metal.
Because the neutron content was highly unbalanced, it was extremely insensitive to energy conduction and completely ignored thermal weapons and wave weapons. In addition, the super metal strength and toughness were far better than any alloy. The information even called it the toughest substance in the solar system.
Since it was impossible to build a super tokamak device, Chen Chen could only settle for the next best thing and build another kind of inertial confinement device reactor.
In order to build this kind of reactor, Chen Chen needed to purchase many components of high-precision laser facilities and modify them to make a device that could emit ultra-high-field lasers.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen could not help rubbing his chin.
It seemed that it was time for those financial groups to get to work. Was the reason why he had allied with this group of people in the first place not for the influence behind them?
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