In the early morning of the next day, inside the established experimental site.
A cylindrical container almost as tall as a person was placed in the middle of the field.
On the other side, Xu Zhou, Liu Zhongmin and others had already begun directing everyone to assemble the experimental equipment.
The cylindrical container between us is the core of this experiment, the first miniaturized experimental machine for controllable nuclear fusion.
At this time, Zhang An and others were wearing slightly thin white coats and carefully inspected the layout of the site with the drawings in their hands.
"Dean Xu, should the cooling device here be connected now?"
"Well, heat dissipation is the key to the miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor. Install it now."
Zhang An responded, and then immediately cooperated with the engineers to start connecting the heat dissipation device.
After a while, Zhou Guofu also shouted:
"The motors here don't seem to match!"
"Bigger or smaller?"
"It's too small!"
Xu Zhou immediately pointed to the warehouse on one side and said:
"There are all sizes in there. Mr. Zhou, please do your best and get it yourself!"
Zhou Guofu made a move and walked into the warehouse with two young and strong men.
In this way, from being busy until the sky was dark, there was a slight dawn in the sky.
Everyone finally completed the planned construction of the drawings.
Xu Zhou glanced at the time and said:
"Thank you all, please rest where you are for half an hour. Then we will prepare to start the experiment."
"receive!"
A group of engineers sat down and rested without any complaints.
Each of them received an order and signed a confidentiality agreement.
During this period, all research work is kept confidential and they are not allowed to go home for a short period of time.
But even so, no one complained.
Because they all know that this experiment is equally important than the previous controlled nuclear fusion experiment.
"Lao Yang, what do you think this thing has to do with controllable nuclear fusion? Didn't we just make a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology?"
"Master Liu, why are you so curious? Let's just do the work."
"That's right. But let me tell you something. Despite his young age, our dean has a really good head! It's only been a while since we conducted the experiment again. This proves that technology has once again made a new breakthrough!"
Several close engineers sat together chatting quietly to pass the time.
"We have the most intuitive experience of the changes in Longguo this year. Where did these technologies exist before... Fortunately, we have Dean Xu in Longguo."
"It's not an exaggeration to say it's the reincarnation of a god. This achievement and research and development speed are simply incredible."
"I heard that if this experiment succeeds, this controllable nuclear fusion may even appear in our lives."
"Real or false? That nuclear power plant is so huge, how can it be used in daily life?"
"Really, as a few academicians just said, trains, airplanes, cars, and ships are all possible!"
"Okay, awesome!"
Time passed quickly while everyone was talking.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Zhou clapped his hands to start preparations.
"Everyone check whether the equipment is normal!"
"receive!"
Everyone replied that this was not the first time for this kind of experiment, and the process was basically familiar to them.
At this time, the report sound of normal detection of each part sounded.
Liu Zhongmin stared nervously at the cylindrical device in the middle.
"Is there liquid lithium in here now?"
Xu Zhou shook his head and said:
"Not yet. The metal lithium inside is still there. I will heat it to its melting point later and turn it into liquefied lithium."
Liu Zhongmin nodded and did not continue to talk to disturb Xu Zhou.
"Report all is well!"
Xu Zhou nodded, looked around at everyone, and then said after making sure everyone was ready:
"Start warming up!"
"receive!"
Soon, the heating timer started on the big screen on the side.
The time slowly increased until at the eighth minute someone shouted:
"Report, liquefaction completed!"
Xu Zhou's eyes moved slightly, eight minutes.
At a melting point temperature of over 180 degrees, a preheating time of eight minutes is acceptable.
Liu Zhongmin recorded the experimental data on the side, muttering excitedly to himself.
"The eight-minute warm-up time is already a very short preparation time for a nuclear fusion equipment... Not bad."
"This is the first experiment. The heating efficiency should not be too violent. If it can be stabilized later, the preheating time may be doubled."
Liu Zhongmin nodded when he heard this, looking at the experiment with a smile and excitement on his face.
Xu Zhou paused for two seconds and then continued:
"The liquefaction is complete, start the sonic device! Construct the sonoluminescence phenomenon!"
"Add deuterium-tritium gas mixture!"
Soon inside the container, everyone saw a large number of bubbles produced through a small observation port specially set aside.
Finally, as the sonic device works, regular expansion and contraction begins!
When ultrasonic waves propagate in the medium, it will cause the elastic strain of the medium to change periodically in time and space. Now Xu Zhou is taking advantage of this and starting to affect the contraction law of the bubbles.
Then everyone saw that the bubbles exploded and burst out with a very brief bright light. The bright light flashed away, and light radiation appeared!
And in this moment, a temperature of hundreds of millions was born at the core of the bubble!
And the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction appeared just like this!
"It appeared! A large number of neutrons appeared!"
Hearing this, everyone looked overjoyed.
The birth of a large number of neutrons means that the fire of nuclear fusion has been successfully ignited in its reactor!
“Stay steady and watch the data!”
Xu Zhou ordered again. This time everyone was much calmer than the last nuclear fusion experiment.
After all, it's not the first time.
Liu Zhongmin paced back and forth, staring at the stable line data on the screen.
Every problem with the data here means that there is a problem with the entire experiment, and the calculation must be overturned.
But fortunately, so far, everything is normal.
Zhang An and Zhou Guofu are also recording any small fluctuations at this moment.
In this way, everyone was looking at the large and small screens with great nervousness.
After two full minutes, Xu Zhou slowly took off the microphone from his mouth, exhaled and said:
"Everyone, the preliminary test should be successful!"
Liu Zhongmin and others immediately came over, and then said with an excited smile:
"Is it really done?"
Zhang An also rubbed his hands nervously.
"How about running it longer..."
Xu Zhou smiled and said:
"It won't matter if it takes a little longer. It's a success."
"Small-scale nuclear fusion technology, initial success!"
Everyone looked at each other, and finally hugged each other excitedly.
"The luck of the dragon country! The luck of the dragon country!"
…
Nuclear fusion stopped completely after the deuterium gas was completely consumed. Everyone watched the fusion fire in the reactor slowly extinguish, but their hands were busy with other things.
"Xu Yuan, how much energy can such a small nuclear fusion device provide?"
"I don't know, but it's definitely not low."
Zhang An nodded and answered.
"With the energy released in just five minutes, it has been calculated that the energy that this experimental machine can generate by continuous ignition is equivalent to 1,200 megawatts."
Zhou Guofu nodded, and then his eyes widened when he realized what was happening.
"What the hell? 1,200 megawatts? Are you sure you're not joking?"
1,200 megawatts. This number may not sound very high at first glance, but in actual conversion, it is an extremely terrifying number!
1 megawatt hour is equal to 1,000 kilowatt hours, and 1,200 megawatts is equal to 1.2 million! You must know that the largest hydropower project in Longguo, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, has a generating power of only more than 20 million kilowatt hours.
In other words, twenty of this little thing can be worth one Three Gorges Dam!
But what is the difference between the two scales? What a world of difference!
Liu Zhongmin also took a breath of cold air. Is this thing so scary?
This is still an experimental machine. After many tests later, the power may be improved.
But even this is extremely scary.
"Is it such a high power? 1,200 megawatts... Such a small unit can drive four top-level aircraft carriers!"
Liu Zhongmin sighed.
Everyone was shocked when he said this.
Liu Zhongmin's metaphor is very vivid and direct.
Everyone directly connected the human-sized device in front of them with the aircraft carrier that was as big as it could cover the sky.
And such a small experimental device can actually drive four ships?
Everyone swallowed their saliva and couldn't calm down for a long time.
