Vol 2 Chapter 686: Super project-sea water extraction deuterium project!

Everyone laughed when they heard the boss's question. After Lei Tiantang asked this question, he also realized that his question is really not good, nonsense, the country has put so much effort, plus the Infinite Gravity Group finds it by itself If you come to work together, then when both parties are sincere to cooperate, of course there will be no one less time to do work.
How much effort you can gain is that simple. What's more, the country's major actions during this period have fully proved the importance of nuclear fusion reactor experimental reactors, and it is obvious that no effort can be made.
So he also shook his head and laughed, and then said with a smile: "Well, I know, I believe you are all ready for the work to be done, so the specific ignition work will follow the plan!
Now let's discuss the super project that we discussed during the last meeting with the big leaders. Now, where is the specific work done?
We must know that after we officially roll out the construction of nuclear fusion reactor power stations, the reactor needs a lot of deuterium and tritium. If we can't have a stable fuel supply, our work will be difficult to do later! "
This question asked by Lei Tiantang relates to an important cooperation topic discussed during the last meeting with the leaders, because the nuclear fusion reactor technology provided by Lei Tiantang is only the first-generation nuclear fusion reactor technology, that is, the use of deuterium and Tritium is used as fuel for nuclear fusion reactions.
Deuterium (deuterium), an isotope of hydrogen (h), is also called heavy hydrogen, and the element symbol is generally d or 2h. There is a proton and a neutron in the deuterium nucleus, and its relative atomic weight is twice that of ordinary hydrogen.
There is 0.02% deuterium in hydrogen, and its content in nature is about one-seven thousandths of general hydrogen. Deuterium is used in thermonuclear reactions. It emits β-rays during fusion to form helium with a mass number of 3, and is used as a tracer atom in the research work of chemistry and biology. Deuterium is called the "natural fuel of the future".
Deuterium is abundant in sea water. There is one deuterium atom for every 6,500 hydrogen atoms in sea water, and the total amount of deuterium in sea water is about 45 trillion tons. The fusion energy released by the complete fusion of the deuterium contained in each liter of seawater is equivalent to the energy of 300 liters of gasoline fuel. Calculated according to the energy consumed in the world, the fusion energy of deuterium in seawater can be used for tens of billions of years.
Tritium can be made from lithium. There are mainly two isotopes of lithium, lithium-6 and lithium-7. After lithium-6 absorbs a thermal neutron, it can turn into tritium and release energy. Lithium-7 needs to absorb fast neutrons to become tritium. Although there are much less lithium reserves on the earth than deuterium, there are more than 200 billion tons.
Use it to make tritium, enough to be used in the era when humans used deuterium and deuterium fusion. Therefore, nuclear fusion energy is an inexhaustible new energy source.
But there is a problem here. You must know that there is no problem with the preparation technology of tritium. Extracting tritium from seawater is really exhausting. Modern tritium production is generally produced by bombarding lithium with neutrons in a fission reactor!
Will this affect the efficiency of the fission reactor? In fact, if you don't use these neutrons, you must also use moderators to absorb them, such as heavy water or early graphite. Isn't it wasteful to be used to produce tritium?
Nuclear fusion reactors do not mean that they can completely replace nuclear fission reactors immediately. The state has invested a lot in nuclear fission reactors. With so many nuclear fission power stations built, it can’t be said that they are scrapped. That is not too wasteful!
The latter can be used to produce tritium while supplying power to the grid, so there is no problem with production in this area.
The only fuel that needs to be extracted from seawater is deuterium. Lei Tiantang’s super project is about the extraction of deuterium. He himself does not lack these nuclear fuels, whether it is directly extracted from the seawater by his own ability, or he is in When the universe has swallowed so much material, these important materials are specifically screened out, and these can give him an astonishing amount of various nuclear materials.
However, there is no problem with using these materials in private, and he can't use them if he wants to use them. How can he explain the source of these nuclear fuels?
So when designing the nuclear fusion reactor, he and Kuafu considered this issue, and finally designed a set of technical means to extract deuterium from seawater, and this technology was also provided to the energy company’s laboratory for verification. Of course, the country also knows the existence of this technology.
Now that there is no problem with the technology, the work in this area must be prepared. At the last meeting, the big leader discussed with Lei Tiantang about the development of a super project to extract deuterium from seawater. The project is of course the Infinite Gravity Group. Submit it.
"Boss, the country is more active in this matter than we are. Now the site selection has been completed, and the technologies are all technologies that have passed strict audits. Our company has no problems in this aspect, so we have officially started construction now!
However, because our company's technology is too mature, our current super project is not a simple single project of deuterium in advance of sea water, but has become a comprehensive super project!
The site of this project is selected in Huangdao, in order to use our seawater extraction technology to produce by-product fresh water can be sent to the surrounding areas where water is scarce all the year round, and special channels will be built later to transport these fresh water to Farther places, even transported to desert areas, contribute to the tree planting and sand prevention work there!
So the government is actively working in this area~EbookFREE.me~ After all, the lack of freshwater resources in our country is not just a talk! And our technology, we ourselves feel that using it to extract deuterium from seawater is really a waste of its ability. A better use should be the desalination project!
The project we are going to build this time is also going to use nuclear fusion reactors as energy sources, so that our seawater desalination costs will be reduced to a very low level. It is self-evident what changes this will bring to our country! "Jiang Yuting replied with a smile.
Jiang Yuting's answer also made everyone understand why the country attaches so much importance to the company's nuclear fusion reactor project, because just a branch technology in this project can become a solution to major national development problems!
We must know that our country is really a country with severe drought and water shortage. The total amount of freshwater resources in my country is 2.8 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 6% of the global water resources, second only to Brazil, the polar bear and the Maple Leaf Country, ranking fourth in the world.
It seems to be okay, but my country's per capita water resources are only 2,300 cubic meters, which is only 1/4 of the world average, and it is one of the poorest countries in the world with per capita water resources. However, China is the country that consumes the most water in the world.