Chapter 593: The technical route is clear!

Office of the President of the Institute of Higher Education.
Looking at Yang Xu who came in through the door, Lu Zhou stopped the pen in his hand and cast a glance at him for inquiry.
"Did the analysis come out?"
He pulled out a USB flash drive from his pocket and placed it on Lu Zhou's desk. Yang Xu said, "All the information is inside."
Lu Zhou continued to ask, "What about the original?"
Yang Xu: "Already backed up to the database ... is there a problem?"
Lu Zhou: "Destroy it."
Yang Xu froze slightly, but didn't ask the reason, just nodded.
"Ok."
Watching the office door close again, Lu Zhou connected the USB flash drive to the laptop, opened the folder, and looked closely at the pictures.
After coming out of the underground laboratory yesterday morning, he took a few pieces from the arc-shaped double-layer structure between the fuel tank and the temperature exchanger and took them to Yang Xu to make infrared spectral characteristic peaks Analyze and take TEM pictures.
Judging from the situation in several pictures, his guess was indeed confirmed.
Although the fractured nano-ceramic composite material has been brittle, it is difficult to infer the original structural characteristics, but from the internal carbon residue, it can basically be concluded that it is a composite with anisotropy to heat conduction and high temperature resistance. material.
Especially for the sampling of the inner layer material, observation through transmission electron microscope can clearly observe the residual hydrogen element in the defect structure in several samples.
As far as Lu Zhou knows, there are only two cases of high probability, which may cause such results.
In one case, these hydrogens are caused by the neutron decay of penetrating materials.
The other case is that the high-energy proton beam directly penetrates the inner wall and remains inside the material.
In terms of the fact that the hydrogen element and the swollen structure inside the material are basically distributed in the shallow area, and then compare the penetration of neutrons and protons, Lu Zhou can basically infer that the high probability of these swollen structures is mainly caused by the latter case Cause.
In this case, there is at least 90% chance that the wreckage of the Hall thruster lying in his underground laboratory is using fusion nuclear energy.
And the nuclear fuel used is a high probability that the fusion reaction emits proton tritium and helium!
"It really is a fusion battery!"
Confirming this speculation, staring at the pictures on the screen to observe Lu Zhou carefully, his eyes were filled with excitement.
Not only that, he can even roughly infer the technical route adopted by this gadget based on limited clues.
For example, judging from the closed structure and damage to the reactor's inner wall, this small fusion reactor is probably disposable.
That is, the fuel is directly integrated in the core, and the entire core is directly discarded after use.
This may sound wasteful, but in fact it is the most feasible way.
If you do not consider the bombardment of high-energy proton beams and the small amount of neutrons caused by the plutonium reaction to cause radiation damage to the material, and the economic benefits of long-term operation, many complex designs similar to any liquid lithium neutron recovery system can Omit it directly.
This will not only reduce the difficulty of the project, but also save a lot of valuable space.
After all, a square meter on a spacecraft can't even compare to Wudaokou in the center of the universe.
As for shielding materials, heating components, heat exchange systems, and observation systems for monitoring the operation of the core, these more expensive designs can be integrated on the engine itself, together with the generator set, as the "battery tank" part of the core installation .
If you want to come this way, the engineering difficulty of this one-time fusion power supply structure should not be too high ...
Of course, what is not outrageous here is just relative to the mature second-generation controllable fusion technology.
If the second-generation controllable fusion reactor is designed with this disposable design concept of "throw out when used up", the engineering difficulty will probably not be very high, even more than the STAR-2 demonstration reactor using DT fusion. To make it simpler, it's just that the cost of generating electricity will be unacceptably high.
It's like using space fuel to generate electricity for civilian facilities ...
"The design concept is to integrate the fuel inside the core, and control the space of the intermediate reaction chamber and the fuel consumption rate through the design of the double-layer structure, so as to achieve the effect of controlling the engine power ... so this core should not be continuous Ignite, but pulse. "
"But the fusion battery on the Hall thruster's wreckage is probably not a magnetic constraint. It should be another technical route."
Although he found a structure similar to a superconducting magnet on the wreckage of that Hall thruster, the size was obviously not enough to constrain hundreds of millions of degrees of high-temperature plasma. And in space, the superconducting magnet is in direct contact with the ionization chamber. The true function is 80% used to provide an alternating magnetic field for the Hall propulsion unit ...
So, should it be an inertia constraint?
Thinking of this, I wrote a sketch of Lu Zhou's eyes on the draft paper.
Pulse ignition, inertial restraint ...
The technical route is clear!
Restraining the excitement in his heart, he crumpled the manuscript paper on the table, stuffed it into his pocket, then took out his cell phone, opened the address book and dialed a number.
The bell rang for three seconds and soon passed, and Secretary Feng's voice came from the opposite side.
"Hey?"
Lu Zhou: "It's me."
Feng Shu smiled and said, "Is there anything for Professor Lu?"
Lu Zhou: "How is the reorganization of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project team going?"
Hearing this question, Feng Shuqing's face suddenly appeared a stunned expression, and said.
"Employee resettlement, inventory checking and property right definition have been basically completed. The relevant documents have been handed over to the SASAC. Now wait for the working group from Beijing to come and inspect the situation. If there are no major problems, the latest one week East Asia Power will be separated from the STAR-2 project team. "
Speaking of this, Feng Shu smiled and said, "I don't know if Professor Lu is ready to get on the bus? If it's not ready, I can stay two days late."
boarding?
Lu Zhou froze for a moment, but for a while and a half did not respond to the meaning of this sentence.
However, this is obviously not the time to talk about this. He didn't think about it deeply. After asking about the reorganization of the STAR-2 project team, he continued to say.
"You can just stare at the things at the East Asia Electric Power Company. Just follow the instructions of the high-level executives. I just called today to talk about another thing. I have a new research project here and I need to start from the original STAR. -2 The project team's technicians brought some staff over. "
Feng Shuqing didn't ask much: "Okay, please give me your name ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Lu Zhou thought for a while and continued to say:" The name may be a bit too much, it may not be clear on the phone. Who I need I will make a list and send it to your work email. "
Hearing this sentence, Feng Shuqing froze slightly.
"Need a lot of people?"
Lu Zhou: "Not too many, maybe ten."
Not much?
With a bitter laugh in her heart, Feng Shuqing asked carefully.
"May I ask what the project is?"
Lu Zhou thought about it and said.
"About miniaturization of controlled fusion."
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