Chapter 403 Supercritical Fission Reactor
One week ago.
In cyberspace, Lear is digging into his memories——
In his original world, in 2035, through a series of efforts, nuclear energy technology made a huge breakthrough.
This breakthrough was not a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion, but a breakthrough in environmental protection agreements. After countries tacitly agreed not to report or limit illegal emissions, Lear and his research team created A new nuclear fission technology.
The fission reactor created by this revolutionary multi-element nuclear fission technology is called a supercritical fission reactor, or SCFR.
As the name suggests, supercritical fission reactors are based on a mixed fuel of uranium-235, plutonium-239, uranium-233 and thorium-232 heavy elements as the core. Compared with traditional fission reactors, the energy conversion efficiency is higher 50%~66%, the energy density is more than three times that of traditional reactors.
Even better, the research team found a neutron flux control algorithm for controlling violent and complex multi-stage chain reaction algorithms, which greatly improved fuel utilization. When the total amount of energy is the same, , the probability of the reactor's unfissioned nuclides being converted into radioactive waste is significantly reduced.
These waste materials can also be reintroduced into the reaction cycle through the waste conversion module carried by SCFR.
With higher energy output, less nuclear waste, and stronger power, SCFR should have become the most powerful power generation technology before the breakthrough of nuclear fusion, but unfortunately
[Little Octopus: Brother, why didn’t we deploy such a powerful technology from the beginning? It feels like all problems have been solved. 】
Little Octopus is not a scientific research AI, but it is not difficult to understand the theoretical data listed by Lear.
A simple summary is that this technology is simply awesome in theoretical terms. In comparison, the controllable nuclear fusion, which is always a bit worse, is not so good——
Even if it is good Controlled nuclear fusion has made a breakthrough, but it is still unknown when its energy efficiency will surpass this technology.
Leal remembers the basis of every implementation of this technology, but he is not a computer after all.
SCFR is a super reactor. The theory, implementation algorithms, technologies used, etc. cannot be fully recorded by the human brain.
All he can do is recall this technology as much as possible, and then with a determined attitude, lead his new research team to turn the technology into reality again.
With the help of the little octopus, the data classification was completed quickly——
As for its question, Lille stopped thinking, just sighed, and stretched out his hand on the smooth data of the little octopus. Surface caressing.
There are some things he can only say to the little octopus in cyberspace: Only this unexpectedly born AI knows his most core secrets.
[Lille: I used to think so too. Many people think so: if a certain technology achieves a breakthrough, all problems will be solved, right? ]
[Liehl: But the result is that human history has been breaking through one technology after another, and the shape of society has been changing]
[Liehl: The result is that, regardless of technology, No matter how we break through, no matter how the world changes, there is always one thing that remains unchanged. 】
【Little octopus: (o_O)?】
【Little octopus: What is it? 】
Lear copied a large amount of data, which came from the Internet. When they were compiled and presented in front of the cyber modulator, what Lear saw was a strange, disorderly, and bizarre city.
This city makes people get lost, satisfies people's curiosity, and stimulates people's desire to explore.
Soon, Lille used computing power to build several programs that purposefully cleared the corresponding data based on some of the content in the data.
These programs search for data in the city that they think should be cleared, and then use the defeated data for their own purposes——
Soon, these few programs become enough Powerful, devouring each other, and finally the two largest programs are left, triggering a huge confrontation
The whole process is like a chain reaction. Once it reaches a certain stage, the reaction accelerates and can no longer be controlled.
All the memory used to store data has been programmed for its own use, and is driven by the program to charge towards the final enemy.
The last two programs stopped running after losing their basic logical structure, and they were entangled with each other like a huge distorted mushroom cloud.
All data lost readability, and then Nothing meaningful exists in this memory sector either.
Liel picked up one of the fragments and fed it to the little octopus. The latter chewed it twice and spit out the data spores intact——
【Little octopus: (×ω×`)! 】Lil smiled and scratched its head, looked at the completely collapsed sector, and answered the little octopus's question:
[Lil: Nuclear energy and radiation have developed incredible things in my world. function, but ultimately, what they still cannot resolve, is war. 】
[Lille: War has never changed. 】
SCFR’s excellent data amazed all researchers!
A medium-sized SCFR power station covers an area of 10 to 20 hectares and can reach 500 megawatts of power, which is enough to supply some medium-sized cities and industrial areas!
Liel looked at the things on the screen with some emotion, waiting for the researchers to chew on the content.
Dr. Otto, who was a master of atomic physics, saw at a glance that this design was feasible.
But feasibility does not mean simple implementation, otherwise someone would have done it long ago.
The difficulty of SCFR is that the neutron pass rate control algorithm needs to be summarized based on a large number of nuclear tests. This "large number" rough estimate will probably require the world to enter a period of nuclear energy flooding and a nuclear arms race. It is possible to create such an effect.
The neutron pass rate algorithm requires a complete set of advanced neutron modulation systems to implement, in which the mirror material used to reflect neutrons needs to be nanometer-thick, arranged layer by layer in the reactor, and the neutron pass rate is controlled based on the algorithm.
Due to the complex and changeable reaction conditions in the reactor, the central control must have supercomputer-level calculation speed and be equipped with an autonomous learning AI with basic intelligence.
Obviously, this difficulty can be completely solved: Bloom Company is an expert in software and hardware in the computer field today.
The next thing that needs to be solved is the thermal management system: SCFR’s power generation module can use steam turbines like traditional technology, but in that case, the performance of SCFR will not be fully released.
Traditional nuclear power plants need to use a heat engine. The heat energy evaporates water, and the gas drives the turbine to generate electricity. The nuclear energy is converted into thermal energy, then into mechanical energy, and finally into electrical energy.
SCFR's finished product technology concept uses magnetic fluid power generation technology to directly convert the working fluid into high-temperature plasma. The movement of charged particles in the magnetic field directly generates current, eliminating the need to convert into mechanical energy. The energy conversion rate can easily exceed that of traditional thermoelectricity. Station limit.
There are still many difficulties in turning this technology into reality, but it happens that Dr. Otto is an authority in this regard.
Before Lille could arrange the arrangement, Otto took the initiative and said:
[Otto: I will solve the magnetic fluid power generation technology. You may not believe it when I tell you. I designed the octopus arm at the beginning. I just hope that this kind of arm can help me control some ultra-high temperature plasma. 】
Dr. Otto is also an authority on nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion technology will produce a plasma similar to the sun in the core, so this has long been his subject.
Even if this difficulty has not been completely overcome, traditional heat engines can still be used to generate electricity, which happens to be an area in which Dr. Toombs holds multiple patents.
The last difficulty is not a technical difficulty, but a practical difficulty.
[Lille: Very good. 】
[Lille: Let’s talk about the last question. 】
[Lille: All companies that may provide nuclear raw materials have rejected our purchase applications, and we can only mine them ourselves——]
[Lille: It just so happens that Uranium Ten Company plans to sell the mining rights of the Mkuju River uranium deposit, which is near Tanzania. We bought it. 】
Everyone nodded, a very reasonable suggestion.
But the question is, why does Lear have to discuss it with them when buying something?
Liel looked at them and slowly added:
[Liel: Roxon Energy Company also intends to acquire this mining area. 】
This is where these scientists lack sensitivity.
When giant companies want to buy something, sometimes it is not their financial resources that they compare.
But force.
(End of this chapter)