Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Office of the Dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Looking at the Yang Xu who came in and pushed the door, Lu Zhou stopped the pen in his hand and cast a line of sight on him.

“Is the analysis result coming out?”

A U disk was pulled out of his pocket and placed on Lu Zhou’s desk. Yang Xu said: “The information is inside.”

Lu Zhou continued to ask: “What about the original?”

Yang Xu: “I have already backed up to the database… Is there any problem?”

Lu Zhou: “Destroy it.”

Yang Xu squatted slightly, but did not ask the reason, just nodded.

“Ok.”

Looking at the office door and closing it again, Lu Zhou connected the USB flash drive to the laptop, opened the folder, and observed it carefully against a photograph.

After coming out of the underground laboratory yesterday morning, he took a few pieces of debris from the circular double-layer structure between the fuel tank and the temperature exchanger, and took Yang Xu to do the infrared spectrum characteristic peak. Analyze and photograph the TEM photograph.

Judging from the situation on several photographs, his guess is indeed confirmed.

Although the fragmented nano-ceramic composite material has been embrittled, it is difficult to infer the original structural characteristics, but from the perspective of its internal carbon residue, it can be basically concluded that it is an anisotropic heat-resistant composite with high temperature resistance. material.

Especially for the sampling of the inner layer material, observation by transmission electron microscopy can clearly observe that there are residues of hydrogen in the defect structure inside several samples.

As far as Lu Zhou is concerned, there are only two situations with high probability, which may result in such a result.

In one case, these hydrogen elements are decayed by neutrons that penetrate the material.

In the other case, the high-energy proton beam directly breaks through the inner wall and remains inside the material.

In view of the fact that the hydrogen and swelling structures inside the material are basically distributed in the shallow region, and then comparing the penetrating power of neutrons and protons, Lu Zhou can basically infer that the large probability of these swelling structures is mainly due to the latter case. Caused.

In this case, the Hall propeller wreck lying in his underground laboratory has at least 90% more possibilities, using fusion nuclear energy.

The use of nuclear fuel, the high probability is the fusion reaction to release protons and 氦 three!

“Sure enough, it is a fusion battery!”

Confirmed this guess, staring at the photograph on the screen, carefully observed Lu Zhou, eyes full of excited expression.

Not only that, he can even roughly infer the technical route used by this gadget based on limited clues.

For example, from the closed structure and the damage to the inner wall of the reactor, this small fusion reactor is probably disposable.

That is, the fuel is directly integrated into the core, and the entire core is directly discarded after use.

This may sound a bit wasteful, but in fact it is the most feasible approach.

If you do not consider the bombardment of high-energy proton beams and a small amount of neutron-induced irradiance damage to materials, and the economic benefits of long-term operation, many complex designs like liquid lithium neutron recovery systems can be used. Omit it directly.

This will not only reduce the difficulty of the project, but also save a lot of valuable space.

After all, one square meter on the spacecraft, but even the five passes of the center of the universe are incomparable.

As for shielding materials, heating components, heat exchange systems, and observing systems for monitoring core operation, these more expensive designs can be integrated into the engine itself, along with the generator set as the “battery tank” part of the installed core. .

If you think so, the engineering difficulty of this one-time fusion power supply structure should not be too high and too ridiculous…

Of course, what is said here is not outrageous, just relative to the mature second-generation controllable fusion technology.

If you design the second-generation controllable fusion reactor with this disposable design concept of “throwing away”, the engineering difficulty will not be very high, even more than the STAR-2 demonstration reactor using DT fusion. To be simple, it’s just that the cost of generating electricity is high and it’s hard to accept that’s all.

It’s like taking aerospace fuel to power a civilian facility…

“The design concept is to integrate the fuel inside the core, and control the power of the engine by controlling the space of the intermediate reaction chamber and the fuel consumption rate through the design of the two-layer structure… So the core should not last. Ignition, but pulse ignition.”

“But the fusion battery on the wreck of the Hall propeller is probably not magnetically constrained and should be another technical route.”

Although he found a structure similar to a superconducting magnet on the wreckage of that Hall thruster, the scale was obviously not enough to bind hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature plasma. Moreover, in space, the superconducting magnet is in direct contact with the ionization chamber, and the real function 80% is used to provide the alternating magnetic field for the Hall propulsion unit…

So, should it be inertia constraints?

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou, who wrote and painted on the scratch paper with a pen, gradually brightened her eyes.

Pulse ignition, inertia constraints…

The technical route is already clear!

Resist the excitement in his heart, he smashed the manuscript paper on the table, stuffed it into his pocket, then took out the phone and opened the address book to dial a number.

The bell rang for three seconds, and it quickly passed. The voice of Feng Shuji came from the opposite side.

“Hey?”

Lu Zhou: “It’s me.”

Feng Shuqing laughed and said: “Is there anything in Lu-Professor?”

Lu Zhou: “How is the restructuring of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project team going?”

Upon hearing this question, Feng Shuqing’s face immediately showed a blank expression, and said.

“The work of staff resettlement, inventory checking and property rights definition has basically been completed. The relevant documents have been submitted to the SASAC. Now I will wait for the working group on the other side to inspect the situation. If there is no big problem, the latest week East Asia Power can be split from the STAR-2 project team.”

Speaking of this, Feng Shuqing laughed and said: “I don’t know if the Lu-Professor is ready to get on the bus? If it is not ready, I can be two days later.”

boarding?

Lu Zhou squatted slightly, but for a moment and a half it did not reflect the meaning of this sentence.

But now obviously not talking about this time, he did not go deep into the thoughts, after asking about the restructuring of the STAR-2 project team, he continued.

“You can stare at the East Asia Power Company. Just follow the instructions of the top management. It is enough to call me. I mainly called another thing. I have a new research project here. I need to go from the original STAR. – The technicians of the 2 project team have transferred some people.”

Feng Shuqing did not ask too much: “Well, you will give me your name.”

Lu Zhou thought about it and continued: “The name may be a bit too much. It may not be clear on the phone. Who needs me to make a list and send it to your work mailbox.”

Upon hearing this sentence, Feng Shuqing slightly stunned.

“Need to use a lot of people?”

Lu Zhou: “Not too much, about ten.”

This is not much?

The heart smiled and Feng Shuqing asked the sentence cautiously.

“I can ask what is the project?”

Lu Zhou thought about it and said something.

“About the miniaturization of controlled fusion.”

Feng Shuqing: “…???”