In the main control room, Lin Xiao and Li Gang stood in front of the main control desk.
At this moment, Li Gang, Song Tao and other senior officials of the Institute of Plasma had no less excitement on their faces than the researchers outside.
160 million degrees, and the continuous operation time exceeds the original 20 seconds. For them, it is undoubtedly the best reward after such a long time of work.
Although in this process, the person who did the most critical work was actually Lin Xiao, and they all admitted this, but as participants, they were still honored.
So, they were all excited about it.
Moreover, looking at it now, let alone 20 seconds at 160 million degrees, it is estimated that it can last for 40 seconds, 60 seconds, or even several minutes.
And this is undoubtedly an extremely excellent result. I believe that when the news is released, the whole country and the whole world will be shocked by it and pay attention to them.
"Commander Lin, do you want the temperature to continue to rise?"
Song Tao asked with excitement in his tone.
Lin Xiao, who was standing in front, shook his head and said: "160 million degrees is enough. This temperature fully meets the needs of deuterium and tritium fusion. If it is higher, it is not worth it."
"What's more, we still have some ordinary tungsten plates inside, and ordinary tungsten plates can't last that long."
Song Tao nodded. Although he still wanted to try and improve further, and even wanted to see if he could reach 200 million degrees this time, at this time, he supported Lin Xiao's words unconditionally.
So he said: "Well, 160 million degrees is fine, just to see how long we can last this time."
Then he turned his attention to the console again.
There is a screen above, and what is displayed on the screen is the situation inside the Oriental Hyperloop.
This is an image captured by an infrared camera. It receives internal infrared rays for imaging, so it can capture images of hundreds of millions of degrees.
At this moment, although there is some red light in this picture, the overall look is relatively dark.
As for why it is dark inside, it is because the impurity content inside is relatively small.
In the controllable nuclear fusion reaction, one must pay attention to purity, that is, it is necessary to try to keep the internal plasma basically composed of deuterium and tritium plasma, because the higher the purity, the easier it is for the fusion reaction to occur, and if there are impurity particles,
, will affect the concentration of deuterium and tritium particles, thereby reducing the efficiency of the reaction.
And where do the internal impurities come from? Naturally, they come from the inner wall materials.
When neutrons bombard these inner wall materials, they will knock the material molecules apart, and then enter the reaction. When deuterium and tritium particles collide with these impurity particles, it is naturally not a nuclear fusion reaction, but it may also be possible.
Produce more impurities.
The presence of these impurity particles will show greater brightness when detected by the infrared camera, and then appear bright red on the screen.
In previous ignition tests where Song Tao's plasma was located, the picture displayed on the screen would appear extremely bright red within a few seconds, especially when the internal temperature reached 160 million degrees.
It almost makes people feel that there is no problem if a giant of light appears inside.
And whenever this happens, it basically means that they have to stop heating and cool down.
Otherwise, if all the inner wall material is worn away and other precision components are exposed, once these precision components are damaged, they will have a headache.
Therefore, even if it ran for 20 seconds at 160 million degrees, the entire process actually included two processes: heating and cooling.
This is equivalent to saying that they actually lasted for about ten seconds, and then withered, literally "wilting in seconds."
But now they are equivalent to "regaining their glory".
Seeing this scene, Song Tao couldn't help but look at Lin Xiao's back.
Being able to achieve this level actually has nothing to do with fusion tungsten blocks strictly speaking.
Because although they replaced the inner wall with powerful fusion tungsten plates, don't forget that half of the tungsten plates inside are just ordinary tungsten plates.
According to the barrel effect, the tolerance of those ordinary tungsten plates has not changed, so in order to protect the precision devices under those ordinary tungsten plates, their experiment cannot last much longer than before under normal circumstances.
However, now that Lin Xiao has modified the internal magnetic field circuit, even though the original barrel effect is still there, the impact on these tungsten plates has become less, allowing them to last longer.
So it can be said that in this experiment, apart from starting out and doing some work that could be regarded as physical labor, they hardly provided much help to the final success.
He shook his head. He probably didn't need people from the plasma institute. Even if Lin Xiao came alone, he could do it, right?
And just as he was thinking this, Lin Xiao's voice suddenly sounded.
"Hey? Everyone, it seems we have another good news here."
Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth.
Everyone else was stunned, what good news?
Lin Xiao did not explain first, but turned on the intercom and said: "Now, each heating group, stop external energy input."
After Lin Xiao's order was conveyed, a lot of disappointed sighs suddenly came from the intercom.
Now, they have persisted at 1.6 degrees for one minute, and there is a high probability that they can continue to persist. However, now Lin Xiao actually asked to stop.
They were very confused about Lin Xiao's choice, but since it was the decision made by the chief engineer, they could only follow it.
So each heating group began to cut off the power supply, stopping the energy supply to the Oriental Hyperloop.
"Ion cyclotron resonance heating has stopped."
"Electron cyclotron resonance heating has stopped."
"Low spurious current drive has also been stopped."
"..."
News came from each heating group in turn, and many people in the institute sighed again, this time the ignition was over.
Of course, they all quickly thought that there would be another ignition, and the next time would be an extreme ignition test.
At that time, you will definitely be able to have a great time, right?
Thinking of this, these people felt full of motivation.
However, while others were looking forward to the second ignition experiment, the main control room was surprisingly quiet.
Because none of them had forgotten what Lin Xiao suddenly said just now.
good news?
What's the good news?
Although Lin Xiao did not tell them, they were all waiting for the moment when the answer to the mystery would be revealed, so even if they heard that Lin Xiao was going to stop providing energy, they still remained patient.
In this way, time passed by minute by second, and soon, Li Gang discovered the clues.
"Wait... something's wrong, the temperature! Why is the temperature still at 160 million degrees? Has it not dropped at all?"
He made a confused sound, then picked up his walkie-talkie and asked: "Each heating group, are you sure you have cut off the power supply?"
The people on the heating team also heard confused voices at the same time: "It has been cut off."
"It's all cut off."
"Make sure it's cut off."
Hearing these responses, Li Gang and others around him fell into confusion.
At this moment, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Didn't you think of another possibility?"
"Another possibility?"
The people present pondered for a moment before Song Tao suddenly reacted and uttered a few words in disbelief: "Lawson... Judgment?!"
After Song Tao said these four words, everyone present suddenly widened their eyes.
Lawson's criterion!
Lawson's criterion can be said to be a dream situation for researchers in controllable nuclear fusion.
Because when the nuclear fusion reaction reaches the Lawson criterion, it means that all the energy output by the nuclear fusion is net output energy!
This is because when the Lawson criterion is reached, the energy generated by nuclear fusion can already support its spontaneous reaction.
In other words, even if the external energy supply is stopped at this time, it can continue to carry out fusion reactions.
This is why Song Tao made this judgment, because at this moment, after they stopped the external energy supply, the temperature did not drop, which means that the energy provided by the internal reaction can maintain the temperature at 160 million degrees!
In other words, from now on, the Oriental Hyperloop can be called a commercial fusion reactor, because its output energy is greater than its input energy, achieving a positive net value.
And this is something that no controllable nuclear fusion reactor in the world has ever done.
"We are...making history!"
When Li Gang saw this scene, his voice even started to tremble, and his face was filled with tears.
"In my lifetime, in my lifetime! I can actually see this scene, see us reach the Lawson Judgment, this is really..."
When others saw Li Gang's excited expression, they couldn't help but be moved. Song Tao was also the same. He stepped forward and hugged Li Gang excitedly for a moment, and then said to Lin Xiao: "Commander Lin, this time, thanks to
You!"
If it weren't for Lin Xiao's reminder, none of them would have thought that Lawson's criterion could be reached.
Because before this, they never thought that they could achieve Lawson's criterion. After all, this condition was completely a luxury dream for them in the past. Who could have thought that it would be realized this time?
But Lin Xiao not only discovered it, but also discovered it early.
At this moment, the look he looked at Lin Xiao was no longer just the admiration before, but worship.
Although he is quite old, forty or fifty years old, he still admires Lin Xiao, who is more than ten or twenty years younger than him. Just like when he was a child, when he heard the stories of those historical giants, he admired her.
A cult of these giants.
This is an era of walking with giants!
After hearing Song Tao's words, Lin Xiao smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just guessed that it reached Lawson's criterion."
"guess?"
"Well, just now I found that the internal temperature rose suddenly a lot faster, and the power of our input energy is fixed, so there shouldn't be any sign of this speed getting faster, so I guessed that it has reached the limit of fatigue.
Sen Judgment.”
"This..." Song Tao opened his mouth, Lin Xiao said very simply, but just now their attention was attracted by the timer next to them. How could they pay attention to the temperature change?
Not to mention those slight speed changes.
Thinking of this, his admiration became even more intense.
Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Okay, let's not talk so much now, let's enjoy the joy of success now."
"That's right." Song Tao also smiled, and then joined in the celebration with others.
Of course, at this moment, not only their main control room, but the entire laboratory was already in celebration.
While celebrating, time also passed by minute by second, until finally, they had persisted for ten minutes at 160 million degrees.
At this time, although the burning could still continue, Lin Xiao still issued a termination order.
Because there is no need to continue persisting at this time, it is best to prepare for the second ignition test as soon as possible.
As for how to stop the reaction when the Lawson criterion is reached, it is very simple, just stop the input of deuterium and tritium gas.
When the concentration of the internal deuterium and tritium plasma drops below the limit of Lawson's criterion, the conditions of Lawson's criterion can no longer be met.
So soon, this ignition test came to an end as the temperature in the fusion furnace dropped from hundreds of millions of degrees to normal temperature.
The next step is to take out the two tungsten plates inside and detect their radiation loss.
However, this requires the fusion furnace to cool down for a few days. During these days, staff are prohibited from entering the fusion furnace to remove the tungsten plates.
Therefore, the entire plasma institute waited peacefully.
Of course, during this waiting period, the results of their first ignition test were naturally publicized.
[A major breakthrough has been achieved in the Oriental Hyperring ignition test! This ignition test achieved the great achievement of operating 160 million degree plasma for 600 seconds and 120 million degree plasma for 2000 seconds. At the same time, it achieved a huge achievement of the net energy output being greater than 0 for 342 seconds!
...]
After this important news came out, the whole world was shocked!
…
"What the hell is this? I remember last time, didn't it only run at 160 million degrees for a few dozen seconds? Why did it suddenly become 600 seconds? Even 120 million degrees turned into 2000 seconds? Are you kidding me?
?!』
"Pay attention, who is mentioned below this announcement? 'Thanks to Academician Lin Xiao for his great contribution.' Do you see this sentence? Do you understand what I mean?"
"Holy shit, I get it, oh my god, it used to be tens of seconds without Lin Shen, but with Lin Shen it would be hundreds of seconds? It's directly increased by dozens of times, right?"
"Hey, you don't want to think about it. 120 million degrees continued to run for 101 seconds, and the single-digit fractions were added. But this time they are all integers. Maybe even the fractions were erased?"
"If you say so, isn't there still 342 seconds left? What does it mean that the net energy output value is greater than 0?"
"Uninvited graduate student majoring in nuclear physics. Let me briefly explain. The net energy output refers to the difference between the output energy minus the input energy in the controllable nuclear fusion reaction. This value refers to the net energy output. Of course, it can also be
Calculated using 'Q value', Q value refers to the ratio of output energy to input energy.
When the output energy is greater than the input energy, it means that the energy produced by the controllable nuclear fusion at this time is greater than the energy we input to achieve nuclear fusion, and the extra energy can be used to generate electricity for us.
, which means this part is the energy we earn.
In the past, basically no fusion reactor in the world could achieve this. The most common one in Japan was the JT-60, which had a theoretical Q value of 1.25, but it was only a theoretical Q value, let alone
They dismantled this thing.
Therefore, this time about the Oriental Hyperloop, I can only say that it is invincible. This has truly made history. I estimate that the entire nuclear fusion world will change.
One last thing, Lin Shen is really awesome.』
"I'm asking, boss, are you really that awesome? I'm a bit ignorant."
"Stop talking, just start blowing. This wave of Lin Shen will be a god, okay?"
"You are already called Lin Shen, do you still need to become a god?"
"Hey, we are not really going to use nuclear fusion, are we? What about the fifty-year agreement?"
"I traveled back from 2027. During the Spring Festival of 2027, the Golden Crow Project was successful, and the entire Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was using electricity generated by nuclear fusion."
"Insert your eyes, wait until 2027 to see if I want to come back and kill you"
"Insert eyes"
"CY"
"..."
There was a lot of heated discussion about this news on the Chinese Internet. Of course, basically every netizen was excited about it.
After all, they must be excited to achieve such a huge breakthrough in such an important technology.
However, for people abroad, this is not the case.
…
Waterhouse.
"Oh my God! Look, look, what did I say at the beginning? Those experts thought this technology was impossible to achieve, what is going on now? I have said it, every one of those experts, one by one,
They are all bullshit! Shet!"
The president was as fuming as ever.
"Think about it, without Lin Xiao, they could only burn for 20 seconds, but now with this guy, they can burn for 600 seconds!"
"If you don't think of a way, they will use controllable nuclear fusion to restrict us in turn. For example, have we ever used room-temperature superconductors?"
"Do you also want to become a loser?"
Faced with the president's anger, everyone present lowered their heads, especially the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State never expected that Lin Xiao would actually create another incredible miracle.
According to experts, they were all shocked and incomprehensible that the Oriental Super Ring continued to operate at 160 million degrees for 600 seconds.
This huge leap-forward progress is completely unreasonable to experts like them who are accustomed to taking things one step at a time, let alone persisting in the fact that the net energy output value is greater than 0 for 342 seconds.
Facing the shocked expressions of those experts, the Secretary of State realized that although their president liked to get angry at them, sometimes what he said was not unreasonable.
Indeed, these experts cannot be compared with Lin Xiao, because none of them can achieve Lin Xiao's level.
"Okay, that's all I have to say. If you can't think about how to solve it, then get out of here!"
The president waved his hand and sent these people away.
After leaving the Office of the President, the Secretary of State approached the FBI Director again.
"How is your original arrangement going? Is there any progress? Otherwise, we will all be fired together!"
The FBI director said angrily: "Do you think I am not in a hurry about this matter? But do you really think it is so easy to install our people in the Golden Crow Project? We have already paid tens of millions of dollars for this, and there is absolutely no progress.
nothing."
The Secretary of State frowned and said: "No progress at all? What are your people doing? Tens of millions of dollars are useless? You are wasting money!"
"Hey, a waste of money? Mr. Secretary, I'm the FBI, be careful what you say, otherwise I don't mind posting some photos of you jogging parallel to some women of the same status as your wife."
"You..." the Secretary of State glared angrily, but finally gave up and said harshly: "Anyway, if you can't handle this matter, let's prepare to apply for an unemployment certificate together!"
After saying that, he left.
The director spat at the Secretary of State behind his back, and finally remembered what the president had just said, and finally left with a headache.
…
Time passed quickly.
The great success of the Oriental Hyperloop has caused shock all over the world. At the same time, the work on the Oriental Hyperloop is also going on in full swing.
After cooling for a week, the staff finally took out the tungsten plates in the fusion furnace.
The ordinary tungsten plate has been slightly worn, but the fusion tungsten plate has almost no wear.
After putting the fusion tungsten plate under the microscope for inspection, they also got a piece of gratifying news——
"It is basically certain that there is no obvious radiation damage."