The underground square that was previously used to house the tokamak device has now been turned into the venue for Golden Crow 1.
The useless tokamak device was dismantled by Qinling Plasma, and the normal-temperature conductors that could still be used were sold to the X-ray base next door and rebuilt, and a large amount of money was collected by the way.
Including other items from the tokamak device, a total of 12.6 billion Mars coins were recovered, which was used to build Golden Crow 1.
Liu Jing watched the progress of the Jinwu-1 process. They have conducted 6 nuclear fusion power tests in the past few days and obtained a lot of valuable data.
The critical point of the dd nuclear fusion reaction was determined, as well as the critical point that would not allow the dd nuclear fusion reaction to enter the helium nuclear fusion stage.
In addition, they discovered the phenomenon of optical radiation. This phenomenon explains the reason for the prediction data of optical radiation dose. Since neutrons and electrons cannot escape from the vacuum cavity, they will continue to release a part of the mass-converted photons after being further squeezed by the accumulated pressure.
In the pressure-DD nuclear fusion reaction, the light radiation energy output reaches about 56%, and about 27% of the energy is converted into heat. This heat will be conducted out through nn-8-1.
The remaining 17% of energy is the kinetic energy of electrons, atoms, neutrons, neutrinos and the like that are difficult to utilize.
Optical radiation can be used to generate laser electricity, while thermal energy can only be used temporarily to boil water and electricity.
"Is my design pretty good?" Zhang Huaide pointed at Golden Crow 1 and said.
"Very good." Liu Jingguan has no doubts about Zhang Huaide's ability.
Compared with the first prototype they tested, the layout and appearance of Jinwu-1 are very different. The prototype is lying on the ground, while Jinwu-1 is upright.
Jinwu No. 1 is composed of four vertical vacuum chambers. In order to be able to boil water and use laser electricity, the vacuum chambers have been specially designed. The inside of the entire rugby-shaped vacuum chamber is coated with a layer of reflective film. These reflective films
The membrane can reflect most of the light radiation from nuclear fusion.
Zhang Huaide asked the Institute of Optics to help design the direction of the reflective film. This plan was designed after hundreds of thousands of simulations by the computing center.
Through these specially designed reflective films, the light radiation generated by nuclear fusion can be concentrated in three directions outside, forming three light radiation release windows.
There are four vacuum cavities with a total of 12 light radiation release windows. These light radiation release windows will understand the laser electrical pipeline.
The reason why it is designed as a laser electrical pipeline is mainly to avoid excessive light radiation dose and burning electrical equipment. Through an 8oo meter long laser electrical pipeline, the energy of optical radiation is converted into electrical energy layer by layer to achieve dispersed optical radiation.
dosage purpose.
As for how to boil water, it is even simpler and cruder. The vacuum chamber is modified to be made of materials with very good thermal conductivity, and then the four vacuum chambers are immersed in fresh water.
It is equivalent to the boiler directly wrapping four vacuum chambers and part of the laser electric pipeline.
Judging from the design drawing, the height of the vacuum chamber is 6.4 meters and the maximum radius is 1.6 meters, while the boiler area has a radius of 16 meters and a height of 15 meters.
Next to the boiler area there are two steam turbine electrical systems.
According to the design, the four vacuum chambers do not work together, but work on a principle similar to that of a motor. Injection of DD - neutron compression - fusion energy release - discharge of helium ash. These four links are in the four vacuum chambers.
In a back-and-forth cycle.
The DD injection port is above the vacuum chamber, and the helium ash discharge port is below the vacuum chamber.
Although Zhang Huaide has designed many tokamak devices and stellarators, designing a neutron press was still a big deal, so the designed reaction capacity was one kilogram dd for a single chamber.
One cycle of a single chamber takes 2o minutes. Since the three steps of dd injection, neutron compression, and helium ash discharge are very short, vacuum chambers 1 and 3 are usually used for fusion energy release, and vacuum chambers 2 and 4 are used for the other three steps.
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Equivalent to four vacuum chambers, two of them will release energy at the same time, consuming 2 kilograms of dd raw materials every 2o minutes.
"You are all here!"
Zhang Huaide and Liu Jingguan, who were talking, knew who was coming as soon as they heard the sound.
"Fei Suo, you are finally willing to come back." Zhang Huaide turned around and joked.
"Not only did I come back, I also brought the laser electrical equipment of Jinwu 1. As for the steam turbine electrical system, it is still being customized. I customized related equipment from China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry." Fei Anming said with a smile.
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Since the Galaxy Consortium does not have a steam turbine manufacturing company, Fei Anming needs to customize it from CNNC and Daiichi Heavy Industry.
"Fei Suo, you came back at the right time. The vacuum chamber of Jinwu 1, the neutron condensed matter generator, the DD injection system, the helium ash discharge system, and the control system are all completed." Liu Jingguan told Fei Anming about the situation.
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"That is to say, the only ones left now are the boiler system, laser power system, steam turbine system and substation system?" Fei Anming asked.
"After completing these four systems, Golden Crow 1 will be almost complete." Liu Jing nodded and said.
"Then what are you waiting for? The laser electric system has arrived at our warehouse." Fei Anming looked more anxious than Liu Jingguan and the others.
"Fei Suo, the laser power system will not run again. When will the steam turbine and substation equipment be developed?" Zhang Huaide asked.
"The substation equipment will arrive next week. It is produced by a subsidiary of Guodian. As for the steam turbine, it may not arrive until April." Fei Anming said helplessly.
"Then just wait! We can take advantage of this period of time to perfect and optimize Jinwu No. 1." Liu Jingguan also knew that large steam turbine systems need to be customized. This kind of thing can only be customized and produced, otherwise no manufacturer would dare to produce it in advance.
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However, domestic manufacturers that can produce 1,000,000-kilowatt critical steam turbine generator sets have made a lot of money this time. The Qinling Plasma Research Institute has placed an order for 60 units.
Don't think that a 1 million kilowatt critical steam turbine generator set is ordinary. This thing is at the top level in the world.
You must know that Dongtang, the largest thermal power station in China, had a total installed capacity of only 6.5 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to 6.5 critical steam turbine generator units of 1 million kilowatts.
The Qinling Plasma Research Institute ordered 6o units at once, which shows how huge it is.
As for whether 60 1,000,000-kilowatt critical steam turbine generator units are too many, in fact, they are not many at all, because 2 kilograms of dd are consumed every 20 minutes, which is 6 kilograms of dd in one hour. The nuclear fusion of 6 kilograms of dd can produce a huge amount of energy.
heat.
The comprehensive electrical efficiency of this heat used to boil water is about 40%. 40% is 56 million kilowatt hours, which can be satisfied by at least 56 critical steam turbine generator units of 1 million kilowatts.
The remaining 4 units are backup units.
Jinwu 1 only boils water and electricity, and can generate about 48 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.
The laser electric system is expected to be able to generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
The sum of the two systems should be 2.18 trillion kilowatt hours, and the total domestic electricity in Dongtang in 2019 was 13.4 trillion kilowatt hours.
From here we can see how terrifying nuclear fusion power is. One Jinwu-1 consumes 52 tons of dd nuclear fuel a year and can produce 2.18 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
The cost of 1 ton of DD nuclear fuel is 400 million Mars coins, and 52 tons is 20.8 billion Mars coins. The fuel cost equivalent to 104 kilowatt hours of electricity is 1 Mars coin.
Don’t forget how DD nuclear fuel is produced. It is produced through multiple distillation electrolysis. Using cheap electricity produced by nuclear fusion to produce DD nuclear fuel can reduce the production cost of DD nuclear fuel. It is simply a perfect virtuous cycle.
Once Jinwu 1 is officially put into use, the price of electricity will really be extremely cheap. The reduction in electricity price costs can effectively reduce all production costs, forming a virtuous cycle.