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Chapter 519 The ignition was successful!
Chapter 519 The ignition was successful!
At 3:20 in the morning, the final inspection of the Shenguang No. [-] device was completed, and the equipment entered the stage of electronic system debugging. This stage lasted for about [-] minutes, which ensured that the laser generator of the Shenguang No. irradiated onto the target ball.
In fact, thanks to the high-precision, high-energy fiber laser generator, this fusion device uses the so-called "direct drive" mode, or target mode, that is, without the need for extra gold cavity Converting high-energy laser light into X-rays avoids the energy loss in this step.
However, the improvement of energy conversion efficiency brings higher requirements for the laser beam. On the one hand, it needs to ensure that the laser can be effectively absorbed through the collision process when passing through the corona region, so as to avoid excessive superheated particles; on the other hand, It also requires equal pressure near the ablation front, because the core of inertial confinement fusion is to compress the raw material inward through the reaction force generated by material ablation, thereby completing fusion under high pressure and high temperature environment.
During the debugging of the electronic system, Ye Zhou held the latest version of the test report in his hand, and while doing the final inspection, he asked the staff:
"Is the peak energy output of the laser determined?"
"Confirmed, it is basically stable at 3MJ with a pulse width of 6.2 nanoseconds, and the peak power is 1100 trillion watts. This index is several times higher than that of the Ugly NIF. In theory, they can approach it with such a low energy. Ignition, we should have no problem with ignition with this energy value."
"It depends on whether the reaction can be self-sustaining - our current target capsule contains too little fuel, and from an intuitive point of view, it can maintain the plasma burning for a moment at most, but through sensor monitoring, we can use theoretical values to determine Verify the feasibility of a self-sustaining response."
"Okay. Have you checked the data sensor?"
"I checked and everything is fine."
"What about the power supply? Are the energy storage devices and capacitors working properly?"
Just as the electromagnetic gun needs to be driven by a super capacitor, the high-energy laser required by this device also needs a super capacitor. If it burns out or the power supply is insufficient during the process, it will cause a devastating blow to the entire experiment.
"It is confirmed that it is normal. The capacitance carrying ratio is only 60% now, which can fully cope with the voltage shock at the peak."
Hearing this, Ye Zhou let out a long sigh of relief.
Standing in front of the large monitoring screen in the control room, he looked at the Shenguang No. [-] device that looked like a giant mine through the monitoring camera, and there were endless waves in his heart.
It won't be long before this device, which carries the hopes of all Chinese people, and even all human beings, will be ignited for the first time. For this moment, all researchers have fully overdrawn their lives for nearly three years.
And under their feet, there are decades of technology accumulation.
He looked at Qian Lixun, who didn't show any nervousness on his face at all. Instead, he was sitting leisurely on the recliner in the control room, eating the cherries he didn't know where he came from. .
Seeing Ye Zhou's gaze, Qian Lixun pushed the box containing the cherries in front of him and asked:
"Eat?"
Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:
"Don't eat, I'm so nervous that my mouth feels bitter."
"It's hard to eat, don't say you are nervous, I am a little nervous, after all, it is of great significance."
"It's a bit. Your mentality, I'm afraid it will take a few years to get out of it."
What Ye Zhou said is indeed the truth. Although he has experienced countless times in the simulator, he is still too young. When faced with such a major event, he is naturally nervous.
However, he was still fine, and the researcher on the side even trembled with nervousness.
Time passed by every minute and every second. The final electronic system test was completed, and all the data was normal. Ye Zhou looked at Qian Lixun, who nodded slightly, and then said:
"Then, let's get started."
With his order, all the staff who had already been in place immediately started to act.
The first thing to start is the charging process of the capacitor. With the huge amount of current pouring into the capacitor from the energy storage battery, everyone's hair was slightly erected under the effect of induced static electricity. I thought she would be curious about it, but the latter just played with her hair calmly.
It was only then that Ye Zhou came to his senses. An old fritter like her, who has been in and out of the high-energy particle collider all year round, is no stranger to this phenomenon.
The capacitance saturation value on the screen continued to rise. After climbing to 80%, the staff on the side turned to look at Ye Zhou and Qian Lixun, who nodded in unison. Then, the staff pressed the button in their hands.
Everything happened in silence. From the periphery of Shenguang [-], no one could see any specific situation, but in fact, within the first wall, the most violent energy explosion in the world was happening.
128 laser beams sprayed out from the optical fiber, carrying extremely hot temperature, and impacted towards the central target pellet.
Within nanoseconds, the thin plastic sheet used to fix the target was completely ablated, and then the outer shell of the target was also ablated violently, and high-temperature plasma began to form, but within itself Under the inertia, the plasma has not had time to spread in the future, and it turns to squeeze towards the core position.
The temperature inside the Shenguang No. 1.6 device rose to [-] million degrees Celsius at this instant, and without any accidents, the fusion reaction took place.
Afterwards, a light blue plasma began to form in the target chamber. If a camera could record it at this time, what everyone would see would be a cloud floating in the vacuum like a ghost, obviously containing the power of the world. The most explosive energy is calm and stable like a blue cloud like the morning sun.
In this world, the highest temperature that can be reached in nature is the sun, but its core temperature is only over 2000 million degrees, but now, in front of Ye Zhou and others, the temperature in this seemingly calm device has reached The temperature is 1.8 million degrees Celsius, which is exactly 9 times the core temperature of the sun.
All these reactions occurred between breaths, and the laser stopped working immediately after the ignition was completed, but the fusion reaction continued.
Everyone was nervously watching the temperature number on the screen, which is the most intuitive indicator of the reaction progress, and they found that when the laser was completely turned off, the temperature reading did not drop.
Clearly, a self-sustaining fusion reaction is underway.
1 second, two seconds, three seconds.
Ye Zhou felt that his heartbeat had stagnated during these three seconds. Then, when the reading on the screen jumped to 3.46 seconds, the temperature began to drop.
This also means that the self-sustained fusion reaction lasted for a full three seconds, and during these three seconds, the energy released by the fuel is equivalent to the energy when hundreds of kilograms of gasoline are completely burned.
Ye Zhou looked at the staff at the side. The latter noticed his gaze and replied with a slightly trembling voice:
"Reading. Reading is stable."
"Judging from the existing data, the self-sustaining steady-state discharge fusion reaction is basically basically realized!"
Until this moment, Ye Zhou finally let out the breath that was held in his chest.
He looked at Qian Lixun again, who nodded slightly, and then announced:
"The first ignition experiment of Shenguang [-] was successful!"
(End of this chapter)
At 3:20 in the morning, the final inspection of the Shenguang No. [-] device was completed, and the equipment entered the stage of electronic system debugging. This stage lasted for about [-] minutes, which ensured that the laser generator of the Shenguang No. irradiated onto the target ball.
In fact, thanks to the high-precision, high-energy fiber laser generator, this fusion device uses the so-called "direct drive" mode, or target mode, that is, without the need for extra gold cavity Converting high-energy laser light into X-rays avoids the energy loss in this step.
However, the improvement of energy conversion efficiency brings higher requirements for the laser beam. On the one hand, it needs to ensure that the laser can be effectively absorbed through the collision process when passing through the corona region, so as to avoid excessive superheated particles; on the other hand, It also requires equal pressure near the ablation front, because the core of inertial confinement fusion is to compress the raw material inward through the reaction force generated by material ablation, thereby completing fusion under high pressure and high temperature environment.
During the debugging of the electronic system, Ye Zhou held the latest version of the test report in his hand, and while doing the final inspection, he asked the staff:
"Is the peak energy output of the laser determined?"
"Confirmed, it is basically stable at 3MJ with a pulse width of 6.2 nanoseconds, and the peak power is 1100 trillion watts. This index is several times higher than that of the Ugly NIF. In theory, they can approach it with such a low energy. Ignition, we should have no problem with ignition with this energy value."
"It depends on whether the reaction can be self-sustaining - our current target capsule contains too little fuel, and from an intuitive point of view, it can maintain the plasma burning for a moment at most, but through sensor monitoring, we can use theoretical values to determine Verify the feasibility of a self-sustaining response."
"Okay. Have you checked the data sensor?"
"I checked and everything is fine."
"What about the power supply? Are the energy storage devices and capacitors working properly?"
Just as the electromagnetic gun needs to be driven by a super capacitor, the high-energy laser required by this device also needs a super capacitor. If it burns out or the power supply is insufficient during the process, it will cause a devastating blow to the entire experiment.
"It is confirmed that it is normal. The capacitance carrying ratio is only 60% now, which can fully cope with the voltage shock at the peak."
Hearing this, Ye Zhou let out a long sigh of relief.
Standing in front of the large monitoring screen in the control room, he looked at the Shenguang No. [-] device that looked like a giant mine through the monitoring camera, and there were endless waves in his heart.
It won't be long before this device, which carries the hopes of all Chinese people, and even all human beings, will be ignited for the first time. For this moment, all researchers have fully overdrawn their lives for nearly three years.
And under their feet, there are decades of technology accumulation.
He looked at Qian Lixun, who didn't show any nervousness on his face at all. Instead, he was sitting leisurely on the recliner in the control room, eating the cherries he didn't know where he came from. .
Seeing Ye Zhou's gaze, Qian Lixun pushed the box containing the cherries in front of him and asked:
"Eat?"
Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:
"Don't eat, I'm so nervous that my mouth feels bitter."
"It's hard to eat, don't say you are nervous, I am a little nervous, after all, it is of great significance."
"It's a bit. Your mentality, I'm afraid it will take a few years to get out of it."
What Ye Zhou said is indeed the truth. Although he has experienced countless times in the simulator, he is still too young. When faced with such a major event, he is naturally nervous.
However, he was still fine, and the researcher on the side even trembled with nervousness.
Time passed by every minute and every second. The final electronic system test was completed, and all the data was normal. Ye Zhou looked at Qian Lixun, who nodded slightly, and then said:
"Then, let's get started."
With his order, all the staff who had already been in place immediately started to act.
The first thing to start is the charging process of the capacitor. With the huge amount of current pouring into the capacitor from the energy storage battery, everyone's hair was slightly erected under the effect of induced static electricity. I thought she would be curious about it, but the latter just played with her hair calmly.
It was only then that Ye Zhou came to his senses. An old fritter like her, who has been in and out of the high-energy particle collider all year round, is no stranger to this phenomenon.
The capacitance saturation value on the screen continued to rise. After climbing to 80%, the staff on the side turned to look at Ye Zhou and Qian Lixun, who nodded in unison. Then, the staff pressed the button in their hands.
Everything happened in silence. From the periphery of Shenguang [-], no one could see any specific situation, but in fact, within the first wall, the most violent energy explosion in the world was happening.
128 laser beams sprayed out from the optical fiber, carrying extremely hot temperature, and impacted towards the central target pellet.
Within nanoseconds, the thin plastic sheet used to fix the target was completely ablated, and then the outer shell of the target was also ablated violently, and high-temperature plasma began to form, but within itself Under the inertia, the plasma has not had time to spread in the future, and it turns to squeeze towards the core position.
The temperature inside the Shenguang No. 1.6 device rose to [-] million degrees Celsius at this instant, and without any accidents, the fusion reaction took place.
Afterwards, a light blue plasma began to form in the target chamber. If a camera could record it at this time, what everyone would see would be a cloud floating in the vacuum like a ghost, obviously containing the power of the world. The most explosive energy is calm and stable like a blue cloud like the morning sun.
In this world, the highest temperature that can be reached in nature is the sun, but its core temperature is only over 2000 million degrees, but now, in front of Ye Zhou and others, the temperature in this seemingly calm device has reached The temperature is 1.8 million degrees Celsius, which is exactly 9 times the core temperature of the sun.
All these reactions occurred between breaths, and the laser stopped working immediately after the ignition was completed, but the fusion reaction continued.
Everyone was nervously watching the temperature number on the screen, which is the most intuitive indicator of the reaction progress, and they found that when the laser was completely turned off, the temperature reading did not drop.
Clearly, a self-sustaining fusion reaction is underway.
1 second, two seconds, three seconds.
Ye Zhou felt that his heartbeat had stagnated during these three seconds. Then, when the reading on the screen jumped to 3.46 seconds, the temperature began to drop.
This also means that the self-sustained fusion reaction lasted for a full three seconds, and during these three seconds, the energy released by the fuel is equivalent to the energy when hundreds of kilograms of gasoline are completely burned.
Ye Zhou looked at the staff at the side. The latter noticed his gaze and replied with a slightly trembling voice:
"Reading. Reading is stable."
"Judging from the existing data, the self-sustaining steady-state discharge fusion reaction is basically basically realized!"
Until this moment, Ye Zhou finally let out the breath that was held in his chest.
He looked at Qian Lixun again, who nodded slightly, and then announced:
"The first ignition experiment of Shenguang [-] was successful!"
(End of this chapter)
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