Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 387: Fusion reactor

Chapter 387 Fusion Reactor

The pilot was sent away, and Chen Xin's attention naturally shifted to the batch of weapon-grade enriched uranium.

This is a real good thing, and a big killer.

There are only a handful of countries in the world that can produce enriched uranium of this weapons-grade purity, and small countries simply do not have the scientific and technological strength and industrial strength to study related technologies.

Coupled with the control and blockade of nuclear technology by the five rogues themselves, it is even more difficult for small countries to have the opportunity to research and manufacture such weapons-grade nuclear materials.

If it is placed before the disaster, such a batch of nuclear materials that can make a tactical nuclear bomb with a yield of 100,000 tons is very valuable. Although the cost of one kilogram of weapons-grade enriched uranium is about half a million dollars, it is actually very expensive. There is a price but no market, let alone waiting for idlers, and waiting for idle countries can't buy it.

If anyone could re-sell such a batch of nuclear raw materials before the disaster, it's not to mention whether the money they made would be spent, but at least they wouldn't be able to spend that much money in a few lifetimes.

If Chen Xin was not in the nuclear power of the Yan Kingdom, and the country had the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons and nuclear materials, he wouldn't want to easily come into contact with nuclear materials of this level, but he could consider buying some uranium ore and purifying it by himself. After all, uranium mines were only regulated before the disaster, and the price was not expensive.

But now, thanks to the country's blessing, I have obtained this batch of weapons-grade enriched uranium, so Chen Xin naturally does not need to slowly purify the uranium ore and make enriched uranium by himself.

The reason why Chen Xin needed to enrich uranium was to build a fusion reactor.

Some people may be surprised that enriched uranium is obviously a raw material for fission reaction, how can it be used to build a fusion reactor?

It's not that Chen Xin made a mistake or that he planned to use the system to forcibly upgrade the fission furnace to a fusion furnace, but it is indeed possible to build a fusion reactor through a fission furnace.

Before explaining how this is done, the first thing you need to know is that the fuel for fusion reactions is usually deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen. Although deuterium is abundant in nature, tritium needs to be artificially produced. .

The method of producing tritium is to use the neutrons generated by the fission reaction to bombard the lithium 6 compound target, so that a large amount of tritium can be obtained.

Afterwards, it is only necessary to enrich the tritium by thermal diffusion to more than 99%, and then the fusion reaction can be used.

Of course, what you get directly by doing this is just a violent thermonuclear fusion reaction, commonly known as a hydrogen bomb explosion, releasing huge amounts of energy in an instant.

So every Blue Star country capable of studying nuclear fusion is looking for a way to control the nuclear fusion reaction, which is the origin of the concept of controllable nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion.

Holding the system, controllable nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion are not difficult for Chen Xin to achieve. Even if he is willing to toss, he can also make sci-fi power sources such as gn solar furnaces and antimatter reactors. .

However, what Chen Xin wants is of course not the kind of black and insignificant things, but products that can be copied and promoted.

So he doesn't plan to do something that is too technologically advanced, not even cold fusion, only a controllable thermonuclear fusion reactor.

For this thermonuclear fusion reactor, what Chen Xin envisaged was not to add fuel to the reactor by adding fuel from the outside, but to install a fission reactor under the fusion reactor and directly use the fission reactor The target is bombarded to produce tritium, which is used as fuel for the fusion reactor.

That's why Chen Xin would need nuclear materials, otherwise even if he could make a furnace, it wouldn't burn without fuel.

As for why not fuel-grade enriched uranium but weapons-grade enriched uranium, it is because according to Chen Xin's assumption, he needs to use high-purity nuclear material as fuel.

"Seriously, seeing so many nuclear materials piled up in front of me makes my scalp tingle." In the warehouse where nuclear materials were temporarily stored, Chen Xin looked at the box in front of him for storing nuclear materials, and the one on the box. The huge nuclear radiation sign does have a tingling feeling in the back.

"Weapon-grade enriched uranium with a purity of more than 90%, if this thing flows out, I'm afraid not many people will die." As the commander of the special forces, he has also performed many dangerous missions, so he can naturally understand the end of this thing. How dangerous it is, how many people will take the risk for it, and spare their lives.

"So I'll trouble you to keep an eye on it. Before I build the reactor, these things should not be less than a gram." Chen Xin looked at the commander, and the expression on his face turned serious: "These nuclear materials will It is temporarily stored here. After that, I will continue to work in Linshi. After the work here is completed, these nuclear materials will return to my own shelter with me, where I will complete the manufacture and charging of the nuclear fusion reactor. Then carry out a test run, and you will be responsible for the defense task of the whole process."

Chen Xin's words made the commander of the special forces look stunned. Although he had already been greeted by the superior leader before the mission, he was mentally prepared~IndoMTL.com~ Asking him to guard these important and dangerous nuclear materials still made the commander breathe quickly.

But his sense of mission and responsibility as a soldier made him almost instinctively reply to Chen Xin: "Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"This can be considered as the extra trouble I have brought you. Originally, you only used to protect my safety, but now you are also responsible for the safety of these nuclear materials." Chen Xin also knew that he was adding to others. Trouble, but these troubles are bound to arise.

After all, it is weapons-grade nuclear materials, so the country can't just hand it over to Chen Xinxi so easily. If it wasn't for the special forces ordered to protect him, I'm afraid the country wouldn't hand over weapons-grade nuclear materials to him so easily. on hand.

So from the time they set off, this special force has been tasked with protecting the nuclear materials and the fusion reactor that Chen Xin will build next.

Fortunately, in the current environment, it is not too much trouble to protect the safety of Chen Xin and this batch of nuclear materials. As long as the military camp is well guarded to ensure that this batch of nuclear materials does not leak out, there will be no problem.

After all, there is no force in the land of the Yan Kingdom that can break down the military camp guarded by an elite special force, and even **** something from the military camp and run away.

"The existence of this batch of nuclear materials should be blocked as much as possible. The fewer people know about it, the better. I'll leave it to you." Chen Xin didn't know what to do, but he still followed his own impression. The commander made his own demands.

The commander also nodded and answered with certainty: "The less people know about this kind of thing, the better, and I will explain it to the soldiers in charge of defending it and let them keep it a secret."

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