Chapter 278 As Expected, Professor Xu!

On the premise of solving the stability problem, the number of neutrons can be increased to increase the decay rate of nuclear waste and stabilize the conversion rate of electrical energy.

This is the inspiration that Xu Chuan got from a "degenerate" basketball game.

The advantage of doing this is that the energy level requirements of the linear particle accelerator can be reduced. As for how much it can be reduced, specific experiments are needed.

After all, it is indeed an extremely difficult thing to take into account the energy level and stability of the linear particle accelerator at the same time.

This is also the reason why particle accelerators are getting bigger and bigger.

For example, the large particle collider LHC of CERN has a total length of an astonishing 27 kilometers, and the linear particle accelerator of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in the United States has a length of 3.2 kilometers.

It is not only because the closer a particle is to the speed of light, the more energy and pipeline it requires, but also because of stability and controllability.

Xu Chuan cannot build a large particle collider for the "Nuclear Energy β Radiation Energy Conversion Electric Energy Mechanism" project.

That will not only take time but also money, and the existing linear particle accelerator has become his only choice.

Of course, he could choose not to use a linear particle accelerator to catalyze the decay of nuclear waste, but simply relying on radiation gap materials to convert radiation electricity has various disadvantages.

Such as low conversion efficiency, low power generation, long site occupation time, unstable conversion, etc.

The linear particle accelerator plays a catalytic and stabilizing role in the middle.

Nuclear waste that originally took hundreds or thousands of years to decay can be shortened to 20 to 30 years to consume most of the radiation in it.

Rushing back to the office quickly, Xu Chuan opened the engineering design drawing, started to sort out ideas again, and modified the drawing.

He is not a professional engineer and cannot modify the design drawings according to the standards.

But he has presided over many large projects in the past, especially in the field of high-energy physics, and is very clear about the structure of particle colliders.

Professional matters are left to professionals. Xu Chuan does not require himself to modify the engineering drawings perfectly. It is enough to know how to modify them and what requirements need to be met.

As for how to modify, what materials to use, and how to construct, those are things that engineers need to consider.

After several hours of tossing, several unrecognizable design drawings that have been modified reappeared in the computer.

Looking at the redesigned drawings on the display screen, Xu Chuan carefully checked them and nodded with satisfaction.

This modification mainly remodeled the spiral acceleration chamber node and main ring pipeline of the large separation fan cyclotron.

The former improves the stability of the particle beam by adding an SMI control tail field.

The latter adds a proton additive.

Through the impact of the particle beam, more microscopic particles are derived to achieve the ability to efficiently start the nuclear waste decomposition.

The process is somewhat similar to the chain reaction of nuclear fission. A neutron bombards a nucleus, and then more neutrons are produced to bombard more nuclei. Once started, it is endless.

However, the conversion of nuclear radiation to electricity is different. It requires the linear particle accelerator to continuously replenish the first neutron.

After all, nuclear waste itself is waste that has already fissioned most of the uranium 235 inside the nuclear fuel. Without replenishing chain neutrons, the chain reaction cannot be started quickly.

With the redesigned drawings, Xu Chuan sent a message and convened a meeting of executives and researchers from the nuclear industrial park.

Theoretically, the new scheme he constructed should be able to meet the requirements, but he has to listen to other people's opinions, right?

Moreover, he is not a real expert in the field of nuclear fission, although he had a deep understanding of nuclear waste and nuclear fuel when he studied the technology of 'nuclear energy beta radiation energy aggregation and conversion into electrical energy mechanism'.

But compared with those experts who have studied and specialized in this field, there is still a big gap.

In the office of the institute, after receiving Xu Chuan's message, Han Jin and Qi Zhongxing immediately put down their work and contacted other qualified personnel to attend the meeting and rushed over quickly.

"This is a patch idea I made for the stability and energy level of the linear particle accelerator. You can take a look first and exchange any good suggestions."

In the conference room, Xu Chuan asked the staff to distribute the printed modified design drawings and other materials.

Hearing the solution to the stability and energy level of the linear particle accelerator, everyone in the conference room was curious and quickly picked up the materials to read them.

The problem of the stability and energy level of the linear particle accelerator is a problem they have been studying recently.

For nuclear waste power plants, this problem is indeed very serious at present, but if a solution can be found, it may leave a deep impression in front of the young chief engineer in front of him.

As far as the domestic situation is concerned, the unique status of the Nobel Prize + the Philadelph Prize has made this person a new independent academic.

If you can get his favor, it will be a big profit!

Unfortunately, the stability and energy level of the linear particle accelerator are not so easy to solve.

There are ways to take into account both energy level and stability at the same time, but it is too difficult to modify a linear particle accelerator with a fixed foundation, and there is a time limit.

"Increasing the energy level from the perspective of increasing the number of neutrons, this alternative solution is simply wonderful! Why can't I think of it!"

"If you could think of it, you wouldn't be sitting here today, you would be sitting in the conference room of CERN."

"It's worthy of being called Chuan Shen. Chuan Shen solved the problem that we have been struggling with for more than half a month in less than a week."

"Using quantity to replace energy level is almost impossible in ordinary accelerators, but we don't actually pursue energy level, maybe this method really works!"

"That's right, after all, Chuan Shen is a double winner of the Nobel Prize and the Fields Prize! He will definitely be selected as an academician this year!"

"A 22-year-old academician, hiss..., this breaks history."

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Although there are a lot of boasting and praise, everyone still agrees and recognizes the method proposed by Xu Chuan to take a different approach.

In theory, this is indeed a feasible method.

Of course, the actual effect still needs to be tested in practice.

In the conference room, everyone stopped after flattering and began to seriously discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this plan and the areas that can be improved.

After all, they are all professionals. They may not know where to start before there is a suitable method, but they can still pick out the areas that can be optimized from a set of solutions and make suggestions.

After all, innovation is the most difficult part.

Xu Chuan also gained a lot from the meeting, such as the adjustment plan of the SMI control enclosure, such as the turbulence control of the spiral acceleration pipeline, etc.

These things are still useful to him, because it is not just this project, there will be large domestic particle colliders to be built in the future, and these things may optimize the performance of the collider to a certain extent.

After communication, the group finally determined a set of the most reasonable solutions.

The stability of the particle beam is improved by the built-in SMI control tail field, and the number is increased by lead plates to achieve the expected effect.

It just so happens that the ion linear particle accelerator ordered these two days has been delivered by special vehicles. It has not yet started installation and debugging, so it can be modified before processing.

In the industrial park, a large fleet of vehicles parked on the side of the road, waiting for the delivery vehicles in front to complete unloading.

The total length of this linear particle reached nearly 800 meters. Such a huge equipment is naturally impossible to be transported as a whole.

However, with the support of the country, the use of special cargo transport vehicles for transportation does not require it to be disassembled into parts for transportation.

Apart from the length, the linear accelerator is not actually very large, and those transport vehicles can fully transport the disassembled linear particle accelerators one by one.

The only thing to note is that the accelerator is relatively sensitive and needs to be protected by top-level shockproof means.

In addition, it is more troublesome to pass through the toll station to get on the highway. Several toll stations and checkpoints were dismantled in the middle before it was successfully on the road.

In fact, the transportation of this linear particle accelerator has been prepared since last year. After a long time of four or five months, it was safely transported from Beijing to Qidong.

Now, it is time to reassemble it.

Even if there are enough people, it will take more than half a month. After assembly, it needs to be checked and debugged. Even if everything goes well, it will take until early June to start using it for the first test experiment.

However, Xu Chuan cannot stay in Qidong for so long. After all, he has a report meeting on the interim results of the NS equation to be held in early May.

Of course, this does not mean that he cannot test this solution.

With a few researchers, Xu Chuan rushed to the Nuclear Research Institute of the Magic City Academy of Sciences.

There is a small linear particle accelerator here. Although the performance is far from meeting the requirements, it is still no problem to do a simple experiment.

Although the SMI control tail field generator is precious, it is still available in key state-owned nuclear energy research institutes such as the Nuclear Research Institute of the Magic City Academy of Sciences.

As for the lead plates used to chain generate more proton materials, there is no need to say more.

A nuclear research institute may lack anything, but it is impossible to lack lead metal.

Before he developed lead-free nanocomposite reconstruction protective materials, lead protective materials can be said to be the most common materials in nuclear energy research experiments.

It took some time for Xu Chuan to modify the small linear particle accelerator of the Nuclear Research Institute of the Magic City Academy of Sciences to a certain extent.

Of course, this modification can be disassembled, and only some temporarily processed accessories will be lost.

After all, if the modification cannot be disassembled, people will not do it.

After the preparations were done, the experiment started soon.

Under the control of the Nuclear Research Institute of the Magic City Academy of Sciences, the linear particle accelerator, detector and small experimental black box for storing nuclear waste were slowly assembled together to form a strange-shaped device.

Looks a bit like a square dumbbell?

The shape is a bit strange, but Xu Chuan didn't care. As long as it is easy to use, it doesn't matter what the appearance is. Anyway, it's a test product. Why make it so good-looking?

"Report, the preparations are ready, and the experiment can start at any time!"

In the observation room, a staff member reported loudly.

Xu Chuan nodded and said calmly: "Start the experiment!"

"Yes!"

"All groups are ready, the experiment officially begins."

"The voltage of the A07 spiral acceleration cavity has been increased!"

"The auxiliary control program of the main control computer is running normally!"

"The LIGHT accelerator has confirmed that it has reached the load and can inject the particle beam!"

"The particle beam has been added and released!"

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A series of reports sounded in the control room. With the final command confirmation, the particle beam bound in the particle chamber was rapidly accelerated to the extreme by the strong magnetic field and finally fired like a bullet.

In the place that could not be seen by the naked eye, the lead plate deployed in front of the small experimental black box suffered a strong impact. In an instant, countless protons were split out and entered the nuclear waste in the black box, hitting the remaining uranium.

In the control room, Xu Chuan and other researchers and engineers stood together, quietly waiting for the results of the experiment.

On the side, Han Jin, who was in charge of the nuclear energy project, glanced at Xu Chuan beside him. His calm demeanor made him admire him very much.

To be honest, his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

After all, this is a key task involving a project worth tens of billions.

If the energy level and stability cannot be solved, not to mention the time delay, the subsequent reconstruction of the linear particle accelerator alone may require tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of funds.

And the current experiment, although only a simulation, can almost confirm whether this idea is correct.

At this point, he can still be so calm, which can only be said to be worthy of the famous Professor Xu.

After taking a deep breath and suppressing his beating emotions, Han Jin looked at the monitoring screen again.

On the side, Xu Chuan looked at the monitoring screen calmly. He was not very panicked about this experiment.

People are different. He has presided over a lot of big projects and seen a lot of big things.

Not to mention the reconstruction of the linear particle accelerator, even the entire nuclear waste reuse project is not a big deal in the projects he has led.

What's more, even if this experiment fails, he has other solutions, so he is not panicked.

As the experiment officially started, the values ​​of various monitors and detectors began to change, and the focused staff began to report the situation.

"The radiation intensity has increased!"

"The conversion current output has increased!"

"The current LIGHT accelerator output is stable. According to the plan, the number of particle beams will be increased in five seconds."

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A series of voices sounded in the monitoring room.

Staring at the jumping values ​​and curves on the monitoring screen, Xu Chuan smiled.

Although the experimental test has not been completed, and even a round of debugging has not stabilized, he has seen the results from those jumping values ​​and curves.