<h4>Chapter 260: Laser Components</h4>


    “This process of this explosion takes a very short time, only a few picoseconds. As long as three or four such explosions ur every second and continue without break, the energy released will be equivalent to a million-kilowatt power station!”


    Upon hearing Little X’s exnation, Chen Chen nodded immediately. “I know a little about the tokamak device, but I remember that the tokamak has a huge w. The other one is the inertial confinement fusion reactor. Does the Earth Federation have simr devices?”


    “Yes, the tokamak device that represents maic confinement does have a big w because the core of the tokamak device is where the maic field appears. To generate a maic field, you need to use a coil. With a coil, there’ll be an electrical lead and with an electrical lead, there’ll be resistance.’


    Little X replied, “The more practical a tokamak device is, the stronger the maic field has to be and the greater the current that must be passed through the lead. Thus, the resistance of the wirees into y. The resistance will reduce the efficiency of the coil and limit the intensity of the current so that the tokamak device can’t generate an adequate maic field.


    “As such, superconducting technology is very important. Today’s Earth Federation has made low-temperature superconductors into coils so that the problem with both the volume and the loss of current can be solved. Therefore, thebination of this superconductor and the tokamak device is called the super tokamak device.


    “Today, there are only three continents in the Earth Federation that have a super tokamak, namely the North American Continent, Maind China, and the European Continent. Of these, there are five in North America, two in China, and one in Europe.


    “As for inertial confinement fusion reactors, this equipment is avable in many countries and continents all over the world, but the one that is truly famous is the National Ignition Facility Project in North America or NIF for short.


    “This device focuses 2 million joules of energy through 192ser beams onto a deuterium-tritium pellet with a diameter of 3 millimeters. Eachser beam discharges for about three-billionths of a second, generating a high temperature of 100 million degrees. The pressure exceeds 100 billion atmospheres, which triggers nuclear fusion.”


    “I got it.”


    Chen Chen snapped his fingers. “In other words, maic confinement nuclear fusion uses a strong maic field to confine deuterium and tritium in a maic container, heating it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve fusion reactions. On the other hand, inertial confinement uses ultra-high intensitysers, irradiating deuterium and tritium in very short bursts to produce the fusion reaction.”


    After understanding this, Chen Chen looked at the nuclear fusion reactor technology from Elysium and suddenly saw the light at the end of the tunnel.


    In simple terms, the focus of each of the two technologies, maic confinement and inertial confinement, was not the same. The maically confined super tokamak device had a good nuclear fusion reaction effect and did not require repeated ignition, but was disadvantaged in that it wasrge and rather inflexible. Moreover, the cost of electricity required to maintain a strong maic field was not low.


    Therefore, the super tokamak device was used as a nuclear power nt reactor in Elysium’s world.


    The advantage of inertial confinement was that the equipment could be made to be very small and one would have more control over the ignition fire. Even so, the disadvantage was that it had to consume a lot of energy to generatesers for continuous ignition.


    Therefore, the inertial confinement device was used as a spacecraft engine in Elysium’s world.


    Chen Chen reviewed these two technologies andpared them with the nuclear fusion devices of the countries in the Earth Federation. He found that the biggest factor. Other than conceptual innovation, that allowed these two types of nuclear fusion devices to be produced in Elysium’s world was the normal-temperature superconductor.


    The normal-temperature superconductor eliminated the need for a liquid helium cooling system in the super tokamak device, thus greatly reducing itsplexity and cost. Coupled with the stability of high-discement metal, a mature nuclear fusion device was naturally a matter of course.


    The same was true for the inertial confinement device. The normal-temperature superconductor could increase the energy released by theser ignition device several times over, thereby augmenting theser’s energy, even forming aser effect called “ultra-high field”. This would instantly produce an output of 200×1015 watts, which was 100,000 timesrger than the total global electric energy output, yet took only less than one trillionth of a second.


    With this energy, the fuel formed by deuterium and tritium could reach the critical point of nuclear fusion at once. One would not require something asplicated and huge as the NIF device, whose efficiency was not high enough anyway.


    Even so, the only caveat was that if one wished to create a mature super tokamak, one still needed to use materials like high-discement metal. Chen Chen was not capable of producing this high-discement metal for the time being. To do so, he would need the help of particle elerators.


    Chen Chen could only flip to the page “High-Discement Metal” and pore over its contents.


    The so-called high-discement metal was a kind of aluminum. However, it was not normal aluminum, but an isotope of aluminum.


    Generally speaking, metals such as aluminum did not produce isotopes, but with the help of particle elerators, artificial interference and manufacturing became possible.


    For example, the high-discement metal made of metallic aluminum was essentially an aluminum element with a high number of excess neutrons. One would first rely on superconductivity at room temperature to form a strong maic field, then used a particle elerator to fire iron atoms through the strong maic region.


    As the maic field in this region had reached an energy level that could break apart an atom, the iron atoms would disintegrate when passing through the maic field. The electrons would fly to one side of the maic field, while the protons would fly to the other side, leaving only the neutron which continued to fly forward, unaffected, while maintaining its flight trajectory.


    After this, as long as these neutrons were collected by a resonance machine and electrons were attached to the surface of the neutrons with a strong electricbiner, virtual particles could be produced.


    Due to the virtual particles being negatively charged, one only had to use the particle elerator again to elerate the virtual particles and elerate them to a subluminal state, so that they could be used to bombard aluminum atoms.


    As they had attained subluminal speed with immense kic energy, these virtual particles could ovee the repulsion force and forcefully prate the aluminum atom. In this way, the aluminum atom would be filled with arge number of neutrons, causing the element structure to shift. This was why it was called high-discement metal.


    Due to the high imbnce of neutron content, this material was extremely insensitive to energy conduction andpletely nullified thermal energy weapons and thermal wave weapons. Coupled with super metallic strength and durability, it was far better than any alloy. The datasheet even named it the toughest substance within the sr system.


    Since it was impossible to manufacture a super tokamak device, Chen Chen could only step back for now and build the other type — the inertial confinement device reactor.


    To build this kind of reactor, Chen Chen would have to purchase many high-precisionser equipmentponents, then modify them to create a device that could emit ultra-high fieldsers.


    As he considered this, Chen Chen instinctively stroked his chin.


    It looked like the time hade for those financial groups to be put to work. Had he not united this bunch of people precisely because of the influence they possessed?