Chapter 387 Exploded!
Chapter 387 Exploded!
”Sorry, I’m not feeling well today. I’m going to go back and rest.”
Faced with Duke who had lost his mind, Byrne did not intend to compromise.
He and Duke had worked together for so long, and they had always had a good personal relationship, but they were not the same kind of people after all.
Duke was a businessman. He was doing nuclear fusion just to turn his life around, and he didn’t consider the consequences of experimental failure at all…
Or, he actually considered it, but didn’t care.
What if the experiment failed and the device was seriously damaged? It was nothing more than leaving a mess to Mobil.
But as a physics professor who seriously studies nuclear fusion, this matter means something completely different to Byrne.
Once the LM-26 project is successful, he will surely win many international academic awards in the future.
No one will remember who paid for LM-26, but everyone will remember that LM-26 was created by Byrne.
Joshua Byrne’s name will be recorded in history like Edison, Tesla and other famous scientists, and he will become a scientific giant admired by all mankind and even the future world.
Even if we don’t talk about these utilitarian things, LM-26 is Byrne’s hard work for many years, and he can’t bear to waste it like this…
And today’s experimental failure has basically no impact on Byrne, it’s just a delay in ignition for a while.
Mobil has already set its sights on them anyway. Even if Duke fires him now, Mobil will have to invite him back tomorrow after it officially takes over General Fusion…
Byrne no longer has to worry about General Fusion going bankrupt and forcing him to interrupt his research.
Therefore, Byrne directly chose to turn against Duke.
Seeing Byrne’s back as he left, Duke’s face darkened, but soon, he set his sights on Crowley, who was standing there in a daze.
“Crowley, you continue to host today’s experiment.”
“Ah?”
Byrne’s assistant was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, “But I’m just an assistant to the supervisor…”
“Not anymore. Byrne has been fired. Now I appoint you as the technical director of General Fusion. As long as you can successfully ignite today, your salary will be twice that of Byrne, which is eight times your current salary!”
Crowley’s face suddenly showed a trace of struggle, but soon, greed occupied his mind.
Besides, Duke suddenly added: “If the ignition can be successfully carried out today, it will no longer be Byrne who will go down in history, but the two of us.”
”Especially you – Crowley, scientific exploration requires some courage, no one will remember a coward without the slightest sense of adventure, the successful ignition of LM-26 will make you the most respected physicist in the world!”
This sentence completely defeated Crowley’s reason,
The opportunity to pick peaches is not available every day, especially this peach, which is so ripe that anyone who sees it is salivating…
”It’s my honor.”
…
”Fuel setting: 0.75mg deuterium-tritium mixture.”
”Setting completed.”
”Start the ignition experiment.”
Under Crowley’s chairmanship, the experiment soon resumed, and Crowley first doubled the nuclear fuel.
As the machine emitted a harsh sound of electricity, the plasma ring successfully entered the reaction chamber.
Bang——
The 120 steam hammers around the device immediately completed the strike on the plasma ring.
However, this attempt still failed.
However, the data is encouraging. This time they created a temperature of 59.6 million degrees, 130,000 higher than the last time.
“It works, which shows that my guess just now is correct.”
Crowley was not disappointed, but was encouraged. He immediately ordered the cleaning of the reaction chamber and continued to increase the fuel to repeat the experiment.
Until the third experiment increased the fuel to 1.5mg, the temperature in the chamber had reached 63.2 million degrees.
Although the conditions for fusion reaction have been met, the fusion reaction still did not occur.
In fact, this is also normal, because there is a probability of fusion in atomic collision. Only when two atoms collide and fusion reaction occurs, and the first wave of energy is released, a chain fusion reaction will occur, detonating other nuclear fuels.
What they created is only the mostLow fusion reaction conditions, so the probability of ignition is very low.
But now the fuel has reached 1.5mg…
Even Crowley, who is obsessed with utilitarianism, can’t help but sweat at this time.
1kg of deuterium-tritium mixture can release about 3.38E14 joules of energy (about 93.6 million kWh without considering power generation efficiency) when it is completely fused.
According to the design of the LM-26 device, each reaction can only withstand a maximum of 6.876E8 joules of energy,
That is to say, he can only inject 2.04mg of deuterium-tritium mixture into it at most.
“I think to be on the safe side, we should stay at 1.5mg and try our luck a few times. If it doesn’t work… then try 2mg.”
Duke looked at the time, shook his head and said, “Each of your experiments takes more than an hour, and it’s already 9 o’clock in the evening, which means we only have two chances… If you don’t want to be kicked out by Byrne tomorrow, I don’t think now is the time to hesitate.”
Crowley’s face suddenly turned pale.
What Duke said was absolutely right. When he accepted Duke’s invitation, it was actually a betrayal of Byrne. This decision has blocked his retreat.
Today, they can’t afford to fail! “Fuel setting: 2mg deuterium-tritium mixture.”
”Isn’t this too radical?”
”Yes, it’s already 9pm, I think we should stop here today…”
The other researchers were a little scared when they saw Duke and Crowley, who were already a little crazy…
”Please hold on!” Duke immediately comforted them, “After today’s experiment, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, I will give each of you a bonus of 20,000 US dollars! I will pay for it myself and transfer it on the spot!”
Everyone was a little moved after hearing this, and a researcher said tentatively: “We can help you prepare for the experiment, but before the formal experiment, we want to stay away…”
”Deal!”
So the group of people immediately continued the experiment with their own ulterior motives. After 2mg of deuterium-tritium nuclear fuel was injected into the plasma injector and heated into plasma, all the researchers immediately ran out of the laboratory.
Duke and Crowley stayed in the control room to carry out the final operation.
Of course, there were some security guards and logistics staff who were unaware of the situation.
A dozen researchers looked at the laboratory not far away in the cold wind, smoking and chatting.
”It feels like they have gone crazy…” ”Who cares about them? Duke is the big boss after all. Even if the company is taken over by Mobil in the future, he is still a major shareholder. If you really offend him, your life will not be easy in the future…”
”That’s right, as long as the money is in place.”
”But if he has an accident, who will he ask for the bonus he just promised?”
”Although I am a little worried, according to the normal design standards of LM-26, the energy released by 2mg of fuel is completely within the tolerance range, and the possibility of an accident is indeed not high…”
”Then why did you run out?”
”Hey, isn’t this…”
Boom——
Before the researcher finished speaking, a violent explosion suddenly came from the laboratory! The huge impact force of the explosion shook the entire ground! !
Several researchers who were frightened knelt on the ground with their legs softened, looking at the laboratory with a hole blown out and emitting blue light, showing horrified expressions…—— Dongyang.
Before seven o’clock in the morning, Kang Chi’s mobile phone suddenly rang urgently.
Because he helped Yan Hui solve the manufacturing problem of Xunlong last night, he was busy until midnight. Kang Chi was not awakened by the ringing. It was not until the third time that Kang Chi finally forced his eyes open, touched the phone and said in a daze: “Who is it?”
”It’s me, Zhong Weijian.” Academician Zhong on the other end of the phone heard Kang Chi’s morning mood, but the matter was more important, so he still bit the bullet and continued, “General Fusion exploded!”
What the hell! ! ?
Kang Chi immediately became alert after hearing this.
“It exploded? When did it explode? How did it explode? Was it powerful?”
“…”
Zhong Weijian was silent for a moment, then asked, “Why do you sound so happy?”
”Ahem…Nothing, I was just excited for a moment.” Kang Chi asked seriously, “Is the situation serious? No one was injured, right?”
”The specific situation has not been officially announced yet.”Reports, but according to rumors in Maple Leaf Country, it seems that a total of five people, including General Fusion’s boss Isaiah Duke, were sent to the hospital. I don’t know if their lives are in danger…”
”As for their magnetized target device, it is obvious that it must have been seriously damaged. The incident happened at 10:30 pm on the 31st, which is 10:30 am yesterday here considering the time difference.”
”In addition, their technical director Joshua Byrne accepted a media interview after the accident.”
”According to his description, they seemed to have some disagreements during the experiment that day, but he did not reveal what the disagreement was. He just said that he left the laboratory after the first experiment. “I guess Duke, who issued the military order, took the rest of the people to conduct some dangerous and radical experiments, which eventually led to the accident…” After Zhong Weijian finished explaining the situation, he said solemnly: “Although the radioactive neutrons produced by milligram-level nuclear fuel cannot be regarded as a nuclear leakage accident, it can only be regarded as an accidental explosion in the experiment at most. Byrne also repeatedly emphasized this point in the interview.” “But no one believes him at all. Now all the media are questioning the safety of the magnetized target device… This wave of public opinion will definitely affect us soon.” “Just now, the Ministry of Science and Technology also called me. Although they did not directly stop us, they hope to send a safety consultant to re-evaluate the risk of our experiment…” “No matter what the result of the evaluation is, I guess the safety plan must be improved by several levels on the original basis… This may delay a lot of time. ”
“…”
Kang Chi immediately stopped gloating…
They were not strong enough, and it turned out to affect his plan? What kind of thing is this? Kang Chi was just disappointed with General Fusion at this moment.
Even if they succeeded in igniting first, it would be better than the explosion…
Fortunately, it was Kang Chi who proposed the magnetized target route. For his sake, the leader only asked them to improve the safety level of the experiment, and even asked Zhong Weijian to convey the notice instead of talking to him directly.
It can be said that he gave enough face.
If it were someone else, the entire project would probably have to be re-evaluated. —— The explosion of General Fusion affected more than just Kang Chi.
How happy the stock prices of Mobil and Amazon were before, how painful it is to fall now.
Just one day after the news spread, their stock prices fell directly back to the price before investing in General Fusion, and it was even a little unstoppable…
This incident also made the M country energy bureau more convinced that the magnetized target nuclear fusion proposed by Kang Chi was definitely a huge pit! Fortunately, it was only General Fusion that was fooled.
If it were them, they would probably not know what kind of criticism they would be given by the media and the public…
At the same time, domestic media also quickly reported this news, and the word “nuclear fusion” appeared in everyone’s sight again.
”Fuck, how did they become hydrogen bomb makers when they were engaged in nuclear fusion?”
”The key is that they blew themselves up…”
”Master Kang, please protect yourself. If something happens to you, where can we buy cheap graphics cards?”
”Yes, if it really doesn’t work, forget it. Saving your life is important. ”
”It’s not as exaggerated as you say. I saw the news pictures and felt that the power of the explosion was at most equivalent to an RPG. As long as we keep a safe distance, it doesn’t matter if it explodes. We can’t just throw the baby out with the bathwater, right?”
”I agree with the above, and our General Kang’s strength is not comparable to theirs.”
”No matter what, I think safety comes first. ”
Like Zhong Weijian’s guess, netizens who don’t understand the technical details don’t directly question Kang Chi, but they generally have some doubts about the safety of this experiment.
But in fact, the safety standard of Jinwu No. 1 is much higher than that of General Fusion. Even if an accident like General Fusion really happens, there will definitely be no casualties.
Besides, Kang Chi doesn’t have to joke about such things and conduct some radical and risky experiments.
Because of the General Fusion experiment accident, Kang Chi had to temporarily put aside the Xunlong project and let Yan Hui continue with the team in Dongyang. He came to Luzhou in advance and took over the task of assembling Jinwu No. 1, and asked Zhong Weijian to hand over the upgrade work related to experimental safety.
A week after Kang Chi came to Luzhou, the Maple Leaf Energy Bureau finally announced a survey report on the 12.31 General Fusion experiment accident.Check the report, Kang Chi also immediately summoned the main technical director of Jinwu No. 1 to analyze the report.
[The steam hammer transmission device has an abnormality, and the pressurization sequence of the steam hammer has deviated…]
When Kang Chi saw this, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes: “So from the beginning, their experiment failed because of the problem of the transmission device…”
”Instead of solving the problem, they continue to add fuel? Tsk tsk tsk… I can only say that if you don’t do it, you won’t die.”
Seeing this, Kang Chi has guessed the cause of the explosion.
Kang Chi believes that the fuel they injected can normally withstand the device, but they ignored a problem in their eagerness for quick success.
Since there is a problem with pressurization, when a fusion reaction occurs, these steam hammers will rebound and decompress, and there may be no problems? It’s a very simple truth,
You have a hard time poking it in, can you pull it out smoothly? And once the speed of pulling it out is not enough, the decompression performance will decrease, and the result is naturally imaginable.
It is probably because their design was too extreme, leaving no room for themselves, so they could not get a venting device, and it was just a thermobaric bomb at that time…
So, bang——
I can only say that they deserved to explode…
(End of this chapter)