Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2496 May 5th Nuclear Energy
May 5th, 1037th year of the Xia Yin Star Calendar.

Although it wasn't the traditional fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the Great Xia Dynasty, the Gobi Desert no-man's-land welcomed many important figures on this day.

However, these important figures' trips are all kept secret, and they are not followed by as many media reporters as normal trips.

noon.

The quantum computer at the nuclear fusion power plant control center began its final verification.

When the temperature sensor showed 1.2 million degrees Celsius, the Lawson criterion curve on the large screen suddenly broke through the critical value—the product of plasma density (n) and confinement time (τ) reached 3×10^21 keV·s/m.

At this moment, the monitoring screen next to it showed that the helium-3 consumption rate was 0.18 grams per second, corresponding to an output power of 285MW.

Under the serious gaze of everyone, this situation did not "flash in the pan," but rather stabilized.

One minute, three minutes, five minutes, and after an hour had passed, a middle-aged or elderly man suddenly swallowed.

His parched throat emitted a slightly hoarse voice: "If this continues, it's equivalent to the production capacity of multiple generating units at the Three Gorges Dam..."

After his voice broke the silence, someone immediately said, "Old Zhou, the Three Gorges Dam currently has 34 turbine generator units, including 26 units on the left and right banks, 6 units in the underground power station, and 2 units in the power supply station, with a total installed capacity of 2250 million kilowatts. That means this is already 12.6% to 12.7% of the total power generation."

Furthermore, its production capacity doesn't require relocating so many people, nor does it require building massive dams.

"If I remember correctly, the main power generating units of the Three Gorges Dam are all 70-kilowatt hydroelectric generators, while this nuclear power plant of Jiuzhou Technology... according to the information they provided, is only in the initial verification stage, and can support the construction of at least four more... That's half the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam, and they can choose the location at will, which means they don't have to bear too much transmission loss..."

Daxia's high-voltage power transmission technology was already far ahead of its time.

Furthermore, in the fields of high-voltage power transmission and other power transmission technologies on Earth, the top technical articles are all written in Chinese characters, and the patents are all held by Great Xia.

The West-to-East Power Transmission Project aims to deliver electricity converted from wind and hydropower to factories and company buildings in developed coastal cities as much as possible.

Only a stable and abundant energy source can support a massive industrial production line. Even the refining of rare earth elements requires a stable and abundant energy source.

This is also a major reason why other countries and regions, even though they know that rare earth smelting is important, are unable to smelt it on a large scale on their own.

On the entire planet Earth, only the Great Xia, a peaceful society with a high degree of industrialization, can guarantee a stable and high-power energy supply to support this industry.

Now, the nuclear energy technology of Kyushu Technology has made these scientists and nuclear energy engineering elites sent by the Great Xia government think about more than just rare earth elements and energy layout.

Some people are even speculating in their minds whether there are more hidden things, given Kyushu Technology's past practices.
"Nobody knows the efficiency with which Kyushu Xinghai Company is mining Helium-3 on the moon. Only the engineers at Kyushu Technology have some understanding of it. And only Kyushu Technology itself knows how many nuclear power plants they can build." "This is still the first experimental nuclear fusion power plant. If it becomes truly stable and commercially viable, the power generation capacity should increase further, right? Rongcheng City has one power plant; what about the other cities? Yanjing City…"

"No wonder Kyushu Starsea Company is conducting lunar missions at a high frequency every month, as if they've struck gold. If the source of Helium-3 is stable, many energy-consuming material projects should be cracked. How will Kyushu Technology choose to utilize these technological achievements?"

Wan Hao, the head of the Kyushu Nuclear Power Plant in the Gobi Desert, was watching the parameter changes on the screens in front of him, keeping an eye on the values ​​to ensure they didn't exceed the critical point, while also looking at the prompts from [Tiangong].

At Kyushu Technology today, these tasks, which are all handled by artificial intelligence (AI), still "standardly" require manual processing.

Of these numerical changes, the one that excites Marriott the most is the neutron detector reading.

"The radiation intensity is only one millionth of that of a traditional fission reactor. It seems that although the research parameters of the low gravity environment in the interior of Earth and the Moon have changed, the changes are still within a controllable range."

His slightly excited voice on the voice channel prompted Zhang Tianhao, the head of the lunar development project, to respond: "The rules of the universe are such that the more we discover, the less surprises we will face. I'll need you to explain this to the Great Xia government later."

We have no way to return to Earth for the time being…

"Ok, I know."

Another hour passed.

When the Kyushu nuclear fusion reactor in the uninhabited Gobi Desert of Anxi successfully reached this stage and the generator set began transmitting energy to the power grid, Wanhao and his colleagues came to the official team of Daxia.

Although his name sounds somewhat "gamified," Marriott's work ethic and capabilities are anything but a game.

Facing these top industry experts, his explanations were neither humble nor arrogant.

"Our technological breakthroughs have several highlights. For example, in terms of in-situ resource utilization, our helium-3 refinery, which we have built, can process lunar regolith and other minerals more efficiently. The current extraction efficiency is 90% (publicly disclosed). Due to some technical difficulties, we cannot improve it further for the time being, but we believe that with technological advancements, the extraction efficiency will definitely be able to be increased to around 95%..."

The entire nuclear fusion power generation device is handled by an intelligent operation and maintenance system that processes various parameters and technical aspects. The digital twin technology virtual power plant developed based on Lingjing Ecosystem Technology can predict component failures 48 hours in advance under the current parameter simulation conditions, ensuring that our nuclear power plant can operate more stably.

According to our simulations, under the same power generation conditions, our nuclear fusion power plant can achieve an annual CO2 reduction of about 2.2 million tons, while the cooling water requirement is only 2% of that of a coal-fired power plant. Even though water resources are scarce in the Anxi Gobi Desert, we can still guarantee water supply.

In addition, the nuclear energy industry engineering robots developed by our Kyushu Technology Titanium Star division can reliably replace ordinary workers in the work inside nuclear power plants.

These robots ensure both work efficiency and the health and safety of personnel, and considering communication stability, they all use multi-channel communication modules.