Great Country Academician

With the leakage of hundreds of tons of high-level radioactive nuclear waste, the nuclear radiation in the core area climbed to a peak in an instant.

Intense α-rays, β-rays, γ-rays, neutron beams and other radiations are like a huge storm on Jupiter, constantly raging violently in the core area.

For any known life, this place is now absolutely forbidden.

Even the most tenacious tardigrade known to survive in space; even the most feared blue whale, cannot survive in this extreme environment for more than 30 seconds.

But fortunately, these berserk radiations were tightly sealed in this place by the outer layer of protective materials.

What is even more worth mentioning is that in the core area, pieces of semiconductor radiation gap material are constantly absorbing these violent radiations, transforming them from substances harmful to life into traces of electrical energy.

The equipment through which the electric energy passes quickly gathers together, and finally exports to the core area, flows into the transformer components that have been prepared, and finally flows to the entire power grid for the use of countless residents.

While the amount of electricity it converts may not be a lot, it could unlock the biggest limitations of nuclear power generation.

Perhaps the mobile phone you use in the future and the new energy vehicle you buy may all consume electricity from nuclear waste power plants and nuclear power plants.

In the main control room, at the moment when the monitoring in the core area lost contact, everyone turned their eyes from the snow-white screen to other monitoring equipment.

Including Xu Chuan, he also quickly shifted his attention to the monitoring representing the output of electric energy.

Although the visual monitoring has lost contact, this does not affect him in the slightest to judge the status of the entire core area through other monitoring data.

One of the keys to judging the success of the entire experiment is to confirm whether the amount of electrical energy converted through the radiation gap semiconductor material has reached the standard.

If the converted electrical energy is lower than the theoretically calculated value, it means that the radiation gap semiconductor material inside has a large number of problems such as damage to the gap band lattice under the strong ionization impact of nuclear radiation.

This is one of the two biggest variables in the entire laboratory. Even though Xu Chuan has the experience of his previous life, he still has some worries in his heart at this moment.

"The protective crystal interlayer detected the impact of ionizing radiation!"

"The output of electrical energy has been detected in the No. 1 gap zone, and it has reached the estimated value of the first stage!"

"The output of electric energy has been detected in the No. 2 gap zone, and it has reached the estimated value of the first stage!"

"The transformer component has been involved!"

"The outer wall of the core area has been inspected once, and the current radiation index is within the standard range!"

"The circulating water cooling system is running stably!"

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In the main control room, the voice trembling with excitement kept ringing.

Everyone was waiting nervously and expectantly for the test results, many of them even clenched their fists.

Judging from the report results of the first stage, a huge amount of nuclear waste in the core area is being converted into electrical energy by radiation gap semiconductor materials!

The rest depends on whether it can stabilize, reach the peak conversion, and whether the water-cooling circulation system is normal!

After the experiment started, on the side of the core industrial park near the sea, accompanied by security personnel, the engineers in charge of the water-cooling circulation system wore protective clothing made of lead-free nanocomposite reconstructed protective materials, and carefully checked the various dials and plumbing equipment.

For the experiment of converting nuclear waste into electrical energy, the cooling system is not needed for the small amount of small-scale black box conversion. No matter how strong the reaction of nuclear radiation is, the quantity is still there.

But for more than 500 tons of high-level radioactive nuclear waste in industrial parks, a water-cooled circulation system is a must.

When the huge ionizing radiation is converted into electrical energy through the radiation gap band crystal structure, it will also generate a certain temperature. Although each conversion will not bring about a great improvement, but the huge amount + time accumulation, these temperatures It will accumulate in the core area, and theoretically it can be as high as more than 2,000 degrees.

This temperature is enough to melt the radiative gap semiconductor material used to convert radiant energy.

Therefore, a water-cooling circulation system must be available, and it is needed to take away the high temperature in the core area.

And this is also the focus of the protection of the entire industrial park.

In any case, in the future operation, it is necessary to ensure that the entire water cooling system is in operation.

Of course, considering unexpected situations, the structure of the water-cooling system is partitioned, just like the cabins on the bottom of a large ship.

As for the radiation problem, lead + double composite protective material is used as the circulation system of the water cooling pipe, and the discharged cooling water will not theoretically become radiation waste water.

Xu Chuan must guarantee this point. Neither he nor the higher authorities can turn Qidong into the second Fukushima.

As for the first inspection, the engineers and guards still wore protective clothing just in case. If radiation exceeding the standard was detected in the water cooling system, the water cooling circulation system would stop and the experiment would stop immediately.

And the entire core area will be directly sealed off, turning into a giant coffin like Chernobyl's No. 4 pile, sealing up the 500 tons of nuclear waste.

In the main control room, Xu Chuan watched closely the real-time monitoring of the water cooling outlet, where engineers in protective clothing were checking the equipment in an orderly manner.

Beside him, Han Jin, who was in charge of the daily work of the entire project, clenched his fists tightly, his tense face turned red from not being able to breathe.

This is the second most critical part of the whole experimental test!

Soon, the engineers in charge of the water-cooling circulation system passed back the test results.

"The current water temperature of the 1# water cooling circulation system is 17.72°C, and the current radiation exposure dose is 0.0415 millisievert (mSv), which is within the standard range!"

"The current water temperature of the 2# water cooling circulation system is 17.74°C, and the current radiation exposure dose is 0.0428 millisievert (mSv), which is within the standard range!"

"Current water temperature of 3# water-cooling circulation system"

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Each item of water cooling cycle inspection report was dictated by these engineers at the first time, and the corresponding data was also uploaded to the main control room for verification at the first time.

After receiving the reports from these engineers, deafening cheers erupted in the main control room. The engineers and researchers hugged each other and clapped their hands together.

They succeeded!

History will always remember this day and their victory!

This is another victory for the humans who have conquered that violent and terrifying radiation and turned it into electricity!

Looking at the cheering researchers in the control room, Qi Zhongxing, the chief engineer standing together, and Han Jin, who was in charge of the daily work of the institute, looked at each other affectionately. Both can see excitement, excitement, and joy from each other's reddish eye sockets and trembling face.

Standing in front of the screen, looking at the test data sent back by the water-cooling circulation system, and listening to the excited and trembling voices of the engineers outside, a smile finally appeared on Xu Chuan's calm and upright face.

The temperature of the water cooling is not critical, the current test has just begun, and the temperature accumulation speed in the core area is far from that fast.

Therefore, the temperature of seawater that has gone around in the circulatory system is not much different from ordinary seawater at present.

The key is in radiation exposure metering!

This is the key point of the whole water cooling cycle system!

The radiation exposure measurement of 0.0428 mSv is lower than what people are exposed to in daily life, and it is not even as high as the radiation exposure received by flying for ten hours.

The radiation exposure measurement of 0.0428 mSv means that the water-cooling circulation system is intact, and the seawater that has traveled around the core area has not taken away the nuclear radiation.

The radiation exposure measurement of 0.0428 mSv also means that their experiment was a success!

The cheering voice echoed in his ears, looking at these joyful researchers, Xu Chuan also smiled along with him.

Although the experimental test has not been completed, the two most difficult hurdles have been passed, and the rest, even if there is a problem, it will not affect the operation of the entire nuclear waste power plant.

In a sense, they did succeed.

However, the mission is not over yet!

A perfect end to this battle is what Xu Chuan wants!

As time went by, the values ​​on the monitor screens in the main control room began to stabilize.

This means that the efficiency of radiative power conversion in the core region begins to peak. Of course, this is not the peak value for the conversion of electrical energy by semiconductor materials with radiative gap bands.

For the rest, a linear particle accelerator is needed.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, when the fluctuations of various parameters stabilized, Xu Chuan spoke again and gave the order.

"Start the linear particle accelerator, start the ADC transmutation assist system!"

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In the monitoring room, the transmutation system team, which had been waiting for a long time, reported immediately.

It's been a long time listening to others cheering and enjoying the glory, and now, it's their turn.

"God bless the Sanqing Buddha, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva! We will definitely succeed!"

The engineers and researchers in the ADS team prayed silently in their hearts, completely disregarding that these gods are not in the same system.

Of course, it will not be these gods who bless them, but their own hard work and seriousness for a long time.

"The linear particle accelerator has been started, the current output energy level is 8Gev, and the particle beam intensity reaches 8×10 protons/pulse!."

With the activation of the ADC transmutation auxiliary system, the originally stabilized monitoring data in the main control room began to beat again.

Just like the theoretical data calculated by Xu Chuan, and like the small black box experiment conducted at the Nuclear Research Institute of the Magic City Academy of Sciences before, with the help of the linear particle accelerator and the start-up transmutation auxiliary system, the electric energy converted from the core area has once again increased. an order of magnitude.

Looking at the various data fed back on the monitoring screen, Xu Chuan finally showed a bright smile on his face.

This time, real success can be declared!

And he finally successfully brought back the technology developed in his previous life to the motherland!

PS: Huh, some words are missing, time is not enough, let's make up tomorrow.