109: Chapter 109 Rare Gold Superconductors, Rare Earth Heat-Resistant Ceramic! The Path to Cold Nuclear Fusion?

However, it must be said that South Korea's vigorous research into room-temperature superconducting materials has received high recognition from the scientific community on Blue Star.

Because, in the technical breakthrough of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, room-temperature superconducting materials are even more important than high-temperature resistant materials!

Although "confinement" and "heating" are both indispensable, confinement is even more critical than heating!

To give a simple example, it's just like cooking rice. Under the same firepower, a pot with a good lid will definitely cook rice faster and better than a pot without a lid or with a leaking lid!

In other words, if the quality of the pot is good, you don't need as much firepower to cook the rice!

Therefore, to achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion, we must first create a "pressure cooker" with excellent performance!

Of course, this pot cannot be a physical object in any way, because no high-temperature resistant material can withstand temperatures above hundreds of millions of degrees!

Only fields, including gravitational fields, inertial confinement fields, electrostatic fields, magnetic fields, etc., can confine a thermonuclear reaction within a certain area!

And the most suitable confinement method for Controlled Nuclear Fusion is, naturally, a magnetic confinement device built using zero-resistance, strongly magnetic, room-temperature superconducting materials!

This includes Tokamak magnetic confinement devices, stellarator magnetic confinement devices, etc. These are all practical Controlled Nuclear Fusion "pressure cookers" that have been verified by the theory and practice of various countries.

Currently, within Xiang Guangming's Nuclear Power Operation Research Institute, there is the most advanced, all-superconducting Tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device on Blue Star!

The Tokamak device sounds complex—it's not simple at all—but to put it simply, its interior is a toroidal vacuum chamber. When energized, it generates a huge spiral magnetic field. As long as the plasma made from deuterium-tritium fuel inside is heated to an extremely high temperature, nuclear fusion in a confined state can be achieved.

But unfortunately, due to the lack of suitable room-temperature superconducting materials, many harsh conditions must be met to achieve stable superconductivity in the magnetic field coils.

This has led to the fact that although the Tokamak experimental device currently in the research institute can achieve stable discharge, it cannot maintain stability for a long time.

It can be said that as long as we have room-temperature superconducting materials, achieving Controlled Nuclear Fusion is completely just around the corner, and even the time to achieve it can be predicted and controlled!

"Chief Designer Lin, you wouldn't be trying to say that you already have specific research ideas for room-temperature superconducting materials and high-temperature resistant materials, would you?"

Elder Cheng said with a smile, "I am getting old, and I cannot withstand being tossed around too many times."

Lin Mo returned the smile, did not offer much explanation, and took out the safe from under his seat.

After opening it, he took out two pieces of material. They were a piece of dark black metal and a piece of silvery-white ceramic.

"Since everyone knows that the key to Controlled Nuclear Fusion is new materials, I won't waste any more words."

Lin Mo held these two new materials and showed them to everyone.

"These two new materials are the key materials I just developed not long ago."

"This black piece is called the Rare Metal Superconductor, codenamed XJ-1, and it is a stable room-temperature superconducting material!"

"This white piece is called the Rare Earth Heat-Resistant Ceramic, codenamed XT-1, and it is a ceramic heat-resistant material that can be used in nuclear fusion reactors!"

Boom! Many people were stunned for several seconds, and it took a long time for them to react.

"Chief Designer Lin, you!..." Everyone stood up abruptly, staring fixedly at the two new materials in Lin Mo's hands!

Elder Yu and Elder Cheng also stood up, their scalps tingling, not knowing what to say!

They were just chatting and laughing earlier, saying that two material technologies were the biggest stumbling blocks for Controlled Nuclear Fusion, and yet you just kicked the stumbling block away in one go? How can you play like that?

Unbelievable, everyone was completely unable to believe it! But when everyone remembered the series of miracles that Lin Mo had repeatedly created, they had no reason not to believe! Contradictory emotions spread among the crowd.

Lin Mo ignored the shocked expressions of the others, took a stack of technical documents out of the safe, and began to pass them around.

"These are all the relevant technical documents and test data for the two new materials; everyone will know once they take a look!"

The several academicians closest to Lin Mo were overjoyed, quickly took the materials, and began to study them.

"Old Liu, hurry! Give me a copy!" "Don't grab it! Let's read it together, let's read it together!" "..."

Lin Mo only brought ten copies of the relevant technical documents for the two new materials, which was clearly not enough for the more than thirty senior project members present to have one each. Everyone had to gather in small groups of three or five to study the technical documents together.

The matter was of great importance, no one complained about this; gathering around to look allowed them to discuss it together, and the atmosphere was actually better!

Elder Yu and Elder Cheng put on their reading glasses and studied the same technical document together. Their expressions were extremely solemn as they read the technical documents word for word. From time to time, they would take out fountain pens and start calculating tremblingly on draft paper on the desktop, unwilling to let go of any detail.

They were both old scholars, and for such a critical matter that could almost determine the fate of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, they were unwilling to let any mistakes occur!

While everyone was still reviewing the materials, Lin Mo handed the USB flash drive he always carried to Xiang Guangming on his left, "Academician Xiang, please arrange to help me print out the data in this confidential USB drive, one copy for each attendee."

Academician Xiang originally wanted to study the specific technical data of the two materials, but after hearing Lin Mo's words, his eyes suddenly lit up! "Okay!" He picked up the USB drive directly, "I'll go right now!"

Professor Ai Chongfeng on the side also immediately guessed what was inside the USB drive and said with an excited face: "I'm going too!"

The two of them pulled a few staff members and walked directly to the confidential room. Taking two steps in one, the group arrived at the confidential room, and Academician Xiang and Professor Ai Chongfeng directed several staff members to print the relevant drawings and technical manuals in the confidential USB drive as quickly as possible.

When the confidential printer printed the first document, Professor Ai Chongfeng couldn't help but grab it directly and began to study it seriously.

"Big Cannon Ai, there are only the two of us, why are you grabbing it? Let's read it together!" Academician Xiang quickly leaned over, and the two focused their attention on studying the design drawings and technical manuals. They read with great interest, and from time to time, they would let out one or two exclamations, making the other staff members who were busy and sweating profusely want to lean over and study together.

More than ten minutes later, Academician Xiang gently put down the two design drawings he treasured like precious gems, shook his head, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Unbelievable, simply unbelievable!"

"After adding the two new materials, the fusion reactor can actually be designed like this; it is truly imaginative!"

"The most outrageous thing is that there is even a practical design plan for miniaturized cold nuclear fusion!"

... (There will be an additional update later)