Chapter 954 - Nuclear Fusion Power Station (1/2)

The Lunar Colony Ground Command enter was bustling.

Today was a historic day. The nuclear fusion generator placed on the surface of the Moon would officially be powered on. It not only meant that the shortage of electricity in the Lunar Colony would no longer be a problem, it also signaled that the excess power could be sent to Celestial City through long-distance power transmission and then to Earth.

“Ready?”

“Of course.”

“Let’s get started.” Jiang Chen nodded and gestured to Kelvin that he could start.

The entire command center was like clockwork. Everyone all put ten times and twenty times their usual effort and fought in their positions. The parameters on the big screen in the center were flashing, and the nuclear fusion generator a few hundred thousand kilometers away was monitored here.

“The magnetic confinement device has been activated and helium-3 fuel has been loaded into the reaction chamber!”

“The magnetic confinement device is operating normally.”

“The super fluid thermal cycler is activated… operation is stable.”

“Deuterium fuel is loaded!”

“…”

“Ignition!”

All the lights turned green, and Kevlin immediately pressed the red button. In the holographic screen, the progress bars were instantaneously filled, and the power output instantly reached an astounding 5,000MW. In the spherical reaction chamber dozens of kilometers away, the magnetic confinement device already turned into a blinding ball of light, and its internal reaction temperature reached an extraordinary ten million degrees!

It was no exaggeration to say it was a small Sun.

If the violently reacting atoms broke through the magnetic confinement, its power would be no less than the detonation of a million TNT-equivalent hydrogen bombs. If it were placed on the Earth, it would be enough to erase a metropolitan from the map.

However, everyone had full confidence in the device.

As early as the completion of Penglai City, Celestial Trade already secretly put the nuclear fusion generator into operation. It was also not their first time initializing a nuclear fusion generator set, the difference was that the nuclear fusion generator was manufactured by Future Heavy Industries and located hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

5,000MW was far from the limit of this nuclear fusion generator set. As the fuel tank continued to be filled, the output power of the electric energy climbed higher. The reaction temperature also exceeded 15 million degrees, and after a slight fall, it stabilized at 14 million degrees.

Kevlin sighed in relief and a smile finally landed on his face. He picked up the intercom on his shoulder and announced to everyone.

“No. 01 nuclear fusion generator is successfully in operation!”

There was a burst of cheers in the command center, and the staff members walked down from their positions, cheering and celebrating.

Jiang Chen was also delighted.

Unlike most nuclear power plants, Celestial Trade abandoned the inefficient steam turbine power generation design after absorbing the apocyalpse’s technology. Now, they used a more advanced thermal ion reactor.

To put it simply, the cathode and anode poles were connected by wires, the cathode was heated to release the electron beam, and the anode absorbed electrons to form a circulating circuit. However, the whole set of equipment was certainly not as simple as its description. Just like a simple nuclear power station generated electricity by boiling water, the technical expertise involved was far more than just boiling water.

How to solve the power generation limitation, how to recycle the heat absorbed by the anode and use for power generation… These were the problems that needed to be solved by the modern world. If the world didn’t go on a tangent, then in another thirty to fifty years, controlled nuclear fusion technology would also be born here, and most would still be using steam turbines to generate electricity. Just because neutrons could easily be absorbed by light materials, a second-loop heat exchanger could be eliminated compared to nuclear fission.