MTL - Monster Factory-~ 1357: Fission knife
First law of thermodynamics:
Heat can be transferred from one object to another, or from mechanical or other energy, but the total value of energy remains constant during the conversion process.
Plasma cutting knives are also a form of thermodynamic expression.
Energy modules that supply power to plasma cutting knives also follow the principle of conservation of energy. Its energy storage density is directly related to the working time it drives the plasma cutting knife.
Nuclear reactors are strictly an energy storage device, but the energy density is many times higher than that of energy modules.
It relies on the fuel rods in the core to provide a source of continuous heat source. These heat sources heat the primary circuit cooling water, then boil the secondary circuit fluid to become an ultra-supercritical fluid to drive the gas turbine to generate electricity.
Why did the electro-crystals start to design an indefinite torpedo into a thousand-ton big guy?
In order to be able to force a small nuclear reactor.
The reactor generates electricity and can drive a variety of equipment or weapons with electricity.
If you drive a plasma cutter, the reactor can provide almost unlimited power, allowing the plasma cutter to cut the hull.
Then...
Under the principle that the plasma uses a high temperature arc to melt the metal, it is directly skipped by these energy conversion steps, skipping what core, reactor, primary circuit water, secondary circuit water, gas turbine.
Is it barely holding a fuel rod?
What happens if I hold a fuel rod?
Under normal circumstances, of course, the internal nuclear fuel of the fuel rod gradually heats up, and releases some radioactive elements that can be protected by the zirconium alloy fuel rod.
In the absence of cooling measures, it will gradually rise to a temperature of more than three thousand degrees, melting itself, and also melting the zirconium alloy protective casing.
Once the internal uranium dioxide fuel block melts, its fission reaction cannot be artificially interrupted.
The fission knife is an extreme weapon that Ye Qing thought of.
There is no messy energy conversion step, directly redesigning a fuel rod into a weapon that can sustain the release of horrible heat.
The plasma cutter can release an arc of up to 8000 degrees to melt the metal.
A fuel rod, although there is no way to heat the temperature to 8000 degrees.
However, energy is conserved.
There is loss in the energy conversion process, and the more conversion steps, the greater the loss.
The heat utilization rate of nuclear power generation is only 33%, and the electricity is converted into a high temperature arc by a plasma cutting knife, and the energy loss is further improved.
Therefore, in the end, the destructive power of the arc has no way to compare it with the thermal destructive force released by the fuel rod.
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Ye Qing's fission knife program proposed, the electric crystal is exclaimed crazy, and feel very very appetite for himself.
How big is a fuel rod?
The standard fuel block in a nuclear power plant is a cylinder 1 cm in diameter and 1 cm in height. Hundreds of such fuel blocks are housed in a 1 mm thick zirconium alloy casing to form a four-meter-long standard fuel rod.
Then redesigned, the fuel rod was designed as a knife filled with hundreds of fuel blocks.
Prior to cutting, the fuel block in the fission knives is activated to ignite, allowing it to continue to release horrible heat.
Of course, once the fission knife is activated, there is no way to lower the temperature. If there is no cooling, it will not melt itself for too long and will melt itself, causing a nuclear leak.
"This is not a problem!" Celebrity cheered.
Cannot be extinguished after activation, then it will not go out.
After the task of cutting the warship is completed, the unshaped torpedo removes the fission knife and places it on the submarine. The space of the submarine is large enough to be hidden in the sea, and the direct water circulation can continue to cool the fission knife.
When you use it again next time, take it out and install it.
The design idea of the fission knives was put forward, and from Ye Qing to Jing Jing to the masters of the masters, they became very enthusiastic. Now there is still a mind to deal with the cargo problem on the humpback whale.
Ye Qing directly started the lord battleship and returned to the secret factory behind the Soto rainforest, where there were nuclear reactors and massive fuel blocks.
In less than twenty minutes after returning to the nuclear plant, Dianjing has begun to design the shape of the fission knife.
First, you need a metal that is more resistant to high temperatures and corrosion than zirconium alloys.
Humans use zirconium alloys to make fuel rods. This does not mean zirconium alloys, or humans can produce the most high temperature resistant alloys.
However, zirconium alloys have high hardness, high ductility, and corrosion resistance, which maintain strength in long-term high-radiation and high-corrosion environments.
In addition, its welding performance is also very good, can be easily welded into various components, so it is the most suitable material for the manufacture of fuel rods.
Jingjing just prepared to use holographic glasses to turn over the alloy metal catalog in the factory, and suddenly a slap in the face of his transparent head.
What alloy is used, and the amorphous metal is used directly.
Zirconium alloy fuel rods used in commercial nuclear power plants will slowly climb to about three thousand degrees once the fuel rods lose cooling water and are not stopped. At this temperature, the zirconium alloy will not be melted for too long.
An amorphous metal is the alloy with the highest melting point known, and its melting point is 4622 degrees.
And when it reaches the melting point, it just can no longer enter the solid state. As the temperature drops, it can again switch between the two of the three forms of metal.
The higher the density of the metal, the stronger the ability to block radiation.
The density of amorphous metal is higher than that of gold. If two hundred standard fuel blocks are packaged, the thickness of the amorphous metal as long as it exceeds 9 mm can completely block the nuclear radiation released by two hundred standard fuel blocks.
Of course, in the cooling and maintenance phase after the mission is completed, the boron-containing cooling water is used to absorb the high-energy neutrons slowly accumulated on the fission knives to prolong the service life of the fission knives.
In addition, after the fission knives are made of amorphous metal, the fission knives lose the ability to freely deform.
Because of the large amount of radiation inside the fission knives, these radiations can disturb the deformed magnetic field released by the maker. It is rash and it is very likely that a leak will occur.
Both Ye Qing and Dian Jing agree that as long as the shape is cool, the fission knife does not change.
At the same time, the crystal is also intended to re-prepare a batch of fuel blocks.
Fuel blocks used in nuclear power plants incorporate slower materials during the manufacturing process to slow down the rate of fission.
The electro-crystal should be within the safety threshold to minimize the specific gravity of the moderated material. Let the fuel block fission rate approach the critical point, greatly increasing the fission speed, and fission temperature.
In theory, the fission knife can heat up to 4000 degrees.
What is the concept of 4000 degrees?
Known as the hard-bone stainless steel in the metalworking industry, the melting point is only between 1400-1500.
The melting point of pure titanium is 1678 degrees, and the melting point of titanium alloy is lower.
At a temperature of 4000 degrees, it seems that there is no 8000 degree plasma arc temperature after the energy is boosted.
But what is the diameter of the plasma arc?
The greater the depth of cut, the smaller the cut diameter. When cutting a 30 mm alloy, it cuts less than 1 mm in diameter.
The fission cutter cuts 10 cm in diameter and is used to cut a hull with a melting point of only 1400 degrees, just as easy as cutting a piece of paper.
Think about the indefinite type of torpedo that cuts the hull and then cuts the picture inside. Ye Qing feels very touched.
"Right, the name of the indefinite torpedo is not appropriate."
When arriving at the nuclear plant, Ye Qing told the electric crystal track: "I want to play the maximum power of the fission knife, and I hope that the shape of the fish will not work."
“Hmm~ I am going to design it as a kind of unshaped robot that can transform multiple forms.”
Dian Jing thought for a moment, did not come up with the right name, "Boss, what is the name?"
