Monster Factory: One thousand three hundred 57: Fission Knife
The first law of thermodynamics:
Heat can be transferred from one object to another, and can also be converted into mechanical energy or other energy, but the total value of energy remains the same during the conversion process.
Plasma cutting knife is also a way of thermodynamic performance.
The energy module that provides power to the plasma cutter must also follow the principle of energy conservation. Its energy storage density is directly related to the working time it drives the plasma cutter.
Nuclear reactor, strictly speaking, is also an energy storage device. The energy density of merely is many times higher than that of energy modules.
It relies on the fuel rods in the core to provide a continuous heat source. These heat sources heat the primary circuit cooling water, and then boil the secondary circuit working fluid water to turn it into ultra-supercritical fluid to drive the gas turbine to generate electricity.
Why did Electric Crystal design the indefinite torpedo into a thousand-ton class?
In order to barely fit a small nuclear reactor.
The reactor generates electricity. With electricity, it can drive various device or weapons.
If the plasma cutter is driven, the reactor can provide almost unlimited power, allowing the plasma cutter to cut the hull wantonly.
So...
Under the principle of plasma melting metal with high temperature arc, directly skip these energy conversion steps, skip the core, reactor, primary circuit water, secondary circuit water, gas turbine, etc.
How about holding a fuel rod bare?
What happens if you 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 penetrate the protection of the zirconium alloy fuel rod.
Without cooling measures, it will gradually rise to a high temperature of more than 3,000 degrees, melting itself while also melting the zirconium alloy protective shell.
Once the internal uranium dioxide fuel block melts, its fission reaction cannot be interrupted by humans.
The fission knife is an extreme weapon that Ye Qing thought of.
Without the energy conversion step of disorderly mess, a fuel rod is directly redesigned to become a weapon that can continuously release the high temperature of terrifying.
The plasma cutting knife can release an arc up to 8000 degrees to melt 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. The more conversion steps, the greater the loss.
The heat utilization rate of nuclear power generation is only 33%, and the electricity is transformed into a high-temperature arc through the plasma cutter, which further increases the energy loss.
There is no way to compare the destructive power of the final arc with the destructive power of the heat released by the fuel rod.
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As soon as Ye Qing proposed the fission knife plan, Electric Crystal exclaimed crazy and felt very, very appetizing to her.
How big is a fuel rod?
The Standard fuel block in the nuclear power plant is a cylinder with a diameter of 1 cm and a height of 1 cm. Hundreds of these fuel blocks are packed in a zirconium alloy sleeve with a thickness of 1 mm to form a four-meter-long Standard fuel rod.
Then redesign and design the fuel rod as a knife, filled with hundreds of fuel blocks.
Before cutting, activate the fuel block in the fission knife to ignite, and let it continuously release the terrifying high temperature.
Of course, once the fission knife is activated, there is no way to lower the temperature. If there is no cooling measures, it will not take too long to melt itself, causing a nuclear leak.
"This is not a problem!" Electric Crystal cheered.
If it cannot be turned off after activation, it will not be turned off.
After the task of cutting the military vessel is completed, the unshaped torpedo will take the fission knife off and put it on the submarine. The space of the submarine is large enough, and it is hidden in the sea, and the direct water circulation can continuously cool the fission knife.
When you use it next time, take it out and install then it will be alright.
As soon as the design idea of the fission knife was put forward, from Ye Qing to Electric Crystal to Master Craftsman, they became very enthusiastic. Now there is no need to manage the cargo problem on the humpback whale.
Ye Qing directly started Multi-purpose Warship to return to the secret Factory behind the Sotu rainforest, where there are nuclear reactors, and the fuel block of huge volume.
In less than 20 minutes to return to nuclear Factory, Electric Crystal has already begun to design the shape of the fission knife.
First, we need a metal that is more resistant to high temperature and corrosion than zirconium alloy.
Humans use zirconium alloys to make fuel rods. This is not a representative zirconium alloy, but the most high-temperature alloy that humans can produce.
But zirconium alloy has high hardness, high ductility, and corrosion resistance. It can maintain its strength in a long-term high radiation and high corrosion environment.
In addition, its fusion welding performance is also very good, and it can be easily welded into various components, so it is the most suitable material for making fuel rods.
Electric Crystal was just about to use holographic glasses to flip through the alloy metal catalog in Factory, and suddenly slapped his transparent head.
What alloy to use, directly use unshaped metal.
For the zirconium alloy fuel rods used in commercial nuclear power plants, once the fuel rods lose the cooling water to cool down, and the reaction is not stopped, the fuel rods will slowly rise to about three thousand degrees. At this temperature, the zirconium alloy will not be supported for long before it will melt away.
Unshaped metal is the alloy with the highest known melting point, its melting point is 4622 degrees.
And when it reaches the melting point, merely can no longer enter the solid state. Once the temperature drops, it can switch between two of the three forms of metal at will.
The higher the density of metal, the stronger the radiation blocking ability.
The density of amorphous metal is higher than that of gold. If two hundred Standard fuel blocks are packaged, the thickness of amorphous metal only needs to exceed 9 mm, which can completely block the nuclear radiation released by two hundred Standard fuel blocks.
Of course, in the cooling and maintenance stage after the task is completed, boron-containing cooling water is also used to absorb the high-energy neutrons that slowly accumulate on the fission knife to extend the service life of the fission knife.
In addition, after the unshaped metal is used to make the fission knife, the fission knife loses the ability to deform freely.
Because there is a lot of radiation inside the fission knife, these radiation will disturb the deformed magnetic field released by the suppressor. If it is rashly deformed, a leak is likely to occur.
Ye Qing and Electric Crystal both agreed that as long as the appearance is cool, it doesn't matter if the fission knife changes its shape.
At the same time, Electric Crystal plans to prepare a new batch of fuel blocks.
The fuel blocks used in nuclear power plants are manufactured with slowing down materials to slow down the rate of fission.
Electric Crystal should be within the safety threshold to minimize the proportion of slowing down materials. Let the fuel block fission speed approach the critical point, greatly increasing the fission speed and fission temperature.
Theoretically, the fission knife can heat up to 4000 degrees.
What is the concept of 4000 degrees?
The hard-bone stainless steel known as metal processing has a melting point between 1400-1500.
The melting point of pure titanium is 1678 degrees, and the melting point of titanium alloys is even lower.
The high temperature of 4000 degrees, it seems that there is no energy storage and boosting the plasma arc temperature of 8000 degrees is high~IndoMTL.com~ But what is the cutting diameter of the plasma arc?
The greater the cutting depth, the smaller its cutting diameter. When cutting a 30 mm alloy, its cutting diameter is less than 1 mm.
The fission knife has a cutting diameter of 10 cm. It is used to cut ship hulls with a melting point of only 1400 degrees, just as easily as cutting paper.
Think of the scene of the indeterminate torpedo slicing through the hull, and then cutting and slicing inside, Ye Qing felt very touchy.
"By the way, the name indefinite torpedo is not appropriate."
When he arrived at the nuclear Factory, Ye Qing said to Electric Crystal: "If you want to maximize the power of the fission knife, you will definitely not be able to expect the appearance of fish."
"Uh, ~, I am going to design it into an indeterminate robot that can transform multiple forms."
Electric Crystal thought for a moment, but did not come up with a suitable name, "Boss, what is the name?"