Planet Builder

"Of course you can't buy it directly, but in our daily life, there are some things that can extract trace amounts of materials." He Xingzhou directly searched the Internet for abandoned smoke alarms.

"Smoke alarms have americium-241 in their probes, and americium-241 emits alpha particles. Take the americium-241 from hundreds of smoke detectors, wrap them in aluminum foil, and when the alpha particles hit the aluminum atoms in the foil, When a nuclear reaction occurs, neutrons are released."

"That way, the raw material for the neutron gun to hit the nuclear fuel rods is there."

He Xingzhou has found the manufacturer of the smoke alarm on the Internet. He carefully searched the information of the manufacturer to find the manufacturer with americium 241 in the raw material of the probe, and then went to the second-hand website to buy hundreds of them wholesale.

"This is also possible?" The three roommates exclaimed, "Then this is only the raw material of the neutron gun, but what about the material of the nuclear fuel rod?"

He Xingzhou continued: "The old-fashioned lampshade surface coating compound contains thorium-232. Bombarding thorium with neutrons can produce uranium-233, which is the material for nuclear fission."

He buys those second-hand car lamp shades on the second-hand website, and also buys hundreds of them.

"The nuclear raw materials extracted from these materials are very scarce, and it is impossible to make a nuclear reactor that can generate sustainable and stable power. But it is enough for me. I only need to generate a nuclear fission reaction." He Xingzhou said.

Hearing his words, the three roommates were really convinced, but he didn't even think about this layer.

"I suddenly believed that you might succeed!" Wang Jiahao said.

"The boss is really six, wait and see!" Feng Tao said with emotion.

"I have nothing to say, just wait for the nuclear reactor to appear!" Zhang Yang agreed.

He Xingzhou said: "At that time, I will trouble you to help, such as refining raw materials, and shooting videos."

"It's on us!" The three agreed immediately.

He Xingzhou started his own miniature nuclear reactor manufacturing project, and the items he bought online arrived one by one, because they were all second-hand junk, and the cost was less than the budget.

These things piled up in the entire dormitory. Since the roommates were all looking forward to He Xingzhou's masterpiece, they had no problem with this, and even offered to help.

In the dormitory, Wang Jiahao was holding a mobile phone and filming He Xingzhou. They were making a video.

He Xingzhou said to the video: "Hello everyone, my name is He Xingzhou, and I am a student of Capital University of Science and Technology."

"Because I wanted to test one of my ideas, I decided to build a miniature nuclear reactor myself. To this end, I wrote a complete experimental plan. The plan has been approved by the relevant departments. Nuclear tests are subject to approval, please do not conduct dangerous experiments without authorization."

"My reactor mainly includes five structures, the active area, the neutron reflector, the control and regulation system, the cooling system, and the protective layer."

"Now I'm taking the first step, collecting material for a nuclear fission reactor. I have some used smoke alarms here, and at their probes, I have a small amount of americium-241, which only makes the neutron reflector, which is what hits the nucleus. Raw material for the neutron gun of raw atoms."

"The following process will be carried out in the laboratory, because it cannot be spread freely, so the video will be cut out."

In the laboratory, He Xingzhou used these waste materials to propose some americium 241.

He plans to make a series of videos called "College Students' Homemade Nuclear Reactor" at the same time as the experiment.

He deliberately registered an account on the video website Station B, named his ID "Planet Builder", and then chose to publish his first video.

After the release, He Xingzhou did not manage his own account, but started his second step in full swing, manufacturing the basic equipment of the reactor.

He Xingzhou's creation of a miniature nuclear fission reactor only attracted attention for a few days among the classmates and then disappeared.

In this era of information explosion, there will be a lot of new things every day, and everyone thinks that He Xingzhou is just a whim and cannot successfully build a nuclear reactor, so after just a week, few people pay attention to this matter.

Only physics professors such as Zhang Boyan have always kept an eye on them.

On station B, there are videos posted with many video bloggers every day, and most people see the videos of those big UP owners.

And newcomers release videos, rarely have the opportunity to be seen.

The first video released by He Xingzhou has only four views. Moreover, these four clicks were all ordered by him and his roommate, and there were no new viewers.

"This can't be done, no one is watching this video!" Wang Jiahao is helping He Xingzhou edit the second video.

"Maybe everyone saw the title and thought it was fake. And there are no fans, and big data is not recommended." He Xingzhou said, "Never mind, let's publish the second issue first."

"The second video is called "College Students' Homemade Nuclear Reactors - The Second Phase, Pressure Cookers Make Active Reaction Zones"."

After the video was edited, He Xingzhou released the video again.

Since there are no fans, this video is naturally unwatched. However, new videos will enter the background of video editing for review, and some resources will be given to promote videos that video editors think are of interest.

He Xingzhou's video entered the background of a video editor of the technology video channel.

"Recently, the UP masters of the technology channel are getting more and more hip!" Video editor "Xiaomu" complained to his colleagues while working.

"There used to be a lot of content, but now it's all about mobile phone reviews and electric car reviews, and there aren't any popular videos."

For editors, the more popular videos, the better the editing performance.

"It's all like this." Colleague "Ant" said, "The main reason is that the creativity of the newcomers is too boring. I won't shoot anything other than to follow the trend to make evaluation videos of technology products, and naturally there will be no explosive models."

They were chatting when Xiaomu suddenly saw a new video appearing in the background: "College Students' Homemade Nuclear Reactor - Phase II, Pressure Cooker Makes Active Reaction Zone".

"Huh?" He had an impression of this video, having seen the first episode before.

He only watched it for a minute and then turned it off, because he thought this UP master was a headliner, why would he make a nuclear reactor? Isn't this funny? Who has this ability!

Moreover, the content of the first issue was also very boring. It was about extracting some elements. At that time, Xiaomu thought it was boring and false, so he did not give any promotion.

Seeing that he actually released the second issue today, Xiaomu clicked in curiously to take a look.

In the video, the face of He Xingzhou appears. He is transforming a pressure cooker in the laboratory.

"Hello everyone, I'm He Xingzhou. In the last issue, we have extracted americium 341, the raw material for the neutron reflection layer. What we want to do today is to make the active area, which is where the nuclear reaction takes place. The main raw material we use is stainless steel. Two pressure cookers, one small water pump, one electric fan, one radiator, several small-diameter plastic pipes, and several conductive wires."

"Can you make a nuclear reactor with this? Are you kidding me?" Although the first reaction in his heart was disbelief, Xiaomu was even more curious about the video, and he continued to read.