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中英文本
The military, space and aviation experts at Lockheed Martin want you to know that they're closing in on fusion. The firm's secretive Skunk Works has announced that its compact fusion reactor is a mere 10 years away and would investors please send money.
洛克希德·马丁公司的军事及航空航天专家想让你们知道,他们的聚变实验正接近成功
The device would work… if it works…by fusing atoms of hydrogen together. This fusion produces a larger atom—helium—plus copious energy. As a bonus, fusion does not produce radioactive waste, unlike its poor cousin fission that's in use in nuclear reactors around the world today.
该设备可能能运转……如果它能运转,那么,……它是通过将氢原子融合在一起而运转的
。这一聚变会产生大量的氦原子——以及丰富的能源 。其额外优点是:与如今应用在核反应堆中的裂变不同,聚变不会产生放射性废弃物 。The key to Lockheed's device, they say, is superconductors. They’ll create magnetic fields strong enough to contain the superhot plasma created by fusion. When the atoms of heavy hydrogen fuse in that plasma, neutrons are released that then hit the reactor wall, heating it. That heat then boils water to make steam to spin a turbine.
他们说,洛克希德设备的关键在于超导体
Or so the theory goes. Unfortunately, neutrons have a nasty habit of making materials brittle, among other challenges faced by Lockheed and everyone else chasing fusion.
理论上大概是这样的
Of course, the world already enjoys the benefits of one fusion reactor, which sits at a comfortable remove and can be easily harnessed with a working technology called photovoltaics. It's called the Sun.
当然,世人早已享受到了一种聚变反应堆带来的好处——这种聚变能够让人自由走动,且易于被人使用(利用光伏处理技术即可)——这种聚变反应堆就是太阳
词语解释
1.fusion reactor聚变反应堆
Fusion reactor could be the answer to China's energy conundrum.
聚变反应堆可能解决中国的能源难题 。
2.radioactive waste放射性废弃物
One of the biggest problems the nuclear industry faces is what to do with the radioactive waste it produces.
核工业所面临的最大问题之一就是如何处理所产生的放射性废料 。
3.magnetic fields磁场
ocusing magnetic fields on the visual cortex of the brain caused the subjects to see luminous discs and lines.
当把磁场聚焦在大脑的的视觉皮质上时,会促使受试者看见明亮的圆盘和线条 。
4.heavy hydrogen重氢
Moon rocks show that lunar water has more heavy hydrogen than does terrestrial water, indicating a cometary origin.
对月球岩石的分析表明,月球上的水比地球上的水含有更多的重氢,这一意味着这些水来自彗星 。