What Other Difficulties Are There?

In the main control room, no one spoke.

At that moment, the operator's hand was still hovering beside the confirmation button.

The researchers in front of the observation window were still standing on tiptoe, peering inside as they had been moments before.

No one moved.

Because the result had exceeded all their expectations.

Before conducting this Transmutation Track Tomography experiment, they had naturally known about Li Dong's proposed material concept for the First Wall.

After a lattice atom in the material was knocked out by a neutron, the material's own transmutation reaction would generate a recoil atom to fill the resulting vacancy.

Even elementary school students understood that idea.

Everyone here understood it too, but no one believed it.

Even the thirty-six people transferred from the Weiming Institute alongside Li Dong had not believed it.

But now? The facts were right in front of them.

Li Dong walked over to the main control screen and pulled up a comparison report between the model and the measured results.

The predicted landing points of every transmutation pathway in the Transmutation Network perfectly overlapped with the landing points of the recoil atoms measured by the spectrometer.

Then Li Dong checked the accumulated displacement damage after accelerated equivalent conversion.

One had to understand that in a single experiment inside this instrument,

the neutron bombardment endured by the needle tip was far greater than what the First Wall of a real reactor would endure.

Therefore, the total neutron exposure received by the needle tip had to be converted into the amount of displacement damage the First Wall would suffer in an actual reactor.

In other words, the average number of times each atom was knocked from its lattice site by neutrons.

The number displayed on the screen at that moment was just over 20 dpa.