At two o'clock in the morning, Ye Zhou, Chen Hao and Lin Ling sat on the balcony for rest outside the main control of the Shenguang No. 4 device of Huawuyuan, looking at the night sky far away from the city, and quietly waiting for that crucial moment.

Ye Zhou was holding a cup of Tieguanyin, whose tongue was so bitter that his tongue was numb. Chen Hao sat far away and smoked, while Lin Ling was leaning on the recliner, sucking the straw in his mouth with his empty expression.

"Actually, you can see the results directly tomorrow. I heard that you have been working overtime recently and you will lose all your hair if you keep going like this."

Ye Zhou put down the cup in his hand and spoke in half teasing and half caring.

"It's okay, I don't endure it every day. I can't miss such an important thing."

Lin Ling smiled and continued:

"Besides, if nuclear fusion can be successfully ignited, it will be of great significance to my research direction. More electricity means more high-energy experiments, so at least you don't have to worry about electricity bills in the future."

"Also, if the fiber laser performs normally this time, laser pulse acceleration technology can be used in the future. At that time, we can use super particle beams to conduct collision experiments."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"Then I didn't expect this... However, from this perspective, the derivative range of this technology is wider than I originally expected, and the marginal benefits will be brought in in the future."

"This is a good thing, and technology begins to have edge effects before it is actually applied, which is crucial for the stable development of a technology life cycle."

"If a technology can really only have a single purpose, its development will be greatly restricted--this is also the reason why many people are more optimistic about inertial constraint fusion. From the perspective of technology itself, it has a certain degree of self-sustainment and can support itself in the early stages of development."

Chen Hao, who was standing aside, wiped out the smoke and came over and said:

"This is just one of the reasons. After all, such large-scale projects require large-scale financial support in any case. But then again, how is magnetically constrained fusion developing now?"

Ye Zhou shook his head slightly and then replied:

"Magnetic constraints, or tokamak devices, have actually developed at a speed that has always been ahead of inertial constraint technology. Now there are iters internationally and cfetr domestically. These facilities are all directed to fusion power stations, and the technology is relatively mature."

"In theory, the progress of a fusion research is mainly measured by the three indicators of plasma density, temperature, and effective discharge time. The Tokamak device is much larger than the inertial constrained fusion in the product of these three."

"But that's just much bigger -- it doesn't meet the commercial standards, either."

"It's like everyone is trying to jump over a cliff. The width of the cliff is ten meters. The inertial constraint technology jumped 3 meters before, but the magnetic constraint technology jumped 8 meters, but the result is the same. I still have to fall below the cliff."

"So, before you really jump over the cliff, no matter how close you are, it actually doesn't make much sense."

"And our Shenguang No. 4 device this time is to jump over this cliff."

"Can you jump over?"

Chen Hao asked with a little concern.

Ye Zhou laughed and replied:

"You should ask, how many meters can we exceed that cliff."

"The goal of Shenguang IV is not to achieve fusion reactions, or even to achieve self-sustainable fusion reactions, but to achieve self-sustainable and steady-state discharged fusion reactions."

"Achieving a fusion reaction, this is crossing a 10-meter cliff and achieving a self-sustaining fusion reaction, this is jumping over the cliff and walking down the mountain for a while, and reaching the hillside."

"Only by achieving a reaction that can be self-sustained and steady-state discharge can we truly go down the mountain and walk onto the Tongtian Avenue."

Hearing Ye Zhou's words, Chen Hao sighed with emotion and said:

"This kind of thing happened so many times, I had a little hallucination--I always felt that we had to do everything at once, and do it best at once, or it would be a failure."

"I always felt that those opinions that said, "Huaxia is not the first, it is a failure." Now, thinking about it, I am even more excessive than them."

"It's not just about trying to get us first, but we have to go the second round."

Lin Ling, who was standing beside him, laughed and interrupted:

"Mr. Chen, your General Technical Office should be more ambitious and dare not even set a goal, why do you want to coordinate?"

"Of course, of course, I just think it's quite magical."

Speaking of this, Chen Hao sat down next to Ye Zhou, and then continued to speak:

"Actually, I have always had an idea these two days, that is, I think that the implementation of this device is a very sci-fi thing."

"Think about it, how long has it been taken for us to have achieved a comprehensive lead in fact since our cutting-edge technology in all aspects been completely suppressed by the ugly country?"

Lin Ling stared at her eyes and recalled for a moment, and said:

"Are you five years? The first transcendence started with chips and lithography machines, and later to engines, large aircraft, batteries... and a lot of derivative technologies, all of which caught up in an instant."

"I didn't know it before, but I felt like I was cheating all of a sudden. I only realized that it was done by Mr. Ye when the confidentiality level was improved some time ago."

"Hey, are you considered a bug in history? Just like Huo Qubing, Wei Qing, etc., you won't......"

Having said that, Lin Ling said:

"Unfortunate, it doesn't count."

Ye Zhou looked at her movements with amusement and said:

"You think so well that this kind of overturn has not started recently, nor has it even started this century. We have been preparing for this moment today since the last century and since the beginning of our country."

"If you don't say anything else, just talk about inertial constraint fusion. You all know that the principle of inertial constraint fusion is the same as that of hydrogen bomb explosion, so you should also know how much effort Academician Yu Min made for today's situation."

"Think about them at that time, when they were in their thirties and forties, they abandoned their wives and children, and went to the barren land in the desert to sit on top secret projects that they could not share with anyone. Even the letters they wrote to their homes could only be written by pseudonyms."

"At that time, we didn't have particle accelerators and couldn't screen fusion materials. Researchers of that generation just used hand-crank calculators, abacus, or even pen calculations to derive the fusion route equation."

"Not to mention the natural environment, drought, water shortage, desolation, remoteness... We are now building a six-nosed base in Kunlun Mountain, and even the cigarettes that researchers have to smoke every day have to purchase hundreds of different brands. What about them at that time?"

"I guess the dishes they ate all year round were not as diverse as those of our current researchers at that time."

"In that case, they made an atomic bomb, a hydrogen bomb, and then completed the nuclear bomb miniaturization plan before the comprehensive nuclear ban treaty."

"Without their contributions, the development of nuclear industry in our entire country would probably be locked at the level of the 1960s. If that's the case, would you still want to do inertial constraints of nuclear fusion?"

"I can only pick up the leftover bones that others eat, and do some experimental tokamak like Korean, and just masturbate."

"Don't talk about nuclear fusion, do you know what year our battery technology research originated?"

"It was 1958, and it has been nearly 80 years since today."

"Sometimes I think, I'm really not a creator of technology, I'm just the last tooth on a key."

"Without the efforts of those predecessors, even if they have the skills, they are just castles in the air."

Ye Zhou's words made the other two deeply agree. Just as Chen Hao was planning to continue talking along this topic, the balcony door was suddenly pushed open, and then a figure familiar to everyone appeared at the door, which was Qian Lixun.

"Old Qian, why are you here?"

Ye Zhou asked in surprise.

According to the plan agreed upon before, he originally planned to participate in the ignition remotely, but obviously, he still couldn't resist his curiosity.

"I'll come and take a look... Come on, Xiao Ye, it's almost 4 o'clock, let's go."

"Let's go and see what this first time ignition is like."
Chapter completed!