For the next half month, Ye Ming lived in Jiangcheng.
On the one hand, he felt the same as all the professors and senior engineers in the research group. He felt uneasy until he saw the assembly completed with his own eyes. On the other hand, as the chief designer, he also had to stand up for this last shift.
At the very least, it is the last job to ignite fusion.
Although the research team has great ambitions and is about to start building a commercial reactor, the construction progress of the power generation unit is obviously lagging behind the fusion reactor.
Now that the fusion reactor is complete, we can't wait to set up the stove and cook the pot, right?
…
April 20th, third floor of Fusion Center.
This central building adopts a hollow shopping mall-like structure, with a huge space of thousands of square meters in the center, and the surrounding floors and rooms are various observation rooms, conference rooms, and offices.
At this time, the center of the building was occupied by a huge reactor and scaffolding.
A group of people walked out of the main conference room on the third floor and stood at the railing, overlooking the fusion reactor.
"Such an exquisite design, a miracle comparable to the creation of the world, turned out to be just used to boil water..." Professor Chang Wendao was filled with emotion.
"Old Chang, what's wrong with boiling water? Do you look down on people who boil water?"
The successor is the deputy chief engineer of State Nuclear Power Corporation, who is responsible for generating units. Before coming to State Nuclear Power Corporation, he was the chief engineer of a large thermal power plant.
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
But at the same time, there was also some emotion.
Yes, for such a great miracle as lighting up the sun, for now... the most utilized thing is to boil water.
"Is there any way to avoid boiling the water?" Professor Huo Liang put his hand on Ye Ming's shoulder. Seeing Ye Ming turn around, his eyes brightened.
Ye Ming thought for a while and then nodded: "Theoretically, it must be possible. Cold nuclear fusion is perfect."
Hearing him talk about cold nuclear fusion, a group of people turned to look at him at the same time.
The so-called cold nuclear fusion is relative to thermonuclear fusion - as we all know, nuclear fusion must meet the conditions of high temperature and high pressure to proceed.
If we look at the nature of the fusion reaction, it is actually the polymerization of multiple light atomic nuclei into new nuclei and the release of energy at the same time.
The famous Fleischmann-Pons experiment in history showed that using palladium as the cathode to electrolyze heavy water achieved "cold nuclear fusion" at normal temperatures and pressures. However, in the following decades, countless scientists followed one another, and only cold nuclear fusion was achieved.
The global conference on fusion has been held more than a dozen times, but it still cannot be repeated.
Today, cold nuclear fusion has become a "civilian science" and is also jokingly called "alchemy".
Ye Ming mentioned cold nuclear fusion at this time...
Everyone knows that Ye Ming is not a person who talks freely.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Ye Ming coughed: "I saw a paper on confinement traps a few days ago. The author is from the University of Tokyo. When he used multiple confinement trap arrays to conduct over-limit experiments, he unexpectedly obtained
A super strong wave field.”
"How strong?"
"It's very strong. It is said that the field peak pressure can be as strong as hundreds of millions of atmospheres."
Everyone was stunned, but then Huo Liang showed doubts: "I haven't paid attention to it these days, but I'm afraid it's not a lie, right? What's the size?"
At this time, Professor Du Miao from Provincial University joined in: "It doesn't sound like a lie. My research group also conducted similar over-limit experiments. After using different arrays, the maximum pressure reached tens of millions.
But considering that in a dysprosium environment, strong field waves can be achieved by pressurizing it, I didn’t think too deeply about it.”
As he spoke, Professor Du looked at Ye Ming: "Can this be used for cold fusion?"
"Well... anyway, there are only two conditions for fusion, temperature and pressure. If the pressure can be as strong as hundreds of billions, then we can directly hit the atomic nucleus to complete fusion." Ye Ming paused as he spoke: "Actually, this is also true.
It’s considered hot fusion. According to cold fusion, it’s a bit too alchemical.”
Everyone laughed.
Afterwards, everyone filed downstairs and formed a circle in front of the reactor.
Everyone's face is full of joy and emotion, as well as... a touch of nervousness hidden deep in their eyes.
In the past half month, they, a group of middle-aged and elderly people, have been living, eating and sleeping in this building. Almost every accessory and every screw has been personally inspected by them, for fear of any flaws.
Now half a month has passed and the assembly is finally completed.
Tomorrow will be the day of lighting the fire for the first time.
It depends on tomorrow whether we will leave a mark in history or whether all our efforts will be wasted.
The same is true for Mr. Luo of Guoxin.
He looked through the crowd and looked at Ye Ming.
He saw that among the people who were undisguisedly nervous, only Ye Ming was the calmest.
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8:50 a.m. the next day.
A team of soldiers patrolled the upstairs with loudspeakers to make sure everyone had left.
Although controllable nuclear fusion has been proven not to be dangerous both in theory and in known experiments, Ye Ming and others still evacuated to the control room nearby.
As the warriors stood, the door also closed.
In the control room, Ye Ming and Chief Engineer Luo stood together.
On the console in front of the two of them, there are two egg-sized buttons, one red and one green.
The hour hand points to eight fifty-nine.
Aita's voice sounded.
Her voice was solemn and solemn.
"Kuafu Project, one minute countdown to the first controlled nuclear fusion ignition."
"Thirty seconds countdown."
Mr. Luo and Ye Ming took a step forward at the same time.
"Twenty seconds countdown."
Chief Engineer Luo took a deep breath and looked at Ye Ming. He looked at the nervous colleagues with his peripheral vision, suppressed the tension and excitement in his heart, and asked softly: "Ye Ming, are you confident?"
"Um."
Ye Ming nodded heavily.
Of course he is confident.
Because the progress of his [Technical Innovation] task that has not been touched has reached 90% when the assembly was completed yesterday.
He has always believed that the system must be a "system" that can transcend time and space and can provide real-time feedback through its behavior in the real world.
This is why he has always looked forward to super simulation.
Chief Engineer Luo also nodded vigorously, with a smile on his face: "You will be recorded in history."
Ye Ming nodded with a smile.
He no longer needs to be modest.
"Ten seconds countdown."
Ye Ming and Mr. Luo put their hands on the green button at the same time.
Of the two of them, one represents the academic power of fusion reactors, and the other represents the national power utilized by the country in the nuclear industry.
It couldn't be more suitable to be this "Kuafu".
"five"
"Four"
"three"
"two"
"one"
"ignition!"
As Aita's voice fell, Ye Ming and Chief Engineer Luo worked hard at the same time.
The huge electric sound passed through many obstacles and reached people's ears.
On the big screen, there is a simulated picture generated in real time by Aita Super AI through countless sensors.
in the screen.
A stream of plasma is like a stream of light, rushing towards the seemingly endless void ahead with a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees.
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"Fusion has started, start the timer."
A second later, applause resounded through the sky.