"Good evening, dear viewers, today is Monday, April 22, 2024, the 14th day of the third lunar month. Welcome to the Xinwen Lianbo program."
"The main content of today's program is that my country's controllable nuclear fusion reactor 'Kuafu' successfully completed its first 24-hour trial operation..."
"Please see the detailed report below."
"Kuafu, our country's controllable nuclear fusion reactor, completed ignition at 9 a.m. on the 21st. As of press time, the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is still operating continuously and stably... Through remote video, I expressed condolences and encouragement to the project team, and
Important instructions were given.”
"... pointed out that the success of controllable nuclear fusion is a symbol of human civilization moving into a new era, a hope for solving the energy crisis, a feat of modern science, and an important weapon of the country."
"... emphasizes that achieving stable operation of controllable nuclear fusion is only the first step. Using controllable nuclear fusion to bring stable energy benefits, benefit the country and the people, and benefit mankind is the most important goal."
"The Kuafu project chief designer Ye Ming and chief engineer Luo Qi said: The Kuafu project team will continue to work hard and launch a demonstration commercial power generation attempt based on the successful operation of controllable nuclear fusion."
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The broadcast of Xinwen Lianbo did not instantly detonate the Internet media like a hot news usually does.
Instead... it was silent for at least half an hour.
Within half an hour after the broadcast, except for a few voices on social media, the entire Internet media was in an indescribable state of silence.
It's like the silence before a nuclear bomb explodes.
It was as if someone had deliberately closed the gate to prevent any sound from being made.
And half an hour later, the global Internet...
Exploded.
The news that the Kuafu Project ran smoothly for more than 24 hours with a q-value of over 10 and has been running continuously has instantly occupied the top of the hot search list on all social media in the world, as well as the front page headlines of all traditional media on the Internet.
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Three days later, Ye Ming packed his luggage and returned to the provincial capital.
During the past three days, he refused all interviews, held several meetings with the research team, and made plans for future experiments and observations. It can be said that he was really busy without touching the ground.
But while he was busy, he still took the time to reply to congratulatory emails from some well-known foreign professors with whom he had constant exchanges, such as Horns, Ezio, etc.
Moreover, he also paid special attention to social media.
In the face of this kind of scientific and technological project that promotes all mankind, the domestic media, let alone the domestic media, all provide exciting and positive reports. Even abroad, except for a few individuals who are a bit sour, the general attitude is congratulations.
Of course, in addition to congratulations, bc also issued a lot of reflection papers.
This made Ye Ming and He Mo extremely happy.
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BYD drove onto the highway under the control of Yin Ta.
"Professor Ye." He Mo released his hands and looked back at Ye Ming.
"Call your name." Ye Ming leaned on the back seat and said lazily: "Ask me to give you an extension again."
"You!" He Mo's eyes widened immediately: "You...dare!"
"Hey, you try?"
He Mo came here last year and joined Professor Tang's research group through direct connections. She is regarded as Old Tang's doctor. Today, as Ye Ming is officially hired as a professor by the school, it is natural that she will become Ye Ming's first graduate student.
, also the first doctoral student.
Frankly speaking, this is inconsistent with the "rules".
But who cares?
Countless people wanted to send their students to Ye Ming's subordinates, and they wanted to talk about the rules...
The fact that the title of Chief Designer can appear in the news broadcast and that it is ranked before Academician Roach shows the official attitude.
"You are cruel!" He Mo turned his head.
"Are you angry?" Ye Ming looked at her side face with a smile: "Then I apologize."
"..."
When he looked back again, He Mo already had a smile in his eyes: "Actually, I just wanted to ask..."
As she spoke, she turned around, thought for a while and looked at the robot sitting in the passenger seat: "Are you Aita or Yinta?"
"you guess."
"Yinta, stop in the emergency lane."
"receive."
When the car stopped, He Mo glanced at the camera and saw that he was like a cat, slithering out of the gap in the front driver's seat and into the back seat.
Because the weather was getting hotter, she was wearing just a very ordinary white open-collared shirt. As she bent over, the faint mountains wrapped in lace came into Ye Ming's eyes.
Ye Ming was stunned: "Fuck...fuck, you just come here like this?"
"save time."
He Mo held the back seat with both hands, turned around and sat next to Ye Ming.
She straightened her hair and coughed slightly: "Yin Ta, drive."
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"Why was controllable nuclear fusion suddenly achieved?"
He Mo held up his mobile phone, which displayed the hot search list of a well-known domestic technology Q&A platform.
Although three days have passed, the heat of controllable fusion obviously cannot be viewed based on the experience of ordinary hot-spot events.
In the past three days, various hot searches have been made, and topics related to controllable fusion have been tossed around in different ways.
For example, today’s hot list is number one.
"Why is it that controllable nuclear fusion, which lasted for fifty years, was suddenly realized? Does this mean that we are free from the shackles of energy?"
Seeing the confusion in He Mo's eyes, Ye Ming smiled, and then clicked on the topic on her mobile phone screen.
This question has thousands of answers below.
"Aren't there so many answers?"
"It's the standard answer that comes out of your mouth."
Ye Ming took her phone, quickly flipped through a few pages, clicked on an answer, and handed the phone to He Mo.
"This answer is very good and represents my point of view."
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This is the answer written by a respondent named "Professional Fishing".
“Why did controllable nuclear fusion suddenly become sustainable in 50 years?
Because Ye Shen is awesome! Ye Shen is awesome! Ye Shen is awesome!
Say important things three times!
The following is the main topic.
Controlled nuclear fusion is not a new thing, its theory is already more familiar than a 25-year-old girl.
The most popular Tokamak device today was invented by Azimovich and others at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, the Soviet Union, in the 1950s.
In the past two decades, both the internationally coordinated controllable nuclear fusion research project ITER and major countries qualified to participate in this game have "lit up the sun" to varying degrees.
It even took the lead in China to break the 100-second mark.
It can be said that just an achievement of the level of igniting a fusion reactor would not even make it into the street tabloids.
However, previous controllable nuclear fusion has always had two major problems.
The first problem is the plasma circulator, which determines the temperature, density, specific pressure, and upper limit of the bootstrap current - but this problem is actually not difficult anymore, because the circulator used in this fusion is an iterative one.
Circulator No. 3 can reach a high temperature of 180 million degrees and operate stably.
This is not a technology that requires black technology to be realized.
The second problem is to increase the q value - because in essence, the tokamak can perform miracles with great force.
As long as you don't consider the q value, then it will definitely run stably.
Kuafu adopted Professor Ye Ming's "black technology" design, using dysprosium Ye as the material and using ye fields to constrain the plasma beam. This not only saved a lot of energy consumption, but also solved the problem of neutron confinement.
Therefore, as long as there is no problem with the ye field generator, fusion will continue.
Controlled fusion never requires any breakthrough in inner wall materials.
Because no material can withstand temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees.”
"And the second question, does it mean that we are free from the shackles of energy?"
"The current fusion is deuterium-tritium fusion. The cost of deuterium is very low, but the cost of tritium... is ridiculously high."
"Although the technology of controllable nuclear fusion has matured to the point where commercial reactors can be built, the source and production of tritium are still extremely limited."
"So, my answer is..."
"The revolution has not yet succeeded, and we still cannot get rid of the shackles of energy."
Seeing the answer, He Mo looked up in shock.
Ye Ming nodded with a smile.
He Mo: "Then..."
"Because it is the first step towards space and helium-3 fusion." Ye Ming looked at her: "This answer is very good, why don't you like it?"
He Mo snorted: "She's more mature than a 25-year-old girl... She deserves to have so few likes."