When they entered the research center again, although all the professors present were still cheerful and happy, it could be seen that everyone was still a little nervous.
The news that the United States suddenly announced in the middle of the night yesterday that it would be the first to achieve helium-3 fusion in a week's time spread throughout the world via the Internet this morning.
The news also topped the trending searches on major domestic social media and platforms.
Judging from the feedback from public opinion, domestic netizens are indeed a bit sour about the news that the United States was the first to announce the ignition of helium 3.
Due to strict confidentiality in the country, no information about domestic helium-3 fusion has been revealed - the only information disclosed to the outside world is that the Kuafu Group continues to make breakthroughs in deuterium-tritium fusion and is building three controllable nuclear fusion power stations at the same time.
And news about adding heavy water reactors and extracting tritium.
Of course, some sensible netizens said that even if helium-3 fusion is achieved, where does helium-3 come from?
Current helium 3 is only produced through the decay of tritium, and its inventory is pitifully small.
Of course there are a lot of them on the moon, but you have to go to the moon to mine.
Therefore, the completion of helium 3 fusion can only mean that the conditions for fusion have been reached... and has no practical significance.
Those who objected said that if it could be realized, it would be meaningful enough.
In short... the public opinion is indeed somewhat unfavorable.
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Ye Ming did not exchange too many greetings and immediately presided over the meeting after entering the base.
Director Zhang and others did not come today, but Professor Wen and others, who have been responsible for promoting the tritium multiplication project, came to participate in the meeting.
"Has everyone heard the news?" Ye Ming held the cup and looked at everyone with a smile: "The old lady is still as confident as ever."
Among the participants, Professor Zhang, the oldest member from the Ninth Academy, laughed and said: "Not surprising. It is an old Cold War tactic. It is estimated that there will be a global live broadcast."
Everyone laughed.
Professor Zhang was born in the 1960s and experienced the Cold War period.
"Well, it's a coincidence that they are unlucky." Professor Huo Liang laughed. The weather was not hot today, but he was only wearing short sleeves, showing off his strong biceps - he was indeed
Fitness.
As one of so many people who is going to take charge of the overall situation, Professor Huo Liang will go to the Gobi Desert for adaptive training after participating in this ignition. Therefore, he seems not to care, but in fact he is the most popular among this group of people.
Nervous - this time the ignition acceptance is really going to fail, which means he may not have a chance to pass.
"Indeed, they are unlucky." Ye Ming smiled and took over the topic: "I received a notice on the way here that the news about our acceptance and ignition will be announced."
After his words fell, everyone was startled, and then their expressions changed.
Some are happy, some are worried, but most of them are confused.
Professor Wen hesitated and asked: "Is it all announced? Does that mean that the space program will also be officially announced?"
Everyone immediately looked at Ye Ming.
"No, we only announce the news of successful ignition." Ye Ming paused as he said it, then smiled: "I think the idea from above may be... just announce it a little bit, so as not to overwhelm the excitement and the Americans can't stand it.
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There were bursts of laughter in the conference room.
But unlike usual, the laughter did not last long.
After all... the ignition acceptance is about to take place. Although they have simulated it countless times, the professor who stayed here to assemble it did not miss any detail.
But when undertaking this kind of project, you must always be prepared for failure.
Ye Ming also knew everyone's current mood and pressure, so he did not dwell on this issue for long, but directly entered the topic of the meeting.
As the professors in each link finished their reports, Professor Wen also made a brief summary of his recent work.
"At present, our technical solutions have basically reached their limit. We have estimated that if we move forward, the recovery rate will only increase by less than 0.2% - in actual work, this can basically be classified as an error."
"But the good news is that through Aita's analysis of more than 100,000 materials and different compounds, we finally screened out 14 mixed materials with a recovery rate of more than 99%. The next step is to analyze these materials one by one and
synthesis."
Professor Wen laughed as he said this: "I didn't expect that it would fall on the material in the end."
"With Aita, isn't it difficult to handle materials?" Professor Huo continued: "By the way, the field of materials in China is now second to none, right?"
Professor Wen’s words were concise and concise: “Aita’s contribution.”
Everyone looked at Ye Ming with a smile.
Ye Ming smiled reservedly.
——When Aita got into quantum supercomputing, her abilities were used in fields such as computational materials and computational chemistry, and she was truly invincible.
To give a simple example, if someone uses a supercomputer to analyze the reaction of exhausting several days and nights, for Aita, it is nothing more than a cup of tea - and this is when Aita only uses part of its computing power.
This is what quantum supercomputing brings to productivity, which comes from the improvement in dimensions.
At present, in addition to domestic universities that have all gone online, many foreign universities have given up their previous efforts and started to continuously connect to Aita - and according to Aita's operating logic, in theory, any of them can take advantage of the achievements of Aita.
, will be shared.
"Okay, let's get here today and let's go to the workshop to have a look."
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After the meeting, Ye Ming and his party went directly to the assembly workshop.
Compared to a month ago, today's assembly workshop is more chaotic and disorganized.
In addition to the wires and signal lines all over the floor, there are also several robotic arms surrounding the engine. In addition, engineers are everywhere, busy with final testing work.
"Captain Li." Ye Ming saw Li Dongsheng as soon as he entered the door, smiled and waved.
Li Dongsheng was directing people to dismantle one of the robotic arms. After hearing this, he immediately turned his head: "Mr. Ye, Professor Huo."
"Li Dongsheng, why did you dismantle it? Just leave it here." Professor Huo Liang comes from the Provincial Government and naturally knows that Li Dongsheng is also a student of this school. He smiled and joked: "Are you afraid that we will take advantage of you?"
"Hehe, I'm really a little scared."
"You kid... you, Mr. Ye, are all here."
"Mr. Ye is silent - these five robotic arms cost millions!"
As soon as Ye Ming heard that there were hundreds of millions, he immediately coughed: "Then quickly demolish it!"
Everyone laughed.
Afterwards, a group of people stood next to the engine.
Only after assembly is completed can you realize how big it is - the entire engine is complete, and the ring structure alone is more than six meters high, and the front nozzle structure is more than ten meters tall.
It has a total of three nozzles, one large, two small, and when all the "seals" are released, it can eject high-energy particles at a speed of 500 kilometers per second, possessing an extremely high jet velocity.