As the general person in charge of a super project like controllable nuclear fusion, Xu Chuan still has to make at least two preparations when considering some key issues.
For the actual control test of the plasma turbulence CNC model, he also considered different conditions.
It would be best if the EAST device in Luyang can be successfully applied for.
After all, the EAST device is very complete and can complete the entire testing process to the greatest extent.
If Luyang refuses, then at least some other methods are needed.
Of course, relatively speaking, it is definitely not as perfect as using the EAST device in Luyang, and the time will be delayed a bit.
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On the sofa, after hearing what Xu Chuan said, Peng Hongxi sat upright: "What do you think?"
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I have a few ideas, but I don't know which one is more suitable."
On the side, Gao Hongming asked: "Academician Xu, if we can help in any way, we will do our best to do it."
Xu Chuan thought for a while, organized his words and then said: "The first method is to borrow a controllable nuclear fusion reactor to complete the experiment. This is the fastest way."
Hearing this, both Peng Hongxi and Gao Hongming cast doubtful glances.
They have read the previous information. The only one in China that is capable of completing actual measurement experiments of plasma turbulence CNC models is the EAST device in Luyang. The other experimental reactors are either too old and can only be used as test reactors.
It is still under construction and has not been completed yet.
Xu Chuan glanced at the two people and continued: "Although currently only the EAST device in Luyang can complete ignition and plasma operation experiments in China, China is not the only country in the world that is researching controllable nuclear fusion reactors."
"Maybe we can try to find other countries to trade."
After a pause, he added: "This method should be the fastest if it succeeds, but it also has shortcomings."
"The control model of high-temperature and high-pressure plasma turbulence is very important in controllable nuclear fusion technology. If we apply for experimental reactors in other countries to conduct control experiments, our fusion progress will be exposed to a certain extent."
Hearing this, Peng Hongxi and Gao Hongming both frowned slightly.
The first method proposed by Xu Chuan is indeed feasible. If it succeeds, it should be the fastest.
However, the disadvantage is just as he said, it will expose the progress of domestic controllable nuclear fusion research to a certain extent, which may arouse the attention and vigilance of other countries.
After thinking for a while, Peng Hongxi asked: "What about other methods?"
Xu Chuan said calmly: "Buy!"
"Buy a complete controllable nuclear fusion reactor directly from abroad!"
"Tokamak devices were the mainstream route of international research before. Many countries have conducted research. There is no requirement to purchase the latest equipment from other countries. It is enough to purchase equipment that they have retired."
"As long as it can carry out ignition experiments and plasma turbulence control, it is enough. After buying it back, we will make improvements. This is also a relatively short-term method, but it requires some money."
Peng Hongxi thought for a while and said: "This is indeed a feasible method, but it will cost a lot of money, and it may not be possible to buy it."
"After all, it is a controllable nuclear fusion reactor. Even if it is decommissioned, it has high research value. If you just use money, you may not be able to buy it."
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "What about adding technology? For example, using high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials as transaction objects."
Peng Hongxi glanced at Xu Chuan and said softly: "But isn't this material your own technology?"
For controllable nuclear fusion reactors, superconducting materials are also very critical core materials.
High-temperature superconducting materials with excellent performance can not only save a lot of money, but also improve the control performance of controllable nuclear fusion reactors to a certain extent.
If high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials are used as one of the trading technologies, I believe many countries will be interested.
After all, although decommissioned controllable nuclear fusion reactors are precious, they are not something that cannot be sold at all.
High-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials are different. Currently, all superconducting materials on the market can be said to crush other high-temperature superconducting materials in terms of critical temperature, critical magnetic field, or critical current.
Guided materials.
If this material is used as a magnetic field confinement generator for a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, the most direct change is that the superconducting material that originally needs to be frozen with liquid helium can be replaced with liquid nitrogen.
The price of liquid helium is more than a hundred times that of liquid nitrogen.
This alone can save a lot of money.
More importantly, the magnetic field confinement device made of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material can generate a stronger confinement magnetic field. This is also very important for controllable nuclear fusion.
However, the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project is a national project, while the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material is privately owned by the young man in front of him.
If it were sold, the amount of high-temperature superconducting materials required for a controllable nuclear fusion reactor would be at least hundreds of millions, or even more.
Using his own private property to trade in exchange for decommissioned controllable nuclear fusion reactors to promote the development of national projects... Peng Hongxi has never seen this approach, at least he has never seen such a large amount of dedication.
For others, it is good enough not to find ways to put the country's things into their own pockets, let alone use their own assets to subsidize the country.
On the side, Gao Hongming didn't think about this, or he did, but he knew that the country would definitely not let this person suffer.
"Well, Academician Xu, wouldn't high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials be of great help to controllable nuclear fusion? Will this transaction also significantly improve the development progress of other countries?"
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Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Although the performance of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials is excellent enough, it is not without alternatives."
"The controllable nuclear fusion reactor is different from the large strong particle collider. The latter pursues ultimate magnetic field control. The former only needs to restrain the high-temperature plasma turbulence in the chamber."
"And it's meant to be sold to the outside world, so it doesn't have much impact. Don't worry, this relationship isn't very big."
Hearing this, Gao Hongming nodded and said: "In this case, it is indeed feasible to purchase a piece of equipment."
Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Actually, it doesn't have to be foreign, domestic ones can actually be used. I have seen that the performance parameters of some tokamak devices under construction can also be met, but I just said that there is no hope of buying from abroad.
Buy big.”
To be honest, there are actually a lot of domestic tokamak devices, but half of them are experimental research types and cannot be ignited and can only do some experiments; the other half are under construction.
Although most of these projects under construction meet the requirements, it is impossible for him to dismantle other people's project equipment to solve his own problems.
What's more, the person in charge of the tokamak field in China is still Chen Mingji from Luyang. If he doesn't agree, it will probably be difficult to buy it.
As for retired old equipment, there is currently no equipment that meets the requirements in China. After all, the development of controllable nuclear fusion in China is still relatively short-lived.
Therefore, he is more optimistic about buying from abroad.
Peng Hongxi thought for a moment and said, "Then do you have a purchase target?"
Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "The Tore Supra superconducting fusion device in France, the T-15 fusion reactor in Tsarist Russia, the old ASDEX device at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Germany, the Albanian fusion device at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
Carter C-Mod Compact Fusion Reactor.”
"Currently, I am considering negotiating one of these four. Among them, the Alcatel C-Mod compact fusion reactor and the ASDEX fusion reactor are the two that I am more optimistic about."
"They each have their own unique advantages. The former is the world's only compact high-magnetic field nuclear fusion tokamak device, and the latter is because of the profound foundation of the Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, and the equipment is relatively more complete and easier to transform.
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"And both of them are currently in a complete state of retirement, so it will be easier to negotiate."
"Of course, if you have other considerations and choices, you can also talk about it."
Peng Hongxi thought for a while and asked: "It's not a problem to buy one. It's a trivial matter to spend some money. It's just that we are also building a fusion reactor ourselves now. Although it will take two or three years to be completely completed, but for
For a project like controllable nuclear fusion, two or three years is not a long time. Will two fusion reactor equipment be a bit redundant by then?"
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. If we want to purchase the fusion reactor device, then I will make adjustments to the project on Qixia Mountain later."
"Huh?" Peng Hongxi said suspiciously and looked over.
Xu Chuan continued: "If the equipment purchase is successful, I will modify the plan for the fusion reactor at the Qixia project base and directly design it into a large demonstration reactor!"
"If everything goes well, this will also be the first commercial reactor! At that time, it can directly provide electricity to Jinling and even the entire Sujiang Province."
Hearing this, Peng Hongxi and Gao Hongming couldn't help but take a breath and were shocked.
This change, even to them, can be said to be extremely crazy.
Test reactor, experimental reactor, demonstration reactor, commercial reactor... Although these four all refer to controllable nuclear fusion reactors, the concepts can be completely different.
Generally speaking, experimental reactors can only conduct phased or fixed types of research.
For example, most of the old equipment in China, such as the circulator No. 1 HL-1, mainly studies auxiliary heating and driving systems, as well as projectile injection systems and ultrasonic molecular beam injection and feeding technology.
Experimental reactors are relatively complete, such as the EAST device, which can conduct a full set of fusion experiments and has a full set of equipment except actual power generation operations.
Of course, experimental devices that can meet the most basic experimental needs of plasma experiments are actually called experimental reactors. Theoretically, experimental reactors and test reactors are actually similar. However, they can still be distinguished based on their degree of perfection.
As for demonstration reactors and commercial reactors, they are equipment at another level.
The standard for a demonstration reactor is "equipment that realizes a series of controllable nuclear fusion links from plasma confinement to fusion reaction to electric energy output."
The world's first controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor is the Williams Hampton Fusion Laboratory (WIFER) where the sun never sets. From the completion of construction in 1956 to the present, research on controllable nuclear fusion has gone through seven decades.
More than ten years.
As of today, various experimental reactors are emerging in various countries, ranging from magnetic confinement routes to inertial confinement routes, from tokamak to stellarators, to laser fusion devices.
The total number of experimental piles around the world exceeds three digits.
But no matter whether it is the United States, China, or the European Union, no country or institution can complete the construction of a controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor.
As for the arrangement of the demonstration reactor, it currently only remains in the PPT and schedule.
Therefore, when Xu Chuan wanted to directly build the Qixia controllable nuclear fusion project into a demonstration reactor, both of them couldn't help but feel shocked and crazy.
Swallowing the air, Peng Hongxi asked with a hint of hesitation and concern: "Isn't it a bit too fast to directly change the demonstration reactor? We haven't completed the experimental reactor yet."
I have to say that the young man in front of me is really courageous, or crazy.
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If he didn't understand his character and academic character, Peng Hongxi would even directly doubt whether he was crazy.
After all, this arrangement and plan sounds so crazy.
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Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's true that it's a bit fast, but I'm sure I'm sure."
"And it's actually not that urgent now. The park is still under construction, and related equipment is still being purchased. This is just a temporary idea. If it doesn't work, it can be changed when the time comes."
"The key now is how we test the plasma turbulence model in hand. This is a very critical step in the controllable nuclear fusion project. If we can take this critical step, we will not be far away from the demonstration reactor.
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"As for other problems, we can also conduct them on the experimental reactor we bought. Just think of it as saving some extra money on the original construction time."
Hearing this, Peng Hongxi nodded. If you think about it this way, buying a piece of equipment is indeed a good idea.
After thinking for a while, he said: "If this is the case, then the purchase of equipment will have to be put on the agenda. For us, the sooner we can get the equipment, the better."
Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "In addition to the fusion reactor, the CNC model of plasma turbulence requires large-scale supercomputer to drive it, and the daily construction of the supercomputing center has to be advanced. So this time is scheduled to be around half a year to a year.
suitable."
"As for the time in between, after we determine which equipment can be purchased, we can first create optimized devices such as the superconducting plasma orbit and superconducting coils for the modified reactor."
"As soon as the equipment is delivered, we can conduct the transfer test as soon as possible."
"Based on the lunar calendar, it is the end of 2020. If everything goes well, the first round of ignition experiments will be launched in early 2021."
