The EAST device broke the world record, setting an operating time of 450 seconds, and even broke the record of the stellarator, which has unique advantages in operation control. This is definitely a cause for celebration for the development of controllable nuclear fusion in China.
good thing.
Putting aside other things, Xu Chuan, who saw this news on the Internet, was also sincerely happy for the country and those researchers.
Their efforts paid off.
Without his rebirth, EAST's development along the historical trajectory will indeed lead China along the road of controllable nuclear fusion and occupy a place in the world's controllable nuclear fusion field.
Of course, no one knows whether controllable nuclear fusion technology can be truly realized in the end.
Including Xu Chuan himself, even if he has more than ten or twenty years of experience in the future, and even if he has now embarked on a new path in mathematics and physics, he still doesn't know whether he can really achieve controllable nuclear fusion.
After all, this road is really too difficult.
After flipping through the news, Xu Chuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw the reporter from "Nuclear Industry Times" interviewing Chen Mingji.
2.5 billion was spent to buy a second-hand piece of equipment. Young people are too eager to achieve success, and mathematicians are directing nuclear physics projects, which is a waste of national resources...
And if these 2.5 billion are concentrated on EAST, he is sure to control it for at least half an hour or even longer.
Although the interview content published in the media is relatively normal, the core ideas and some rhythms can basically be seen by anyone who understands.
The entire interview, aside from the information introducing the results of EAST, almost all the rest highlights these core ideas and uses some clever language to label him, saying that he is an amateur guiding experts and influencing the country's development of controllable nuclear fusion.
career or something.
It has to be said that the impact of the success of EAST in 450 seconds has indeed caused a lot of heated discussions on the Internet.
Some of the melon-eating people naturally started to discuss it.
[Twenty-five billion, hiss~, does it cost so much to develop controllable nuclear fusion? 】
[I don’t quite understand. We already have a very advanced EAST, so why would we spend so much money to buy a second-hand one?]
[As Academician Chen said, young people don’t have the patience to celebrate their achievements. It takes too long to make them by yourself. You can just assemble them after buying them. 】
[e=(′o｀*))) Oh, God of Sichuan, it would be great if he could concentrate on researching mathematics. The field of nuclear fusion is completely another field. It is not that he won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize.
You can step in if you win the prize.】
[You know what the heck, although the ASDEX device is second-hand, it cost the Planck Institute of Plasma Research 7.8 billion euros to build it. It also has many advanced domestic technologies, such as water-cooled divertors and multipole field coils.
, flywheel unit, etc.]
[You can buy it back with 300 million euros. That’s because Sichuan God used the high-temperature superconducting material developed by itself in exchange. Otherwise, you are thinking of eating 300 million euros. Academician Chen in this report had previously thought about using domestic high-temperature superconducting materials.
ICRF's heating technology was exchanged with Planck's, but others didn't like his technology.】
[In addition, Chuan Shen’s first choice was not to buy it. Instead, he went to EAST and wanted to use high-temperature superconducting materials in exchange for the right to use the EAST device to do research. However, it turned out that there was an academic monopoly there and they disagreed.
I had no choice but to buy it.]
[Sichuan God is still awesome, he can buy things that others can’t buy. Is this a real top boss? He has such a wide network of contacts.]
[But a second-hand one cost 2.5 billion. I still think it’s too expensive. Can’t I build it myself? 】
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After simply scrolling through the news, Xu Chuan chuckled, shook his head and put down his phone.
To be honest, most of the comments from netizens who have read this interview report are biased towards Chen Mingji.
Indeed, the figure of 2.5 billion sounds exaggerated.
But when it comes to the field of controllable nuclear fusion, this number is really small.
Without his high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material technology, it would be almost impossible to purchase the ASDEX device through a 300 million euro transaction.
Even if you remove the water-cooled divertor and other equipment, you can't buy it.
In this interview, Academician Chen Mingji was actually very targeted.
Avoiding those other things, focusing on amplifying the number of 2.5 billion and second-hand equipment.
I have to say, the effect is still very good.
If it were other scholars, under such a strong pace, no matter what the above said, people would have to be arranged to come down and investigate.
After all, the identity of the person being interviewed is not low.
A real leader in the field of domestic controllable nuclear fusion and an academician of the top Academy of Sciences, he has just led the Luyang controllable nuclear fusion project to achieve a fusion operation time of 450 seconds.
Maybe even if one of them is not implemented, it will be directly criticized by public opinion.
But for Xu Chuan, the impact of this incident was not great.
First of all, the influence of the Nobel Prize and the Philippine Prize lies here. In any case, with these two haloes above his head, as long as he does not do anything that is treasonous in the country, it is basically impossible for him to get into trouble.
What's more, trading ASDEX devices is just expensive in the eyes of ordinary people.
If a simple 300 million euros could buy a fusion reactor of the level of the ASDEX device, the bosses would be so happy that they would take as much as they could get.
You must know that there are many advanced technologies in ASDEX equipment.
Secondly, in this transaction, he used his own high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material technology as a subsidy, which the higher-ups saw clearly.
As for online public opinion, to be honest, it has almost no impact on this level.
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Shaking his head, Xu Chuan ignored the matter.
However, Peng Hongxi and other researchers were furious after seeing this news report.
In their view, this is a false accusation!
He even specifically raised this matter at the meeting and wanted to go to Chen Mingji for an explanation.
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "What they said is true. We did spend 300 million euros to buy back the ASDEX device. What's the point?
Angry."
At the conference table, Zhao Hongzhi said angrily: "Can 300 million euros buy back the ASDEX device? Professor, he didn't mention it at all in exchange for your own technology!"
"Without high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material technology, how could it be possible to buy the ASDEX device for 300 million euros? How could a scholar in the field of nuclear fusion not understand this!"
"Moreover, he also slandered us in the interview, thinking that if we can successfully ignite and run for about ten seconds, it is already very good!"
"Ten seconds! We can do the acceptance run!"
Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's his business to talk or not. He has a mouth. As for his guess that our operation this time will only take thirty seconds. The result hasn't come out yet. Let's make a prediction.
It’s nothing.”
After a pause, he continued: "So if we want to go back with a slap in the face, we must try our best to do our best in this ignition operation experiment."
"Nothing is more convincing than the results. He led EAST to run for 450 seconds. I believe we can surpass this record."
"As long as we achieve results, no one outside will dare to gossip anymore."
"So, everyone, get ready! In two days, our own experiment will begin!"
"yes!"
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The days passed by, and October 1st soon came.
On this special day when the country and family are reunited, everyone at the Qixia Mountain Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project is ready.
Not only the engineers and scientific researchers here at the institute, but also the troops doing daily protection outside have doubled their manpower. Not only have the industrial park been inspected overnight, but there are also helicopters and helicopters floating in the sky from time to time.
Fighter plane passing by.
This posture gave Xu Chuan the feeling of going back to the acceptance of the nuclear beta radiation energy aggregation and conversion electric energy project.
Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to it at first. After all, although project safety protection was under his control and he could make requests, it was mostly up to the troops responsible for protection to make their own arrangements.
It wasn't until... that Zheng Hai, who didn't follow him around much in the industrial park, now stayed by his side every step of the way, did Xu Chuan react.
The above are probably worried that what happened at the Fusion Research Institute in Sakura Country's QST will happen again here. The additional manpower and Zheng Hai who follows him are all prepared to ensure the safety of the personnel.
After figuring it out, Xu Chuan was a little dumbfounded. Looking at Zheng Hai who had been following him, he said, "Why are you following me today?"
Zheng Hai smiled and said: "To be on the safe side, today is a little special."
Xu Chuan twitched the corner of his mouth and explained: "Controllable nuclear fusion and uncontrollable nuclear fusion are different. Today's experiment has not yet reached the stage of directly using deuterium and tritium raw materials to generate electricity. Even if there is an accident, it will not matter.
It’s dangerous, don’t worry.”
After a pause, he continued: "I'm not used to you following me like this."
To be honest, it is unrealistic to say that controllable nuclear fusion reactors are completely safe.
If there was no danger at all, the incident at the Fusion Research Institute in QST in Sakura Country would not have happened.
Moreover, the strong neutron radiation produced during the deuterium and tritium fusion process can be blocked by very few things. If an accident occurs during the deuterium and tritium fusion, even the helicopters parked at the base will not be able to escape.
go out.
However, for today's experiment, he still chose helium-3 as the raw material, and mixed hydrogen into the process to simulate the fusion process, so there was no danger.
At most, there were some problems with the control system, which caused serious damage to the material on the first wall of the Dawn Fusion Device.
As for what happened at the Fusion Research Institute in Sakura Country's QST, it is impossible to repeat it here.
Zheng Hai smiled and said, "Then I'll stay away a little bit."
As he said that, he retreated a meter or two away, staying in a position where he could be reached at any time, and said, "Do you think this is okay?"
When Xu Chuan saw this scene, the corners of his mouth twitched again, and he said helplessly: "It's up to you."
...
After passing through the security inspection, Xu Chuan came all the way to the main control room.
Researchers and engineers such as Peng Hongxi, Gao Hongming, Zhao Hongzhi, Han Jin, etc. have already been waiting here.
In addition, there are two groups of media reporters carrying cameras who are busy in the main control room.
One is from Renren Daily, and the other is a reporter from Nuclear Industry Times.
There were many media outlets that applied to enter the park to report and follow up, but Xu Chuan rejected them all. If he hadn't considered the need to leave some media for reporting and publicity, he would not have been prepared to allow them to enter the general control.
Compared to others, he doesn't like to appear in the spotlight much.
On the one hand, it's because of personality.
On the other hand, it is because in his opinion, there is no need to publicize such interim results.
Of course, it looks different to others.
In addition to hard work in scientific research, proper publicity is necessary to let the outside world know what you are doing and what the progress is.
For example, CERN particularly likes to hold various press conferences. Even if there is nothing wrong, they still want to announce their arrangements, or announce what phased results a certain research group has achieved, etc.
This is also related to the nature of CERN. It is a large-scale scientific research institution jointly established by more than ten or twenty countries. Scientific research funds come from these member states and member states.
If we don’t hold more press conferences and announce more what we have worked hard on this year, how can we get funding for scientific research tomorrow?
But for Xu Chuan, this is not necessary.
His scientific research funding comes from China. As long as the higher authorities still support him, there will be no lack of funding.
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After briefly dealing with interviews from "Renren Daily" and "Nuclear Industry Times", Xu Chuan came to the front of the main control room.
At 9:55 in the morning, there are still five minutes left before the dawn device is scheduled to be activated for the first operational experiment.
The engineers who debugged the equipment have completed the final preparations before the experiment and completed the reports one by one.
After checking the time, Xu Chuan looked at the monitoring display in the main control room.
In the surveillance screen, the behemoth was sleeping quietly in the center of the core laboratory, waiting for the moment to wake up.
The inspections and preparations that need to be done have already been completed, and the rest can be started at any time.
Glancing at Zhao Hongzhi standing aside, Xu Chuan asked repeatedly: "Have all the preparations been completed?"
Zhao Hongzhi nodded with a serious expression and said: "Confirmation completed!"
Nodding, Xu Chuan took a deep breath, gave the order, and said: "Then let's start!"
As the instructions came down and were responsible for various tasks, the personnel in each group of control rooms quickly became busy.
External current supply!
Liquid nitrogen and liquid helium flow in!
Supercomputers and CNC models start running!
The steady-state magnetic field rises steadily.....
Through the surveillance screen in the main control, everyone can clearly see that the steel behemoth crawling quietly on the ground, like an Eastern dragon, has awakened!
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PS: I would like to report the situation. I feel much better today. I didn’t go to the hospital for diarrhea and just took some medicine. However, I can’t speed up my typing speed. I started writing from noon until now, and I’ve only been able to write these words slowly. I’m so distracted.
Seriously, I will write more later and see if I can update twice tomorrow. Thank you everyone for your concern.