Kadarashe area, under the iter fusion reactor headquarters building.
Chen Mingji, who had just finished the meeting and walked out of the building, looked back at the headquarters building, which was not very high, with a complicated look on his face.
Two or three hours ago, an iter council meeting was held here.
The ITER Council is the highest decision-making body of the International Fusion Energy Initiative and is composed of representatives from seven member states.
Similar to Cern, there are actually two types of representatives on the Iter Council, one is at the technical level, and the other is at the government level.
The result of today's meeting was not very optimistic.
Chen Mingji, as a representative participating in ITER, is also the director of our International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Execution Center, and should have been the main force in the past.
But at today's meeting, he barely spoke.
Of course, today's meeting is actually not a technical matter.
However, the tough attitude of some people in today's meeting made him feel faintly worried.
Looking back, Chen Mingji glanced at the representative beside him and asked with some probing tone: "Director Xu, what do you mean by the country of America?"
Hearing the inquiry, Xu Moyin, who was walking beside him, turned his head and glanced at Chen Mingji.
Although there are some conflicts between Academician Chen and Academician Xu, he is also an academician after all, and he is also a leader in the field of controlled nuclear fusion in China and has dedicated his life to the country.
Smiling, he said: "They are just jealous of the technology in the hands of Academician Xu. Our Daybreak Fusion Device has achieved a 45-minute operating time and created new brilliance. It is at the forefront of the world. They want to use iter to coerce
We're just handing over these technologies."
After hearing this, Chen Ming then asked: "Then what should we do?"
Hand over technology? Even he knows that this is impossible.
He and Xu Chuan had conflicts, but that was their own matter behind closed doors and could be resolved internally.
Externally, no matter how you say it, we are all members of the same country and one family.
It is impossible to make it public unless we exchange technology for technology.
Xu Mo said with a smile: "There is no need to do anything for now, just delay."
After a pause, he glanced at Chen Mingji and continued: "It is impossible for us to relent on technical issues. Whether it is high-temperature superconducting materials or plasma turbulence CNC models, they are the private property of Academician Xu. Unless
Academician Xu is willing, otherwise the country would not be able to exchange technology, let alone make it freely available to the public."
With this sentence, he not only expressed the high-level position, but also indirectly reminded Academician Chen in front of him not to think about other things.
After all, high-temperature superconducting materials and CNC models are very important for controllable nuclear fusion. If they are really traded, you can definitely get back a lot of good things.
The eat project in Luyang is linked to the iter nationality cooperation project. If the technology is exchanged through iter, Luyang will definitely receive part of the benefits.
In this meeting, almost the whole process was negotiated by diplomats like them, who were also concerned about this aspect.
Chen Mingji nodded and was silent for a while without speaking again.
To be honest, these things actually have nothing to do with him.
What he worries about is that those Western countries may take advantage of this and kick them out of iter.
Although the other party doesn't have this intention now, I won't know about it later.
In anger, those led by the United States did not do such a thing.
Even some original agreements, or ongoing transactions, may be cut off.
Controllable nuclear fusion is a big pie that can fill everyone's stomach. Even if they can't eat it now, seeing the hope is enough to make everyone excited.
To be honest, Chen Mingji really doesn't want to come to this point.
Although domestic controllable nuclear fusion is at the forefront of the world, if we put aside the achievements of the Dawn device, even Dawn, it is actually following the trajectory that has been followed.
Even the fusion devices were actually bought and traded from other countries.
The EAT in Luyang was modified from the HT-7 bought back from the Soviet Union, the dawn fusion device was modified from the ADE bought back from Germania, and the HL-M, HL-A, etc. from the Southwest Nuclear Industry were actually modified.
They were all bought.
It seems brilliant, but in fact, China's current research time on large-scale systematic projects such as controllable nuclear fusion is too short. Currently, China does not have a controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor built entirely by itself.
Despite the fact that Eat has accumulated some experience, even the Daybreak set a new record by running for forty-five minutes.
But in a large-scale scientific research project like controlled fusion that involves many disciplines, how to conduct subsequent research and what to do next are actually far more critical and important than what has been done.
In this regard, both Europe and the United States are actually further ahead than they are.
At this point in time, cutting off communication with them was actually not a good thing in his opinion.
It's just that the decision has been made above, and he can't change anything.
Skills are not as good as humans. It is clear at a glance whether 40 seconds of operation or 4 minutes of operation is more important.
I just hope something bad like this doesn't happen.
Chen Mingji sighed inwardly and put some thoughts and suggestions into his heart.
Because of what happened before, he and Academician Xu were already at loggerheads. If he came up with some more ideas now, there would really be no room for relaxation.
On the other side, Jinling and Xu Chuan are not yet very clear about what happened on the iter side.
During this time, he did not go to the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base much. He basically spent time at home perfecting some theories on the magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands that would occur during the deuterium-tritium fusion process in the Tokamak device.
Of course, these are just some ideas that have been theoretically perfected. To be specific and practical, we still need to wait for the Daybreak Fusion Device to actually start the deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation, and then analyze and process it based on the experimental data.
But to be honest, what Chen Mingji wants to do is indeed not problematic in theory.
China started too late in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. Although it is now at the forefront, it is still in a catching-up position.
But that is for other people. For him, when it comes to the future development trend of controllable nuclear fusion and how to carry out subsequent research, I am afraid that the whole world combined cannot compare to him alone.
No matter how talented the researcher is, no matter how awesome the team is, it is impossible to predict how controllable nuclear fusion will develop in more than ten years, and what routes and research methods are wrong.
But Xu Chuan can, he was reborn with a time difference.
In the future, he knows how controllable nuclear fusion will develop, where there are problems, which route is feasible in the future, and which route is not feasible. Not all, at least he knows most of it.
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Therefore, from his perspective, even if China breaks away from iter, there is actually no big problem.
After all, the Qixia Mountain Nuclear Fusion Project has been a completely independent project from the beginning and has never relied on ITER's technology.
Of course, it is impossible for Chen Mingji to know these things, so from his perspective, there is nothing wrong.
It can only be said that no one would have thought that a reborn person would appear in this field.
As time goes by, the days gradually come to the beginning of December.
After returning to the Qixia Mountain base from the villa, Xu Chuan also became busy. The transformation of the Dawn Fusion Device was nearing completion, and the optimization of the plasma turbulence CNC model had already been completed with the support of the Academy of Sciences.
The second restart of the Daybreak Fusion Device is just around the corner, and all related matters require him to take charge of the overall situation.
Finally, a week later, the transformation of the Dawn Fusion Device was completely completed.
The rest is the corresponding inspection.
It sounds very simple, but it is necessary to complete the inspection of all equipment in a targeted manner, especially when an additional deuterium and tritium raw material fusion ignition operation process is added this time, the inspection requires more time than before.
After all, the fusion ignition of deuterium and tritium raw materials is no joke. If you don't pay attention, it will be a major safety accident.
Moreover, when deuterium and tritium raw materials are actually fused, they will produce neutron radiation. Although it is impossible to inject a large amount of raw materials in the first run of the experiment, even a milligram of it will reach the sky, but the energy released by fusion is far greater than that of nuclear fission.
Although the Daybreak Fusion Device and the project base have comprehensively prepared countermeasures, this is the first time such an experiment has been launched. No one can guarantee whether the process will go smoothly and whether the results will meet expectations.
It took five days for the engineers and researchers of the Dawn Fusion Device to finally complete the relevant equipment inspections.
Standing in the main control room, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the behemoth in the core test area through the surveillance screen.
This experiment has two goals in total.
The first goal is to push the running time of high-density plasma simulated by helium 3 and hydrogen to at least one hundred minutes.
The second goal is to run at least one deuterium-tritium raw material fusion ignition experiment.
The former is to continue to complete the running time control experiment, while the latter is to collect experimental data and solve problems such as magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands generated during the deuterium and tritium fusion process.
As for the damage to the first wall material caused by neutron irradiation produced by deuterium and tritium raw materials during the fusion process, although it is also included in the data collection of this experiment, the priority of solving this problem is not in this experiment.
After all, if you can't even run the plasma for a long time, it doesn't make much sense to solve the problem of neutron irradiation in the fusion process.
With the preparations completed, at 9:30 in the morning, Xu Chuan gave the order to start the experiment.
At the same time, under the control of many staff, the dawn fusion device sleeping in the core experimental area once again roared.
p: There will be another chapter tonight, please vote for me.
Yes, there was some mistake in the time calculation. I was a little confused. One month after the end of October is December, so I ignored the whole month of December (qaq), sorry.