Chapter 411: The Problem of Controlled Nuclear Fusion
In front of the blackboard, Xu Chuan finished drawing the last structure, and happened to hear Academician Wang Yongnian's praise for him.
He smiled and threw the chalk in his hand into the chalk box, saying: "It's just an occasional inspiration. Compared with academician Wang, who has decades of experience, it is far different."
Wang Yongnian stared at the structural diagram on the blackboard and said: "It's too modest. In comparison, the magnetic fluid power generation and supercritical power generation combination designed by Hou Chengping and I are far inferior to this."
"The way you utilize energy is simply amazing."
"Using circulating auxiliary heat pipes and auxiliary heat technology, with a small amount of energy, we can greatly increase the residual heat energy that is already unusable."
"At least neither Hou Chengping nor I have thought of this idea."
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Academician Wang is so complimentary. I just provided an idea."
"In this idea, there are still many details and problems that need to be discussed and designed, which will trouble you."
Wang Yongnian retracted his gaze from the blackboard, nodded with a smile, and said: "With the ideas you proposed, it is not difficult to redesign this."
"Leave this to us. Let's use some of the remaining heat while we're still dry."
On the side, Hou Chengping smiled and said: "When it comes to troubles, you have already solved the biggest troubles. There is not much we, the bad old men, can do."
"The two elders are getting stronger as they grow older. They are in the prime of life." Xu Chuan praised with a smile.
Wang Yongnian shook his head and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. While I still have memory today, I have to rush back and record the preliminary drawings."
"Let's do this for today, and follow up with some other things. How about we discuss it another day?"
Rather than chatting and bragging here, he wanted to go back and design this composite generator set as soon as possible.
The construction of controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactors is a national priority, and the time cannot be extended just because they are behind schedule.
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Of course. The construction of the demonstration reactor will be left to the two academicians. I look forward to your good news."
Wang Yongnian waved his hand, glanced at the structural diagram on the blackboard again, wrote it down carefully, turned around and said goodbye and left in a hurry.
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Wang Yongnian and Hou Chengping left with the idea of the generator unit. Only Xu Chuan and Peng Hongxi were left in the office.
After chatting for a few words, Peng Hongxi was also ready to get up and leave.
After all, the construction of the demonstration reactor has just begun, and he still has a lot of work to do.
Xu Chuan nodded and didn't care. Not only Peng Hongxi, he also had a lot of work to deal with.
Controllable nuclear fusion is a super project, and the construction of the demonstration reactor has begun to approach the middle and later stages of the project.
Such a project involving physics, materials, engineering, computing and other disciplines requires at least dozens or even hundreds of companies to cooperate with each other to provide different materials and spare parts when building a demonstration reactor.
It is his job as the general manager to allocate these resources and solve problems in the coordination process.
Although he rarely cares about these matters, and Peng Hongxi and Gao Hongming usually handle specific matters, after the final cooperation is reached, he needs to handle the signing and sealing of the contract.
And even though he was the hands-on shopkeeper, he still had to take a look at the relevant contracts and information.
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Peng Hongxi stood up to say goodbye and left. Before he walked out of the door, Xu Chuan remembered another thing and quickly called him.
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Peng, there is one more thing."
Peng Hongxi stopped, turned around and looked over: "What's the matter?"
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "As for what other problems there are in the controllable nuclear fusion project, please ask Mr. Peng to find someone to count them, and I will see how many there are."
"After all, the demonstration reactor is about to start construction, and the problems that were originally scheduled must be resolved as soon as possible."
Controllable nuclear fusion is a huge project, and famous issues such as the control of plasma turbulence, tritium self-sustainment, and the first wall material problem are the core points.
In addition to the core, there are almost countless small problems and troubles surrounding this huge project.
For example, tritium extraction, helium ash processing, how to stably supply deuterium and tritium raw materials into the reactor chamber, how to image the data in the reactor, etc.; these are all difficult problems.
When the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project was established, he communicated with Peng Hongxi and obtained an overall list of issues. After revising them, he distributed them to the researchers and engineers of the institute.
Leave it to them to handle.
Now almost two years have passed. Although he has sometimes learned about some related problems, he really doesn't have a specific number in his mind on how many have been solved overall and how many new problems and projects have been born.
So now that the materials for the first wall have been solved and the demonstration reactor project has just been approved, Xu Chuan wants to sort out how many problems there are in the project, and then re-arrange and allocate them.
Peng Hongxi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask Han Jin to help sort it out and then give it to you."
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "I'm sorry for bothering Mr. Peng."
"Little things."
Peng Hongxi waved his hand, turned and left the office.
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After waiting for two days, Professor Han Jin finally sent over the questions and information related to the controllable nuclear fusion project.
"Academician Xu, I have sorted out the issues and projects related to the Daybreak Fusion Device. Please take a look." Han Jin respectfully put the documents he brought over on his desk and reported softly.
Xu Chuan looked up and was surprised by the thick stack of nearly thirty centimeters of documents on his desk. He couldn't help but ask, "How many are there?"
"There are a total of 347 issues, 169 issues have been resolved, and 178 issues remain."
"In terms of projects, there are a total of 163 independent projects, 72 completed projects, and 91 unfinished projects."
"Relevant data information and detailed progress are available in the information in front of you."
"In addition, some general and overall information is in the top stack of documents. There are seventeen pages in total. You can take a look at this first."
"I was shocked. I thought there were so many accumulated problems and projects." After hearing this, Xu Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, reached out from the pile of documents to find the small document Han Jin mentioned, and started to read it.
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Looking at the information documents in his hands, Xu Chuan couldn't help but frown.
Three hundred and forty-seven problems, one hundred and sixty-three independent projects, which is not too much for a super project like controllable nuclear fusion.
But in terms of progress, it is somewhat unsatisfactory. In two years, not even half of it has been solved.
It seems that we still need to think of another way, otherwise it will be a big mistake if the demonstration reactor is built this year and it may not be able to be ignited.
