I met Xu Chuan, talked about the arrangements for controllable nuclear fusion technology, and inspected the construction of the demonstration reactor project before leaving.
Xu Chuan returned to the experimental reactor engineering base and continued to improve some of the core technologies at hand.
Today, he has mastered enough puzzle pieces for controllable nuclear fusion, but there are still some core issues that have not yet been completely solved.
For example, regarding the problem of tritium self-sustainment, although there is already a design plan and the institute is working overtime to improve it, in fact, there is still no complete and feasible plan.
Tritium self-sustainability is also a systemic problem, from what materials to choose as target materials to withstand high-energy neutron beams, to the amount of tritium produced by the reaction of neutrons and lithium, to how to extract tritium elements...etc.
, are all quite troublesome problems.
Now those relatively common and simple problems have received support from other controllable nuclear fusion research institutes, and his progress cannot lag behind.
.......
On the other side, Luyang, Science Island.
Chen Mingji slowly walked into his office.
Since returning from Jinling, he has been running around outside. Even his assistant Mo Hongyun doesn't know what he is doing.
Looking at the very familiar office, Chen Mingji sat on the office chair and rested in silence with his eyes closed.
A long time passed, and a long sigh came from the office.
"Hongyun, come to my office."
After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Chen Mingji finally stood up, touched the phone on the table, and dialed a number.
After a while, assistant Mo Hongyun rushed over.
"Director, are you looking for me?"
Chen Mingji nodded and said, "There is something I need you to do."
"Director, please speak." Mo Hongyun said respectfully.
"Send the batch of ICRF heating antennas that were originally sold to ITER to the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project." Chen Mingji said calmly.
Hearing this, Mo Hongyun was immediately a little surprised and said hurriedly: "Director, that batch of equipment is our most important thing besides the EAST equipment. Send it to them. This..."
He knew what Chen Mingji was talking about.
That was the heating antenna that China originally manufactured for the ITER demonstration reactor when it was still at ITER.
It is one of the two core black technologies in Luyang’s controllable nuclear fusion project.
The other is the all-superconducting D-shaped cross-section design technology that has been used on EAST.
Originally, that batch of equipment was planned to be shipped to the ITER base in France, Europe, in 2022. Later, something happened to ITER and they were forced to withdraw from ITER. These heating antennas stayed on the Science Island.
This batch of equipment can be said to be one of the most advanced plasma heating technologies in the world. It can raise the plasma temperature in the reactor chamber to more than 100 million degrees in a very short time, and its performance can be said to be peak.
Not only that, the value of this batch of equipment is over 100 million.
And it’s rice gold. When converted into RMB, the total value is probably over one billion.
To give it to the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project like this? He was a little unwilling to do so.
Chen Mingji waved his hand and said: "Send it over, it's useless if you keep it in our hands. EAST is still far away from the demonstration reactor, and that thing was originally prepared for the demonstration reactor at ITER."
"Although Qixia is taking the route of a composite tokamak device, in the final analysis it is derived from a tokamak device. Those ICRF heating antennas can still be used after modification."
Mo Hongyun sighed, and then asked without giving up: "Is it true?"
Chen Mingji nodded and said: "Go, I have some other things to deal with, I'll leave this to you."
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Jinling, Dawn Experimental Reactor Engineering Base.
While Xu Chuan was busy with his work, people from the Luyang Science Island EAST project came here again and applied to see him.
It was Gao Hongming who sent the message, saying that there was something important.
Xu Chuan didn't think much and met the visitors from Luyang in his office.
He was also a little curious about what another person from Luyang was doing, after all, the handover had been completed before under the leadership of Chen Mingji.
In the office, Xu Chuan saw the person arranged by Luyang. He was a middle-aged and elderly man, about forty-five years old.
"Hello, Academician Xu, I am Yu Mu. I am here to continue our cooperation with you on behalf of Academician Chen Mingji and the Luyang Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project."
Standing in front of Xu Chuan, Yu Mu was a little nervous and restrained.
Although he is much older than the one in front of him, sometimes, aura is such a wonderful thing.
Hearing Yu Mu's words, Xu Chuan raised his eyebrows and asked curiously: "Where is Academician Chen?"
Yu Mu replied with a cautious look: "Academician Chen retired from the institute a few days ago. He resigned from all his jobs. Now I am temporarily serving as the director of the Luyang Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute."
"retired?"
Hearing the news, Xu Chuan glanced at Yu Mu in surprise.
Chen Mingji would take the initiative to retire and resign from all his jobs and positions. To be honest, he really didn't expect this.
Strictly speaking, there were no major conflicts or disputes between him and Luyang.
From beginning to end, he actually didn't do anything extraordinary, nor did he do anything to offend the other party.
Although he established a controllable nuclear fusion project on his own, he took away part of the funds invested in the controllable nuclear fusion project.
But it would be a bit too much to say that no one else is allowed to independently engage in controlled nuclear fusion, but only under him.
Moreover, among the many controllable nuclear fusion research institutions in the country, there are quite a few whose funding does not go to Luyang for approval.
Yu Mu nodded and said, "Before leaving, Academician Chen asked me to give you a gift."
"Gift? What gift?" Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment and asked curiously.
"The ICRF heating antenna originally sold to the ITER demonstration reactor project has been shipped with me and is currently at the entrance of the institute, waiting for you to receive it."
Yu Mu said: "I was supposed to come to visit you last week, but in order to ensure that the ICRF heating antenna was transported normally, I was delayed for some time."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan was a little surprised and said quickly: "Are we here already? Let's go out and have a look."
He still understands the Luyang controllable nuclear fusion project.
Although today's EAST is far behind the Dawn Fusion device in terms of progress in controllable nuclear fusion projects, it does not have its own advantages.
