Great Country Academician

Chapter 312 At least it must be a Ph.D. degree + two years of work experience

Hearing Xu Chuan's words, Qi Zhongxing quickly took out his notebook from his desk, ready to write down the request.

On the opposite side, Xu Chuan glanced at the project planning and engineering drawings of controllable nuclear fusion again, and after thinking about it for a while, he said, "I don't have any requirements for peripheral buildings, power generation facilities, and cooling cycles."

"Mainly the core area."

"The core area is used to store the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, because after re-modification, the volume of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor will be larger than the tokamak device, both in diameter and height, exceeding 30 meters .”

"So the core building used to store the controllable nuclear fusion reactor needs to be at least 40 meters high. As for the area, you can increase it by more than 25% after calculating the maximum value of the equipment that needs to be deployed."

Qi Zhongxing nodded, and quickly recorded the request in his notebook.

For a country with a large infrastructure, it is not difficult to build such a factory building in a core area, but the amount of work is quite large.

Because according to the plan, the core area used to store the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is located underground as a whole.

According to this person's request, that is to say, they have to dig a space underground with a length and width of at least 100 meters and a depth of more than 50 meters.

For such a large pothole, it is very troublesome just to transfer the excavated sand, gravel and soil.

In addition, in Qixia Mountain near the Yangtze River, groundwater or soft soil layers will definitely be dug out at a depth of more than 50 meters, all of which need to be taken into consideration.

On the opposite side, Xu Chuan glanced at Qi Zhongxing, and after he finished recording, he continued: "In addition, considering safety issues, the wall thickness of the core area must be at least 30 centimeters, and the central area can be considered to leave five centimeters The thickness of the radiation gap material is laid."

Hearing this, Gao Hongming asked nervously, "Is there any risk of nuclear radiation?"

Regarding Professor Xu's research, before the higher authorities arranged for him to come to assist in the controllable nuclear fusion project, he had already made a comprehensive understanding.

Xu Chuan mentioned the use of the radiation gap material, and he also knows that it is a material used to resist nuclear radiation.

As soon as he mentioned this, he subconsciously thought that there was some radiation problem.

Xu Chuan thought for a while and replied, "In theory, controllable nuclear fusion is safe. But there is no such thing as absolutely safe."

"You should be aware of the nuclear fusion reactor explosion that happened in Sakura Country some time ago. Although controllable nuclear fusion does not have the various ionizing radiation of nuclear fission reactors, even if the ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure plasma in the chamber does not occur The fusion reaction itself still has certain dangers."

"After all, the temperature of these plasmas is at least tens of millions of degrees or even hundreds of millions of degrees. If there is an accident, it may have a great impact on the core area."

After a pause, he continued: "Of course, normally there would be no such risk. The fusion reactor explosion accident in the small island country was entirely caused by them not following the procedures and specifications."

After finishing speaking, he silently added another sentence in his heart: "Of course, the hole dug in that manuscript paper should not be underestimated."

After quickly recording the request, Qi Zhongxing raised his head and said, "That's no problem. The entire project will be built with the best nuclear cement. In addition, the core area will be treated with a 50-centimeter thick cement wall according to your requirements, and at least Five centimeters to fill the gap."

After thinking about it, Qi Zhongxing then asked: "Is five centimeters enough? If it's not enough, you can make it bigger."

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Enough. This is just an insurance measure. Controlled nuclear fusion is not nuclear fission. Even if there is a problem, as long as the input of deuterium-tritium raw materials and the output of the NIF heating antenna are cut off, the There will be no additional problems."

Qi Zhongxing nodded, and made another note in his notebook.

After wandering around the controllable nuclear fusion engineering base at the foot of Qixia Mountain and making a request of his own, Xu Chuan no longer cared about the affairs here.

He was assured that Qi Zhongxing would be in charge of the construction project, and that Gao Hongming and the troops stationed here would also help watch over the construction.

Cutting corners, formwork, steel reinforcement and other problems that are common in large-scale projects cannot occur in this project.

Not only because this is a controllable nuclear fusion project, but also because the Huaguo Nuclear Industry Construction Group, which took over the project, had already issued a military order before the start of construction.

If problems arise during the construction, then these construction workers and persons in charge will go to court-martial.

So after asking Qi Zhongxing, the chief engineer in charge of the construction, some requirements for the buildings in the core area, Xu Chuan focused on other aspects.

In the Xianlin campus of Nanjing University, which is close to Qixia Mountain, Xu Chuan followed the campus path to the industrial building.

Because the controllable nuclear fusion project has just started, the research institute in the park has not yet been built, so some personnel recruitment and office work borrowed an industrial building from NTU Xianlin Campus for temporary office Place.

Academician Peng Hongxi, who is in charge of personnel recruitment and related equipment procurement, is currently working here.

I don't know how many people have been recruited for the controllable nuclear fusion project in the past two months.

Knocking on the door of the office, a voice came from inside: "Please come in."

Xu Chuan pushed open the door and walked in. Peng Hongxi, who was dealing with things, took a look, was stunned for a moment, got up and greeted with a smile, "Hey, what brought you here?"

On the side, Han Jin, who was also working in the office, raised his head and took a look, said hello and quickly got up to make tea.

Xu Chuan smiled, and said, "It's hard to justify not coming again. Just a few days ago, I finished my work on the physics side, so I came out to walk around."

Hearing this, Peng Hongxi sighed: "The discovery of inert neutrinos confirms that particles that exceed the predictions of the Standard Model have appeared in front of everyone's eyes so quickly that no one expected."

After a pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and said with a smile, "With this discovery, you should be able to win another Nobel Prize, right?"

"Count up your achievements this year, starting from the expanded application of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, to the technology of "Nuclear Beta Radiation Energy Concentration and Conversion of Electric Energy", to artificial SEI films and inert neutrinos, almost every year you It’s unbelievable that they can be made enough to be worthy of the Nobel Prize.”

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "The discovery of the inertial neutrino is just a matter of luck. As for the Nobel Prize."

He shrugged, and continued: "It may be difficult to rely on this discovery alone. After all, you know high-energy physics and particle physics."

Peng Hongxi shook his head with a smile, and said: "It's different. The discovery of inert neutrinos is different from those particles predicted in the standard model in the past. His discovery and data analysis were done by you alone. The chances of a prize are great.”

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "It depends on what the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences thinks, but even if it can be won, it will definitely not work this year. It is already early October, and the list of physics awards will be announced in a few days. "

"Let's not talk about that, I just came over from Qixia Mountain, and I want to see how things are going here, how is the recruitment going?"

Peng Hongxi replied: "In terms of personnel recruitment, there are currently 123 people who have passed the recruitment and review, which is neither too many nor too few. The main reason is that there are not many who meet the requirements. After all, there is no controllable nuclear fusion in our country. As for the major, you have to choose from the field of nuclear energy or physics.”

Xu Chuan nodded, and said: "It's okay, just take your time. The most important thing is that people are good or not. One person who can do things is enough to be worth ten idlers."

Peng Hongxi also nodded in agreement: "Indeed, there is no need to worry about this. The Institute of Nuclear Energy has not yet been established, and there is no place to go when there are too many people. Just take your time."

Xu Chuan: "Well, Mr. Peng can help you manage this, so I don't worry."

"In addition, regarding the numerical control model of plasma turbulence, I used the supercomputing center of Nanjing University to do some checking and testing. I got some checking and testing data, and I am going to optimize it."

"However, the number obtained is a bit large, so I brought it here today. Please, Mr. Peng, find some reliable and suitable researchers to sort out these calculations and test data."

Peng Hongxi took the hard drive from Xu Chuan, looked at it and nodded, "Well, fine, I'll take care of this."

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, looked curiously at Xu Chuan and asked: "You should have built this based on the paper that was lost before, right? The JT-60SA controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor in Sakura Country exploded Is it related to your previously stolen papers?"

Xu Chuan nodded, and said, "Well, it does have something to do with it. The data they took away was not detailed, and the process was not standardized. They went directly to the experimental pile without thorough testing, so the control system failed."

Hearing this, Peng Hongxi glanced at Xu Chuan, hesitant to speak.

Xu Chuan knew what the old man in front of him was worried about, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't make the same mistake on my side. How can it be so easy to control the plasma turbulence in the chamber of a controllable nuclear fusion reactor?" , There are still many tests to go in the future.”

Hearing what he said, Peng Hongxi heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Then I can rest assured."

"By the way, Mr. Peng, regarding the recruitment of personnel, please recruit ten more researchers in mathematical and physical models. This will be useful when optimizing the model later."

After handing over the hard disk carrying the mathematical model of plasma turbulence to Peng Hongxi, Xu Chuan continued.

It would take too long to complete this kind of large-scale mathematical model by his own ability, and subsequent adjustments and optimizations would require additional manpower to handle it.

"Okay, I'll write this down for you." Peng Hongxi nodded and replied, "Are there any requirements for the qualification threshold of these ten people?"

After thinking for a while, Xu Chuan said, "At least it must be a doctor's degree + two years of work experience."

"After all, researchers who are too low-level to participate in this kind of model optimization work can't help at all."

After thinking about it, he added another sentence: "If you have won the top prize in a world-class college student modeling competition or have other outstanding achievements in modeling, the conditions can be relaxed a bit, but the minimum should not be lower than the Ph.D. , it is best to get the red book."

There is nothing he can do about setting this threshold.

Because according to domestic academic qualifications, before a doctorate, it is actually the foundation stage. Only after a doctorate can one have enough knowledge to participate in this cutting-edge work.

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