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In mid-June, a little faster than the original plan, the Huaguo Nuclear Industry Construction Group used several times the manpower in three shifts to fill in the construction. The overall construction of the Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project was finally completed.

While it's still a long way from complete perfection, at least now, with a controlled fusion reactor in place, it can officially begin experiments.

Xu Chuan personally hosted the completion ribbon-cutting ceremony in formal attire, and saw those eyes expressing hope and expectation.

That is the desire for the strength of the motherland, and the hope and expectation for the completion of controllable nuclear fusion technology.

At the beginning of July, after experiencing the ups and downs and the long march, the ASDEX device that was dismantled and boxed officially arrived at the Yangtze River Port in Jinling from the Germanic country after a full three months.

300 million euros, calculated according to the current exchange rate, is a full 2.4 billion RMB.

Even for a controlled nuclear fusion project, this is a considerable sum.

But Xu Chuan knew that it was worth it. Although the ASDEX device has been decommissioned for two years, its performance parameters are still quite powerful in the world.

Especially for the water-cooled divertor, although the Germanic country has been updated, the water-cooled divertor deployed on it is still not available in other countries.

In addition, the Planck Institute of Plasma has upgraded it for a long time, as well as matching and adapting equipment, etc. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has cost more than one billion euros.

Calculated in this way, 300 million euros + high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material technology is exchanged for this complete equipment, which actually takes a lot of money.

If it weren't for the Planck Institute of Plasma Institute's urgent need to prove its strength on the stellarator and obtain more financial support, I am afraid that it would not be so easy to complete this transaction.

With the support and coordination of the Jinling government, the delivered ASDEX device was successfully delivered to the Qixia Mountain Controlled Fusion Engineering Base and placed in the core area.

Immediately, with the help of engineers arranged by the Planck Institute of Plasma, the disassembled parts and equipment quickly began to be assembled again.

After the equipment was transported to Huaguo and sent to the project base, the ASDEX device was officially renamed as the "break dawn" device, and the English name was "DAWN" device.

The name was given by Xu Chuan, implying that it will break through the dark clouds over the controllable nuclear fusion technology like the dawn. He has great hopes for the dawn device.

With the delivery of the fusion reactor device, Qixia's controllable nuclear fusion project has officially entered the next stage.

For controllable nuclear fusion technology, at present, Xu Chuan has three major pieces of the puzzle in his hands.

The first and most important piece of the puzzle is naturally the mathematical control model of "plasma turbulence", which is one of the cores of the entire controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Only by controlling the high-temperature and high-pressure plasma in the controllable nuclear fusion reactor chamber and allowing it to run stably in the chamber can a steady stream of electric energy be produced smoothly.

The second piece of the puzzle is the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material, which can provide a stable and powerful magnetic field to confine the plasma flow in the fusion reactor chamber.

And the powerful performance of the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material can make Poxiao more than double the restraint performance of the original ASDEX device.

The strong magnetic field can more stably maintain the stability of the plasma in the chamber.

Especially after he and academician Zhang Pingxiang optimized it at the end of last year, after adopting graphene whisker (fiber) toughening technology, the toughened side has better thermal conductivity.

This can better maintain the superconducting material below the superconducting critical temperature.

It should be known that when the current passes through the conductor, the greater the intensity, the greater the magnetic field, and the higher the temperature generated at any time.

When the temperature exceeds the critical Tc temperature of the superconducting material, it will cause the superconducting material to reverse from the superconducting state to the normal state, thereby losing the superconducting property.

Because how to stably maintain the temperature of the superconducting material below the Tc critical temperature while providing a strong magnetic field is also a headache.

The value of the thermal conductivity of high-temperature superconducting materials lies here. The better the thermal conductivity, the lower the area that needs to be in contact with liquid nitrogen and liquid helium to reduce the temperature.

Compared with the copper-carbon-silver composite material without optimization, its thermal conductivity is nearly doubled after being optimized with graphene whisker (fiber) toughening technology.

And this is reflected in the transformation of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, which can save at least one-third of the condensation area.

As for the third piece of the puzzle, it is the detection technology for the plasma turbulence in the chamber of the controlled nuclear fusion reactor.

Of course, this technology is still in a theoretical state at present, and it needs to wait for the dawn device to be assembled before conducting experiments.

However, in the first half of this year, Xu Chuan theoretically established a complete theoretical route for this set of technologies, and only waited for the dawn device to be completed before it could be tested.

While the 'Poxiao' fusion reactor was being assembled and transformed, on the other side, on Luyang Science Island, Chen Mingji, the general manager of the EAST project, was holding a tablet in his hand.

A news report is displayed on it.

"Planck Institute of Plasma Research and Huaguo complete the transaction of ASDEX device"

The news was delayed. The transaction between the two parties was officially reported by some media in the nuclear energy field after the ASDEX device had been delivered to the Qixia Mountain Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base.

Of course, this was what Xu Chuan requested.

He is worried that some other setbacks and pressures may be encountered before the transaction is completed.

For example, the European Union and NATO may come forward to block the deal after hearing about it.

For Xu Chuan and the Planck Institute of Plasma, this may be a happy deal, but for others, it may not be so.

After all, Huaguo is now at the forefront of the world in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. If it receives some technical support from the Planck Institute of Plasma, it may be completely reborn.

Except for Western countries such as the European Union and the United States, not everyone is happy in China.

For example, the two people in this office couldn't be happier.

After rejecting Peng Hongxi's request last time, Chen Mingji was preparing to turn on the EAST device again and refresh the tokamak's operating records as a way of saying that he told the higher-ups that the Luyang Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project he led was the first It is the most promising and possible route to realize controllable nuclear fusion engineering.

Including not renting the EAST device to Peng Hongxi, there are some such thoughts in it.

After all, at present, the EAST device in China can conduct ignition and operation experiments. Without EAST, even if you Xu Chuan is a Nobel Prize winner, you can’t conduct experiments out of thin air, right?

But if you make it yourself, even if you rush it, it will be impossible to complete it in two or three years.

After two or three years, EAST will achieve greater results, one step at a time, and he is going to keep pressing the other party in this way, and control the right to speak in the field of domestic controllable nuclear fusion.

What I didn't expect was that that person didn't play the cards according to the routine, and bought a piece of equipment directly from the German country.

This is something he didn't expect.

More importantly, it is even more unbelievable that the Planck Institute of Plasma Research actually agreed to this transaction request.

You must know that he flew to the Germanic country in person before, and wanted to use the domestic advanced ICRF heating technology in exchange for water-cooled divertor technology, but he was rejected by the other party without hesitation.

But that Professor Xu directly traded the entire ASDEX device.

Thinking of this, Chen Mingji felt more pampered.

On the other side, the assistant who sent the news smacked his lips, and said with an expression of envy or jealousy on his face:

"Academician Xu is really generous, 300 million euros, 2.4 billion nearly 2.5 billion RMB, just like that."

Putting down the tablet in his hand, Chen Mingji said expressionlessly: "It's not his own money, so why not be generous?"

The assistant smiled and said, "That's right, I don't feel sorry for selling my father's land. The country's funds are squandered like this. Two and a half billion yuan is not a small sum."

As a public official, to be honest, such things should not be said, or inappropriate.

Putting aside the fact that Huaguo took advantage of this transaction, it was Xu Chuan's own technology that was lost, even if the transaction suffered a little loss, in fact, it was so-called.

After all, along with the ASDEX device, there are still more advanced technologies such as water-cooled divertors from the Planck Institute of Plasma Research.

It can obviously make up for Huaguo's shortcomings in controllable nuclear fusion technology.

But in this office with only two people, it doesn't matter.

After all, there are no outsiders.

And Chen Mingji didn't speak after hearing this sentence.

After thinking for a while, he slowly said: "Since the other party bought the ASDEX device back, he will definitely not put it there. Check when he will start the ignition operation experiment, and we will be ready to start the operation experiment at the same time."

Hearing this, the assistant's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "When the experimental results are compared, we will naturally know which one is better."

"If we break the world record by then, and he can't even start a fire, it will be a big shame."

"And even if it can be ignited and run, the old ASDEX device will definitely not be able to run for a long time! I believe the country will also see it."

"At that time, we will still have the final say in the field of controllable nuclear fusion!"

Behind the desk, Chen Mingji didn't speak, but the slight curve of his mouth proved that he approved of what the assistant said.

An old ASDEX device, even if it can barely ignite the experiment, how long can it run?

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