Great Country Academician

After chatting with Peng Hongxi about issues related to controllable nuclear fusion, Xu Chuan did not stay here for long at Qixia Mountain.

It will take some time for the follow-up transformation of the dawn fusion device and related experiments.

Optimization of the software including water-cooled divertor hardware and NC modeling software for plasma turbulence can be left to others.

With some experimental data, Xu Chuan returned to the villa.

After taking a hot bath in the bathroom to wash off the cold, he made a cup of tea and came to the study.

In front of the computer, Xu Chuan sorted out the data first, and then began to write the paper.

The dawn fusion device achieved 45 minutes of high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation, breaking history in one fell swoop and creating a new world record, which is naturally worthy of publication.

As a phased achievement, its achievements are completely sufficient to be published in top journals such as "Science" and "Nature".

This is not only the credit of him alone, but also the credit of everyone in the entire Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project.

For those who have made significant contributions to the Daybreak fusion operation project, a paper authorship in a top journal such as "Science" or "Nature" is also a reward they should reap.

With complete data and materials, it is not difficult for Xu Chuan to write a paper.

The only thing to pay attention to is that some things that need to be kept secret can not be written, such as key methods, transformation techniques and the like.

As for the data, there is no problem in publishing the experimental data of controlled nuclear fusion.

This thing is not like materials or other things. It is published, and you can only watch helplessly, not knowing how the other party made it.

After checking the paper and confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, and that the names of researchers and engineers who could be signed after the discussion were not missed, Xu Chuan thought for a while, clicked on the mailbox, and submitted it to "Science", and uploaded it to the Arxiv preprint by the way on the website.

For other scholars, especially Huaguo scholars, it is not an easy task to submit papers to the world's top journals like "Science", but for Xu Chuan, it couldn't be easier.

Apart from other things, his name is a guarantee. The honor brought by the Nobel Prize + Fields Medal winner makes him submit a manuscript to any journal, which is enough for the review editor to take it seriously.

As for throwing it on Arxiv, that is a personal habit.

Compared with professional journals, preprint websites such as arxiv do not have a long review time and threshold, and can let others see their papers and ideas in the first place to avoid problems such as stolen manuscripts.

After processing the paper, Xu Chuan clicked on the webpage.

During this period of time, because the dawn fusion was too busy with work, he didn't surf the Internet much, and he didn't accept interviews from news media reporters. Even if the dawn fusion reactor made a 45-minute running time, he was not the one who was interviewed by the outside world. It was Peng Hongxi.

But because he doesn't go out, it doesn't mean that media reporters are not interested in him.

Since he won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in succession in 2018, both domestic and foreign media have been very interested in him and have been chasing his footsteps.

And he lived up to expectations, and he has produced something almost every year in recent years.

From the reuse of nuclear waste, to the lithium dendrite problem and high-temperature superconducting materials, to the NS equation, in more than three years, his achievements every year will attract the attention of many media reporters.

Especially this time, the breaking through the 45-minute high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation of the Poxiao fusion device has aroused heated discussions in the field of nuclear fusion and on the Internet.

[Forty-five minutes! Hiss~ Chuan Shen is awesome! 】

[Suddenly remembered the 450 seconds reported a few days ago! In conversion, it is seven and a half minutes, a full six times difference! Laughing to death, the old man also said that the fusion reactor of Chuan Shen was successful if it runs for more than 20 seconds, isn't it a slap in the face? 】

[Awesome! Forty-five minutes! How far are we from controlled nuclear fusion? 】

[The important thing is not how far away. Rather it has to be the florist lit first. Hydrogen fusion, helium fusion, and even silicon fusion in the end, all need to be ignited here! The first degree of fusion power generation must be sent out on this red land! ! 】

[Splashing cold water, forty-five minutes is a high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation simulated by helium three and hydrogen, not a real deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation, and there are still many problems to be solved later. 】

[The tokamak device is a dead end! The problem of tearing the magnetic surface during deuterium-tritium fusion cannot be solved at all! If it can be solved, the United States will not give up magnetic confinement to study inertial confinement, and Europe will not give up tokamak to study stellarator. 】

[May I ask what degree is upstairs? Your old man knows better than Chuan Shen, why don't you make it yourself? 】

[Le, when I read the first sentence, when the magnetic surface was torn, I thought you were knowledgeable. After all, tokamaks do have this problem, but after reading the second sentence, I know what kind of guy you are. 】

After simply reading a few domestic news reports, Xu Chuan turned his attention to the international media.

The domestic reports are actually not very interesting, and most of the media, according to the usual practice, report good news but not bad news.

Of course, this time is indeed good news.

As for foreign countries, it may be different.

The 45-minute operation results of the Poxiao fusion device is a blockbuster for the field of controllable nuclear fusion, and it will comprehensively enhance the confidence and expectation of the world in controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Especially at this point in time, it should be the darkest moment for controllable fusion technology.

Whether it is magnetic confinement or inertial confinement, they are currently in a dilemma.

Even the international thermonuclear fusion ITER, which is an international cooperation, is constantly delaying the construction and ignition time due to funding problems.

Not only that, some time ago, it was reported that the United States will withdraw from ITER.

It was naturally the cool-haired Mr. President who made the decision.

For him, quitting ITER is not a big deal, because since he took office, he has been quitting group chats in various ways.

In the first year of his tenure in 2017, he withdrew from the four major group chats of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, UNESCO, and the Global Migration Agreement.

Up to now, there have been more than a dozen different international group chats that have been withdrawn one after another. Now it is not a big deal to withdraw another ITER.

However, this is not a good thing for ITER in the field of controlled nuclear fusion and international cooperation.

After all, the United States is still one of the countries that has gone the farthest in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. If it even withdraws, ITER may soon fall apart.

However, at a time when the future of the entire controllable fusion industry can be described as gloomy, the 45-minute operation results of the Lixiao fusion device have brought a new dawn to the industry.

Of course, this will definitely stimulate the sensitive nerves of some countries.

Especially when this achievement first appeared on the land under their feet, rather than those Western countries that think they are more advanced, the attitude of the entire Western country is worth waiting and watching.

It is not impossible to even take some targeted actions.

So compared to these comments on the Internet, Xu Chuan wants to know the practices and opinions of those Western countries after this incident is announced.

Here, while Xu Chuan was reading news reports

The other side of the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

A targeted investigation is also underway.

Dan Brouillette, the new head of the U.S. Department of Energy, is in his office flipping through the papers he just printed out from the arxiv preprint website.

It was Xu Chuan's manuscript that had been uploaded for less than half an hour.

In addition, there is a thick stack of letters and various investigation reports on his desk.

Compared with the paper in his hand, these letters and investigation reports have been piled up on his desk for several days.

It has to be said that the forty-five-minute running time of the dawn fusion device has indeed touched some people's nerves.

In the field of controllable nuclear fusion, although the United States is not the founder, after the fall of Hongsu, they have always been at the forefront of the country.

In this field, however, their road ahead has not been as smooth as in other fields.

Whether it is inertial or magnetic confinement, there is no big breakthrough.

Especially in 2012, after the laser ignition of the US National Ignition Facility NIF failed, the budget that could be applied for by the controllable nuclear fusion project fell all the way to the bottom.

If it weren't for NIF's role in the development of nuclear weapons, it is estimated that the relevant scientific research funds would have ceased to be available long ago.

Flipping through the papers in his hand, the newly appointed head of the energy department, who had been in office for less than a year, threw the papers in his hands on the table, pinched the bridge of his nose with some headaches, and muttered curses in his mouth.

"What a bunch of trash!"

Brouillette is very clear about the importance of the technology of controlled nuclear fusion.

Of course, he also knows how bad this technology is.

Whether it is the United States, the former Hongsu, or their superficial ally the European Union, they have all fallen into the abyss on this road, stumbled all the way forward, and are still trying to figure out how to maintain the operation for more than ten or twenty seconds.

However, at this moment, the running time of forty-five minutes suddenly broke out in the country opposite under his feet, how can this not cause headaches.

That was forty-five minutes, not forty-five seconds!

And more importantly, these 45 minutes were achieved on the Tokamak line.

Does this mean that the red eastern country is not far away from this technology now?

If so, how should they counter it?

Didn't it mean that the so-called dawn was difficult even for twenty seconds?

Why did it suddenly become forty-five minutes?

Thinking of this, Bruyette couldn't help cursing again.

"A bunch of liars!"

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