Great Country Academician

On the other side, Huaguo, Jinling.

In a secluded villa at the foot of Zijin Mountain, warm yellow light shines through the glass windows.

The guard who was patrolling outside looked up at the window, which was still lit in the wee hours of the morning, and walked silently to the other side.

In the study room, Xu Chuan was prostrate in front of the table, waving the black signature pen in his hand vigorously.

The Breaking Dawn fusion device broke the operating record of controllable nuclear fusion and created a brilliant result of forty-five minutes. It is true, but this almost consumed the first batch of scientific research funds.

If it is not for the purchase of the old ASDEX device, the money is paid in installments. If it is not for the transformation of Lixiao's high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material, it is produced by Western Superconductor Group itself.

I'm afraid that the Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project can't even pay the salaries of researchers and engineers.

Fortunately, the results are gratifying.

Forty-five minutes of high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation time is enough for him to write a letter to ask for a new batch of scientific research funds.

While Xu Chuan was busy writing letters late at night asking for funds, on the other side, the German Planck Institute for Plasma Research, the Helix 7X located in the northern city of Greifswald, was slowly shutting down.

Stimulated by the 45-minute high-density plasma magnetic confinement running time of the dawn fusion device, the Planck Institute of Plasma Research finally became urgent.

After paying a lot of overtime wages, they finally let those researchers and engineers who were unwilling to work overtime work overtime to complete the transformation of the Spiral Stone 7X ahead of schedule, shortening the two weeks to one week.

This time, under the leadership of Professor Tillman Lunt, the Heliconite 7X, which was modified with high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, completed the operation experiment.

Looking through the monitoring screen, the middle-aged supervisor Robert Mike, who was standing in the main control room, was locked on the equipment that was gradually stopping. He looked at Tillman Lunt who was beside him.

"How's the result?"

Tillman Lunt looked at the various parameters on the control screen, took a deep breath, and said slowly, "Our earliest expectations have been met."

After a slight pause, he continued, "But it's still a little short of the forty-five minutes created by that Professor Xu."

Robert Mac frowned and asked, "How much is the difference?"

"Fifteen minutes." Tillman looked at the data on the master control screen and shook his head.

If it was a month, no, half a month ago, Spiral Stone 7X set this record, it would definitely be an extremely exciting thing.

Half an hour of running time, this can not only hold a press conference as a great phased result, and report it in the newspapers, they can also continue to ask for more scientific research funds from the top management and the European Union.

But now, this data can no longer make people excited.

The forty-five-minute jewel of the dawn fusion device is in front of it, and the half-hour running time of the spiral stone 7X seems a bit small.

After all, everyone knows that stellarators have a natural advantage in controlling the operation of high-temperature plasma.

Now after replacing the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material as the outer field coil, they still have a gap of more than ten minutes with each other.

Ten minutes sounds short, but in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, this is already a big gap.

After all, a few months ago, the record-setting EAST was only seven and a half minutes into the run.

Other research institutes are still pursuing results in seconds.

Fifteen minutes, which is equivalent to two EAST.

Of course, the running time in the field of controllable nuclear fusion cannot be calculated in this way. Even if two EASTs are combined together, it is impossible to break through fifteen minutes.

Even, the combination of EAST+Spiralstone 7X may not be able to beat the 'Breaking Dawn' bought from them.

Aside, Robert Mac frowned and asked, "Why is there such a big difference?"

Compared with the former funder who provided funds in the office, that is, the people from the energy department, he, who is also at the Planck Institute of Plasma Research, has a much better attitude towards Tillman Lunt.

After all, the two have worked together for many years.

As for the previous ASDEX device, he couldn't help it.

It wasn't just Tillman Lunt who was responsible for that incident. As a supervisor, he was also under considerable pressure.

After all, the equipment sold from them achieved miraculous results, and it was a major job error anyway.

Tillman was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm afraid there is only one problem now."

"that aspect?"

Tillman sighed, and continued: "The control model of the plasma flow in the reactor chamber."

After a pause, he added: "To be honest, apart from this, I can't think of anything else that can widen such a big gap."

"The performance of the Helix 7X, after using the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material provided by Professor Xu, is definitely better than that of the Poxiao. I firmly believe in this!"

"After all, you and I are very aware of the performance of the ASDEX device. Even if that Professor Xu modifies it, it is impossible to surpass us in a short time."

"In this case, the only thing that can provide additional assistance is the control model of plasma turbulence, which happens to be what we lack."

As he spoke, he sighed: "No wonder that Professor Xu doesn't care about the high-temperature superconducting material technology transaction in his hands."

He didn't finish the sentence, but Robert Mac knew what it meant.

Because compared with high-temperature superconducting materials, the control of plasma turbulence is the real key.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "Aren't you familiar with that Professor Xu? Is there a way to get the model in his hand? Buy it or use other means?"

Tillman smiled wryly, and said, "Will you sell this crucial weapon to others? As for other methods, this is not something I need to consider. You can decide for yourself."

After thinking about it, Robert said: "What if the trade is based on the water-cooled divertor technology on the Helix 7X?"

Hearing this, Tillman Lunt glanced at the old man beside him in surprise, and said, "Are you sure? This is our real lifeblood?"

Compared with the first-generation technology on the old ASDEX device, the water-cooled divertor on the Helix 7X is the real complete body.

If the performance of the previous generation is one, then the latest technology of Helix is ​​at least twenty. The gap is so big that it is hard for outsiders to imagine.

This can be said to be the real pinnacle technology of the Planck Institute for Plasma Research.

Robert Mac was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "What if it's for survival?"

"The experiment led by Daybreak has reached forty-five minutes. This achievement is believed to attract a lot of funds to invest in the tokamak route."

"If our stellarator can't keep up, I'm afraid it will be eliminated soon."

"Even if it is not eliminated, it will be slowly dusted due to lack of scientific research funds. As for when it will be restarted, it may be a few years, or it may be more than ten years, or even longer or never."

"Would you like to see your life's painstaking efforts end like this?"

"At least, I don't want to."

Listening to Robert Mac's words, Tillman Lunt fell silent.

Yeah, Helix 7X is their brainchild.

He has been researching this since WEGA, counting the time, more than ten years have passed.

Compared with the tokamak, the stellarator does have its own unique advantages, which is why he firmly believes that the stellarator can achieve controllable nuclear fusion

If the curtain ends like this, he won't be reconciled.

It's just that the initiative is no longer in their hands.

In all fairness, if it were him, would he use the control model of plasma turbulence to trade the water-cooled divertor of Helix 7X?

If asked to answer, his answer is: "No."

He doesn't want to lie to himself.

Although such facts are helpless, facts are facts.

Just as they could have stuck each other's necks before refusing to trade ICRF heating technology for water-cooled divertor technology.

Now, it's the opponent's turn.

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