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After reading the contents of the letter, as well as the experimental arrangements and plans attached at the end, and the corresponding funding demand form, Qin Anguo returned the letter to the old man.

The old man took the letter paper, folded it, put it in his pocket, and asked, "What do you think?"

Qin Anguo thought about it for a while, and said cautiously: "If the technology of controllable nuclear fusion can really be realized, I think it is necessary for us to strongly support the development of this technology."

The old man nodded. This view is the same as that of almost all the experts and professors he consulted in the past two days.

Compared with controlled nuclear fission technology, controlled nuclear fusion can bring more things.

Energy, materials, and information are the three pillars of modern society.

But if we want to go deeper, energy is the only core.

Just like oil, do you know how many conflicts have occurred around it, and the turmoil in the Middle East is almost all caused by oil.

Moreover, if the energy can be resolved, the material and information are poor, but it doesn't really matter much.

If the energy source can be solved, big horses and small cars can turn all parts of the motherland into livable areas, not only the inland, but also the South China Sea; even the moon above the head can establish a living base.

After thinking for a while, the old man continued, "Since Academician Xu is sure, we need to do a good job in logistics."

"Be prepared for the science and technology department, whether it is scientific research personnel or technical aspects, you must do a good job in supporting work."

Hearing this sentence, Qin Anguo's eyes moved slightly, and he replied quickly and respectfully: "Yes, I understand. I will make preparations here."

The old man nodded and continued, "There is one more thing."

"About ITER, I have received news that ITER will hold a targeted meeting in Cadarashe a week later. The United States may unite with other member states to target the high-temperature superconducting materials and NC model of plasma turbulence to make a charge."

"They feel that we have acquired enough technology from ITER, but have not provided ITER with high-temperature superconducting materials and mathematical models as publicly agreed."

Hearing this, Qin Anguo frowned, and couldn't help saying: "This is simply nonsense!"

Not to mention that the Qixia controllable nuclear fusion project is not linked to the ITER project, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

It is enough to refute that the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material and the numerical control model of plasma turbulence were developed by Academician Xu, and they are not within the scope of ITER's agreement at all.

And if this is the case, which of the countries in ITER that are researching controllable nuclear fusion does not have its own independent project?

Others don't say, how many did the United States make?

There are several devices for inertial restraint and laser ignition alone.

In addition, there are magnetic confinement routes such as tokamak devices, stellarator devices, ball beds, and anti-field tightening hoops. Almost every possible route has been taken by the United States.

There are so many routes, but I have never seen how much technology the United States has provided to ITER.

Not only is there no technology, but the United States has not even provided scientific research funds to ITER as agreed by everyone.

Over the years, the United States has not paid the fees that should have been paid in time.

I really don't know what face it has to bring this rhythm.

But then again, they didn't do this kind of thing once or twice.

If you want to add a crime, why worry about it?

On the opposite side, looking at the somewhat angry Qin Anguo, the old man smiled and said, "Academician Xu traded his own technology from Germany to bring back the dawn device. For such a patriotic scholar, we must not let him be wronged. "

Qin Anguo nodded and said, "Well, don't worry, I will handle this matter well."

With the high-level reply, there is also a special scientific research fund of 20 billion.

The funds arrived, and the research funds, which had already bottomed out, were filled again.

In addition to the research funding, Xu Chuan was a little surprised that the Science and Technology Department also organized a group of people to come to the Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base.

On the one hand, it is to help improve the progress of the controllable nuclear fusion project.

After all, compared with the newly recruited researchers and engineers in Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project, behind this team is the entire Academy of Sciences.

For some problems that seem difficult here, there may be suitable solutions in the Academy of Sciences, and at worst there are related experiences or discussions.

Although it is not to say that the scholars of the entire Academy of Sciences are revolving around the Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Project, it has to be said that with the support of such a team, the transformation of the dawn fusion device and the optimization speed of the plasma turbulence control model have all been supported. a great improvement.

Originally, it took about one and a half months for optimization and adjustment. With sufficient scientific research funds in place and the support from the science and technology department, the time is predicted to be shortened to about one month.

It's the end of October now, and in one month's time, it will be New Year's Day in 21.

After confirming the operation of the entire project from Peng Hongxi, Xu Chuan plans to schedule the second operation of the Poxiao fusion device on December 31, 2020.

This run is not just a simulation of high-density plasma using helium three and hydrogen. If it is confirmed that the modified dawn fusion device and mathematical model can achieve the expected results, he will even conduct a real deuterium-tritium raw material ignition fusion.

And this will be the first time in the field of controllable nuclear fusion in Huaguo to use deuterium-tritium raw materials for real experiments!

If all goes well, on the New Year's Day of the 21st, Huaguo's controllable nuclear fusion field will usher in a new good news.

As for the other aspect of arranging a scientific research team to come over, it is the conversion of technology.

Controllable nuclear fusion is a super project involving multiple disciplines such as physics, engineering, and materials science.

In the process of this engineering research experiment, various technologies will be born, such as the manipulation of magnetic fields, the research of high-energy particles, radiation protection and other things.

Putting these technologies into controllable nuclear fusion is only a module, but taken out separately, it can also be applied to other fields.

Just like the large-scale strong particle collider built by CERN, various technologies such as beam instruments and systems, superconducting magnet technology, and ultra-low temperature cooling technology were born during the construction of LHC.

The results of this kind of systematic and huge project are quite precious even to Huaguo.

Arranging a scientific research team to come over also meant to assist Xu Chuan in sorting out things in this area.

When Xu Chuan was busy with his work and planned to restart the second dawn device.

On the other hand, in Europe, a targeted meeting is about to be held in the Cadarache region near Marseille in southern France.

The Cadarache region is another large nuclear energy research center in Europe, currently second only to CERN.

The reason is that there is ITER, the largest "artificial sun" project in history.

In order to verify and realize the feasibility of nuclear fusion energy, a total of 35 countries around the world jointly participated in the creation of the Cadarache nuclear fusion project.

But this kind of international large-scale projects generally have ill-fated fate.

ITER is no exception.

In recent years, there has been almost no progress in the exploration of controllable nuclear fusion. The operation control of high-temperature plasma has been unable to break through the second level, which has brought the research and development of controllable nuclear fusion to a deadlock.

Participating countries and member states are also reducing investment in the project, reducing support for funding and scientific research personnel.

Especially the United States, once withdrew from the ITER project. Although it was added back later, under the leadership of that person in recent years, it has the idea of ​​​​withdrawing from the group.

However, today's meeting was not about the withdrawal of the United States from ITER.

On the contrary, the United States, which has been hesitant to withdraw from the group, not only did not withdraw this time, it even wanted to use ITER to put pressure on another country, forcing it to hand over technology that has nothing to do with the ITER project.

Regarding this situation, except for the countries that have been pressured, several other member states of ITER almost hold the idea of ​​watching and supporting.

After all, judging from the recent performance of the Dawn fusion device and Helix 7X, the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material and the control model of the Dawn fusion device played a very important role in the entire experiment process.

If the other party can be forced to hand over these two technologies, these member states of ITER can gain huge benefits.

Of course, no country is stupid. In this kind of matter, since the United States is willing to be the first bird, let it stand up first.

If there is hope, they will follow along.

If not, forget it.

In fact, every country knows that the so-called high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material and the numerical control model of plasma turbulence have nothing to do with ITER.

Even, these two have nothing to do with Huaguo's participation in ITER's Luyang Fusion Project.

These two technologies were developed by the famous Professor Xu himself.

Instead of standing in line prematurely and following the United States to publicly stand up to others, it is better to watch a movie.

After all, that Professor Xu's temper is not so easy to provoke.

In the past two years, South Korea had provoked him because of a media newspaper, but he was almost lost the patent authorization of the artificial SEI film because of the retaliation.

Annoyed the other party, it is not impossible for that person to directly reject the transaction of all ITER member states to purchase high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials.

Even the deal that has been negotiated by CERN may be dragged down.

So compared to Sakura Country, which is planning to go with the United States, Europe has nothing to say at the moment, at least not until it sees hope.

After all, if there is no hope of using ITER to obtain these two technologies, Europe will still choose to buy or trade a batch of high-temperature superconducting materials from Professor Xu.

Because compared with other countries, the EU is more eager to achieve energy freedom.

In oil and gas, they have been held hostage by Tsarist Russia for far too long.

Of course, if there is hope to use ITER to obtain these two technologies, they will not hesitate to join in for a share.