Great Country Academician

In the Cadarache area, under the headquarters building of the ITER fusion reactor.

Just after the meeting, Chen Mingji walked out of the building and looked back at the not-so-high headquarters building, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face.

Two or three hours ago, an ITER council meeting was held here.

The ITER Council is the highest decision-making body of the International Fusion Energy Program and is composed of representatives from seven member states.

Similar to CERN, there are actually two types of ITER council representatives, one is technical and the other is political.

Today's meeting, the results are not very optimistic.

Chen Mingji, as a representative of ITER and the director of our International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center, should have been the main force in the past.

But at today's meeting, he barely spoke.

Of course, today's meeting is not actually a technical matter

However, in today's meeting, the tough attitude of some people made him feel a little worried.

Turning around, Chen Mingji glanced at the representatives beside him, and asked tentatively, "Director Xu, what do you mean by the country of America?"

Hearing the question, Xu Moling who was walking beside him turned his head and glanced at Chen Mingji.

Although this academician Chen and that academician Xu have some conflicts, he is also an academician after all, and he is also a leader in the field of controllable nuclear fusion in China, and has dedicated his life to the country.

Smiling, he said, "It's nothing more than being jealous of the technology in the hands of Academician Xu. Our Dawn fusion device has achieved a 45-minute running time and created new brilliance. It is at the forefront of the world. They want to use ITER to threaten We hand over the technology."

Hearing this, Chen Mingji continued to ask: "Then what should we do?"

Hand over technology? Even he knew it was impossible.

He had a conflict with Xu Chuan, but that was his own business behind closed doors, and he could just resolve it internally.

To the outside world, no matter how you say it, they belong to the same country and family.

It is impossible to make it public, unless technology is exchanged for technology.

Xu Mo smiled negatively and said, "There's no need to do anything for now, just delay."

After a pause, he glanced at Chen Mingji, and then said: "We can't let go on technical issues. Whether it's high-temperature superconducting materials or plasma turbulent numerical control models, they are all the private property of Academician Xu. Unless Academician Xu is willing, otherwise the country would not be able to, and would not do technology exchange, let alone free disclosure.”

With this sentence, he not only expressed the high-level position, but also indirectly reminded Academician Chen in front of him not to think about other things.

After all, high-temperature superconducting materials and numerical control models are very important for controllable nuclear fusion. If they are really traded, they can definitely be exchanged for a lot of good things.

The EAST project in Luyang is linked to the ITER nationality cooperation project. If the technology is exchanged through ITER, Luyang will definitely receive part of the benefits.

In this meeting, almost the whole process was negotiated by them who are engaged in diplomacy, and they were also concerned about this aspect.

Chen Mingji nodded, fell silent for a while and did not speak again.

To be honest, none of these things had anything to do with him.

What he worries about is that those Western countries may take advantage of this to kick them out of ITER.

Although the other party doesn't have this intention now, they won't know later.

Frustrated and angry, those people headed by Mi Guo did not do such a thing.

Even some original agreements, or those ongoing transactions, may be cut off.

Controllable nuclear fusion is a big pie that can fill everyone's stomachs. Even if they can't eat it now, they are excited enough to see hope.

To be honest, Chen Mingji really didn't want to come to this point.

Regardless of the domestic controllable nuclear fusion being at the forefront of the world, if we put aside the achievements of the dawn device, even including the dawn, it is actually following the track that has already been walked.

Even the fusion devices are actually bought and traded from other countries.

The EAST in Luyang was transformed from the HT-7 bought back from the Soviet Union; They are all bought.

It may seem brilliant, but in fact, Huaguo has been studying such a large-scale systematic project as controllable nuclear fusion for too short a time. Currently, Huaguo does not have a controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor built entirely by itself.

Regardless of the fact that EAST has accumulated some experience, even the break dawn ran for 45 minutes, setting a new record.

But in a large-scale scientific research project like controlled fusion that involves many disciplines, how to conduct follow-up research and what to do next is far more critical and important than what has been done.

In this regard, both Europe and the United States have actually gone further than them.

At this point in time, cutting off communication with them is actually not a good thing in his opinion.

It's just that the above has already made a decision, and he can't change anything.

Skills are not as good as people, and it is clear at a glance whether the 450-second run or the 45-minute run is more important.

I just hope such a bad thing doesn't happen.

Sighing inwardly, Chen Mingji sank some thoughts and suggestions into his heart.

Because of the previous incident, he and that Academician Xu were already in a very stiff quarrel. If some ideas were raised in this meeting, there would really be no room for relaxation.

On the other side, in Jinling, Xu Chuan is not very clear about what happened at ITER.

During this period of time, he didn't go to Qixia Controllable Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base very much, and basically perfected some theories at home on the magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands that would occur during the deuterium-tritium fusion process of the tokamak device.

Of course, only some ideas are theoretically perfect, and the specific reality needs to be analyzed and processed according to the experimental data after the deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation of the Lixiao fusion device is actually turned on.

But to be honest, what Chen Mingji was thinking was theoretically not a problem.

Huaguo started too late in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. Although it has reached the forefront, it is still in a catch-up position.

But that is for other people. For him, when it comes to the future development trend of controlled nuclear fusion and how to carry out follow-up research, I am afraid that the whole world cannot be worth it alone.

No matter how talented a researcher or a team is, it is impossible to predict how controllable nuclear fusion will develop more than ten years later, and those routes and research methods are wrong.

But Xu Chuan can, he was reborn with a time difference.

In this future time, how will controllable nuclear fusion develop, where there are problems, which route is feasible in the future, and which route is not feasible, not to mention all, at least most of them are clear to him of.

Therefore, from his point of view, even if Huaguo left ITER, there is actually no big problem.

After all, from the very beginning, the Qixiashan Nuclear Fusion Project was a completely independent project and never relied on ITER's technology.

Of course, it is impossible for Chen Mingji to know these things, so from his point of view, there is nothing wrong with it.

It can only be said that no one would have thought that a reborn person would appear in this field.

As time passed, the days gradually came to the beginning of December.

After returning from the villa to the Qixia Mountain base, Xu Chuan also got busy. The transformation of the Lixiao fusion device is coming to an end, and the optimization of the plasma turbulence numerical control model has already been completed with the support of the Academy of Sciences.

The time for the second restart of the Daybreak fusion device is just around the corner, and related matters require him to preside over the overall situation.

Finally, a week later, the transformation of the Dawn fusion device was completely completed.

The rest is the corresponding inspection.

It sounds simple, but it is necessary to complete the inspection of all equipment in a targeted manner, especially when the deuterium-tritium raw material fusion ignition operation process is added this time, the inspection takes more time than before.

After all, the fusion ignition of deuterium-tritium raw materials is not a joke. If one does not pay attention, it will be a major safety accident.

Moreover, when the deuterium-tritium raw material is actually fused, it will produce neutron irradiation. Although it is impossible to inject a large amount of raw material in the first run experiment, at most a milligram, the energy released by fusion is far greater than that of nuclear fission.

Although both the Lixiao fusion device and the project base have taken comprehensive countermeasures, this is the first time such an experiment has been started. No one can guarantee whether the process will go smoothly and the results will meet expectations.

After spending five days, the engineers and researchers of the dawn fusion device finally completed the relevant equipment inspection.

Standing in the main control room, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the behemoth in the core test area through the monitoring screen.

In this experiment, there are a total of two goals.

The first goal is to advance the running time of the high-density plasma simulated by Helium III and hydrogen to at least one hundred minutes.

The second goal is to run at least one deuterium-tritium feedstock fusion ignition experiment.

The former is to continue to complete the long-running control experiment in a targeted manner, while the latter is to collect experimental data and solve problems such as magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands generated during deuterium-tritium fusion.

As for the damage to the first wall material by the neutron irradiation produced by the deuterium-tritium raw material during the fusion process, although it is also in the data collection of this experiment, the priority of solving this problem is not in this experiment.

After all, if you can't even run the plasma for a long time, it doesn't make much sense to solve the problem of neutron irradiation in the fusion process.

With the completion of the preparations, Xu Chuan gave the order to start the experiment at 9:30 in the morning.

At the same time, under the control of many staff members, the Daybreak fusion device sleeping in the core experiment area roared again.

PS: There is another chapter in the evening, asking for a monthly pass.

In the last chapter, there was some error in the time calculation, and my brain was a little twitched. One month after the end of October is December, and I ignored the whole of December (QAQ), sorry.