Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Controlled nuclear fusion?!

That sounds like a really interesting topic.

Upon hearing Professor Clearing mention of the matter, the Ark immediately aroused a keen interest.

“May I come in and visit? ”

Professor Clearing smiled and said happily, "If you're interested, of course. ”

Following Professor Clearing's footsteps, the ark stepped inside the building.

Originally he thought this was a place with a high level of confidentiality, so Professor Cleveland just brushed his work card on the door control and took him in easily.

Noticing the ark's confused gaze, Professor Clearing laughed and said, "There's nothing to keep secret about, and you can even retrieve it from the Stone Library database. As far as access control is concerned, it is mainly to prevent casual persons from entering, and security problems in Berlin have recently been serious. ”

The ark jokes. “I thought it was something classified. ”

Professor Cleveland laughed, “Confidential? Don't worry, I can't even go in there myself. ”

Contrary to most terrestrial conspiracy theories literally described around nuclear fusion technology, most of the results of cooperative research by States in the field of controlled nuclear fusion are largely public, although there are also small stoves for private work.

Under the ITER agreement signed in Paris in November 06, national research teams report on the latest research progress at each International Conference on Fusion Energy.

The reasons for cooperating in research are simple.

Because the difficulty of this project extends far beyond all the scientific projects that have occurred in history, such as the Manhattan Project, the Human Genome Project and the Apollo Project, and the ultimate realization of controllable nuclear fusion technology cannot be accomplished alone by a country's scientific capabilities.

In this context, the benefits of closed-door car construction are far less than those of active participation in and ownership of the ITER programme.

For example, the all-conductor Tokamak (EAST), built by China, plays a key role in the ITER program.

As for the distribution of benefits after the success of the project, that was another game. Now we can't even see the shadow of solving the immediate problems, let alone the problems that follow.

In fact, neither Tokamak nor the design of the imitator are theoretically special secrets, and that is why Professor Clearing was able to bring the ark in for a tour.

The only part involving confidentiality, at best, is the laser fusion block for “ignition”.

Since one of the main functions of laser fusion is the simulation of hydrogen bomb explosions, ITER plans are, in principle, also played by countries outside the NPT.

However, with regard to this part of the study, it is clear that it is not visible here that confidential research is naturally carried out in a place of confidentiality.

Following Professor Clearing all the way to the core of the building, looking at the strangely shaped object in the middle of the open space, the ark couldn't help but mourn: “This thing is like a hemp. ”

The analogy of the hemp may not be enough, and the hemp has to be screwed into a circle that seamlessly joins the beginning and tail.

In terms of geometry, a Mobius ring is continuously transformed in three-dimensional space.

In this coil-wrapped circular orbit, the plasma can operate stably, relying entirely on the constraints of the outer field.

In contrast, the Tokamak device opposite the emulator is coupled with a magnetic field generated by the plasma current, relying on the external magnetic field. If plasma is disturbed or destabilized by an unknown physical phenomenon, the entire system runs the risk of collapse.

There is also a theory that the continuous ignition of the simulator is easier to control than the pulse ignition of the Tokamak device.

But while there are so many advantages to a copycat, there is a fatal disadvantage: the requirements for the processing process are extremely demanding, and the entire equipment is incredibly complex.

Even if the orbit in front of the ship seems complicated enough for the ship, this is only one of the parts above for the entire nuclear fusion unit. In addition to Germany, I'm afraid there are only a handful of countries that can process this part alone.

And this is one of the reasons why the Chinese state presses all the chips on the Tokamak device on the choice of technology route.

Professor Clearing joked, “Really? I feel more like a creamed doughnut. ”

The Ark unexpectedly looked at the old man and didn't expect him to understand the word "hemp".

“This is the plasma running trajectory that was replaced from the helix 7-X," said Professor Clearing, looking at the device in front of him, "as for the complete body of the helix 7-X, in the eastern city of Graveswald. If you're interested, when the report is over, I can take you there sometime, and there's a similar experiment going on right now. ”

The ark laughed and said, "Really? Then I can remember that. ”

If that is the case, it is indeed an opportunity not to be missed.

While controllable nuclear fusion was outside his field of study, he was still interested in something that usually existed only in large science fiction films.

However, no matter how interesting the research project is, it is no more important than what is currently being done.

After a tour of the Berlin Maple Laboratory, the Ark returned to the Bernitz Hotel and began to prepare for the forthcoming report.

As such, the day passes, and it soon reaches the day when the report begins.

As originally planned, the report will be held at the University of Humboldt.

Early Saturday morning, the ark deliberately woke up in a morning bed and arrived at the debriefing site an hour earlier.

By the time he arrived at the venue, the entire venue had almost been fully seated, and the head of the dense and numb glanced over into pieces.

In a position of academic openness, the Maple Society, which hosted the presentation, did not restrict the qualifications of entrants, but only assigned seating numbers to those who were determined to attend the presentation, so not only scholars who had been following the presentation a long time ago, but also doctors and masters from Berlin universities and research institutes, came together.

Less than half an hour before the report, many people even sat in the corridor.

This presentation has been expected by the theoretical chemistry community for a full two months.

Is this a beautiful misunderstanding or does it mean new chemistry...

Everyone stared closely at the big screen behind the podium and waited to witness this historic moment.

Next to the podium, President Strahman looked at the tense seats in the hall and instructed the staff to move some spare chairs to the adjacent conference room and put them behind the hall.

After doing this, he threw his gaze at the ark, which was copying data to the multimedia desk.

“How's it going? ”

The ark was easy to say: "Basically OK. ”

“Come on," put a thumb up on the ark, and Chairman Strahman didn't say anything superfluous, just simply sending his blessing, "I hope we can all witness history today. ”

Smiling confidently, the ark gently trimmed the tie in front of his chest.

“That's for sure. ”