Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

As the paper drifted across Haiti to Professor Kreber's mailbox, a very serious meeting was taking place in the conference room at the Spiral 7-X Laboratory.

Sitting here are bulls like Professor Ganser Hessinger, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Maple Society, heads of the Heimholtz Federation, and visiting scholars from ITER engineering participants such as the PPPL Laboratory, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IEAR) and the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

If Professor Razelson had not resigned from PPPL, he would have been the one sitting here at this moment. The status of the “HE3 Project Team” has also risen to a high level by now, owing to the increasing importance of the HE-3 atomic probe technology in plasma observation.

But now, it's not Lazerson sitting here, it's his assistant, LaVerne Boucher, a doctor in his thirties. Sitting next to a bunch of bosses, the new guy looked a little rushed and didn't dare to speak at the meeting.

As to why the atmosphere of the meeting is so serious...

We have to start last month.

Just last month, the helix 7-X finally completed the installation of the water-cooled filter.

The water-cooled filter would have solved the problem of reaction chamber temperature once and for all, as planned by the Maple Society Institute of Plasma Physics.

However, the results are not as ideal as expected.

The plasma heated to 100 million degrees is indeed confined within the electromagnetic field, and the water-cooled filter does work, but the rate at which the temperature of the first wall rises exceeds the expectations of field staff.

With the accumulation of large amounts of thermal energy that cannot be dissipated in time, the temperature of the first wall material continues to rise, gradually beginning to threaten the safety of the simulator's orbit.

In order to avoid major security incidents, staff had to shut down the equipment and terminate the test prematurely.

Ultimately, after the installation of the water-cooled filter, the star mimetic was completed, and the high temperature pressure plasma constraint was maintained for only 6 minutes.

This has been quite remarkable compared to the more than a hundred seconds of Tokmak devices in the direction of mainstream international research.

But for a copycat, it's not as beautiful as it sounds.

Looking at the study in hand, Kleber faced the experts and scholars at the table and made a brief report.

“… the water-cooled filter has been installed, but the problem now is that the plasma constraint is not as perfect as we thought. ”

“… According to feedback data, from 227 seconds onwards, a small amount of unbound plasma comes into contact with the first wall as the main cause of heat build-up, ultimately resulting in the accumulation rate of heat on the first wall material exceeding the cooling efficiency of the water-cooled filter and exceeding our expectations. ”

After listening to Kleber's report, Professor Erdor from the Heimholz Federation suddenly spoke.

“You mean the problem isn't with the water-cooled filters, but with the plasma out of control in the mimetics? ”

Although the Spiral 7-X Laboratory is a research facility of the Maple Society Institute of Plasma Physics, the entire research facility, including this simulator, was built by the Maple Society together with the German Federation of Heimholtz.

As the second-largest scientific research organization in Germany after the Maple Society, the Heimholtz Federation still has a considerable voice in the field of fusion energy.

“It's not out of control, it's the natural dispersion of the plasma, and even stars can't let every plasma run in a regular orbit, and there's always so many plasmas hitting the first wall, which is an acceptable error," Kraber stressed in response to an interrogation from the Heimholtz Federation.

Professor Erdor's eyebrows picked out, “Just a few? ”

KRABER: “… it's just a metaphor, of course I can't give you a specific amount. All I can tell you is that we've done a great job on magnetic restraints, at least compared to the mainstream Marktock device. ”

Watching them quarrel, Professor Hessinger coughed softly, interrupting their argument.

“Now that the problem is clear, what we need to do is resolve it, not continue to argue on meaningless matters. ”

Paused for a moment, Professor Hessinger continued.

“We now have two options, one to change the existing control plan and the other to change our cooling system. ”

Either reduce the plasma on the first wall with more precise electromagnetic field control, or replace it with a more powerful water-cooled filter to improve cooling performance.

“Improving existing control schemes may be difficult,” Professor Crabb shook his head, "if there were better control schemes to replace, we would have used them. ”

Boucher, who never had a chance to talk, tried to interject: "What about replacing the water-cooled filter? ”

“This is not realistic, even if it is modified on the basis of existing ones.” Professor Hessinger shook his head: “The key now is that we have to deliver on our 30-minute commitment by 2020… and we only have two years at most. ”

The atmosphere in the meeting room was a little heavy and no one spoke.

As Professor Hessinger said, time is the key to everything.

The water-cooled filter is not an electric refrigerator, and this millimetre or even micrometre scale of engineering is an exaggeration of the difficulty of every step, and it is not easy to reassemble, let alone redesign the device.

From 15 years to the present, it took them exactly three years to install this water-cooled filter into the spiral 7-X.

And with only two years left until 2020, they simply don't have time to spend another three years redesigning and assembling water-cooled filters.

To be honest, it's stupid to give science a specific time.

Even the most authoritative players in an area cannot predict in advance how long a technology will take to produce it.

It could be born tomorrow, or it could be fundamentally wrong.

But if they don't, if they don't continue to paint this pie, no one will throw money on them...

……

At 12: 00, the meeting was temporarily dissolved and scheduled to continue beyond 2: 00 p.m.

Sitting in a restaurant on the first floor of the lab, Krabs ordered a cup of coffee, sat in a window position, turned on his work laptop, and looked at an unread email in his habitual login email.

“Invitation to review? ”

Looking at the mail lying in the mailbox, Krabby's eyebrows picked it with interest.

Technically, he is not a plasma physicist, but an engineer in the direction of plasma physics and fusion energy.

Combined with the mainstream Tokmak device, the Mirror is a “cold gate” research direction, and there are not many international research institutes involved in this area.

He remembered the last time or five years ago, an invitation to review the journal of the American Institute of Physics.

I didn't intend to use the intermittent breaks of the meeting to review the draft, but Crabb couldn't help but wonder and click on the paper.

Although he is not a plasma physicist, he has worked for a long time at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Maple Society, and he is not a stranger to theoretical things, and he still has the ability and qualifications to write.

A mathematical model of plasma turbulence?

Professor Kleber's eyebrows picked them out when he saw the abstract part of the paper.

Like a model?

But it seems a little different.

After reading the abstract section, Professor Kraber continued to look at the body section, and when he saw the large formula in the paper, his eyebrows twitched.

As an engineer, mathematical knowledge was essential, but the formulas in the paper still went beyond his knowledge reserves and looked at his scalp.

Speaking of which, it's just a visual model. Do you need this deep mathematical approach?

Just when Professor Crabb was confused about this, this descriptive language saved him the “culture” and suddenly reminded him of someone.

He flipped directly to the author's position, and the corner of Kleber's mouth pulled along with his eyebrows.

It's this guy...

He shook his head with a smile and completely abandoned Kleber, skipping those complex formulas and looking at the mathematical models in the conclusion section.

He admitted that he did not think so at first.

Gradually, however, the more he looked down, the heavier the divine color on his face.

Suddenly, his face flashed with joy and he couldn't wait to touch the phone in his pocket.

“Egg, I'll send an email to your email and print out the paper for me! ”

Egger was his office assistant, general scheduling, printing and other chores, which he entrusted to him.

In principle, papers that have not yet been officially published are not likely to be made public in advance, but it would not be contrary to the principle if they were merely internal exchanges.

After all, it is not uncommon for many reviewers to exchange opinions with academically reputable peers if they see particularly good manuscripts that happen to address areas they do not know about.

EG: “Okay, sir, can I tell you how many roughly? ”

“Print me as many copies as there are in the afternoon session! ”