Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

While the STAR spacecraft device completely detonated the heat of controllable nuclear fusion technology and vibrated the entire plasma physics community, it remained calm in favour of the city of Graveswald on the Baltic Horn.

Situated in the spiral 7-X laboratory on the outskirts of this small city, researchers and engineers go to and from work normally do what they have at hand, and usually chat while drinking coffee during lunch break...

However, a little dull expression can be seen on everyone's face, more or less.

Just a few days ago, the paper published in Science completely shattered their pride.

They have always been at the forefront of the world in research on imitators.

Even the Princeton PPPL Laboratory, which opens up a technology route for copycats, cannot have a better say in the study of copycats than they do.

But that advantage, just a few days ago, was completely changed.

The STAR unit located in Jinling, China, has successfully achieved an hour-long constraint on 100 million degree high temperature plasma.

It is no exaggeration to say that the breakthrough in this technology not only threw them apart, but also stood next to the finish line.

Most frustratingly, they can't even figure out how that STAR device actually works...

Looking at the paper in his hand, Kleber's face was filled with a heavy divine color.

He has read the paper over and over a dozen times.

However, for the first time in his life, he could not bear to be struck by the facts behind the paper when he saw those pungent figures.

Pryce, the assistant standing next to him, took a deep breath and couldn't help but say.

“Unbelievable… how did they do it? ”

Professor Crabb shook his head and put his paper on the table: "I don't know, if I knew, we wouldn't be so passive now. ”

As the head of the spiral 7-X laboratory, he was under pressure that the researchers in general could not imagine.

After all, it was he who was persuading the Maple Society and the Heimholtz Federation to bring about a technology exchange agreement for WEGA devices.

Although responsibility was not entirely on him, he had repeatedly assured that the WEGA device was technically behind the spiral 7-X for at least two generations...

And now, even if he still believes that, it's unlikely that many people will believe it.

Price suddenly wondered and lowered his voice and said, "Could it be a forgery? ”

Kleber shook his head: "The data itself is not a problem and the likelihood of falsification is almost nil. ”

Price whispered, “But Professor Lu is a mathematician...”

What he's really trying to say is that this Fields Award-level big man wants to fake data, and even if he did, most people wouldn't see it.

However, Kleber continued to shake his head and said seriously.

“I believe in his academic reputation. Moreover, he had no reason to do so. ”

That was when the door rang and a researcher walked in.

“Professor, head of the Heimholtz Federation. Professor Similuc and Mr. Norbert, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Economy and Energy, are now outside. ”

Hearing these two names, Professor Crabb sighed tirelessly with his hands resting on the armrest of the office chair, slowly standing up.

“Got it, I'm on my way. ”

……

Laboratory ground floor lobby.

As Professor Crabb walked out of his office, he saw a pedestrian coming in from the outside.

Looking at the first two, Professor Kraber cleared his voice and squeezed a slightly stiff smile on his face.

“Professor Miller, and Mr. Norbert, welcome to the Spiral 7-X Laboratory… what brings you here? ”

Professor Miller did not smile and said with no expression: "Cut the crap and take me inside. ”

Professor Crabb stunned slightly: "Inside? ”

“Spiral 7-X. ”

“Spiral 7-X? I'm sorry, there are no experiments scheduled today...”

“With or without experimental arrangements,” said Professor Miller, staring at Kleber, "show me. ”

“Okay…”

Professor Kleber nodded slightly.

In academia, whoever holds the money is the father.

This is true in every country.

Although Professor Crabb is not in a very good mood at this moment, or even quite bad, he still has to keep those negative emotions in his mind.

After all, the main research funding for the Spiral 7-X lab is in the hands of the two big men in front of him.

Led by Professor Kleber, a pedestrian walked towards the inside of the Institute and quickly arrived at the laboratory where the spiral 7-X device was stored.

Coming up to this giant steel beast crawling in the middle of the lab, Professor Miller himself walked up and examined it carefully on the instrument.

Looking at his unknown movements, Professor Crabb asked.

“Satisfied? ”

Two steps back, Professor Miller nodded, "Good, still here. ”

Kleber: “What's still there? ”

Looking back at Kleber, Professor Miller said politely, "I thought you sold your underwear for 500 million euros. ”

When he heard that, a strange look appeared on Kleber's face.

“Though you don't know what caused this misunderstanding, you can rest assured that... the Spiral 7-X can't do this much. ”

While such facts are helpless, they are facts.

For an hour of magnetic constraint experiments, we'll probably have to burn the cladding material on their first wall without any slag left.

To put it bluntly, it might be possible to replace all the outfield coils with SG-1 material and improve the control plan.

However, this is simple to say, but it takes a lot of time and money to actually do it...

Now, obviously, it's not a good time to ask for money.

“That's the problem," Mr. Norbert, the secretary-general of the Department of Economics and Energy, who hasn't spoken at this point, looked at Kleber and said slowly and slyly, "Why can the improved STAR device from the WEGA device be done, while the spiral 7-X that you took five years to retrofit can't? Maybe I'm not academic enough, but I still want to ask, aren't you born with the same mother? ”

A few accompanying staff members held a smile on their faces.

Kleber's eyebrows twitched hard, but the patient explained.

“Yes, you're right. But they didn't just buy our WEGA device back, and I can even say that our WEGA has been completely transformed by them. ”

“They are able to keep the magnetic constraint for an hour, and the key is not on what we sell them, but on the superconducting magnets, and the control schemes that go with it… and some secrets that may only be clear to them themselves. ”

Interrupted Professor Kleber's explanation, Norbert said.

“I'm not here to hear you explain why you failed. ”

“We've invested billions of euros in you, and you've painted us decades-long pies. Not only are we now far from achieving results, but we have even been caught up by a country that has done nothing on that technology route. I have to say, it's not a pleasant thing. Even to give our parliament and our allies a reasonable explanation, I want you to catch up. ”

Professor Kleber said with a hard scalp, "I'm doing this. ”

Looking into Professor Crabb's eyes, Mr. Norbert said word for word.

“Then don't just promise me, let me see the results. ”

Go ahead, Norbert, take the accompanying staff and turn around.