Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Interestingly enough, while sipping coffee on the ark and watching Perry speaking to reporters on video, this moment is far from the U.S. Department of Energy on the Pacific coast, sitting in his office, staring at the pictures of the ark.

Though his expression is less relaxed...

Just half a month ago, the China Jinling Institute of Controllable Fusion made groundbreaking progress on long term plasma restraints, shaking the entire plasma physics community.

That is, in the course of that half-month period, he has received at least thirty written communications on the matter.

These came from the American Academy of Sciences and from the Princeton PPPL Laboratory.

Especially in that joint letter from the American Academy of Sciences, even signed by Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics and former Secretary of Energy Zhu Yuwen.

There is only one central thought to be expressed in these lengthy texts, apart from the importance of controllable nuclear fusion as a future energy source - money.

In addition to this, there is intelligence from the CIA, albeit not very nutritious.

Rather than the information on the Ark itself and the dazzling academic honors and titles he had earned, he wondered what step the Chinese State had taken in controllable fusion technology and how far it was from mature controllable fusion technology.

But the headache is that it all happened so suddenly.

Until the STAR device has successfully completed an hour of magnetic restraint, no one believes that they will succeed, not even the Chinese themselves.

Didn't we say two minutes would be difficult?

The head of China's International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center said it himself!

“What a bunch of crap...”

The information in his hand was thrown on the table, and Perry couldn't bear to curse.

Regarding the importance of controllable fusion technology, there was no need for anyone to tell him that he knew better than anyone else.

And yet he knows better than anyone how big the pit is.

What he now needs more than a CIA report and some nutrition-free advice is the advice of professionals.

Leaning on the office chair for a while, Perry, who made the decision in his heart, stood up from the chair with his arms up and pushed the door out of the office.

Looking at the assistant sitting at the desk in front of his office, he asked.

“Bring in the NIF Project Manager and the PPPL Laboratory Controlled Fusion Project Leader… wherever they are now, I hope to see them here the day after tomorrow. ”

“I get it. ”

Seeing Perry's serious expression and realizing the importance of the matter, the assistant immediately reached for the phone.

Perry nodded and was ready to leave.

He's going to the White House before he starts the meeting.

But at that point, he suddenly remembered something and stopped at the door, looking back at the assistant he was calling.

“And get in touch with the CIA and make sure they send someone reliable. ”

……

About six or seven years ago, the $3.5 billion NIF ignition failed, frustrating the entire U.S. controlled fusion research industry and clouding the prospects for the entire international controlled fusion research.

The entire technical route of inertial restraint was almost obsolete, and if it had not been for this laser ignition device, a nuclear test would have been carried out, the whole thing would have been cut off by Congress' Budget Committee.

So far, Tokamak seems to be able to cheat money, but the money is not as good as it used to be.

The future of the entire controllable fusion industry is bleak, especially in the broader context of countries pushing each other over funding and the intention of the United States to withdraw from ITER.

However, no one thought that the light beneath the Purple Gold Mountains would illuminate the whole world...

Ed Moses, head of the National Ignition Unit (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is sitting in the Department of Energy's office at this moment.

Next to him is Princeton PPPL Laboratory Controlled Fusion Program Leader Terry Brogue, as well as several other experts in the field of controllable fusion he is familiar with.

This is not the first time they have been summoned by the relevant authorities.

Often every other month or two, they are summoned by the Department of Energy or the Congressional Budget Committee and asked what the hell is going on with their budget being exceeded.

For the large households that burn money, peeling off with bureaucrats about projects and funding is almost part of everyday research.

Unlike in the past, however, this time the Department of Energy convened them seemed not to be about the budget…

They exchanged sights and saw a few unexpected expressions in each other's eyes.

Obviously, it's not just the Department of Energy sitting here, but there's also a man in a suit, with a less expressive face, who doesn't fit into the environment.

“To introduce myself, my name is Helms, and I'm from the CIA. ”

When I heard about the CIA, Ed Moses' eyebrows lifted and I was very interested.

“Since when is the CIA interested in NIF? ”

“I'm not interested in NIF, or rather, I'm more interested in PPPL labs," turning to the ballpoint pen in my hand, the man named Helms looks at Brogue next to me, "Mr. Terry Brogue, I hear you worked with Professor Ark, is that right? ”

Blogger nodded and said, “Yes. ”

Helms: "What does he look like to you? ”

Brogue replied, "You should ask his mentor or student about this, I don't have much contact with him in everyday life, and the only communication he has is basically on the job. ”

“I asked about work,” Helms flipped the notes on the page table, "and our people noticed that about two years ago, a fund entered the research account for the project through an overseas account. ”

BROGGER: “During his tenure in Princeton, he was a consultant on the PPPL Laboratory He-3 project. Because of the difficulty of continuing the study on funding, he had made insufficient advances at his own expense. ”

Helms asked, "Can you explain the content of the HE-3 project specifically? ”

BROGGER: “Regarding the launching of He-3 particles to observe the plasma movement inside the fusion device… if you are suspicious that this project has delivered critical technology to the STAR Institute, you probably don't have to be so suspicious. This technology is important for research on controllable nuclear fusion, but the research itself is public. If you don't understand what I'm saying, you can go back to your physics professor. ”

Helms turned the ball pen in his hand and wrote a few notes on the paper: "I'm sorry I went to college in psychology and didn't do physics. ”

Brogue muttered softly: "You should have learned it in high school. ”

I don't know if I heard it, or if I pretended not to, Helms ignored Brogue's sentence and his gaze lingered for a moment on his face and Moses's, respectively.

“If we had not relied on technology from the PPPL lab, I wondered why an institute that had just been established for less than a year had achieved such incredible results through a retrofitted star imitator with old equipment. ”

Ed Moses softly coughed: “The problem is simple, the Chinese don't have to spend money on this technology. Although most of the problems we encounter are not solved by spending money, when it is used correctly by the right people, the situation is completely different. ”

Perry sits at the conference table with his face on: “You don't have less money than they do. You mean you didn't spend it in the right place? ”

Ed Moses looked at the side embarrassingly, "Of course I didn't mean that, I can assure you that every penny was spent in the right place, but... trial and error are also part of the study. ”

Instead of taking control of our own Ed Moses, Helms looked at the notebook in his hand and continued to ask many questions with no expression.

This includes cooperation on ITER, as well as information on the STAR Astronomy Institute.

The meeting lasted about two hours.

After the adjournment of the meeting, Perry dissolved the experts who had come to the meeting and left Helms behind to ask.

“What do you think? ”

Mr. Helms had previously served in the diplomatic system and, with regard to his comments, Perry asked himself, although he might not necessarily take it personally, that it was okay to refer to it.

Looking at the note in his hand, Helms pondered for a moment and said.

“According to our intelligence, the Chinese State has initiated a controlled fusion demonstration reactor project. However, from what I've just heard, apart from the paper published in Science magazine, our experts have almost zero knowledge of the STAR Institute. ”

“Combining the above clues, we can argue that Chinese people, including the CFTER project, have learned a great deal from the ITER project, but they steal the technology from us without sharing their research, or even retaining it. I don't think that makes sense. ”

Perry lifted his eyebrows with interest: "So? ”

“So I suggest that we intervene with the Chinese side to get the STAR Institute to reveal more technical details," said Helms, pausing for a moment, seriously, "or kick them out of the whole ITER project. ”

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