Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Early October.

There's a little noise at the base door.

Next to the construction site, several heavy trucks were parked there and the unloading was carried out with care and with the assistance of site construction personnel and lifting equipment.

Standing next to the ark, watching these heavy equipment being transported into the base, Shawler said with some emotion.

“This was originally sold to ITER, but now they probably won't buy it either. ”

This device in front of two people is the legendary ICRF heating antenna.

This device consists of four parts: transmitter, transmission line, impedance matcher, and the most critical heating antenna. The RF output energy can reach the 3MW level with an adjustable frequency range of 30-110MHZ.

As one of the key components on the fusion unit, this is arguably the second largest black technology in the Luyang Institute of Substances apart from the fully superconducting D-type cross-sectional design.

In addition to being procured by General Atomic Energy, the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment received orders for the ITER demonstration reactor project.

But now it looks like Europeans probably won't buy it.

After a pause, Shawler went on to say, "This equipment was supposed to be removed and shipped to France, but our cooperation with them has been interrupted. With this, we can quickly heat the plasma inside the reactor to over 100 million degrees, arguably one of the most advanced plasma heating technologies in the world today! ”

The ark nodded and gauged the device with interest.

Although it's called an ICRF heating antenna, it's more like an air conditioner that's dozens of times larger than the antenna he understands.

The steel brackets beneath the entire unit are not much different in shape from the steel brackets lifted beneath the air conditioner, and the protective limiters and current bands projecting forward throughout the unit are like a combination of the air conditioning filter and fan blades.

Backwards are tubular vacuum transmission lines, hydraulic drives, and key vacuum feeders.

At the time of the experiment, the protective limiter acting as an "air conditioning fan" was located at the foremost end of the ICRF heating antenna, together with the current belt immediately adjacent to it, constituting the plasma heating component as well as the "Faraday Shielding Box”, isolating the plasma from the current belt while heating the plasma, while preventing the electrostatic field from coupling into the plasma.

There are also 43 cooling pipes with an external diameter of 10mm welded on top of the vacuum chamber due to the fact that they are directly facing the plasma inside it.

The entire unit, though complex and huge, lacks some science fiction aesthetics, there is no single design on the entire unit that is redundant, even each weld is carefully designed.

So it's also not easy to change these designs.

At this time, an old engineer with a helmet in his hand and a grey coat walked over and smiled at the ship.

“What do you say? Does this thing look okay? ”

When he heard this, the Ark laughed and said, "It looks pretty reliable, I just hope it works properly on the mimetics. ”

The old engineer waved, “Don't worry, even if it doesn't work now, I promise to make it work. ”

The old gentleman standing in front of the Ark, his name is Li Jianxian, a scholar of the China National Engineering Institute, and also Vice President of Science and Vice President of the Institute of Substances Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although Mr. Old's undergraduate studies ship dynamics, he eventually somehow went halfway home and studied plasma physics. Later, after catching up with the tide of 95 major scientific projects, controllable fusion research became increasingly important in the country. His academic career was also regarded as a smooth journey along the development of the historical process. He achieved the position of vice president, and later became an academician.

Prior to the departure of China from ITER, his status was one of the members of the Committee of Experts of China, and ICRF heating antenna technology was internationally recognized, of which his credit was immense.

Now that China has regressed from ITER, his identity has become a consultant to the National Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center and is responsible for coordinating the work of the Luyang Materials Institute in the demonstration reactor project - that is, the heating components of the entire demonstration reactor.

Shore, who stands next to the ark at this moment, is his student, and he recommended it.

The Ark still believes in the promise of this bull.

“Thank you, then. I'll make a few brief requests. ”

Professor Li took the notebook with him and didn't give a shit.

“Say it.”

The ark nodded, recalling the details of the project that had already been discussed at earlier meetings, and said.

“Corresponding to several different positions of plasma in the astral discharge experiment, the heating antenna needs to be able to move in a radial direction, ranging from minus 150 mm to positive 150 mm, with an adjustment accuracy of one mm. Can you do that? ”

Professor Li did not falsely think, “This is not a big problem. ”

The ark nodded and continued.

“The characteristic impedance requirements for the components of the antenna such as vacuum feed ports, transmission lines, etc. meet the design requirements of 50Ω, and the permissible voltage requirements for internal and external conductors are 45KV. ”

“Current bands, Faraday shields all require the design of separate cooling circuits, and their cooling capacity requires the ability to withstand thermal loads of the MWm ² class. ”

“Also, while considering the assemblability and serviceability of the antenna, minimizing welding sites requires that the total leakage rate of the antenna must be less than 10 ^ -10Pa · m ^ 3s. ”

“ …… ”

At first, the look on Mr. Li's face was quite relaxed. However, listening to the canoe even sounded like a bead cannon, his face gradually lost its relaxed smile and only felt a tingle of scalp.

Then he said more than a dozen requirements piecemeal, felt some thirsty canoe, took a mouthful of mineral water from Wang Peng's hand, threw the plastic bottle back, then added a sentence later.

“… that's the basics. I may be quick to say that when the outline of the evening meeting is made, I will send you an email with more specific requests”.

After hearing this later sentence, Li Jianxuan stopped the pen in his hand.

After staring at the notebook in his hand for a while, his eyebrows wrinkled for a while, and he finally squeezed a reluctant smile out of his face.

“… you are really going to give us a hard time putting aside the ITER Engineering Bidding Conference in Europe without so much of your business. ”

Hearing this, the ark smiled slightly and said: “After all, it is the first reactor, and there is a good start to a good demonstration, and I want to do it as perfectly as possible. ”

While the system does not specify specific “acceptance criteria” for the DEMO demonstration heap, there is no doubt that the mission award is proportional to the outcome. The more powerful this demonstration is, the higher the mission reward will naturally be.

Not to mention, from a realistic point of view, the stronger the performance of the demonstration reactor, the less resistance encountered during the technology diffusion phase. From the point of view of a researcher, he also hoped that his research would be recognized by the State and the world at large.

Closed the notebook, Dr. Li said: "Okay, when the matter is settled here tomorrow, I'll have a meeting to study it and give you the results in two days. ”

The ark nodded: "Well, please. ”

……

The last one was scheduled, and the work on this side of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor base was largely on track, both at the engineering site and at the Institute.

The demonstration reactor, like a torch, illuminates the future of nuclear fusion research in the country as a whole.

Everyone who works here has a strong sense of purpose, even in the absence of generous mobilization speeches.

They are doing a great job.

Their research is already ahead of the world.

To date, under the leadership of the project leaders, they have achieved countless phased results, achieved countless victories and proved themselves countless times.

And everyone has no doubt that as long as Chief Lu is present, they will continue to win until the final finish line is crossed.

In such a working environment, it is difficult to generate negative emotions.

It can be said that even the cooks in the cafeteria work with enthusiasm.

If you're optimistic, you could have completed all the components a year ago.

Whether it's before New Year's Day or Spring Festival, it's up to luck.

For the Ark itself, there are only two things that need to be addressed now.

One thing is to go back to the STAR Star Mimicry Institute on Zijinshan and complete the final design of the liquid lithium neutron recovery system as soon as possible with the help of the STAR Experimental Reactor.

Others are so powerful, they can't drag themselves back.

As the core component of the entire nuclear fusion reactor, it can be said that the design of this part directly determines the success or failure of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project. If this is accomplished, after the “plasma control technique”, the second difficulty of "tritium retention”, controllable fusion, will also be overcome by him.

At the same time, this is the last time.

As for what units are used to generate electricity, what devices are used to generate heat, installing "insurance” under the reactor, etc., these structures are all just a matter of deciding whether the winning fruit can be more perfect.

The other thing is to solve the problem of superalgorithms.

Currently, the plasma control of the STAR experimental reactor is carried out with the assistance of Aidan.

When the demo stack is built, he can't get Em back to the main computer of the demo stack, can he?

After all, Einstein is not the right guy to throw his head in front of people, at least not right now.

Ideally, the algorithm associated with the plasma control scheme should be separated from its main program.

If these two issues are resolved, then all the "puzzles" are assembled.

The completion of the demonstration reactor will mean that the day will come.

Thinking about it, the heart of the ark has a fever.

Countless days and nights of effort.

This day is finally going to be his day.