Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Chapter 1486: Key to Second Generation Controlled Fusion

The reform of scientific research funding is alarming within the East Asian Power Group.

Cut off half of the scientific research projects and tighten the approval of funds...

Although this pair of scissors has not yet fallen, everyone fears that they will eventually fall on themselves.

But worrying about being worried, overall, everyone's emotions are stable.

Especially for grass-roots scientists who can't see the day before and work diligently, the practice of ark, though somewhat tough or even somewhat unpopular, is impressive.

In a nutshell, they've long had enough of the leadership that leans on the nepotism, has little talent, and will only rely on the power in their hands to do whatever they want within the department.

As for whether those who mixed up their lives were satisfied with their reforms...

The Ark doesn't care and doesn't want to care at all.

In his view, East Asian electricity was already a sickly giant at the moment, and if he wanted to cure the stubbornness of his body, he would have to take a potion.

Cleaning up cavities is just the first step.

And the second step is to sweep those people out of the house!

It's not that the Ark isn't close, he doesn't mind raising a few idle people in other positions. But as a scholar, he must have zero tolerance in this piece of research!

Because he knew exactly what it was like to dedicate his life to scientific research without receiving any attention and, in turn, to be encroached upon by academic achievements.

As long as he sits in this chairman's chair for a day, he will not allow this injustice to happen in front of his own eyes!

Besides, he didn't expect the assholes and the hybrids to be able to handle the engineering miracle of second-generation controllable fusion.

If you don't want to help, it's better to get home early.

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Immediately after the meeting, the ships that had been scheduled to work in various sectors were invested in research on second-generation controllable fusion technologies.

Although he doesn't know the rules of this era very well, that's what happens when you do scientific research.

Choose a general direction and figure out a viable path by constantly making mistakes. And what he needs to do, from the standpoint of a chief designer, is plan the entire framework for large scientific research projects, choose the most likely technological routes, then set strategic directions for academic leaders in all areas, and do everything possible to reduce the number and time cost of trial errors.

Currently, the three problems faced by the second generation of controllable fusion technologies are essentially the same as those he faced in the first generation of controllable fusion technologies.

The only difference is that the difficulty is different.

The scattered cross section of deuterium and helium III is much smaller than that of deuterium, which has a cross section of only 0.8b at 300keV, much smaller than that of the latter, so more energy input is needed and fusion conditions are more stringent.

To give an intuitive example, the same fusion reactor, the DT reaction —— the temperature of the deuterium reaction -- takes just 100 million degrees.

However, if deuterium is to fuse with Helium III and keep the reaction steady, the temperature required is a few billion degree jump.

Temperature is just one element.

Including density and constraint time, all three are missing.

According to the literature available to the Ark, the core problems of second-generation controllable fusion so far have focused mainly on the reaction temperature.

In particular, how to constrain and compress high temperature plasma within a very small area.

The strength of the magnetic field needed to achieve this will be a very scary number.

However, despite such difficulties, the Ark does not feel that this is an unsolvable problem.

When designing a generation of controllable fusion reactor cores, he was worried about the same problem. The situation would not have been more optimistic at the time, and many key technologies, including computational materials, had just emerged as a vague germination, even at the conceptual stage.

Against that backdrop, however, he still performed a miracle in the history of human science with a group of brilliant engineers and scholars.

Now that he has been able to do so in the past, he has reason to believe that he will be able to do this miracle again in the more developed future of science and technology!

Office of the Chairman.

Coming to the group building to report to Tang Yunxiao, he stood at the desk with a look of uneasiness and curiosity, looking at the great man from a hundred years ago.

Approximately in the morning, he received an e-mail from Master Lu.

In the e-mail, Master Lu offered him an invitation to come to the group building and discuss the second-generation controllable fusion project with him.

Technically, Tang Yunxiao is not studying second-generation controllable fusion. He is only a senior researcher at the Electromagnetic Research Laboratory. His usual job is to meet and research and design magnetic field containers for East Asian power reactors.

He really can't figure out why Master Lu found himself such an anonymous nobody.

Just as he hesitated to take the initiative to say hello, he sat on the ark behind the desk and said concisely and voluntarily.

“Have a seat. ”

“Thanks.”

Looking at Tang Yunchang sitting on the couch, the ark went straight to the point and continued.

“I've read your paper, and in this piece of electromagnet research, you've come up with a lot of interesting design ideas and ideas, and there's a lot of pieces in front of me. ”

With the praise of Master Lu, Tang Yunxian's heart was somewhat proud, but still humble.

“Thank you, I'm not the only one who did the research. ”

“Whoever did this could never be Liu Sihai's. ”

Looking at Tang Yunqiao, who was dumped there like an honest man, the ark paused for a moment before continuing.

“According to my calculations, I need a magnetic field capable of generating 10000T strength in a smaller space to constrain the high temperature plasma in the reactor core. ”

“Can you do that? ”

“Almost… impossible,” said Tang Yuncheng with a difficult expression on his face, "with East Asian electricity's current technological reserves, the strongest electromagnets we can make, the magnetic field strength is only 5000T, while it lasts less than 50 milliseconds and cannot be used to power the core at all. As for 10000T… not to mention how long it will last, that's a bit exaggerated. ”

What is the concept of 10000T?

Intuitively, the average hospital MRI is about 3T, and it only takes 13T to make the frog float.

One cannot imagine how terrible 10,000 Teslas really are.

The ark's eyebrows slightly lifted and said, "No hope at all? ”

Tang Yunxun was just ready to give a definitive reply to his gaze on the ark, but at this moment a hesitation flashed in his eyes.

Are you sure there's no hope at all?

Not really.

But East Asia Electric...

He didn't really see a glimmer of hope.

After struggling for a moment, Tang Yunxian finally took a deep breath and bit his teeth and said.

“Nor is there any hope at all… but studying the current state of the laboratory with electromagnets, without hope, is no different! ”

“Oh?” the canoe's eyebrows lifted, looking at him and asking, “Looks like you have something to say. ”

Tang Yunqiao smiled bitterly and was about to speak up about the problems of the electromagnet research laboratory.

Yet at this point, outside the office of the chairman, there was an abrupt sound of footsteps.

A knock sounded twice, followed by a hand pushed open.

Only the secretary of the office of the ark appeared anxiously at the door.

“Lu, Master Lu, no! ”

Looking at the office secretary standing in front of the office, the ark frowned slightly.

“What's going on? ”

With a hurried expression on his face, the secretary couldn't even breathe and spoke nervously.

“Electromagnetic Research Lab! ”

“They're on strike! ”

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