Chapter 1486 The Key to the Second Generation Controllable Fusion

The reform of scientific research funding caused panic within the East Asia Power Group.

Half of the scientific research projects will be cut, and the approval of funds will be stricter...

Although the pair of scissors has not fallen yet, everyone is worried that they will fall on themselves in the end.

But worry is nothing to worry about. Generally speaking, everyone's mood is relatively stable.

Especially for those low-level scientific researchers who don't see their day ahead and work diligently, although Lu Zhou's approach is a bit tough, it can even be said to be unreasonable, but it is still quite popular.

To be honest, they have long been fed up with those leaders who rely on their nepotism to get to the top, have no skills at all, and only rely on the power in their hands to do whatever they want in the department.

As for whether those dawdling people are satisfied with their own reforms...

Lu Zhou didn't care, and didn't want to pay attention at all.

In his opinion, East Asia Electric Power is already a terminally ill giant at this moment, and if it wants to cure its stubborn illness, it must take strong medicine.

Cleaning up the moths is only the first step.

And the second step is to kick those dawdling people out of the house together!

It's not that Lu Zhou is unkind, he doesn't mind raising a few idlers in other positions. But as a scholar, he must have zero tolerance for scientific research!

Because he knows exactly what it feels like to dedicate his whole life to scientific research, but in the end he doesn't get any attention, and in turn, his academic achievements are usurped.

As long as he still sits in the chairman's position for a day, he will definitely not allow this kind of unfair thing to happen under his nose!

What's more, he didn't expect those moths and bastards to help him solve engineering miracles like the second-generation controllable fusion.

If you don't want to work hard, it's better to go home as soon as possible.

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After the meeting ended, Lu Zhou, who had arranged the work of various departments, immediately devoted himself to the research of the second-generation controllable fusion technology.

Although he doesn't know the rules of this era very well, that's the way to do scientific research.

Choose a general direction, and then explore a feasible path through continuous trial and error. From the standpoint of a chief designer, what he needs to do is to plan the framework of the entire large-scale scientific research project, choose a few technical routes with the greatest possibility, and then formulate strategic directions for academic leaders in various fields , and do everything possible to reduce the number of trial and error and time costs.

The three problems currently faced by the second-generation controllable fusion technology are basically the same as those he faced in the first-generation controllable fusion technology back then.

The only difference is that the difficulty is different.

The scattering cross section of deuterium and helium tritium is much smaller than that of deuterium tritium. The cross section of the former is only 0.8b at 300keV, which is much smaller than the latter, so more energy input is required, and the conditions for fusion are more stringent.

To give an intuitive example, the same fusion reactor only needs 100 million degrees to realize the DT reaction—that is, the temperature of the deuterium-tritium reaction.

However, if you want to make the fusion reaction of deuterium and helium three, and keep the reaction stable, the required temperature is directly a jump of several billion degrees.

Temperature is just one of the elements.

Including density and constraint time, all three are indispensable.

According to the literature reviewed by Lu Zhou, so far, the core problems faced by the second-generation controllable fusion are mainly focused on the reaction temperature.

Especially how to confine and compress the high-temperature plasma in an extremely small area.

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

However, although there are so many difficulties, Lu Zhou doesn't think this is an unsolvable problem.

When he was designing a new generation of controllable fusion cores, he was troubled by the same problem. The situation at that time would not be more optimistic than it is now. Many key technologies, including computational materials science, have just emerged as a vague embryo, and even remain at the conceptual stage.

However, under such an era background, he still led a group of outstanding engineers and scholars to complete a miracle in the history of human science.

Since he could do it in the past, he has reason to believe that in the future with more advanced science and technology, he will be able to accomplish this miracle again!

Office of the Chairman.

Tang Yunge, who came to report to the group building, was standing in front of the desk with a nervous expression at the moment, looking at the great man from a hundred years ago with anxiety and curiosity in his heart.

Around morning, he received an email from Academician Lu.

In the email, Academician Lu invited him, hoping that he could come to the group building and discuss with him about the second-generation controllable nuclear fusion project.

Strictly speaking, Tang Yunge's research is not on the second-generation controllable fusion. His identity is just a senior researcher in the electromagnet research laboratory. His usual work is to hold meetings and research, and design magnetic field containers for the reactors of East Asia Electric Power.

He really couldn't understand why Academician Lu would find such an unknown person like himself.

Just when he was hesitating whether to say hello or not, Lu Zhou, who was sitting behind the desk, spoke succinctly.

"Please sit down."

"Thanks."

Looking at Tang Yunge who was sitting on the sofa, Lu Zhou continued straight to the point.

"I have read your thesis. In the area of ​​electromagnet research, you have put forward many interesting design concepts and ideas, and many of them have caught my eye."

Having been praised by Academician Lu, Tang Yunge couldn't help feeling a little proud, but he said it modestly.

"You are over-rewarded. Those research results are not just the credit of me."

"No matter whose credit it is, it can't be that Liu Sihai's."

Looking at Tang Yunge who was thrown there like an honest man, Lu Zhou paused for a moment before continuing.

"According to my calculation results, I need a magnetic field capable of generating 10,000T in a small space to confine the high-temperature plasma in the reactor core."

"Can it be done?"

"Almost...impossible," Tang Yunge said in a difficult tone with a troubled expression on his face, "With the current technical reserves of Dongya Electric Power, the strongest electromagnet we can make, the magnetic field strength is only in the early 5000T, and the maintenance The time is less than 50 milliseconds, and it cannot be used to power the core at all. As for 10,000T...not to mention how long it can last, this is too exaggerated."

What is the concept of 10000T?

To put it intuitively, the nuclear magnetic resonance machine used in general hospitals is about 3T, and only 13T is needed to make the frog float in the air.

Ordinary people simply cannot imagine what a terrifying existence 10,000 Tesla is.

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "No hope at all?"

Catching Lu Zhou's gaze, Tang Yunge was about to give an affirmative answer, but at this moment there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes.

Is there really no hope at all?

Not really.

But in East Asia Power...

He really couldn't see a shred of hope.

After struggling for a while, Tang Yunge finally took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said.

"It's not completely hopeless...but with the current situation of the electromagnet research laboratory, it's no different from hopelessness!"

"Oh?" Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows, looked at him and asked, "It seems that you have something to say."

Tang Yunge smiled wryly, and was about to speak about the problems of the electromagnet research laboratory.

However, at this moment, there were hurried footsteps outside the chairman's office.

There were two knocks on the door, and then the door was pushed open.

I saw Lu Zhou's office secretary appearing anxiously at the door.

"Lu, academician Lu, it's not good!"

Looking at the office secretary standing at the door of the office, Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

"What happened?"

With an anxious expression on his face, the secretary spoke nervously before he even had time to catch his breath.

"Electromagnet Research Laboratory!"

"They're on strike!"

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