Chapter 357 Is It a Misunderstanding, or a New Chemistry?

Controlled nuclear fusion? !

That does sound like a pretty interesting topic.

Hearing Professor Klitzing mentioned this matter, Lu Zhou immediately became very interested.

"Can I go in and visit?"

Professor Klitzing smiled, and said happily: "If you are interested, of course there is no problem."

Following in the footsteps of Professor Klitzing, Lu Zhou stepped into the building.

Originally, he thought it was a place with a high level of secrecy, but as a result, Professor Klitzing just swiped his work card on the access control, and then led him in easily.

Noticing Lu Zhou's confused gaze, Professor Klitzing smiled and said, "There's nothing to keep secret. You can even search for papers about it in the database of the Flint Library. As for access control, it's mainly to prevent random people from Come in, the law and order problem in Berlin is very serious recently."

Lu Zhou joked. "I thought it was a secret place."

Professor Klitzing laughed and said, "Secret place? Don't worry, let alone you, I can't even enter that kind of place myself."

Contrary to the conspiracy theories surrounding nuclear fusion technology described in most literature on street stalls, although countries in the field of controlled nuclear fusion research have also engaged in private work, most of the research results obtained are basically public. .

According to the ITER agreement signed in Paris in November 2006, at each International Fusion Energy Conference, research teams from various countries will report on the latest research progress.

As for why to cooperate in research, the reason is very simple.

Because the difficulty of this project far surpasses all scientific research projects that have appeared in history, such as the Manhattan Project, the Human Genome Project, and the Apollo Project, and the ultimate realization of controllable nuclear fusion technology is not a country's scientific research ability at all. can be done alone.

Under such a premise, the benefits of building a car behind closed doors are far less than the benefits of actively participating in the ITER plan and taking the lead in it.

For example, the All Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) built by Huaguo plays a pivotal role in the ITER project.

As for the distribution of benefits after the success of the project, that is another game. Now there is no sign of solving the immediate problems, let alone those that lie beyond.

In fact, no matter whether it is the tokamak or the design of the stellarator, there is no special secret in theory, and this is why Professor Klitzing was able to bring Lu Zhou in for a visit.

The only part that involves confidentiality is at best the laser fusion used for "ignition".

Because one of the main functions of laser fusion is to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, the ITER project is in principle played without countries outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

However, the research on this part is obviously invisible here, and the confidential research is naturally carried out in a confidential place.

Following Professor Klitzing all the way to the core area of ​​the building, looking at the strangely shaped object in the center of the open space, Lu Zhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This thing is just like a twist."

It may not be enough to use the twist as a metaphor, but the twist has to be twisted into a circle and seamlessly connected end to end.

As for the description from a geometric point of view, it is a Mobius ring that continuously transforms in three-dimensional space.

In this circular orbit surrounded by coils, the plasma can run stably relying entirely on the confinement of the external field.

In contrast, the tokamak device, which is opposite to the stellarator, relies on the coupling of the external magnetic field and the magnetic field generated by the plasma current. If the plasma is disturbed or becomes unstable due to some unknown physical phenomenon, the entire system is at risk of collapse.

Also, in theory, the continuous ignition of the stellarator is easier to control than the pulsed ignition of the tokamak device.

However, although the stellarator has so many advantages, it has a fatal disadvantage, that is, the requirements for processing technology are extremely strict, and the engineering quantity of the whole set of equipment is extremely complicated.

Even if the orbit in front of him is complicated enough in Lu Zhou's view, it is only one of the above parts for the entire nuclear fusion device. As for this part alone, I am afraid that apart from Germany, there are only a handful of countries that can process it.

And this is one of the reasons why Huaguo put all the chips on the tokamak device in the choice of technical route.

Professor Klitzing joked: "Really? I think it's more like a donut with a layer of cream."

Lu Zhou glanced at the old man unexpectedly. He didn't expect that he could understand the word "twist".

"This is the orbit of the plasma replaced from Helix 7-X," Professor Klitzing said, looking at the device in front of him. "As for the complete body of Helix 7-X, it is located in the eastern city of Greifsvall De. If you are interested, after the report meeting is over, I can take you to take a look, there just happened to be a similar experiment to start recently."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Really? Then I will remember this sentence."

If that's the case, it's truly an opportunity not to be missed.

Although controlled nuclear fusion is outside his field of research, he is still very interested in something that usually only exists in science fiction blockbusters.

However, no matter how interesting the research project is, it is not as important as the work in front of you.

After finishing his visit to the Max-Planck Laboratory in Berlin, Lu Zhou returned to the Bernitz Hotel and began to make final preparations for the upcoming report.

In this way, time passed day by day, and soon it was the day when the report meeting began.

According to the original plan, this report will be held at Humboldt University.

On Saturday morning, Lu Zhou deliberately got up early and arrived at the report meeting an hour earlier.

And when he arrived at the venue, the entire venue was almost full, and the densely packed heads of people formed one piece as far as the eye could see.

Based on the standpoint of academic openness, the Max Planck Society who hosted this report did not limit the qualifications of the participants, but only arranged seat numbers for those who were determined to attend the report, so it is not just those who have been paying attention to this report a long time ago Scholars at the report, doctors and masters from major universities and research institutions in Berlin also came to join in the fun.

Less than half an hour before the report meeting, many people even sat in the aisle of the corridor.

This report meeting has been expected by the theoretical chemistry community for two full months.

Is this a beautiful misunderstanding, or does it mean a new chemical...

Everyone stared closely at the big screen behind the podium, waiting to witness this historic moment.

Standing next to the podium, President Straman glanced at the tight seats in the venue, and ordered the staff to move some unused chairs from the next meeting room and put them at the back of the venue.

After finishing this matter, he cast a questioning look at Lu Zhou who was copying data to the multimedia desk.

"How are you getting ready?"

Lu Zhou said in a relaxed tone: "Basically OK."

"Come on," he gave a thumbs up to Lu Zhou. President Straman didn't say anything extra, but simply sent his blessings, "I hope all of us can witness history today."

Smiling confidently, Lu Zhou gently adjusted the tie on his chest.

"That's for sure."

I went to the hospital and prescribed some medicine. I took a nap in the afternoon. I feel better now. The update will still be at 10 am tomorrow~