Chapter 533 Offend You A Little

Zhou Chengfu never imagined that just after his plane landed, he hurried back to the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics, when an unexpected person followed him.

And this person is also the last thing he wants to see...

"...Our stellarator is still being repaired, so I can only borrow your HL-2A. I have already applied to the higher authorities for this matter, and the Energy Bureau has also issued instructions. Director Lu said that you will fully cooperate I can't wait to come over to my experiment. As for the paperwork, it will arrive tomorrow at the latest." Sitting on the sofa in Zhou Chengfu's office, Lu Zhou casually explained his purpose, and fiddled with the tea table with great interest The teapot on the table, "Your teapot is quite beautiful, where did you buy it?"

Staring at Lu Zhou, Zhou Chengfu said blankly: "Aren't you a stellar imitator, what experiment are you doing here?"

Lu Zhou: "Pulse ignition."

Upon hearing this sentence, Zhou Chengfu immediately became furious.

"It's impossible! Are you fucking crazy to set fire to the experimental pile?"

Lu Zhou was indifferent to Zhou Chengfu's rant, just smiled and continued.

"I have read related papers, and the HL-2A's ability can fully meet the ignition conditions. I need to test the performance of the new material by simulating the neutron irradiation environment inside the reactor, so I can only ask you."

"Don't worry, don't worry about the cost. The tritium consumed by the experiment will be provided by us. You just need to cooperate with our experiment."

After hearing Lu Zhou's request, Zhou Chengfu almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

What does it mean that funds are provided by us?

Is it a matter of money?

And when it comes to money, Zhou Chengfu's heart hurts for a while.

Especially Director Lu's words of "cooperating fully" made him even more angry and angry. Obviously he was the first to do this direction, but in the end he became a stepmother.

"You're going to do a neutron irradiation experiment, why don't you go to Daya Bay?"

Lu Zhou shook his head: "Neither Daya Bay nor the neutron source in Dongguan can meet the requirements."

The latest research plan of the current international controllable fusion research is to build a point neutron source device based on D-Li interaction to simulate the neutron irradiation environment in the fusion reactor. However, so far, such devices are still at the conceptual stage. Now it is mainly the Americans who are doing the research, and as for how far the specific research has come, it is estimated that only they themselves know.

"What about Science Island?" Zhou Chengfu was in a hurry, and in the spirit of dead friends never dying, he said in a hurry, "You can also do that EAST on Science Island, why don't you—"

"I'm going to use yours."

With one sentence from Lu Zhou, he blocked all the words he was full of.

Putting down the teapot in his hand, Lu Zhou stood up from the sofa.

Looking at Zhou Chengfu who looked as uncomfortable as eating a fly, he smiled and said in a relaxed tone.

"Anyway, I've probably offended you already, so let's offend you again today."

Zhou Chengfu's face gradually darkened, and his voice gradually lowered.

"You have to think clearly, if our HL-2A is destroyed in your hands, and your demonstration reactor cannot be produced..."

The expression on his face didn't change at all, Lu Zhou said, "Don't bother you, the responsibility is naturally mine."

"Humph."

With a cold snort, Zhou Chengfu stood up from the office chair, said nothing, and walked out of the office with a gloomy face.

Seeing the back of the old gentleman leaving, Lu Zhou dissipated the smile on his face and resumed his usual expression.

Maybe there is a more tactful way, but there's no way, he's pressed for time.

So, I can only say sorry.

...

Including the first ring of the University of Science and Technology under construction and several inertial restraint devices that have been converted to military industries, there are a total of 16 controllable nuclear fusion experimental devices in China.

However, there are only a few of them that can make the temperature in the reaction chamber reach hundreds of millions of degrees, which is the temperature at which DT fusion occurs.

HL-2A is one of them, which naturally condenses the painstaking efforts of countless researchers.

Seeing the crying expression of the technician in charge of overhauling the equipment, Zhou Chengfu didn't even need to ask, he knew that this thing was probably out of action.

He stared at Lu Zhou angrily, his stomach is full of fire now.

Although he can't wait to throw this guy and those dozens of samples into the tokamak for refining, but he has done all the experiments, at least he needs to know that all this is not in vain.

This sentence was almost squeezed out between teeth, Zhou Chengfu stared at Lu Zhou and said.

"what's the result!"

Ignoring the resentment in the voice, Lu Zhou stared solemnly at the SEM image scanned by the scanning electron microscope for a while, and finally sighed.

"The situation is not very optimistic."

This time he brought more than 20 samples, all of which were installed on the surface of the first wall of the tokamak.

And these images are all the data obtained by the staff wearing chemical protective suits entering the reaction room after the experimental reactor was shut down to cool down, and taking these materials to a special department for testing.

Judging from the data obtained so far, the performance of these materials in the reactor is not very good.

However, Lu Zhou didn't expect a single experiment to be successful. Any research is to find a feasible way through repeated trial and error.

Hearing this sentence, Zhou Chengfu almost vomited blood in anger.

What does it mean?

Do it again in a while?

Rubbing his chin lightly with his index finger, Lu Zhou carefully stared at some of the pictures, and continued to speak, "The neutron radiation capability of the fusion environment is too strong, although SiC and porous network graphene aerogels can penetrate neutron beams. The performance is still good, but the neutron beam that penetrates the material still forms multiple Frenkel defect pairs inside the material."

Zhou Chengfu: "What the hell?"

Lu Zhou froze for a moment, and glanced at him in surprise.

"Is the Frenkel defect right? In the crystal structure, the atom or ion that originally occupied a lattice site leaves the lattice site, becomes an interstitial atom or ion, and leaves a vacancy at the lattice point it originally occupied... it is considered in crystallography Pretty basic concept."

Zhou Chengfu's old face turned pale, subconsciously wanting to choke back.

However, at this moment, he suddenly remembered that the guy in front of him was a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, and what he said seemed to be humiliating himself, so he swallowed back the words on his lips, and only choked out a small whisper.

"I am engaged in nuclear physics and plasma physics, not in materials..."

After all, generalists who know everything are a minority.

As the overall person in charge of the project, he may know a little more, but his understanding will definitely not be that deep.

What's more, the structural material of HL-2A is not the same thing. He only heard about the use of ceramic matrix composite material in the reactor structural material during the meeting.

"For example, here, and here," without caring whether Zhou Chengfu understood or not, Lu Zhou casually clicked two positions on the image, and said casually, "Did you see these white spots? Put them together with the infrared spectrum detection data, we can infer The hydrogen-extracting elements occupy the vacancies left by the displacement of the interstitial atoms. It shows that the pass rate of the material to the neutron beam is not good enough, and the neutrons trapped inside the material have decayed."

He could understand this part, Zhou Chengfu said with a livid face, "So what's the use of your stuff?"

"Whether it is useful or not depends on who uses it."

After saving the data in the mobile hard disk, Lu Zhou said in a relaxed tone without looking at Zhou Chengfu's face.

"Don't forget the subject of computing materials, but I opened it."