Chapter 546: Core Catcher

"It's interesting." After flipping through the blueprints that Lu Zhou handed over, Academician Wang Zengguang touched his chin with a look of interest on his face.

After a while, he asked.

"Who designed this thing?"

Naturally, it was impossible for Lu Zhou to tell him the real answer, so he simply replied.

"It was discussed in the institute."

In a sense, he is also a person in the institute.

"Discussion" with the system can barely be considered a "discussion", right?

Academician Wang glanced at Lu Zhou suspiciously: "There must be someone who makes up his mind after the discussion, right? Talking all over the place can make a fool out of it."

Lu Zhou smiled and ended the topic without further explanation.

"Let's not delve too deeply into these minutiae. Compared with who made the decision, I want to know now with this blueprint, whether your nuclear industry group is sure to get this production process done."

Returning to the drawing, Academician Wang stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then said, "It's a bit difficult, but it's not a big problem."

Hearing that Academician Wang said it was all right, Lu Zhou heaved a sigh of relief and nodded.

"Okay then, I'll leave it to you."

"No problem, I promise we will solve it as quickly as possible." Speaking of this, Academician Wang suddenly looked at Lu Zhou with a smile: "It seems that Professor Lu is really hiding something."

Lu Zhou: "..."

This person, don't you think I drew it?

Thinking of what happened the last time he drew a picture, Lu Zhou probably guessed what caused him to have such a misunderstanding.

but……

If you like to misunderstand, just misunderstand, it doesn't bother him anyway.

It is better to misunderstand this thing than to break the casserole and ask the end.

Continuing to look at the blueprint in his hand, Academician Wang suddenly thought of something and said.

"By the way, although the controllable fusion project is a major national event, we still have a clear distinction between public and private. This technology was developed by your Jinling Institute for Advanced Study with money and efforts. It is not very good for us to use it for nothing. My The suggestion is to cooperate to set up a factory, your technology will become a shareholder, and we will be responsible for the implementation of production.”

Academician Wang Zengguang probably wouldn't mention this if someone else took out the blueprint, but Lu Zhou's identity is different after all.

What does the identity of the chief designer mean?

He alone has the final say on how and where to spend tens of billions or even hundreds of billions. Coupled with the importance he received from the top management, even a giant in the nuclear power field like the Nuclear Industry Group would not be willing to easily offend such a person.

Therefore, even if Lu Zhou didn't show any special cares, Academician Wang subconsciously thought a little bit more deeply, in order not to bury hidden dangers for future things, at least he couldn't make him feel at a disadvantage.

This matter needs to be mentioned with the group leader.

Hearing this proposal, Lu Zhou didn't think much about it, and replied: "Okay, then we'll do it like this."

In fact, Academician Wang thinks too much. He doesn't particularly care about this. After all, compared with the huge market of lithium-sulfur batteries, the benefits that the first-wall materials of controlled nuclear fusion can bring him can be said to be a drop in the bucket.

If the patent fee for the LPC-1 material can make Lu Zhou ten cents, then the cooperation with the nuclear industry group to set up a factory can only turn the ten cents into four or fifteen cents.

If he really wanted to make money, he didn't need to care about these petty profits at all, and it was enough to directly develop the controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Not to mention that the country will definitely not treat him badly with this achievement, but the impact of the breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology alone is enough to make the lithium-sulfur battery market expand several times. Just a few patents for positive and negative electrode materials Fee would be enough to keep him full.

However, it seems pointless to say this.

After all, he now has too much money in his bank card to spend.

Even if you add a zero at the end...

emmm...

Oh my god, it still seems attractive.

Just as Lu Zhou continued to chat with Academician Wang about the technical details of the drawings, there was a knock on the door of the office.

After stopping the conversation, Lu Zhou looked towards the door and said.

"come in."

The door opened, and a researcher walked in.

"An expert came from the southwest."

southwest?

Hearing this sentence, the expression on Lu Zhou's face was full of surprise.

"Who?"

"Academician Zhou Chengfu..."

...

At the gate of the demonstration reactor base, a group of people stood there.

Accompanied by Wang Peng, he approached and signaled the soldiers on duty to open the checkpoint. Looking at Zhou Chengfu standing there, Lu Zhou smiled and stretched out his right hand.

"Rare guest, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Shaking hands with Lu Zhou, Zhou Chengfu didn't have much expression on his face, he seemed very silent, and he cherished words like gold.

"It's a pleasure to meet you."

Feeling that he probably has something to say, Lu Zhou invited, "Come to my office for a while?"

Zhou Chengfu nodded.

"Also."

Along the way, the two walked side by side without much communication.

In order to make the atmosphere less rigid, Lu Zhou thought for a while, tried to find a common topic, and said in a chatty tone.

"HL-2A repaired?"

Zhou Chengfu said with a straight face: "Thanks to you, not yet."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly: "That's really troublesome for you."

Zhou Chengfu: "..."

Although he said that he came with a "peaceful" purpose, but seeing this unsmiling smile, it took him a lot of effort to restrain the urge to do something.

Passing through the center of the factory site, at this time, the two passed a large pit.

Zhou Chengfu frowned as he looked at the engineering equipment being constructed nearby and the huge pit in the center of the factory site.

"That is?"

Because it is not a secret in itself, Lu Zhou said casually: "The core trap is mainly used to prevent safety accidents, that is, to collect and cool the core effluent in the event of a serious accident... Although it is only a foundation now, it will It should be fine to fix."

After all, the energy of stars is simulated inside the controllable fusion reactor. Even if the fusion reaction is theoretically safe, the plasma itself of hundreds of millions of degrees is a very terrible threat.

Especially the energy in the demonstration reactor is completely different from the ignition that Lu Zhou barely made in the experimental reactor.

If a leak occurs, before the plasma cools to a safe temperature, it will basically melt and melt, and there is no material in the entire solar system that can stop them.

In order to protect the expensive fusion core, the importance of this device is highlighted.

Even if it is a one-off, it is worthwhile as long as some undamaged parts are salvaged at the first time of the accident.

Referring to the structure on the fission pile, Zhou Chengfu guessed its use as soon as he heard the name, and glanced at Lu Zhou unexpectedly.

"Have you even considered this part?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's not our idea, it was proposed by the engineers of the nuclear industry group. I thought about it and thought it made sense, so I approved it."

Whether it is a tokamak or a stellarator, in terms of specific engineering, it can be understood as a larger core.

After understanding the value of the reactor when discussing the engineering plan, the engineers of the Nuclear Industry Group immediately proposed to apply the core catcher of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant, the third-generation nuclear fission reactor, to the fusion reactor.

It just so happened that Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant had ready-made references, so Lu Zhou immediately made a decision.

Although Lu Zhou didn't mean to show off when he spoke, Zhou Chengfu couldn't help but say sourly after hearing this sentence: "Did you build the reactor for these fancy things?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said indifferently: "The reactor is also being built, and the projects on both sides do not interfere with each other. We have unified the standard on the size of the connection port, and after all the parts are completed, we can assemble them."

This time Zhou Chengfu didn't speak.

There is nothing left to say.

The so-called do not have the right to speak if you do not understand, academic matters are still very realistic here.

He has not fully grasped the technology of the experimental reactor, let alone the demonstration reactor.

The two of them unconsciously stopped beside the construction site. Zhou Chengfu didn't seem to intend to continue walking, so he just stood here, quietly looking up at the engineering equipment working on the construction site, and the people walking on the edge of the scaffolding. engineers

Including what he saw in front of his eyes and what he couldn't see standing here.

More than a thousand people are serving this machine.

The entire demonstration reactor base is like a machine with full horsepower, and everyone in it is like a gear, driven by a main shaft of the engine, running at high speed.

envy?

emotion?

Or unbelievable?

At this moment, Zhou Chengfu's heart seemed to be overturned with mixed feelings, and he couldn't tell what kind of feeling it was.

He didn't understand why a young man in his twenties could do this. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it was true.

However, in reality, he really did it...

This is an irrefutable fact.

Seeing this, Zhou Chengfu suddenly felt a little melancholy.

Just as Lao Pan didn't understand why he did this, he also didn't understand Lao Pan.

But now, looking at everything in front of him, he suddenly understood.

If this trend continues, maybe...

This person is really hopeful that he can develop controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology in his lifetime.

After being silent for a long time, Zhou Chengfu spoke slowly.

"These two thousand people are now working for you, right?"

Lu Zhou: "There is nothing wrong with your understanding."

Glancing at Lu Zhou, Zhou Chengfu said, "Have you ever thought that one day, because of a decision of yours, or a mistake of yours, or something someone else did, they would throw away the A job or a project... I want to know, what would you do?"

Lu Zhou: "Does this have anything to do with me?"

Zhou Chengfu was slightly taken aback.

It seems that he did not expect Lu Zhou to say that.

Standing there in a daze for a while, he said with a smile when he came back to his senses.

"...Oh? It has nothing to do with you? Hehe, a leader who doesn't know how to work for the welfare of his subordinates is not a good leader."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled lightly.

"So I never thought about being a leader in the past. What I am responsible for is just to explore those unknown things. As for their own future, that is something they should think about themselves, and I have no obligation to think for them. .”