Chapter 548: Putting Materials Into Production

The predecessor of the National Controlled Fusion Energy Program Execution Center was the International Controllable Fusion Energy Implementation Center. Since Hua Guo withdrew from ITER, it changed its name. Zhou Chengfu had been the director until now.

Just by looking at Academician Pan's expression, Lu Zhou knew that most of the academicians that the old man was talking about were probably lobbying by himself.

After all, with my contacts in the domestic academic circles, it is not enough for me to let a few academicians I have never met write letters for me.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Do you want to accept it?

After thinking for a while, he said: "... I am already the chief designer of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project, wouldn't it be good to also be the director of the National Controlled Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center? I'm already very busy with work, and I can't spare that time."

"It's nothing bad. It's very common to hold multiple positions in academia. What's more, these two positions do not conflict in research, and they don't take much of your time." Academician Pan shook his head, "You hang up As for the position of director, the specific work should be left to the secretary or assistant, or if you really don’t want to take care of it, just leave it to the deputy.”

If it were an ordinary person, Academician Pan would definitely not suggest such a thing. After all, it is too common for the deputy to do everything, but the principal is emptied.

But for Lu Zhou...

Probably nothing to worry about.

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't seem to be convinced yet, Academician Pan continued.

"If you don't plan to do it, it's not appropriate to promote any of the deputy directors. I don't say the reason, and you can probably figure it out. If you parachute a leader from the Energy Bureau, it's a trivial matter if you are not familiar with the work. I am afraid that when the time comes, it will become a layman commanding an expert, which will seriously delay the progress of the project. We are now concentrating our efforts on major tasks, and we must do everything possible to avoid unnecessary waste of resources.”

Lu Zhou: "...I'll think about it again."

Seeing that Lu Zhou had his own opinions, Academician Pan stopped persuading him and just nodded.

"Okay, if you think about it carefully, the Energy Bureau will probably ask for your opinion in advance. By the way, the stellarator...is there no problem?"

It may be that academician Pan was a little panicked when he said that he was concentrating his efforts on major tasks.

Unlike laymen, this word is still quite a headache for those engaged in scientific research.

The efficiency of concentrating on big things is certainly high, but the premise is that the direction of effort is right.

Although he knew that the possibility of being wrong was very small, Academician Pan couldn't help but ask this question.

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou immediately coughed lightly: "We have come to this point, don't stand around things like flags."

Academician Pan was stunned for a moment: "What is Flag?"

Lu Zhou: "...You can understand it as another way of saying crow's mouth."

"You young people, can't you say something that I can understand? My granddaughter is also saying difficult things all day long." Academician Pan shook his head and stood up from the sofa, "Okay , I'm relieved that you are so sure. I won't chat with you, I'm going back to Shangjing."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Go slowly."

...

In the end, after some careful consideration, Lu Zhou accepted Academician Pan's proposal and accepted the post of director of the National Controlled Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Executive Center.

As for the financial, personnel management, and other administrative work of the execution center, the original arrangements will continue to remain unchanged. If necessary, make adjustments in due course.

Lu Zhou doesn't need to use this position to achieve any political demands. All he needs is that this institution can continue to operate according to his ideas, and it is enough not to cause trouble for his research.

Anyway, this execution center is estimated to have to be reorganized once the nuclear fusion demonstration reactor is completed.

At that time, he will almost be able to retire, and just resign the director.

On the second weekend of Zhou Chengfu's resignation, Lu Zhou received a formal appointment document.

Almost at the same time, good news came from the nuclear industry group.

Academician Wang, who returned to the demonstration reactor base again, immediately found Lu Zhou. He was so excited that he didn't even have time to say hello, so he went straight to the topic.

"The set of drawings you took is very useful. We have basically solved the production of LPC-1 materials! We can start production by the end of the month at the latest!"

Hearing this news, Lu Zhou also showed a smile on his face, and asked immediately.

"Where is the factory built?"

Academician Wang: "Chang'an!"

Ceramic matrix composites are widely used in the aerospace industry because of their properties such as high temperature resistance, high strength, and relatively light weight. They are mainly used in liquid rocket engine nozzles, missile radomes and other parts.

The largest production base of ceramic matrix composite materials in China is in Chang'an. Therefore, the LPC-1 material production plant jointly held by the Nuclear Industry Group and the Jinling Institute of Computing Materials is also built there.

But Chang'an...

This has penetrated deep into the hinterland of the country.

Lu Zhou: "...Will it be too far to build it in Chang'an?"

In fact, according to his idea, it can be produced near Haizhou. In this case, if something happens in production, the researchers from the Institute of Computing Materials can go to help.

Just like the SG-1 superconducting material, researchers from the Institute of Computational Materials have helped a lot from upgrading the production line to solving a series of technical problems.

Academician Wang shook his head: "It's not too far, and it only takes two days to transport by rail. It's also very close to our production base in Rongcheng. The materials produced are directly transported to Rongcheng to be processed into parts, and then sent to Assembly here in Haizhou."

There is another point that Academician Wang didn't say, that is, from the perspective of production safety, inland production is much safer than coastal areas.

After all, although this thing is not considered military technology, it involves nuclear technology after all, so it can be regarded as a sensitive technology.

Lu Zhou nodded and didn't say much.

"That's fine. You are experts in this field, so I won't say much. The processing of the stellarator orbit... Is there any problem with you?"

Hearing this question, Academician Wang waved his hands and said.

"Don't worry about this. Twenty years ago, old experts in the nuclear industry went to visit the French nuclear power plant. Even if they had a look at it from a distance, they would be able to come back and come out pretty well. No matter how we say it, we will After pondering with the STAR device for nearly half a year, disassembling and reassembling it so many times, we still modified the coil for you. If you still can’t fix this thing, you might as well go home and farm!”

Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"That's impossible. Without you, this project cannot go on. If you want to go back to farming, you have to wait for our demonstration pile to be successfully connected to the grid."

Hearing this sentence, Academician Wang felt happy, squinted his eyes and smiled, but didn't speak.

The phrase "Without you, this project cannot go on", seemed to poke his heart.

It's a good feeling to be valued.

Especially since this guy is a Nobel laureate...

After pausing for a while, Lu Zhou continued: "The problem of material production has been solved, how long will it take for the stellarator orbit to be in place?"

Without any hesitation, Academician Wang answered this question confidently.

"Before the end of the year at the latest, I can let you see a complete stellarator orbit!"