Chapter 668 Done?

Haizhou.

Nuclear Industry Group Laboratory.

Academician Wang Zengguang, sitting in front of the experimental table, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, was staring at the blueprint in his hand meticulously, frowning and thinking about something.

When the controllable fusion miniaturization project was established, the task of designing a magnetic fluid generator set for the reactor with a smaller volume and more suitable for installation on spacecraft fell on the nuclear industry group that had participated in the design of the Pangu reactor generator set. .

Although the controllable fusion miniaturization project has always been underestimated, as the head office of the nuclear industry group, he resolutely took the lead in carrying this banner.

There is no other reason.

In addition to the belief in Lu Zhou who once led them to victory, it is the responsibility.

At this moment, the mobile phone on the table rang suddenly.

Wang Zengguang frowned. When he was busy, he was very disgusted to be interrupted by a caller, but when he saw the name of the caller, he immediately dismissed the idea of ​​not answering, reached out to pick up the phone and pressed the connect button. button.

As soon as the phone was connected, before he could say "Hello?", a hearty voice with a hint of excitement came from the other end of the phone.

"Academician Wang, have you finished the magnetic fluid generator set over there?"

Hearing Lu Zhou's ridicule, Academician Wang, who had a serious expression on his face, suddenly became happy, and said with a hehe: "You are still worried about us, and we can get you a prototype in a month at the latest. When the machine comes out, do you have any clues over there?"

Magnetic fluid generators are trivial things, they look very high-end, but they are not black technology at all. The crux of the problem lies in the reactor itself. If the reactor cannot be built, it will be useless to use magnetic fluid power generation or combined cycle.

Lu Zhou smiled: "Do you have any clues? Is it a clue if it's already done?"

There was silence on the phone for a few seconds.

After a while, there was a light cough.

"Ahem, I didn't hear what you said just now..."

Lu Zhou smiled and amplified the volume, and repeated it in a more precise tone.

"I said, the miniaturization problem of controllable fusion has been solved on our side!"

There was a bang, and the voice in the earpiece exploded. Lu Zhou was so frightened that he subconsciously moved the phone half an inch away, and glanced at the screen of the phone strangely.

Scared of your phone?

Not so.

Just when Lu Zhou was thinking this, there was a commotion on the other end of the phone. Academician Wang, who hurriedly picked up the phone from the ground, threw a series of questions over in an eager tone.

"It's done? It's done? The problem of heat dissipation has been solved? Your thing is going to be installed on the spacecraft. Could it be that the design of the Pangu pile was changed to a smaller size?"

Lu Zhou smiled: "The technical route adopted by the reactor is not magnetic confinement, it is probably similar to inertial confinement + pulse ignition... In short, it is not clear on the phone, you can take a look at it when you have time."

Academician Wang: "I'll come right over!"

After all, the phone beeped and hung up.

...

The Fusion Research Institute of the Nuclear Engineering and Construction Group is on the Haizhou side, next to the Pangu Heap. Firstly, it is convenient to provide technical support for East Asia Power, and secondly, it is safer to be close to the army.

From Haizhou to Jinling, it takes almost half of Suzhou Province, and a small section of Anhui Province on the way, which is really not very convenient.

However, even so, the next morning, Academician Wang Zengguang still rushed to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study with his two students.

And the people who came were not only Academician Wang, but also Director Li who had only met Lu Zhou some time ago.

"Professor Lu, long time no see!"

Staring at Lu Zhou with piercing eyes, Director Li, who was approaching him with big strides, had a smile on his face, and stretched out his right hand from a long distance away.

Shaking his hand, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Director Li, it's not long."

Seeing that Director Li seemed to be planning to say a few words of politeness, Academician Wang, who came here from Haizhou, couldn't wait any longer, and urged him there impatiently.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about the politeness later, where are the things? Hurry up and take me there to have a look."

Director Li smiled and said, "This... what Mr. Wang said is also true. Professor Lu, look, why don't we... go in and talk about it first?"

Lu Zhou smiled and turned around.

"Come with me."

Led by Lu Zhou, the group came to the laboratory in the corner of the research institute.

Located in the center of the laboratory is the experimental reactor model designed by the controllable fusion miniaturization project team.

Looking at the pitch-black cylinder with a diameter of two meters, the inverted tapered joint connecting the upper and lower ends, and those messy lines like balls of wool, Academician Wang opened his mouth as if he was stunned. It took a while to speak.

"You just use this thing...to engage in nuclear fusion?"

There was a word he kept in his heart and didn't say it.

Just this thing...

Can it work?

The two doctors who followed Academician Wang also couldn't believe it.

Not to mention the question of whether it looks ugly or not...

Is this thing too small?

Considering that a heat insulation layer and a neutron shielding material have to be added outside the core, it may be a problem whether the diameter of the actually wrapped core can be two centimeters inside the cylinder with a diameter of two meters.

Hearing Academician Wang's unbelievable voice, Lu Zhou who was standing beside him smiled.

"The appearance is indeed a bit crude, but although the sparrow is small and complete, and this thing is just an 'experimental stack' after all, it will be installed on specific equipment and the details will be adjusted."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, and did not explain the principle in detail, but looked at Sheng Xianfu who was standing beside him with a straight back.

"Please demonstrate it to Academician Wang and Director Li."

"Yes!"

After all, Sheng Xianfu walked to the side of the device energetically, and gestured to the two researchers next to him.

"Start the heating device!"

"Yes!"

The heating device was activated, and the reactor began to heat up. When the temperature reached above 180 degrees Celsius, the lithium material covered by the heat insulating material gradually melted into a flowing liquid.

Immediately afterwards, the deuterium-tritium mixed gas was injected into the device from the air inlet, and was heated and ionized into high-temperature plasma on the way through the ionization chamber. The released ultrasonic waves agitate periodically.

When the bubble collapses to the minimum volume, the peak temperature of the bubble breaks through tens of millions in an instant, heading towards hundreds of millions.

However, this is not the most shocking.

Staring at the rising value on the neutron dose detector, Academician Wang Zengguang stared straight. The eyes of the two students following him, staring at the device at this moment, are also shining.

Standing by the side in a daze the whole time, Director Li swallowed and asked in a low voice.

"Is this... done?"

Academician Wang nodded stiffly, and said in a voice trembling with excitement.

"...It's done!"