Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 171 The First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant
Zhong Chengcai didn't have time to care about those gossips, and the business was to quickly swallow the meat in his mouth and digest it.

He let Zhao Wei, Yang Xi, Lin Wei, Li Mei, Jiang Yan, Gui Bin, Liu Yuzhu and other old members be in charge, and established seven professional R&D teams.

Computer software R&D group, computer hardware R&D group, new material R&D group, engine R&D group, detection technology R&D group, weapon system R&D group and test technology R&D group.

There is also the nuclear fusion R&D team in charge of Ye Wenxin, and the biotechnology R&D team in charge of Qin Wenyu.

The experimental technology research and development group in charge of Liu Yuzhu is responsible for the research of the experimental system with the Taixu experimental system as the core.

Because the Taixu experimental system is not omnipotent, it needs a real experimental device for verification at the beginning and end, which is a very important research and development topic.

It is necessary to absorb and utilize the latest professional technology, equipment and process.

Well done, it can save other R&D teams a lot of precious time.

Zhou Hu was formally appointed by Zhong Cheng as his assistant, coordinating the internal and external work of each R&D team, and handling some external affairs on behalf of Zhong Cheng.

Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhong Cheng completed the recruitment of the team, and his research and development capabilities skyrocketed.

But the management problems that follow are also becoming more and more prominent.

His original team members have developed slowly after years of cooperation. It can be said that they are a group of like-minded friends.

Therefore, the work assigned by Zhong Yi to Zhou Hu is also very difficult. It is not easy to manage this group of "proud soldiers".

These people were top-notch in their respective units, and to "tame" them cannot simply be solved by administrative means.

But Zhou Hu said that there is not much pressure. With the title of "Academician Zhong", the difficulty must be reduced by at least 50%.

Adding the positions of "Consultant Zhong" and "Supervisor Zhong", the difficulty will be reduced by 30%.

Who dares to lose face among these newcomers?
Zhong Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he was given the title of "Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences" at a young age, calling everyone old.

He has no objection to Zhou Hu's practice of pulling the tiger's skin to make a banner. He is not that pedantic.

But Zhou Hu is still required to try his best to convince people with reason and virtue, so that everyone can get actual benefits.

Although contributions are advocated, but with material and reputation rewards, everyone's enthusiasm will be higher.

Zhou Hu reassured him that Zhong Chengcheng would not care about trivial matters, and just guide the development direction for the team.

He must have assisted Zhong Cheng in building a national, no, the most innovative scientific research team in the world.

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Although it took a few days to expand and form a team, the efficiency improvement brought about is obvious.

And by participating in such a super-big project as the Golden Crow Project, the teams have also been able to run in faster.

The Golden Crow project is accelerating!
4 month 5 day.

The reactor casing manufacturing plant first completes the installation and commissioning of equipment and instruments.

By the end of June.

New generator assembly plants, large-scale coil manufacturing plants and a series of supporting production plants have entered into trial production one after another.

5 month 25 day.

All parts and components manufacturing plants have successfully trial-produced and entered the stage of small-batch production.

5 month 28 day.

The first assembly plant of the nuclear fusion generating set was completed, and the final assembly of the first nuclear fusion generating set was started.

6 month 5 day.

The final assembly of the first Suihuang nuclear fusion power unit was completed, and it was divided into 8 huge components and sent to Beishan Power Plant for final assembly.

Zhong Cheng personally took a dozen team members to Beishan Power Plant for on-site guidance.

The Beishan Power Plant is located in the western suburbs of Beishan City, more than ten kilometers away from the city.

But with the continuous expansion of the urban area, this distance has shrunk to less than three kilometers.

Beishan Power Plant originally had two 2-kilowatt thermal power generating units, which could no longer meet the electricity demand of Beishan City.

The original expansion plan was terminated due to environmental issues, and now it has been restarted.

However, the newly built generator set is the world's first official commercial nuclear fusion generator set, and two sets are to be installed as planned to reach a power generation capacity of 200 million kilowatts.

Guarantee that the demand for power supply in Beishan City will increase in the next few years.

The original two 2-kilowatt thermal power generating units will be dismantled after the first nuclear fusion generating unit is put into operation.

Beishan City will become the first city in the world to fully use nuclear fusion energy.

The new generator building is located in the mountains [-] kilometers west of the original power plant, and the mountains in the middle will be flattened in the next few years and used as industrial land.

In order to accommodate the more than 300-meter-long Suihuang nuclear fusion power generation unit, the newly built plant has also been built in a long strip shape, 360 meters long, 50 meters high, and only 90 meters wide, which can accommodate two Suihuang nuclear fusion power generation units.

A month ago, the new power plant had completed all the preparatory work in advance, and the control system, power transmission and transformation equipment, and high-voltage lines with the main power grid were all ready.

6 month 18 day.

After thirteen days of intensive work, the installation and commissioning of the world's first Suihuang nuclear fusion power unit was completed.

It's time for the first "ignition" test run.

Because of time and cost, Suihuang nuclear fusion generator set is the first real equipment built after it has been run in the Taixu experimental system.

Although Zhong Cheng is 99% sure of success, he can't guarantee 100% after all. If something unexpected happens, it will be a big accident.

Therefore, everyone in the power plant was evacuated, and Zhong Cheng only controlled the "ignition" three kilometers away from the plant through an external console.

For safety reasons, this historic moment did not invite unrelated personnel to participate, but a camera was installed in the generator set factory building, and a professional commentator broadcast it nationwide.

9 am exactly.

Zhong Cheng pressed the power button of the nuclear fusion reactor, and the automatic control program began to increase the input power at a slow speed.

Only three data are displayed on the main control screen specially drawn for the live broadcast, input power, output power of generator set, and energy gain factor—Q value.

When the input power reaches 1000 kilowatts, the generator set shows that there is electricity output, but it is less than 100 kilowatts, and the Q value is less than 0.1.

At this time, the entire device should only be equivalent to an ion engine.

After 2 minutes, when the input power reaches 10000 kilowatts, the output power of the generator set reaches 2000 kilowatts, and the Q value is 0.2.

After 10 minutes, when the input power reaches 50000 kW, the output power of the generator set reaches 20000 kW, and the Q value increases to 0.4.

At this point there should already be a very small amount of nuclear fusion happening in the reactor.

Seventeen minutes later, when the input power reached 7 kW, the output power of the generator set reached 90000 kW, and the Q value increased to 60000.

At this point the reactor should have had a small amount of nuclear fusion occurring.

The input power will reach the predetermined standard of 10 kilowatts, but the output power is still far away.

The on-site commentator's commentary became tense, and even the countless viewers who watched the live broadcast across the country also became nervous.

In 2 minutes, you will witness the success or failure of the world's first commercial nuclear fusion power unit.

Success or failure?

The unknown result that is about to face has lifted everyone's hearts!
Through the media publicity in the past few months, most people have already understood what the Q value is.

The Q value must reach at least 2 or more for nuclear fusion power generation to have practical value, and the higher the Q value, the higher the practical value.

But now the input power has reached 90000 kilowatts, the Q value is only 0.67, and there are [-] kilowatts left, how high can the Q value be?

If you make such a big move, what should you do if you fail?
(End of this chapter)