Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

December.

New Year's Day is approaching, and most people outside are looking forward to the New Year's Day holiday.

After spending long nights without any news or movement from the outside world,

The most important experiment since the construction of the Changye Pile began.

In addition to Changyedui’s own huge research team,

The old leader also chose to be present in person to witness this experiment.

"Chief Master Mo, you should just be busy with your business. I'll just watch from the side."

After the old leader took the initiative to say something, he stopped bothering Mo Dao and others.

Mo Dao nodded and just turned his head,

Looking at the scene of Changyedui.

This time the experiment is about to begin.

The experimental plan has been formulated and a fixed process is in place.

More than anything else, it was just to witness the conduct and final results of this experiment.

This is most likely the last important experiment conducted on the Long Night Heap.

After that, even if the experiment is conducted again, it will only be a repeated verification of this experiment.

…

Research on controllable nuclear fusion in this life has actually progressed very quickly.

Not even ten years have passed since Modao officially joined the EAST project.

It has only been six or seven years since the construction of the Long Night Pile in this life began.

And the results that have been achieved on the Long Night Pile have exceeded the accumulation of decades in the previous life.

The main reason is that Mo Dao has a clear direction in research on controllable nuclear fusion compared to the previous life.

What we are doing now is just bringing out the existing results.

And this time, an important experiment was conducted on the Changye Heap,

The most core purpose,

Just let Mo Dao see how far the plasma turbulence model can actually be achieved after it is implemented to a certain extent.

This is also the reason why a demonstration reactor was not built from the beginning. After all, Mo Dao has never seen a controllable nuclear fusion reactor that actually operates according to this turbulence model.

It also means that this experiment determines whether the demonstration reactor can be built in the future.

…

"Thirty minutes countdown."

While Mo Dao was looking at the scene of the Changyedui experiment site relatively calmly and thinking about something,

The countdown to the experiment began and it came to the last thirty minutes.

Everything is ready, and the fuel for the plasma in this experiment has also begun to be injected into the Tokamak device.

Mo Dao's side,

Academician Zhang and Professor Hong also had their eyes fixed on the picture of Changyedui.

Professor Hong is still a member of the theory team at this moment.

After the first experiment in Changyedui, Academician Zhang chose to step down as the person in charge of Changyedui, handing over this position to Mo Dao.

Originally, Academician Zhang was preparing to retire, but at Mo Dao's suggestion, he still served as a consultant for the Changyedui project.

The achievements achieved by the Changye Reactor are already very close to the complete realization of controllable nuclear fusion. If possible, Academician Zhang still hopes to witness this moment with his own eyes.

For Academician Zhang, Professor Hong and other Changyedui researchers,

The significance of this experiment to Mo Dao is not entirely clear.

But in this upgrade plan, the expected goal is that the steady-state constraint running time exceeds one hour and thirty minutes, and the Q value exceeds ten.

This is enough for all researchers to look forward to.

This means that after the Q value of Changyedui exceeded one for the first time, the most important indicator of Changyedui will break through an order of magnitude again.

"Ohm variable pressure heater, start heating."

The last half hour passed,

The experiment begins.

In the command hall, silence continued.

There are only occasional announcements of important indicators.

And all the researchers who participated in this upgrade plan,

They all basically locked their eyes on the data that was constantly being sent back during Changyedui's experiment.

Focusing on the changes in numbers, you don’t care about anything else around you.

"The plasma is heated to a predetermined temperature. The confinement coil is operating normally."

Only after the plasma heating phase is over,

In the command hall, there was a routine brief round of applause.

But it was short-lived, and most researchers did not take their eyes away from some key data.

And next,

It was a fairly quiet period of time during the entire experiment.

The person in charge of the experiment no longer needs to perform any special operations.

You only need to wait for the long night reactor to run stably until the expected time to perform the shutdown process.

Or some bad data may appear during the long-night operation of the reactor, and an emergency plan must be implemented.

Normally, except for those directly responsible for the experiment,

Other researchers can choose to close their eyes and rest at this time.

After all, it still takes more than an hour.

But under the current circumstances, it is obviously difficult for any researcher to truly rest at ease.

After taking a breath, the next second, looking at the scene of Chang Yedui's experiment site, his heart started to lift again.

The expectation that Changyedui will achieve another major breakthrough in this experiment is the source of this tense atmosphere.

This is destined to be a very difficult hour for most researchers in the entire project.

It's like waiting for a result, or waiting for a trial.

If the Great Filter theory really exists in reality,

If we say that controllable nuclear fusion technology is really a hurdle,

At this moment, they were like fish struggling in a giant net,

I want to break free from this ‘net’ and see a wider world.

Mo Dao's mood was quite calm.

Whether this important experiment can succeed this time, it doesn't matter much to Mo Dao.

In his long life, he actually failed a lot.

Even the research on controllable nuclear fusion technology in the previous life was not completely successful.

One question can still trap him for the rest of his life.

in addition,

When this operation experiment reached the stable operation stage, Mo Dao actually already had some knowledge.

…

After an hour and a half,

The most important experiment of Chang Ye Dui is over.

After getting the data,

Mo Dao paused for a moment and announced the results of this experiment to all the researchers in Changyedui.

"In this experiment of Changye Reactor, the stable operation time was 5,400 seconds. The intensity reached expectations, and the Q value reached 15.28."

"This experiment was successful."

This is Mo Dao's first experiment on controllable nuclear fusion.

In addition to announcing the data, it is also described with the word success.

Boiling cheers resounded throughout the command hall.

Maybe it was more than an hour of torturous waiting,

Or maybe it’s decades of research and hard work,

The emotions at this moment are particularly exciting, and the cheers at this moment are particularly enthusiastic.

There were many young researchers who were yelling.

Many older researchers were also smiling and laughing.

"... Chief Master Mo, this experiment is successful, does it mean... that we can go one step further?"

Next to him, the old leader also had a smile on his face amidst the excitement around him.

At the same time, he asked Mo Dao this key question.

This is based on Mo Dao’s answer to when he would be able to build a demonstration reactor when he communicated with him previously.

Mo Dao turned around and answered first,

"Afterwards, Changyedui will conduct the same experiment twice more to verify the stability of the data provided by this experiment."

Then after a pause, Mo Dao smiled again and said,

"...My personal opinion is that the Changye reactor has completed its historical mission and the demonstration reactor can start construction."

"Okay! Okay... Okay!"

The old leader couldn't help but feel excited after hearing Mo Dao's affirmative answer.

Without concealing it, he said to Mo Dao with his face a little red,

"That's great, Commander Mo. Let's build it then. The country supports you and supports you!"