Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

This intensive and rapid process of announcing the status of a new batch of controllable nuclear fusion commercial reactor construction plans every two or three months,

It was not until the following year that the pace of announcing construction plans for a new batch of controllable fusion commercial reactors slowed down.

By this time, in addition to the commercial reactors that have been completed,

Throughout China, there are several batches and dozens of commercial reactors at different stages of construction progressing at the same time.

Outside of China,

Some countries from Europe to America, no matter how slow they are.

At this moment, I was also passively aware of the breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion technology announced by China earlier.

It seems to have completely lifted China's restrictions on building controllable nuclear fusion commercial reactors.

But at this time, countries from Europe to America could only respond with silence.

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For Mo Dao, the days to come will be much more ordinary.

After the problem of tritium proliferation is completely solved,

There are no obstacles to the large-scale construction and popularization of deuterium-tritium fusion.

Although the higher-ups like or trust Mo Dao’s opinions more on all aspects of the energy field,

But including the construction of commercial reactors, Mo Dao does not need to be directly responsible in many cases.

When built according to the overall design of large commercial reactors and standard commercial reactors,

For the demonstration reactor project team, an academician or a senior professor from the core theoretical team is responsible for the accurate implementation of the construction plan.

Because the conditions of each commercial reactor under construction are different, sometimes unexpected situations outside the construction plan may occur.

For small unexpected situations, Mo Dao asked the student in the core team to handle them.

When the student is older, Mo Dao will only be needed to make the final decision when the student finds it difficult or unsolvable.

The significance of the demonstration reactor is not only the overall design of the demonstration reactor as a demonstration,

The entire construction process itself is also a ‘demonstration’.

The construction process of commercial reactors is actually similar to that of demonstration reactors.

The cooperative units are still following the requirements and continuously producing parts that they don't know where they will be used or what role they will play.

A large number of technical personnel from the demonstration reactor are also scattered at the construction sites of various commercial reactors.

Follow their original work content and workflow on the demonstration reactor and repeat it on the commercial reactor.

This is also the key reason why commercial reactors can be built simultaneously on such a large scale and in large quantities.

After the demonstration pile,

For the construction of commercial reactors, there is already a relatively standard construction process.

As well as the size of the demonstration reactor, it also brought out enough technical personnel in related fields.

And apart from these things,

At this moment, in the entire demonstration reactor project, the theoretical team has no major problems that need to be solved in deuterium-tritium fusion.

The next goals and tasks are very clear.

It is to study the next generation of controllable nuclear fusion technology, such as helium-3 fusion, which requires more demanding conditions and is more ideal.

However, this is not a problem that can be solved within a year or two like the tritium multiplication that was already on its last legs.

In other words, even if the problem of tritium proliferation can be quickly solved in this life, in fact, many controllable nuclear fusion researchers have laid the foundation in the previous life.

As for helium-3 fusion, even compared to the deuterium-tritium fusion that has been achieved now, the difficulty of implementation has not only doubled, but has climbed at least several orders of magnitude.

This means that for a long time to come,

For the entire demonstration reactor project team, it was also a quiet and even boring period of time.

also,

The entire theoretical research team of the demonstration reactor, after most problems in deuterium-tritium fusion have been solved,

It still maintains a considerable scale.

Obviously, even if the next generation of controllable nuclear fusion has been delayed,

No one would mind spending a lot of money to support this huge research team led by Mo Dao for their continued research.

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32 years.

A year here, construction of the third and fourth commercial reactors was announced.

The pressure on the power sector has been further alleviated.

The electricity price of that year also took a step forward in accordance with the five-year electricity price adjustment plan at that time.

"Starting from next month, the last adjustment of the year will be completed uniformly for some minor differences in electricity prices in various places."

"The first-tier electricity price for residents will be reduced to 3 cents per kilowatt hour, and thereafter the electricity price for each tier will be adjusted by the same range and proportion."

"The prices of industrial electricity and commercial electricity will be adjusted to 8 cents and 6 cents per kilowatt hour respectively."

The price of industrial and commercial electricity has lagged behind the adjustment of residential electricity prices.

It's not a matter of power supply cost, but this part of the electricity consumption is the bulk.

The power department has to consider the huge power supply pressure caused by the excessively rapid reduction of electricity prices in this part of the country.

But even so, four batches of commercial reactors have been completed here a year.

The price of electricity in these two aspects has still been reduced to an exaggerated level compared with before.

At the annual press conference of the power department,

The person in charge of electricity also mentioned that in recent years, residential electricity consumption and other electricity consumption have increased significantly compared with before.

same year,

Two more things.

One is about family cars.

The original plan was to completely ban traditional fuel-powered family cars from being put on the market this year.

At the beginning of the year, China did issue a notice to clarify the matter.

However, apart from giving everyone some free time and something to talk about,

it did not cause much impact.

After all, before this, the listing of traditional fuel vehicles had basically disappeared.

Some fuel-powered household car brands outside China were also forced to give up the Chinese market earlier.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce that year,

in 32, the year when traditional fuel-powered cars were supposed to be completely banned from listing,

the number of traditional fuel-powered household cars had fallen to less than 25%.

And the frequency of people actually using fuel-powered household cars may be even lower than this proportion.

This is caused by many reasons.

After the realization of controlled nuclear fusion, most people lost their expectations for the future of traditional fuel-powered household cars.

At the same time, it is also related to the strong competitiveness of electric vehicles in China during the process of industrial transformation and upgrading.

It is also related to the changes in the supporting conditions of electric vehicles and fuel vehicles.

The original state-owned gas stations have basically been converted into battery replacement stations and charging stations.

The Ministry of Commerce took the lead and directly unified the standards for domestic battery replacement and charging.

Now, there are fewer and fewer gas stations.

Therefore, the number of people using household fuel vehicles on a daily basis is decreasing,

and the number of household fuel vehicles has decreased, which in turn has led to a further decrease in gas stations.

After forming a cycle, almost everyone can see that

in the field of household vehicles, traditional fuel vehicles are already finished.

In response to this situation,

the government simply issued a more thorough measure.

Subsidies are provided for the replacement of traditional fuel vehicles with electric vehicles,

and in conjunction with a number of new energy vehicle companies,

supporting the replacement of traditional fuel vehicles with old ones, discounting when purchasing new energy vehicles, and providing an additional subsidy for vehicle replacement.

This is quite similar to the original home appliance going to the countryside.

It is basically equivalent to directly giving money.

And this year, due to the expenses of various projects and measures, the government also printed money.

However, the normal inflation caused by printing a lot of money did not occur.

In fact, most people not only did not feel it, but also felt the opposite.