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The Suiren Project is located on the west side of the first floor of the research institute, and there is a door through a short corridor.On the door is an ancient man who is drilling wood to make fire. This is the Suiren family imagined by the people of Sindan, one of the ancient sages.After Sun Ping and Chen Jiajun swiped their cards, they entered the gate.

After entering the door, Sun Ping had the feeling that he had come to another auxiliary building. In the three-story building, the ground floor is the current nuclear fusion prototype machine, while the second and third floors are where the researchers work.The conference room is right next to the prototype, which can accommodate dozens of people.

There is a large display screen at the position of the rostrum, and these display screens are also hung on the roof. These display screens are all synchronized for the convenience of people behind to watch.On the wall opposite the rostrum, there is a western oil painting, the content is based on the ancient Greek mythology, the story of Prometheus stealing the sun god fire.

"That painting was given to us by the director of the iter center." Seeing Sun Ping staring at the oil painting in a daze, Chen Jiajun explained. "You should know that iter (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Program) is the research institution that has gone the farthest in controlled nuclear fusion, right? They are an international cooperation organization, and we originally planned to join it, but they attached us There are too many restrictions. The French advocated that we should be accepted, but the Germans, Americans and Japanese opposed it fiercely. In the end, even the British voted for 'restricted admission of the Cathay Kingdom'. Director Shi was furious. Announced that he would no longer seek to join iter, and the French professor Chirac, who was the rotating director of iter at the time, gave us this oil painting, expressing his regret that we could not join iter. "

"So you arrived first." While Chen Jiajun and Sun Ping were chatting, Professor Shi Yongle also entered the meeting room with relevant equipment, "Dr. Sun, have you brought all your things?"

Sun Ping raised the tablet computer in his hand, so Professor Shi nodded, "I told everyone to prepare for a meeting. This meeting is related to the future research direction of the Suiren Project, so don't be absent!"

After about ten minutes, the conference room was full of people.The image is similar to that of most scientific research workers. Don't look at wearing white research uniforms, but most of them are slovenly.Professor Shi signaled Sun Ping to come to the rostrum, and then Professor Shi announced: "First of all, an appointment is announced. Dr. Sun Ping will become the deputy director researcher of our Suiren project team. Secondly, Dr. Sun will explain to us about the magnetic confinement controllable core. As for fusion-related content, you can ask questions after the lecture. In the end, we will decide whether to adjust our research direction based on Dr. Sun’s speech. Let Dr. Sun speak next!”

Sun Ping connected his tablet computer with the internal network of the meeting room, and then explained some schematic diagrams on the big screen while explaining magnetic confinement controllable nuclear fusion.Theoretically speaking, Sun Ping's thesis has been impeccable, and also gave the prototype design diagram of the magnetic confinement nuclear fusion generator.But the biggest problem is that Sun Ping's thesis is not supported by any experimental data, everything is derived from formula calculations and logical reasoning, which made the participants frown.

If Sun Ping's thesis is really supported by experimental data, then this is indeed the main direction of controllable nuclear fusion research, and it is very likely that it will be industrialized in the next three to five years; but what if the experimental results do not match the theory of the paper? ?Not only did the Suiren project waste many years, but it also took many detours.Originally, the Suiren project lagged behind iter's stealing fire plan and the US's ignition plan. If so much time is wasted, it means that the Cathay Kingdom will be completely left behind in the field of nuclear fusion research.It's no wonder that Director Shi wants to hold a meeting of the entire project team. This decision cannot be taken by any individual.

"Dr. Sun, your thesis is perfect and impeccable, but I want to know, have these core data been proved by the laboratory? If there is no experimental data to back it up, how can you guarantee that your thesis is true?" asked an expert.You must know that a thesis can actually be logically perfect, but it may not be real and feasible.

"Only a small amount of data is entered based on publicly available laboratory data, and most of the data is not supported by laboratory data." Sun Ping did not deny the biggest weakness of his paper, "But what I need to explain is , all data are in line with mathematical formulas and physical principles, which means that in the laboratory, these data will not be wrong. What I need now is someone to provide a place for me to test these experiments and verify whether the final data is correct. "

Sun Ping gave a feasible plan, so many people are thinking whether it is worth verifying.After all, it takes time to verify these data. Is it worthwhile to waste this time?Just when everyone was hesitating, Director Shi said: "Sometimes, we also need to bet when doing research. Since it is completely feasible in theory, why don't we dare to test it in the laboratory? If everyone thinks This paper has no theoretical flaws, so let's arrange time to verify it!"

With Director Shi's decision, everyone no longer struggled with the question of whether to do it or not, so they began to pay attention to how to do it.An expert asked: "Dr. Sun, regarding the production of the magnetic confinement controllable nuclear fusion test machine, I found that there are two problems to be solved. One is a high-temperature container, and the other is a superconductor. Your fusion environment is a plasma state, so The high temperature can only be achieved in a container made of special materials. Do you have a solution? In addition, the magnetic force required to generate a magnetic field sufficient to confine the plasma is huge. We must use superconductors to solve this problem. But the next problem is , How do we solve the problem of room-temperature superconductors? And the problem of ultra-high-temperature superconductors?"

"These are some experiments I did in the materials laboratory of Southern Institute of Technology. Although the expected results were not achieved, the experimental data are still very satisfactory." Sun Ping showed his own series of experimental data, "In terms of high-temperature materials , I found that special alloys incorporating some rare earth elements can meet the requirements of high temperature resistance in experiments. In terms of superconducting materials, I also provide two sets of solutions, which can produce superconductors at room temperature and superconductors at experimental high temperatures. "

Fortunately, the Cathay Kingdom on this plane has very strict control over rare earth elements. Only the National Rare Earth Element Industry Federation in the country is qualified to export rare earth elements, and the scale of rare earth elements exported each year is also very strict. Therefore, the international The price of rare earth elements on the earth is very high.Fortunately, the National Association of Rare Earth Element Industries provides a batch of cheap rare earth elements for education every year to the material laboratories of various universities. Otherwise, even a rich man like Sun Ping would have a heartache to make such rare earth element alloy materials.However, due to the limited rare earth elements in the materials laboratory and the limited experimental environment, Sun Ping's experimental data is only partial, and the other part of the data is speculated based on the experimental results.But even so, many experts expressed satisfaction with Sun Ping's speculation.After all, although scientific research is based on experiments, it sometimes requires imagination.

"It seems that the last question is mine?" Lin Jiajun said with a smile.Because many key questions have been asked, the only problem is the acquisition of raw materials. "The theoretical reserves of deuterium and tritium on the earth are extremely abundant, but one needs to be extracted from seawater, and the other needs to be synthesized using lithium isotopes. I wonder if Dr. Sun has a solution?"

"Everyone knows that when the Taishang Laojun was making alchemy, two Taoist boys helped to fan the flames. Later, these two Taoist boys went down to earth and became golden horns and silver horns, which caused a lot of trouble for Monkey King." Sun Ping started with a story , "Here I named the deuterium extractor 'Golden Horn', and the tritium synthesizer named 'Silver Horn', let's take a look at the design diagrams and principles of these two devices."

After reading Sun Ping's design drawings and the principle of the equipment, everyone pondered for a while and found that they could not find Sun Ping's loopholes.Finally, at Director Shi's suggestion, everyone decided to verify the feasibility of Sun Ping's nuclear fusion principle.After the meeting was over, everyone left. Director Shi found Sun Ping, "I found that when you explained the controllable nuclear fusion, you didn't go deep into some things. But I studied it carefully and found that you not only have a forward-looking view of the first generation of nuclear fusion. There are even researches on the second generation of nuclear fusion. I would like to hear, how do you think about the commercial application prospects of controllable nuclear fusion?"

Sun Ping was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Actually, whether it is the first generation or the second generation, they all have the potential threat of neutron pollution, and their safety is also very problematic. If we want to obtain perfect nuclear fusion energy, then We can only hope for the third generation, which is pure helium 3 nuclear fusion. However, there are almost no helium 3 reserves in nature, and we can only use tritium decay to obtain helium 3. But the problem here is the cost of obtaining tritium Not low, and at the same time, the pollution in the decay makes our ideal third-generation nuclear fusion inevitably produce pollution. If we want to obtain helium 3 in large quantities and cheaply, then we can only look up to the starry sky."

"You don't intend to colonize the moon, do you?" Of course Director Shi knows that there is a large amount of helium-3 that can be mined on the moon of Shuilanxing, but according to international agreements, the moon cannot be colonized by any country. "Do you think we offend the whole world?"

"We don't take the moon as our own. We just go to it and move something back." Sun Ping shrugged. , I can’t move, can I?”

"Your statement is really interesting!" Director Shi was rarely amused by Sun Ping, "It's a pity that our country's aerospace engineering still stays near low-earth orbit, and only Americans and Russians have done moon landings. But they It’s just to move some rocks back, you are going to set up a factory on the moon, and then move it regularly. The cost and technical requirements are unimaginable!”

Sun Ping didn't pick up Director Shi's words, of course he has a way to change all this, but is now the time?On the one hand, he tossed out artificial intelligence, and on the other hand, he made breakthrough discoveries in controllable nuclear fusion.All this can barely be explained by being a mathematician. After all, computer science and high-energy physics are inextricably linked with mathematics.But going to the moon to set up factories, recoverable rockets, and large manned spacecraft are all in the category of engineering and applied science.So Sun Ping said with a smile: "At least our generation can realize the commercial application of the second generation of controllable nuclear fusion, which will greatly improve my country's energy and environmental protection. The future will be left to the future." people!"