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Three days later, in the Institute meeting.

"Tell me, which one do you think is more reliable?" Colonel Wu's voice was tired. This group of scientists had been arguing for a whole day about which method to use to experiment with controlled nuclear fusion.As the general manager, Zhuang Weiran didn't speak, but just watched coldly.Everyone glanced at me and talked one sentence at a time. Colonel Wu had never been so tired.No, it's not that I'm tired, it's just that I want to cry.

What is this all about!Can it be better?Dozens of people present are all old professors, except for Zhuang Weiran, the youngest must be a professor in his 50s.The temper is getting more and more irritable, and it looks like they are about to fight.

Colonel Wu looked at Zhuang Weiran next to him, and found that he still didn't seem to want to speak.I don't know what Professor Zhuang is thinking. This group of people has been arguing all day.Arguing over whether to continue to use the tokamak for the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, Colonel Wu's mind was buzzing. He was not an expert in this field, and he didn't understand how it works at all.

"Inertial restraint." Zhuang Weiran finally spoke, and everyone was stunned.He looked at Zhuang Weiran with different eyes, as if he was listening to some Arabian Nights.

"Professor Zhuang, what did you say to use to achieve controllable nuclear fusion?"

"Inertial constraints!"

"Professor Zhuang, are you kidding? Inertial constraints?"

"That's right, it's inertial restraint." Zhuang Weiran said seriously, "I'm not joking, I just want to use inertial restraint to achieve controllable nuclear fusion."

Everyone looked at Zhuang Weiran dully, it was obvious that Zhuang Weiran's words were not enough to convince anyone.What a joke, using inertial constraints to achieve controllable nuclear fusion, although Huaguo does have such a thing now, almost most people prefer tokamak.Compared with tokamak, inertial restraint is less mature now, but Zhuang Weiran personally feels that inertial restraint may have a better chance than tokamak.

Huaguo's Eastern Super Ring, even if it uses high-pulse technology, is essentially a tokamak.But inertial constraints—maybe inertial constraints are more reliable than stellarators.

But compared to the tokamak, everyone still feels that the current inertial constraint technology is not particularly mature.The tokamak was originally invented by Azimovich et al. at the Kurchatov Institute in the 20s.And now it is the 50st century. After several decades, the tokamak has been updated a lot, but the inertial constraints seem to be even more difficult to achieve.

Inertial confinement nuclear fusion is a method of using the inertial effect of particles to confine the particles themselves, thereby realizing a nuclear fusion reaction.The basic idea is: use the energy provided by the driver to make the nuclear fusion fuel (deuterium, tritium) in the target pellet form plasma, and within a very short time before these plasma particles have time to fly around due to their own inertia, they will pass through the centripetal The implosion is compressed to a high-temperature, high-density state, whereby nuclear fusion reactions occur.Since this kind of nuclear fusion is realized by the inertial confinement of the plasma particles themselves, it is called inertial confinement fusion①.

Colonel Wu didn't know what a tokamak was or what an inertial constraint was, but that didn't mean others didn't know what an inertial constraint was.You must know that almost all the people present are experts in this field.When Zhuang Weiran proposed inertial constraints, everyone was questioning why Zhuang Weiran used inertial constraints.At this stage, it is almost impossible to make controllable nuclear fusion with inertial constraints, and the most likely to succeed is the tokamak device.

"Professor Zhuang, you are really serious. You should know that it is almost impossible to achieve controllable nuclear fusion under inertial constraints."

"Nothing is impossible." Zhuang Weiran said calmly, "I think it is still possible. Tokamak has been researched for such a long time, and it has not been able to achieve controllable nuclear fusion for decades. Now we are doing it In this regard, why can't inertial constraints be used to achieve controllable nuclear fusion?"

"But..." Everyone is still not very optimistic about using inertial constraints to make controllable nuclear fusion, which is almost impossible.This century cannot be realized at all, and everyone on the court is hesitating.Do they think Zhuang Weiran is a bit too idealistic?If inertial confinement holds promise, not everyone wants to use a tokamak to achieve controlled fusion.But the current problem is here, the inertial constraint is simply impossible to achieve.

Compared with the fledgling technology of inertial restraint, they would rather use tokamaks. Whether it is the National Ignition Program of the Lighthouse State, the Eastern Super Ring of the Hua State, or the ITER of the European Union, they all use Tokamak devices.Inertial constraints are only being implemented by Lighthouse and Hua, but at this stage, inertial constraints are still in their infancy.It is simply impossible to achieve controllable nuclear fusion with inertial constraints.

"I... object." One of the person in charge said, "Unfortunately, Professor Zhuang, I don't think that inertial confinement can achieve controllable nuclear fusion, at least not now. Unless we can use the tokamak device to stably Make controllable nuclear fusion, and then study inertial confinement, otherwise, I am against it.”

"I'm against it too."

When one objected, the others began to object.Zhuang Weiran pondered and said, "Even if you object, I can only say that I still choose inertial restraint."

"Professor Zhuang, you are too domineering, aren't you?"

"Overbearing?" Zhuang Weiran said with a chuckle, "But I still think that inertial restraint may be able to achieve controllable nuclear fusion."

"This..." Everyone, you look at me and I look at you, not knowing what to say.I always feel that Professor Zhuang is too domineering. With so many people opposing him, he insists on going his own way.I feel that this is not Professor Zhuang's previous style, or in other words, Professor Zhuang was not like this in the past.

Colonel Wu was also a little stunned. He had never seen Zhuang Weiran insist on one thing before, and always felt that Zhuang Weiran's persistence was rather strange, "Professor Zhuang, are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Zhuang Weiran said with a smile, "Just use inertia."

"This..." Colonel Wu was stunned, and the other responsible persons did not speak.They really don't know what to say.Anyway, Zhuang Weiran has made his decision, and it is the kind that cannot be doubted.When his experiment can't continue, he will still change the tokamak.

"But for inertial constraints, we still need to prepare equipment, Professor Zhuang, are you sure?" Everyone's eyes fell on Zhuang Weiran, "Are you sure that inertial constraints will be able to produce controllable nuclear fusion."

"How many years have you been studying the tokamak device?" Zhuang Weiran asked back, "Since the research on the tokamak device is still not working for so many years, why not change the method. To be honest, I don't have any confidence."

"Ah?" Everyone was stunned, "Professor Zhuang, what do you mean?"

"Literally, I'm just not sure. After so many years of research on the tokamak device, are you sure of success?" Zhuang Weiran looked at everyone, and everyone was silent.Yes, no one is absolutely sure that controllable nuclear fusion can be produced.

"Then that's it. Tokamak still has a certain amount of time to succeed. If we change the method, maybe we can succeed?"

Colonel Wu was silent and did not speak. Regarding this meeting, he was completely unable to intervene.

"Let's start researching." Rubbing between his brows, Zhuang Weiran packed up his things and left the conference room.Watching Zhuang Weiran leave, the others looked at each other without speaking, but it seemed as if there were thousands of words in their eyes.

When I got home, it was not completely dark yet.Zhuang Weiran looked at the proposal book in his hand and was thinking about it. He just insisted on using inertial restraint instead of super tokamak because he knew that after so many years of tokamak installation, Huaguo's Dongfang super ring is a super tokamak device. .Even so, it is still very far away to achieve controllable nuclear fusion.

The Eastern Superring is only providing some data to the European Union's ITER. It is too difficult to use the Eastern Superring to achieve controllable nuclear fusion. It is better to start from scratch and use inertial constraints to solve this problem.

Wei Yaoyang hasn't returned home yet, Zhuang Weiran is thinking carefully about how to use the inertial restraint device to achieve controllable nuclear fusion.He has thought about this question for a long time, and he knows that human beings will one day embark on such a path.When he is idle, he has nothing to do, and he is always thinking about the issue of controllable nuclear fusion.Now when it really starts, Zhuang Weiran has a lot of ideas.But an idea is an idea, and I don’t know if it can be realized.

Forget it, let's do it first.It seems that he should not be discouraged before he started.

When Wei Yaoyang returned home, he saw Zhuang Weiran in the living room, propping his chin with his hands, as if he was thinking about something.He smiled and said, "Honey, what are you thinking about? You're so preoccupied."

"It's nothing." Zhuang Weiran shook his head lightly and said, "I'm just thinking about something... how should I put it, there must be something important."

"Then I'll cook first." Wei Yaoyang didn't ask much, Zhuang Weiran nodded slightly.

If restrained by inertia, Zhuang Weiran rubbed the center of his brows, this action happened to be seen by Wei Yaoyang.Wei Yaoyang, who was cooking, just came out of the kitchen, "It seems to be a difficult task."

"En." Zhuang Weiran nodded lightly, "Today they quarreled all day, and my brain hurts a lot."

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"Colonel Wu, I still think that Professor Zhuang is a bit too risky. The super-tokamak technology is very mature. If we continue to study, there should be a high chance of success, but the inertial constraint has not been started for a long time... the success is very low. difficulty."

"Then can you tell Professor Dongzhuang to change it?" Colonel Wu listened to it all day, with a terrible headache, "If you can talk to Professor Dongzhuang, there is no problem on my side. If you can't talk to Professor Dongzhuang , let’s forget it.”

"You know, Professor Zhuang's temper, you can't talk to Professor Zhuang, and I can't talk to Professor Zhuang, can't you?"

The person in charge fell silent, they still felt that inertial constraints were not reliable.

But Professor Zhuang made a final decision, and it was almost impossible to change his mind.

The author has something to say: ①: Excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia: Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion