Chapter 385 Restart the Experiment!

Kadarashe area, under the ITER fusion reactor headquarters building.

Chen Mingji, who had just finished the meeting and walked out of the building, looked back at the headquarters building, which was not very high, with a complicated look on his face.

Two or three hours ago, an ITER Council meeting was held here.

The ITER Council is the highest decision-making body of the International Fusion Energy Initiative and is composed of representatives from seven member states.

Similar to CERN, there are actually two types of representatives on the ITER Council, one is at the technical level, and the other is at the government level.

The result of today's meeting was not very optimistic.

Chen Mingji, as a representative participating in ITER and the director of our International Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center, should have been the main force in the past.

But at today's meeting, he barely spoke.

Of course, today's meeting is actually not a technical matter.

However, the tough attitude of some people in today's meeting made him feel slightly worried.

Looking back, Chen Mingji glanced at the representative beside him and asked with some probing tone: "Director Xu, what do you mean by the country of America?"

Hearing the inquiry, Xu Moyu, who was walking beside him, turned his head and glanced at Chen Mingji.

Although there are some conflicts between Academician Chen and Academician Xu, he is also an academician after all, and he is also a leader in the field of controllable nuclear fusion in China and has dedicated his life to the country.

Smiling, he said: "They are just jealous of the technology in the hands of Academician Xu. Our Dawn Fusion Device has achieved a forty-five-minute operating time and created new brilliance. It is at the forefront of the world. They want to use ITER to coerce We just hand over these technologies.”

After hearing this, Chen Ming then asked: "Then what should we do?"

Hand over technology? Even he knew this was impossible.

He had conflicts with Xu Chuan, but that was his own matter behind closed doors and could be resolved internally.

Externally, no matter how you say it, we are all members of the same country and one family.

It is impossible to make it public unless we exchange technology for technology.

Xu Mo said with a smile: "There is no need to do anything for now, just delay."

After a pause, he glanced at Chen Mingji and continued: "It is impossible for us to relent on technical issues. Whether it is high-temperature superconducting materials or plasma turbulence CNC models, they are the private property of Academician Xu. Unless Academician Xu is willing, otherwise the country would not be able to exchange technology, let alone make it public for free.”

With this sentence, he not only expressed the high-level position, but also indirectly reminded Academician Chen in front of him not to think about other things.

After all, high-temperature superconducting materials and CNC models are very important for controllable nuclear fusion. If they are really traded, you can definitely get back a lot of good things.

The EAST project in Luyang is linked to the ITER nationality cooperation project. If the technology is exchanged through ITER, Luyang will definitely receive part of the benefits.

In this meeting, almost the whole process was negotiated by diplomats like them, who were also concerned about this aspect.

Chen Mingji nodded and remained silent for a while without speaking again.

To be honest, these things actually have nothing to do with him.

What he worries about is that those Western countries may take advantage of this and kick them out of ITER.

Although the other party doesn't have this intention now, I won't know later.

In anger, those led by the United States did not do such a thing.

Even some original agreements, or ongoing transactions, may be cut off.

Controllable nuclear fusion is a big pie that can fill everyone's stomach. Even if they can't eat it now, seeing the hope is enough to make everyone excited.

To be honest, Chen Mingji really didn't want to come to this point.

Although domestic controllable nuclear fusion is at the forefront of the world, if we put aside the achievements of the Dawn device, even Dawn, it is actually following the trajectory that has been followed.

Even the fusion devices were actually bought and traded from other countries.

The EAST in Luyang is modified from the HT-7 bought back from the Soviet Union, the Dawn Fusion device is modified from the ASDEX bought back from the Germans, the HL-2M, HL-2A from the Southwest Nuclear Industry, etc., in fact They were all bought.

It seems brilliant, but in fact, China's current research time on large-scale systematic projects such as controllable nuclear fusion is too short. Currently, China does not have a controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor built entirely by itself.

Despite the fact that EAST has accumulated some experience, even the Daybreak set a new record by running for forty-five minutes.

But in a large-scale scientific research project like controlled fusion that involves many disciplines, how to conduct subsequent research and what to do next are actually far more critical and important than what has been done.

In this regard, both Europe and the United States are actually further ahead than them.

At this point in time, cutting off communication with them was actually not a good thing in his opinion.

It's just that the decision has been made above, and he can't change anything.

Skills are not as good as humans. It is clear at a glance which one is more important, 450 seconds of operation or 45 minutes of operation.

I just hope something bad like this doesn't happen.

With a sigh, Chen Mingji buried some ideas and suggestions in his heart.

Because of the previous incident, he and Academician Xu had already had a very tense quarrel. If he put forward some ideas now, I am afraid there will be no room for easing.

On the other hand, in Jinling, Xu Chuan is not very clear about what happened at ITER for the time being.

During this period, he did not go to the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base very often. He basically stayed at home to improve some theories on magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands that would be produced during the deuterium-tritium fusion process of the Tokamak device.

Of course, it is just some theoretical improvement of ideas. For specific practical matters, we need to wait until the Dawn Fusion Device actually starts the deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation, and then analyze and process them based on experimental data.

But to be honest, what Chen Mingji thinks is indeed theoretically correct.

China started too late in the field of controlled nuclear fusion. Although it has come to the forefront, it is still in a catching-up position.

But that is for other people. For him, when it comes to the future development trend of controlled nuclear fusion and how to conduct subsequent research, I am afraid that the whole world combined cannot match him alone.

No matter how talented the researcher is or how powerful the team is, it is impossible to predict how controlled nuclear fusion will develop in more than ten years, and which routes and research methods are wrong.

But Xu Chuan can, he was reborn with a time difference.

In this future, how controlled nuclear fusion will develop, where there are problems, which route is feasible in the future, and which route is not feasible, not to mention all, at least most of it is clear to him.

So, from his point of view, even if China leaves ITER, it is not a big problem.

After all, from the beginning, the Qixiashan nuclear fusion project was a completely independent project and never relied on the technology from ITER.

Of course, Chen Mingji could not know these things, so from his point of view, it was not wrong.

It can only be said that no one would have thought that a reborn person would appear in this field.

As time passed, the days gradually came to the beginning of December.

After returning to the Qixia Mountain Base from the villa, Xu Chuan also became busy. The transformation of the Dawn Fusion Device was nearing completion, and the optimization of the plasma turbulence CNC model had been completed with the support of the Academy of Sciences.

The second restart of the Dawn Fusion Device was just around the corner, and all related matters required him to preside over the overall situation.

Finally, a week later, the transformation of the Dawn Fusion Device was completely completed.

The rest was the corresponding inspection.

It sounds simple, but it takes more time than before to complete the inspection of all equipment in a targeted manner, especially when the deuterium-tritium raw material fusion ignition operation process is added this time.

After all, the fusion ignition of deuterium-tritium raw materials is not a joke. If you don't pay attention, it will be a major safety accident.

Moreover, when the deuterium-tritium raw materials are truly fused, they will produce neutron irradiation. Although it is impossible to inject a large amount of raw materials in the first operation experiment, at most one milligram, the energy released by fusion is much greater than nuclear fission.

Although the Dawn Fusion Device and the project base have fully prepared countermeasures, it is the first time to start such an experiment. No one can guarantee whether the process will go smoothly and whether the results can meet expectations.

It took five days for the engineers and researchers of the Dawn Fusion Device to finally complete the relevant equipment inspection.

Standing in the main control room, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the giant in the core test area through the monitoring screen.

There are two goals for this experiment.

The first goal is to push the operation time of high-density plasma simulated by helium-3 and hydrogen to at least one hundred minutes.

The second goal is to run at least one deuterium-tritium material fusion ignition experiment.

The former is to continue to complete the control experiment of the operation time, and the latter is to collect experimental data and solve the problems of magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands generated in the deuterium-tritium fusion process.

As for the problem of damage to the first wall material caused by neutron irradiation generated by deuterium-tritium materials during the fusion process, although it is also in the collection of experimental data this time, the priority of solving this problem is not in this experiment.

After all, if you can't even run the plasma for a long time, there is no point in solving the neutron irradiation problem in the fusion process.

With the completion of the preparations, at 9:30 in the morning, Xu Chuan issued the order to start the experiment.

At the same time, under the control of numerous staff members, the Dawn Fusion Device sleeping in the core experimental area roared again.

PS: There is another chapter in the evening, please vote for me.

In the previous chapter, there were some errors in the time calculation. My brain was a little sluggish. One month after the end of October is December. I ignored December completely (QAQ), sorry.