Chapter 394 The Last Hope of the Whole of Europe

While there was a lot of discussion on the Internet, Xu Chuan had locked himself in the office for several days.

He didn't pay attention to the news on the Internet, and was concentrating on studying issues such as magnetic surface tearing caused by deuterium and tritium fusion.

It has to be said that after having the actual operation data and combining it with the relevant theories that he had perfected before, he had an easy time breaking through this issue.

It is impossible to rely on a simple mathematical model of plasma turbulence to solve this problem, but by cooperating with the modification of the outer superconducting coil of the Daybreak Fusion Device, he is confident that the tearing of the magnetic surface can be suppressed without affecting the reactor chamber. The extent to which high-temperature plasma operates.

Although the problem has not been completely solved, if this step can be achieved, the impact will not be big.

Just wait for the next dawn run and run the experiment again to verify.

If the magnetic surface tearing problem and the first wall material can be solved, the demonstration reactor can be started directly.

Judging from the completeness of the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Park, the construction of the demonstration reactor only requires the assembly of a new controllable nuclear fusion reactor in the core area.

This doesn't take much time.

As for the comments on the Internet, unless he saw it himself, no one at the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base would take the initiative to show it to him.

After checking the compiled data, Xu Chuan saved the relevant data with satisfaction.

Just then, a call came to his cell phone.

I picked up the phone and took a look. The caller was Professor David Gross, the director of CERN.

"Professor Gross, long time no see. How about coming to work at CERN?"

After answering the phone, Xu Chuan asked with a smile. The initial solution to the problem of magnetic surface tearing made him feel very good indeed.

But David Gross was in a very bad mood.

"No, not good at all." Gross replied with a sigh, shaking his head.

Xu Chuan smiled and asked curiously: "What's wrong? Are there problems with the construction of the LHC?"

After CERN decided to stop exploring dark matter and sterile neutrinos in the first half of the year, the CERN Board of Directors decided to upgrade the Large Strong Particle Collider LHC and purchased a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials from him.

According to the progress, the LHC upgrade should be about halfway through.

Gross sighed and said: "Yes. This is not only about CERN, but also about you."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was keenly aware of something and asked: "Has anyone been involved in the construction of the LHC? Will you cancel the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials?"

On the opposite side, Professor David Gross was silent for a moment, nodded with a wry smile and said: "Well, the things at ITER have affected us. The directors of the member states have canceled CERN and your orders, and are preparing to start again. Sakura Country purchases high-temperature superconducting materials.”

The funders behind it are overly involved in scientific research work. This is a fate that almost any large international joint scientific research institution or organization cannot escape.

Although in normal times, the member states behind these may not dictate matters such as research work and procurement of equipment and materials.

But if it involves some important technological competition or decision-making, such as the construction and site selection of the ITER demonstration reactor, the member states behind these institutions and organizations will have the brains.

After all, these things are of great benefit to the founding country.

The same goes for CERN. Normally, member states and directors don't interfere much in their work, but once the member states unite to decide something, they, the scholars and researchers, have little effect.

Unless there is a collective withdrawal, which is obviously not realistic.

For research in the field of high energy physics, currently there is no other research institution that can replace CERN.

What he regretted was not only the cancellation of the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, but also Professor Xu’s exploration methods for dark matter and sterile neutrinos on the phone.

Professor Xu's previous agreement to cooperate with CERN was based on an order for high-temperature superconducting materials. Now that the order has been cancelled, he has no obligation to cooperate with CERN anymore.

Hearing the news, Xu Chuan was not too surprised or surprised.

The higher-ups had already greeted him before. Now it is expected that CERN will cancel the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials.

After thinking for a while, Xu Chuan asked: "How are the results at ITER?"

Hearing this, David Gross asked curiously: "You don't know?"

Xu Chuan shook his head and said: "I have been doing my own research these days, and I don't know much about what is happening in the outside world."

Gross sighed and said: "Your country has voluntarily withdrawn from the ITER organization. It is currently cleaning up data and related things and preparing to evacuate."

Xu Chuan smiled nonchalantly and said, "Just quit. The progress of ITER is too slow. Countries are constantly arguing with each other about scientific research funding. I believe you can feel this too."

Gross nodded and sighed.

Indeed, this problem is common to almost all international joint organizations, and CERN is no exception.

During the years he worked at CERN, the most work he did was not scientific research or directing how CERN operated, but explaining the use of funds and various scientific research results to the member states.

There is no way. In the scientific research community, whoever controls the funds is generally the boss.

After chatting with Professor David Gross for a while, Xu Chuan hung up the phone.

CERN canceled the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials under pressure from the United States. Although it was expected, it was still a bit painful.

After all, this is an order worth tens of billions of yuan.

However, based on the announcement of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials and plasma turbulence numerical control models, it is not unacceptable.

Unfortunately, the high-temperature superconducting materials produced by Western Superconducting Group for the LHC transformation were wasted.

After all, the relevant materials were already in production after the contract was signed.

And the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, after being finalized, can hardly change their shape for use in other equipment due to their physical properties.

Perhaps, the schedule and arrangement for building a large particle collider by myself should be brought up.

As he pondered, an idea came to Xu Chuan's mind.

Affected by the controlled nuclear fusion technology and ITER, CERN may further exclude Chinese scholars.

If so, it is completely necessary to build its own large particle collider.

In the office, Xu Chuan thought for a while, turned on the computer, and searched for news reports related to ITER.

Although China's voluntary withdrawal from ITER has not been widely spread in China and known to everyone, it has also become a hot search.

It has to be said that there is really a lot of ignorance on the Internet.

Whether it is worshipping foreigners, or thinking that they are reasonable, or the theory of victim guilt, related comments occupy most of the Internet.

Maybe there are not many such people in reality, but on the Internet, they are always the first group of people to charge at major hot news.

Coupled with the amplification effect of the Internet, this also leads to a lot of smoke and miasma under various hot news.

Especially in the area of ​​high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, many people believe that because he sold the materials and obtained billions of dollars, he was unwilling to disclose relevant information and was unwilling to accept investigation.

Starting from this point, he then commented on China's "exit" from ITER, thinking that he had delayed the country's development.

It must be said that the angle of these people's starting point and the rhythm they brought did seem reasonable and were echoed by many people.

It's just that they have never understood the truth of the matter. They rely entirely on some media reports that catch wind and shadow, and even from marketing accounts and some foreign propaganda media reports to understand the distorted truth, and then comment on him.

Xu Chuan didn't care about these comments, and he wouldn't get angry because of these comments.

Although he is not a star actor or something, his reputation on the Internet is not low. After all, he can be said to be the number one person in the current academic community in China, and he has celebrity attributes.

In fact, at his current height, or with celebrity attributes on the Internet, the general public's attention and curiosity about him are no longer about how many scientific research results he has made, or what contributions he has made to the country, or what he has developed.

Although the above-mentioned things can indeed attract the attention of netizens, at most they can be praised after the news report.

If there are reports on private life or morality, it will instantly cause a wave.

Just like the old man who made the Chinese people full and prevented the food crisis from being strangled by others, he caused a lot of criticism on the Internet because he touched a Mercedes-Benz out of curiosity at the auto show.

Some people asked him whether he had embezzled the hard-earned money of the people, and why a scientific researcher could drive a luxury car and live in a villa.

Little did they know that the old man's villa was awarded to him by the country because of his great contribution.

Moreover, the old man did not live in this villa, but transformed this "luxury house" into a rice research center.

It was in this villa awarded to him by the country that the old man led the team to develop salt-alkali-tolerant "sea rice".

And this kind of rice can "turn tidal flats into fertile fields". With this research result, the country can increase grain production by at least 50 billion kilograms a year and feed at least 200 million more people.

Xu Chuan knows some people's thoughts very well. In some people's minds, scientific researchers should be poor and miserable.

Of course, more importantly, these things allow them to stand at the highest moral point and evaluate a person they could not evaluate before.

After all, for most keyboard warriors, their knowledge and level are only enough to support them to be morally eloquent.

After briefly flipping through the news reports related to ITER, Xu Chuan shook his head and closed the webpage.

After thinking for a while, he sent a message to Brother Fan Pengyue of Sichuan Hai Materials Research Institute.

For him, since the United States used its influence at CERN to cancel his order, it would not be in line with his character if he did not respond.

On the other side, Sichuan Hai Materials Research Institute.

Fan Pengyue, who was dealing with CERN's cancellation of the order for high-temperature superconducting materials, heard a ringtone on his phone that he was particularly concerned about.

Putting down the pen in his hand, he picked up his phone and looked at the message.

"Through the media, announce to the public that due to ITER's non-compliance with international conventions, the Sichuan Ocean Materials Research Institute will no longer provide high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials to ITER and the remaining six member countries of ITER."

Seeing this news, Fan Pengyue's mouth had a slight arc, and he smiled and shook his head.

He was not very surprised by this news.

With the character of that junior brother, if he knew that CERN had canceled the order and the related reasons, he would definitely not suffer this loss in silence, and it was his character to fight back.

Only the one who sent him the message would not care about these huge markets at all.

If it were someone else, if he was a businessman, he would probably choose to hold back, right?

After all, these countries of ITER are the real main force in purchasing high-temperature superconducting materials.

Smiling and shaking his head, Fan Pengyue picked up the phone on the table and called the department responsible for media reporting.

Since the decision has been made, he just needs to execute it as required.

Boss Xu is not short of money anyway, so it doesn't matter.

He really wants to know how Europe will react after knowing the news.

Ever since the Spiral Stone 7X achieved an hour of operation, Europe has been contacting him, hoping to purchase a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials from the Sichuan Ocean Materials Research Institute.

Now that hope has been extinguished, Europe must be regretting it, right?

After all, the superconducting performance of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials is much better than other high-temperature superconducting materials on the market.

Without this, the progress on the road of controlled nuclear fusion research will lag behind.

As for the German Planck Plasma Research Institute, it was really lucky to complete the transaction before June. If it had been delayed for a while, it might have been dragged down by the United States.

As for now, it is estimated that it will become the last hope for the whole of Europe.

This is good news for the German country, but other countries that follow the United States are not so happy.

The EU seems to be a whole, but each of them has its own little ideas.

Especially in the technology of controlled nuclear fusion.

PS: Yesterday's chapter, I went to Xiangya Hospital this afternoon and came back late, sorry.