"How is Academician Katomtsev?"

As soon as Hu Wenhai got out of the car, he took two steps when he saw Wan Yuan Xi running over to ask him. Although Katomtsev was an academician of the Soviet Union, he did easily conquer many people with his great charisma.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, even many Chinese present felt that their three views had been seriously impacted, let alone people like Katomtsev, who dedicated their lives to the Soviet Union. When they heard the news that Katomtsev was depressed, Wan Xi and the others at the Plasma Institute were the most worried.

Not only because Katomtsev is an authority on nuclear fusion, not only because he is an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, not only because of his high position, but also because he can't bear to see such a pure scientist and patriot fall to such a point.

Wan Wanxi's anxiety and worry are also purely out of a person's most basic sympathy, hoping that a good person can avoid an unfortunate ending.

Hu Wenhai smiled and nodded slightly: "When I left, Academician Katomtsev was exterminating a pot of Russian stew and a whole large leba. Not only that, but there is also good news to tell Director Wan. ”

"Oh, eat, that's good, that's good!" Wan Hee laughed heartily, Katomtsev's willingness to eat, and his appetite was still great, indicating that he had come out of the frustration. Knowing that he is hungry means that he has the will to survive and the motivation to live. As long as people live, they will be able to rise up again from all disasters.

Wan Yuan Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then realized that Hu Wenhai's words had not been finished, and hurriedly asked: "Academician Katomtsev can recover, this is already the best news, what better news does Mr. Hu have?"

Hu Wenhai pursed his lips with rare pride, reluctantly restrained his smile, and said: "Academician Katomtsev has agreed in principle that the Kurchatov Institute and your Plasma Research Institute will jointly establish a joint research institute in Dagang. The main work of this joint institute for the next three years will be to help HT-7 be retrofitted and, with the experience gained from the HT-7 experimental setup, will complete the design of an experimental fusion reactor by 1995. ”

When Wan Yuan Xi heard Hu Wenhai's words, he was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. Katomtsev's resolute refusal has completely dispelled his hopes for cooperation. But I didn't expect that things would turn around one day.

With the accumulation of the Kurchatov Institute, the modification of the HT-7 device will not only be faster, but also the experiment will be more comprehensive, and there is no doubt that it will be the most advanced fusion engineering experimental device in the world.

It is also quite pitiful to say, the scientific community always claims that "there are only 25 years before the success of nuclear fusion", and then another 25 years have passed, but no results have been produced. But few people know that in the early nineties, there were only three devices in the world that could provide experimental data for nuclear fusion engineering. It wasn't until HT-7 was built that there was a fourth fusion player in the world.

Relying on these four devices to overcome the difficult nuclear fusion, isn't it only 25 years forever? If you want to make 25 years into 24 years, you don't just have to let time pass in vain, but you have to invest real money in it.

If the distance between the plasma institute and the success of nuclear fusion was "30 years", then with the addition of the Kurchatov Institute, as long as the plasma institute has thoroughly understood the HT-7 device, it will soon have the qualification to step into the "25 years" starting line.

With such a strong boost, how could Wan Yuan Xi be unhappy? But he didn't expect that today's surprise was not just that. Today is destined to be an extraordinary day for Wan Yuan Xi and the Plasma Institute.

Hu Wenhai waited for him to be almost happy, and then continued: "As long as the experimental reactor design is completed, Xinke will invest 10 billion US dollars in ten years to help you successfully build this nuclear fusion experimental reactor." I believe that with this funding, the Institute of Plasma should be able to apply for a part of the matching funds from the Academy of Sciences. ”

Wan Yuan Xi almost didn't listen to Hu Wenhai's words, and there was a bang in his head, and he was dizzy for a while. Is the Kurchatov Institute worth $10 billion? Is the Soviet Union investing in fusion research and development since the fifties, with a total investment of $10 billion?

Again, humanity's investment in nuclear fusion is too insufficient. This is not surprising at all, since there is simply no need for human beings to invest in nuclear fusion research and development. In terms of energy supply, the earth's fossil energy reserves can fully meet the needs of industry, and the cost of oil extraction and use is low enough, so it is natural that the research on alternative energy sources is not interested.

In particular, the two countries that have enough capacity to invest in fusion research, the Soviet Union itself is a "country disguised as a gas station", which eats the dividends of oil resources, and the demand for new energy is not urgent, so there is no reason to be too urgent to invest in research and development of controllable fusion.

The United States, on the other hand, is more dependent on the oil economy, and the petrodollar system, which was finally established, can clearly see how much the world turmoil caused by the successful nuclear fusion poses a threat to this system. If any laboratory dares to develop fusion technology, it will be invited by the oil tycoons to make a dirt plane in a minute.

There is no reason for the United States and the Soviet Union to invest in the development of nuclear fusion technology, and it is not surprising that the investment is insufficient.

However, in the fusion club, a new player has suddenly appeared.

China was an oil exporter until the nineties. However, after the nineties, it will not only be a net importer of oil, but will also become the world's largest oil importer.

Unlike the United States and the Soviet Union, China not only does not have the ability to manipulate international oil supplies, but it is also a staggeringly poor oil-poor country. Most of the domestic oil fields are either exhausted or difficult to exploit, and the oil extracted is of poor quality and high cost, so it can be said that they have suffered enough from oil resources.

China's development of nuclear fusion technology can be said to be without the slightest burden. On the contrary, as long as the sun is lit in China, nothing will be able to threaten China's industrial system. In the half-hearted fusion club, only China is genuinely interested in developing nuclear fusion.

Historically, civilizational progress has often been accompanied by crises. Because of the lack of food in the cold zone, agricultural civilization was born. The Europeans had to sail because they were too poor to survive, so the prelude to the Age of Discovery began. In the tropics, on the other hand, there are few civilizations worth mentioning because food is readily available. And the rich East enjoyed the inflow of silver from the Americas, but also missed the opportunity of the Great Voyage,

From the day of its rise, China has faced an energy crisis. The outcome of this crisis and challenge will determine China's fate for the next 100 or even 1,000 years.

Therefore, in this regard, although Hu Wenhai does not have the slightest prophetic advantage of rebirth, he will not frown no matter how huge the investment is. And with the $10 billion he invested, the state will inevitably provide considerable matching funds to the Plasma Institute. At the very least, the state investment must be equal to Hu Wenhai's investment, otherwise it would be too embarrassing if nuclear fusion was really "accidentally" made by a private company?

Wan Xi may not have considered these questions, but at this moment, there was only ecstasy in his heart that could not be concealed.

Ten billion dollars fell from the sky, this is ten billion dollars! He felt that every step he took was like stepping on cotton, and the beauty was full of unreality. To be honest, Wan Yuan Xi is just dreaming, and he never dreamed that there would be such a day.

"By 1995, the time is a bit tight to come up with the design of an experimental reactor, right?" Hu Wenhai squinted, the corners of his mouth could no longer hide the smile, and asked: "Director Wan, do you have any difficulties with this?"

"Difficulty?" Wan Yuan Xi waved his hand, how could he coax the investors at this time? Immediately, it was a ten thousand series of three companies: "What is the difficulty? It doesn't exist, the only difficulty is that there is no money!"

That being said, Wan Wanxi is still playing drums in his heart after all. The experimental reactor for nuclear fusion is an unprecedented project in the world, and he really doesn't know whether he can do it. But no matter whether he has the bottom or not, he must be confident.

Hu Wenhai looked at Wan Wanxi's hard support, but he smiled and said nothing. He has more confidence in the plasma Institute than Wan Xilai.

With adequate financial support, it is inevitable that the progress of the HT-7 installation will be accelerated. In the original history, China's EAST fully superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental reactor was established in 1998 and started construction in 2000, and it took only more than five years to complete the construction of the project.

With Hu Wenhai's support, the new fusion reactor program, if it had started in 1995 and completed around 2000, would have been five years ahead of history.

It is impossible for any experiment to be carried out in one step, and with the foundation of this experimental reactor, we will continue to invest in transformation on the basis of this experimental reactor. In five to ten years, it will be gradually built into a full-fledged experimental reactor similar to the European ITER reactor. At that time, China's nuclear fusion experiments will have an unparalleled advantage over the delayed ITER, and it is not even known whether the ITER program will still exist.

Historically, the ITER project began to be built in 2006 and is expected to take ten years, and if the project can be successful, then it can basically be said that mankind is only one step away from the success of fusion energy.

Drawing on the experience and proven theories of the ITER project, next-generation fusion reactors are fully operational and operational. It can be said that in theory, the ITER project really looks beautiful, but in reality it is very cruel.

Judging from the capabilities of the original historical Wanxi and Plasma Institutes, it is really not difficult to get rid of ITER. It is said that ITER was built in ten years, China's CFETR engineering experimental reactor will start construction in 2020, and France's Kadarasche has probably not been put into experiments, and it seems that the completion of the project is far away.

Hu Wenhai even has a hunch that the CFETR, which will be put into construction in 2020, may be put into operation earlier than IT ER......

Even in the worst case, Hu Wenhai's 10 billion yuan thrown in, he will definitely be able to smash a better EAST, and the next step will be to engage in China's own commercial pile CFETR, what else is there to worry about?

Speaking of which, ITER's member states include the European Union, the United States, Japan, India, South Korea, and Russia, and later China joined in. It is necessary to coordinate the efforts of these seven huge countries and organizations to build a nuclear project...... This is more than an order of magnitude more difficult to manage than nuclear fusion research and development.

Therefore, Hu Wenhai is really not a little confident in China's nuclear fusion project - he has god teammates on his side, and there are pig opponents on the other side, so what is there to worry about?

Wan Yuan followed Hu Wenhai into the backstage of the Dagang National Day venue, and heard the host's voice on the stage in front of him.

"On the occasion of the National Day, we are fortunate to have an important guest in Dagang. Who is he? Allow me to introduce it to you!"

"He is the defender of the motherland's sky, the hero of the Tomcat fighter jet into China, the godfather of the electronics industry, the savior of human male heroism, the inventor of lithium batteries, IGCT and mobile phones, the god of war who has never been defeated in the financial market, the founder of the Bohai Rim Industrial Belt, the investor of the Three Kingdoms series of film and television dramas, the leader of the Xiucheng reform model, the terminator of Boeing's hegemony, China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, China Railway Construction Investment and COMAC, The savior of transportation systems such as AECC, the world's richest man and the supreme monarch of China's largest private enterprise, ST Group......"

(got the weird trick)

Hearing the host's long list of introductions, the audience below suddenly boiled. Needless to ask, everyone has long been familiar with these deeds, which one is not related to the lives of thousands of people, or even tens of millions of people, and these deeds all point to the same person.

In the past, everyone only heard of his name and did not see him, and the person behind these deeds has never appeared in public or been reported by the media. He was shrouded in layers of mysterious aura, and all kinds of rumors flew in the sky.

Some say he is the most intelligent man in the world, some say he is a "white glove", some rumors say that he became a wise old man, and some say that he is an incredible young man. In his imagination, he should live a luxurious life of wine pond and meat forest, with huge wealth and power in his hands, and he can dictate to high-ranking officials and rich people. The temperament on the body is Yue Zhiyuan, waking up to kill human rights, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties......

But behind these speculations is the information black hole behind the name. What kind of person is hidden behind these legends?

"Then please tell me, who is this person?"

At the moment when the host stretched out the microphone to the audience, it seemed that the entire sea of Dagang was shouting this name.

"Hu Wenhai!"