On the other side of the ocean, the Overseas Science and Technology Monitoring Center (OTMC) has just moved to a new office, and all the staff of the institute are busy and actively adapting to the new environment.

For China, the middle of February is almost the New Year, and everyone is lazy and can't get motivated, just waiting for the New Year to be lively. However, for the US imperialists, Christmas and New Year's Day have passed for a month, and it is time to work hard.

Because of the change of functions, the overseas technology monitoring center in downtown Seattle is no longer up to the task, so in the past ten days, OTMC has carried out a relocation, relocating a large part of the equipment to a nuclear bunker at an abandoned military base outside Seattle.

In fact, if you don't move, you can't do it, after the box called "Pandora's box" arrived at the monitoring center, except for the first few days of calm, until the beginning of February, all kinds of troubles followed, bomb attacks, hacker attacks, and forcible invasions, so that the entire building was seriously damaged.

If you don't relocate, I'm afraid everyone in Seattle will find out that terrorist attacks in the United States are so frequent.

A better idea would have been to relocate to California, but the central government had to cross a state, the distance was long, and no way of transportation could safely transport the "Pandora's box".

Now that the entire OTMC has been completely moved to the military base, the military base has also redeployed personnel and guarded the entire base, this building of the last century has fallen into disrepair, many functional facilities have been completely paralyzed, and the advantage is that the building site is very strong, even if there is a nuclear explosion, there is no fear.

Since yesterday, several trucks have been driving into the OTMC base, falling into the ground through huge dilapidated lifts, and relocating parts one by one to the empty underground hall.

Grant still doesn't know how many floors there are under this base, but it's bigger than he imagined. I really don't know what it was used for before.

At this point, they were only using more than half of the basement level, and at this time, a huge object was being installed.

"sir, this is a facility that we dismantled from the back-up warehouse of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and this is already the most powerful laser emitting device we can get. A man in military uniform stood in front of Grant and reported to him.

This man is the head of the guard at this base. is also a member of the Army, although Grant does not want the Army to intervene, but they have to rely on the protection of the Army, so let them also get a piece of the pie and study this impossible box.

The National Ignition Facility, on the other hand, is the world's largest laser-confinement fusion reactor.

Ever since the discovery of nuclear energy, there has been a yearning for controlled nuclear fusion.

As we all know, there are two difficulties in producing nuclear fusion. One is to keep the atoms of the fusion material active enough to start colliding and fusing constantly, that is, at a sufficient temperature, and the other is to keep the fusion material, which is so hot that nothing can bind it, in a controlled container.

Accomplish these two near-impossible tasks, and then keep adding fuel to the container, and you can bang

This is the so-called sun in a bottle.

Controlled nuclear fusion has gone through all kinds of theories - laser confinement, magnetic field confinement, acousto-optic fusion, cold fusion (the hoax and scandal of the century), all kinds of equipment - stellarators, perhaps, tokamaks, etc., all kinds of attempts and failures, and it is simply difficult to write about them.

Nuclear fusion is like a moody devil. It has always seemed to be within reach, but in fact it is out of reach. Amuses the poor of mankind.

However, the pursuit of some strange side effects in the process of nuclear fusion has led to the rapid development of human science and technology, such as large-scale particle accelerators, ultra-intense lasers, magnetohydrodynamics, and strong electromagnetic field research......

At present, the mainstream pursuit of nuclear fusion is the tokamak, that is, magnetic field confinement, but there are still some people who are still studying on another path, which is laser confinement.

The national ignition device of the United States is studied. A 3 mm diameter deuterium-tritium pellet is heated by a laser to a temperature high enough to start the reaction, the same type as China's Shenguang Project.

The backup laser of the National Ignition Facility was the most powerful laser that the officer could obtain, and the largest ever made by man, with an instantaneous power of 500 terawatts (1 terawatt = 10 to the 12th power), although this power only lasted a few nanoseconds. But at this moment, it can turn anything into a scorching plasma.

I heard that the people of OTMC took such a terrible laser, just to cut a box, and the physicists of the state ignition device are crazy, you can look down on my profession, but you can't look down on my profession!

What is the concept that such a laser can heat objects to 100 million degrees?

The temperature of the core of the sun is only 15 million degrees, and hafnium alloy is the substance with the highest melting point known to mankind so far, its melting point is 4215 degrees Celsius, which is five orders of magnitude different from 100 million degrees!

There is a Chinese proverb called "Killing Chickens with Knives", which is simply killing chickens with intercontinental missiles! No, with nuclear bombs!

"Any matter in this world, in the face of this temperature, there is only one possibility, that is, it will be instantly turned into plasma and disappear! If the box you want to cut is really important, I don't recommend you use it......" The physicist and engineer in charge of the installation were so anxious that his hair turned gray, and he gestured at Grant, "Any high-energy laser emitter can easily cut through this box!"

Grant smiled, which means, you wait to see the show.

Although he had borrowed the most powerful laser emitter in the world, Grant had a feeling that even such a laser emitter would not be able to handle this box.

The laser body moved in, the huge amplification device moved in, the thick cable and energy storage device moved in, and the huge facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars stood in the basement, and then prepared a huge metal sphere for shielding, which can be regarded as building the entire "cutting machine", which is the most powerful cutting machine in the world, there is no one.

Unprecedented, even for many years.

Even through the thick shield, Grant had the illusion of a "flash of light", and then opened the huge shielding sphere, and the hot gas gushed out, and after being expelled, everyone looked in that direction and saw that the box was still lying quietly.

"It can't be!" The physicist felt that all common sense had been turned upside down, like an atheist who suddenly found out that the true God had come.

Is this a box that even the sun can't destroy it?

In novels, comics, and movies, the sun seems to be the ultimate source of destruction, and in the movie Green Lantern, the protagonist is to introduce a huge force of anger into the sun and destroy it.

Humans cannot imagine being able to see with their own eyes in their lifetime that the sun cannot destroy - except for the sun itself.

But after the initial denial, the physicist suddenly ecstasy: "What kind of box is this?"

If there is such a box, then wouldn't mankind have found a material that can bind particles with temperatures of tens or even hundreds of millions of degrees?

Didn't humanity find a material in which everything could be controlled, an ultimate material?

Controlled nuclear fusion, already within reach?

……

At this moment, on the other side of the earth, in a small county town in Jidong Province, several bear children led by Nan Ming are thinking about how to build a nuclear reactor.

"If it does, of course, it is a nuclear fusion reactor that is relatively simple. "As long as you bring enough nuclear fuel and put it together, you ......can bang

The small reactors that CNNC sells everywhere can already be the size of a basketball court, which is simple and simple.

Although Nanming also once said that he wanted to make a nuclear fusion reactor, but this thing is too scary, when he is with these bear children, it is better for him not to exaggerate too much, these bear children do not have his permission to possess them, and it is possible to be pulled away and dissected.

Wasn't Einstein's brain being sliced?

Or fusion reactors are simple and convenient.

To make a nuclear reactor, the most difficult problem is how to find nuclear fuel.

"I'll call and ask. Nan Ming took out his mobile phone and started calling, the first thing he thought of was Qingzhong Yang, this guy should have a way.

"Third brother, can you get uranium?" Nanming asked Qingzhong Yang.

Over there, Qingzhong Yang Yi shuddered: "What are you talking about?" (To be continued.) )