If time could go back to the past and let Academician Li Zhengwu choose again, he would still not regret that he chose the research of the controlled nuclear fusion EAST device.

Yes, in his opinion, controlled nuclear fusion is the future of mankind!

In this world, there is absolutely no energy source that can compare to the high energy, efficiency and cleanliness of controlled nuclear fusion!

However, looking at the antimatter energy reactor in front of him, which was similar to the EAST device, Li Zhengwu had to admit that he was wrong, very wrong!

antimatter

A more energetic, efficient, and clean energy source than controlled nuclear fusion!

And, unlike controlled nuclear fusion, it is far easier to control the conditions for the annihilation of positive and antimatter than for the fusion reaction!

For reactors of the same size, compared with the EAST device he studied before, the core temperature of the antimatter reactor is only hundreds of thousands of degrees at most, and with the controllability of the positive and antimatter involved in annihilation, the core temperature can often be adjusted; however, the intermediate temperature of the EAST reactor is basically as high as hundreds of millions of degrees, and it is often uncontrollable!

This is the greatest advantage of antimatter energy reactors!

Second, the high-energy magnetic field environment required by the antimatter reactor is only 1T at most, and the high-energy magnetic field environment required by the EAST reactor is at least 2T, which makes the latter have extremely demanding requirements for superconducting electromagnet materials.

Third, antimatter reactors do not need to rely on external energy to 'ignite', while controllable nuclear fusion reactors must be 'ignited' by high-energy laser devices!

The three advantages make the antimatter energy reactor simpler and more controllable than the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, and the result is that in less than a year, the antimatter reactor has achieved the results that the controllable nuclear fusion reactor has been doing for decades, and even the controllable nuclear fusion has been left far behind!

To date, the firing record of up to 40 minutes for controlled nuclear fusion is as far away as the gap between a baby and a man in the prime of life in terms of the 'arbitrary' ignition time of an antimatter reactor!

Therefore, the careful thinking in Li Zhengwu's heart was finally completely extinguished......

Unexpectedly, he really gave up the controlled nuclear fusion research that he had worked hard for most of his life!

He never expected that he would be able to see a future energy source that could replace controlled nuclear fusion in his lifetime!

Unexpectedly, what made him see all this was just a young man under the age of 20!

"Three, two, one, ignition!"

In the laboratory, another ignition test of the antimatter energy reactor began.

Staring at the strings of data flashing on the computer screen, Li Zhengwu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

If he counted the number of successful experiments, he couldn't count how many times he had succeeded.

Every experiment seems to be like a divine help, and the results are often expected, and there are almost no abnormal states, which is not the same as the countless failures of his experiments on controlled nuclear fusion!

However, he knew that this was not a divine help at all!

Although scientific experiments often require luck, in the experiments designed by Liu Feng, success seems to be taken for granted, and failure seems to be something that needs to be lucky.

That's right, almost all the experimental progress was carried out according to the plan arranged by Liu Feng, and the experimental ideas and experimental procedures were impeccable, so that he, an old qualified academician who has been engaged in EAST experimental research for decades, could not find the slightest 'cat greasy'!

In this respect, the young Professor Liu is indeed much more powerful than him!

Originally, he has always been obsessed with the dismissal of controlled nuclear fusion, thinking that Liu Feng has some intention of suppressing dissidents, and deliberately said bad things about them at the top, which led to the discontinuation of the entire EAST project.

However, the success of numerous experiments made him despair of this idea.

Even so desperate that he doubted his life!

The antimatter energy reactor in front of him has already proved that antimatter is so good with thousands of successful tests, so good that his controllable nuclear fusion career really floated away like the wind......

Staring at the computer screen in a daze, like a 'walking dead', it was more than 1 hour at a time.

"Bang bang!"

The violent energy reaction finally died out as the supply of antimatter was cut off, and the sound of steel clashing could be heard throughout the laboratory, as if the armor of countless soldiers in armor were marching in order.

It is clear that the experiment is over.

Li Zhengwu was also awakened.

In the past, he did experiments, if he was so stunned, he would not forgive himself, but now, it has become the norm, is it because he is old?

"Teacher, the results are out!"

Soon, Academician Li Yongfeng happily submitted the first-hand experimental data.

"Everything is under control, and all the data is not exceeding what was expected before the experiment. ”

"Really?" Nodding expressionlessly, Li Zhengwu, who had come back to his senses, took over the experimental data, looked at it briefly, but his eyebrows twitched silently.

He has achieved similar results more than once, and the point is that every time the result comes out, he remembers this scene - from not wanting to fail at first, to slowly not failing at all, to finally hoping to 'fail'......

Even if you don't meet the standard once, it's fine!

As soon as he thought of this scene, he had a feeling that he had nothing to love.

His pride has been trampled into shit!

The point is, this piece of shit has always been heroic, and I can't get rid of it!

The structure of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is almost identical, and the antimatter energy reactor is also composed of a large superconducting magnet system, a vacuum chamber, a cold screen and an external vacuum dewar, a plasma component, a device technology diagnosis system, a cryogenic system, a high-power power supply system, a vacuum pumping system, a low-clutter current drive system, and a master control and data acquisition system.

Because he has long had experience in building the EAST device, and he handled almost the entire construction of this antimatter energy reactor, and even many parts and components were directly disassembled from the EAST device, Li Zhengwu has a good understanding of the parameters of this instrument.

The main purpose of the experiment is to test the operation of the reactor master control and data acquisition system at various temperatures, so as to find the optimal reaction temperature of the reactor.

Because in the controllable nuclear fusion experiment, the central temperature of the reactor is often too high, resulting in various deviations in the master control system, and although the antimatter energy reactor does not have a high temperature of tens of millions of degrees, it is still too high for instruments and equipment.

Looking at the experimental data in his hand, Li Zhengwu sighed, and finally showed a little excitement.

"We've finally found the right reaction temperature!"

In fact, this data parameter is divided into two main parts.

The first part is about real-time data on the reactor core temperature and various detection elements.

It is obvious that when the temperature is maintained below 90,000 degrees, the detection elements of each part of the instrument are in a very stable state;

When the temperature is maintained at 90,000 degrees ~ 200,000 degrees, some detection elements have deviated;

When the temperature exceeds 200,000 degrees, most of the other types of detection elements are distorted except for the temperature detection element!

As for the second part, it is also the key content of the whole experiment.

In the experiment, they can control the temperature of the reactor center by adjusting the annihilation rate of positive and anti-matter;

In the coordinate system, it is obvious that the Y-axis increases with the increase of the X-axis, and the two basically show a linear trend of positive correlation, that is, the greater the flow rate of positive and antimatter (that is, the annihilation velocity), the higher the core temperature of the reactor!

Judging from these two sets of data, he can basically determine the optimal reaction temperature for the entire reactor.

"Teacher, I think we can submit a report on the successful test of the reactor!" Li Yongfeng was still excited, his face turned crimson, "This reactor has been successful, it can be used directly to generate electricity!"

"Then report it!" Putting down the experimental report in his hand, Academician Li Zhengwu leaned back on the office chair, and the expression on his face was extremely complicated.

It worked?

So it worked?

In less than a year, they managed to run an antimatter energy reactor?

this

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

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Soon, a report was delivered to Liu Feng.

Looking at the experimental report in front of him, Liu Feng nodded with great satisfaction.

To be honest, although the reactor was designed entirely by him, he basically never participated in the specific experimental operations.

According to his predictions, the reactor will not be harvested until at least next year or even the year after, and it is really unexpected that it will be successful so quickly.

I carefully summarized, reviewed, and confirmed the experiment report in my mind, and I really didn't find any omissions.

"I have to concede, Academician Li, it was the wisest choice I made to pull you into antimatter engineering at the beginning!"

With this impeccable report, Liu Feng couldn't help but be glad about his decision.

"If it weren't for you, and if it were someone else, no matter how complete my design was, it wouldn't have been able to come to fruition so quickly. ”

Although he is almost fifty years old, Academician Li Yongfeng still smiles shyly:

"Wherever we are, being able to join your project is the smartest choice for us. Even if there is no us, any research team engaged in nuclear reactors in China can make these things according to your design, at least, I don't know much about the others, but the HL-2A team next door is no worse than our EAST!"

HL-2A is the abbreviation of Huaguo Circulator No. 2, which is the first large-scale tokamak device with a deflector position in Huaguo, and is also engaged in controlled nuclear fusion experiments.

However, unlike EAST, Circulator No. 2 was rebuilt from the three major components of the ASDEX device host in country D, while the EAST device was independently designed and built by Huaguo after absorbing the technology of HL-2A, relatively speaking, EAST's technology is actually more advanced and mature.

But over the years, the HL-2A has been in operation, and it has achieved a lot of results.

For example, the new electrostatic probe system was used to observe the three-dimensional structure of geodesic sound model and low-frequency strip flow for the first time, which filled the international gap in this direction, and the original ultrasonic molecular beam modulation technology was used to discover the spontaneous internal transport barrier of particles, which put forward new topics for the study of plasma transport, etc., and these new discoveries have made outstanding contributions to the development of fusion plasma science, and also provided a scientific and technical basis for Huaguo to participate in the ITER program.

If there was no EAST team, with these outstanding achievements, Liu Feng would really go to the 'scourge' of the HL-2A team!

Shook his head.

However, since the establishment of the antimatter project, the HL-2A team does not seem to be doing well.

Especially after hearing that he Liu Feng is also engaged in 'controlled nuclear fusion', the ITER organization, like CERN, has made things difficult for the HL-2A team in every way, and recently there has been news that he wants to eliminate Huaguo;

Did you also pick up the grass and beat the rabbits, and simply incorporated these people?

Thinking of this, Liu Feng stroked his chin with a somewhat moved expression.

However, in the end, he still 'rejected' this tempting idea, and an academician Li Zhengwu had already made him 'tied' in every way, and on the side of the HL-2A team, there were even more people with a temper like Mr. Li, and he didn't have the confidence to take these people into his pocket.

……

The two flattered each other, were humble to each other, and chatted for a while.

In the end, it was Academician Li Yongfeng who said: "By the way, Professor Liu, do you have any other arrangements here?"

After thinking about it, Liu Feng asked rhetorically: "What about your side, what are your plans?"

After a pause, Li Yongfeng was a straight person after all, and still said their plan: "I discussed with the teacher, since the reactor has been successful, next, we plan to do research on the miniaturization of the reactor, of course, if you have any arrangements here, we will naturally meet your requirements first." ”

Nodding in satisfaction.

In fact, even if Academician Li doesn't say it, he will have such an arrangement, but the miniaturization of the reactor is definitely a long-term thing, and now he has more important things to hand over to them:

"The miniaturization of the reactor is not in a hurry for the time being, Academician Qian Zhengying has designed a high-energy meson generator, which is different from the traditional nuclear power plant generator, more similar to the structure of the ferrofluid generator, and has very high requirements for the reactor.

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