Chapter 318 Long-term planning

"Then trouble the two of you to conduct an audit in the ministry in the next few days, you can arrange the life of the two professors, and when the audit results come out, we will discuss the next step of the experiment!" After getting the results, Director Tao arranged according to the predetermined plan, and after thanking the two professors again, he hurriedly went to report to Qin Feng.

According to the list of subjects involved in nuclear fusion technology promulgated by the Symposium on Nuclear Fusion Technology, it can be seen that there are currently 11 subjects closely related to nuclear fusion technology, namely:

Experimental Fusion Equipment and Ancillary Facilities, Plasma Heating and Current Actuation, Plasma Engineering and Control, Diagnostics, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation, Magnets and Power Supplies, Plasma Straight Face Components, Vacuum Chamber/Cavity Engineering and Remote Robotic Arms, Fuel Cycle and Fuel Regeneration Layer, Materials Science, Power Plant Safety and Environment, Socioeconomics, Laser and Accelerator Technology.

Three of these eleven subjects are related to the study of plasma, which shows the importance of plasma for nuclear fusion technology.

This name may be unfamiliar to everyone, but in the translation of this term - plasma, you may feel a lot more familiar, many science fiction works use plasma guns, plasma guns as weapons, the current physics industry to create nuclear fusion is to find a way to heat the plasma in the superconducting tokamak system, compress the density of nuclear fuel, increase its temperature, and thus trigger nuclear fusion.

However, this method will produce a series of problems, the popular understanding of plasma is that it is a free and charged gas; the most critical is the confinement of plasma, the fundamental reason for the difficulty of confinement of plasma is its extremely high free energy, and once fusion is generated, the new alpha particle (fusion capacity that can be constrained) brings new and higher free energy, which will produce new instability and destruction constraints, this aspect is the hottest field of plasma research at present, and the attention is so high that it shows that the importance and incomprehension of this problem are so high。 There is also the discharge of He ash in the plasma (the energy of the alpha particle is He ash when it is lowered. This is similar to the ash left over from the boiler, and it can't burn if it is not discharged). The ash discharge is to weaken the confinement, so that the He ash is easier to discharge than the deuterium tritium with similar mass charge energy, which is just contrary to the pursuit of high confinement of plasma, that is, it is necessary to find a mode of operation, the restraint should not only be good to keep the deuterium tritium high temperature and high density, but also not so good to make the He ash can be effectively discharged, so the main task of fusion plasma is to achieve the confinement and control of the plasma.

Of course, the realization of controlled nuclear fusion is far more than just a problem, in addition to the previously mentioned problems of restraint and ignition, there are also tritium supply, pollution caused by neutron radiation, and so on, but if the problem of plasma confinement can be solved. Humanity is undoubtedly one step closer to achieving controlled nuclear fusion.

Both Professor Du and Professor Ke have been immersed in the field of plasma research for many years, and they are familiar with the development status and difficult bottlenecks in this field. After arranging drinks and snacks and other things, Secretary Yu quietly withdrew from the room where he was ready for them for a while, and he had three meals a day.

"Three days!" Qin Feng said regretfully after receiving Director Tao's recovery, "Tomorrow I have another meeting that I must attend, and the day after tomorrow I will go to the following counties and cities to inspect the work, it seems that this time I will not have the opportunity to hear the results of the feedback for the first time!"

"You can rest assured. As soon as the results come out, I will call you as soon as possible!" Director Tao immediately assured, and at the same time expressed his difficulties, "But the results after three days are only theoretical. If you want to fully understand the value of this information, you need to conduct experiments, and you know, experiments in this area are quite expensive, and you can't even describe them as burning money. This is simply a direct burning of gold bars! So if you are sure that the data is valuable and you need to conduct a test and verification, you will have to help with this aspect of funding!"

Although Qin Feng is only the secretary of Jiangnan Province. But his ranking in the central government is not low, and if he uses his influence, it will still be of great help to obtain funding for the experiment.

"I've thought about this question before!" "People who can sit in this position will not be able to consider these problems, "According to my prediction, this information will definitely not be the last, and if you re-apply for funding for each experiment, it will be too inefficient and time-consuming!

"But how to prepare this budget?" said Director Tao with a wry smile, he still doesn't know how much the plasma experiment will cost, let alone when the future materials will arrive, and what experiments will be carried out at that time.

Qin Feng nodded when he heard this, of course he knew these problems, this is only a problem in the theoretical verification stage, and there are also problems in the specific implementation stage in the later stage, and the funds required at that time are not at the same level as the current one!"So to have a long-term plan, you can make a report first, go back and find a time for me to talk to your minister, and then find a reflection from above, be sure to solve this problem!"

"Now I don't even know where the information came from and what kind of information will be available in the future, how can this report be printed?" Director Tao continued to complain, "If you can get the information provider to come forward and let me know about the follow-up plan, I can write something anyway!"

Hey, why does it take more than a year for Lu Qiujian to return to China? Qin Feng sighed in his heart again, if he is willing to come back, his safety in the country can be guaranteed, and the problems that Director Tao said can be solved logically, but now he obviously can't come back to solve these problems.

"Regarding this problem, leave it to me to solve!" It seemed that he had to seek help from the higher-ups, and Qin Feng decisively took over the burden.

"Then I'm sorry for you!" Director Tao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he couldn't handle this matter by himself, and seeing that the biggest problem had been solved, he talked about other things, "When do you plan to meet with our minister? When the minister heard that you were coming, he wanted to meet with you earlier, but he didn't bother rashly because he didn't know what you thought." ”

"If it's convenient for him, it's tonight, right?" Qin Feng said. (To be continued.) )

PS: I really can't come up with such a large-scale plan how to go through the program, so let him run it!