Three days later, the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Symposium initiated by Pang Xuelin was officially held in a conference room at the headquarters of the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study.

There were more than 50 nuclear physicists and materials scientists attending the meeting, and several of them were physicists.

In this regard, Pang Xuelin can understand!

Materials science, nuclear physics and other disciplines are hot topics in various countries around the world, and scientists in this field do not have to worry about funding at all.

Therefore, it is not easy for the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study to find so many nuclear physicists and materials scientists who have a certain reputation in the world.

"Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to be here today! As you may have heard, the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study is preparing to carry out relevant research in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, and I hope to hear your thoughts today......"

Pang Xuelin sat at the top of the conference room and looked at the people present with a smile.

At this time, a white man who looked to be in his forties said: "Professor Pang, controlled nuclear fusion is currently a hot spot in research in various countries around the world, and the ITER project jointly built by many countries is in full swing, and this project alone has more than 20,000 scientific researchers from all over the world, involving more than thousands of scientific research units and manufacturers." I am afraid that such a super-large-scale scientific project will not be able to be carried out by relying on the few people here alone, right? ”

Pang Xuelin smiled slightly, he had been prepared for such doubts, and he said, "Professor James, I understand what you mean. Although the controllable nuclear fusion project is an international research hotspot, I think everyone understands that if the controllable steady-state confinement problem of high-temperature plasma and the problem of fusion reactor manufacturing materials are not solved, even if ITER is successfully completed, it will not be meaningful for controlled nuclear fusion research! ”

"My personal judgment is that in the next 20 to 30 years, it will be difficult for controlled nuclear fusion to mature!"

"What we at Transwarp Research Institute want to do is not to compete with ITER! We will not be building superconducting tokamaks or inertial laser confinement fusion devices in the near future, and I invite you to come and research on fusion reactor material systems, which are also the weakest link in our current field of controlled nuclear fusion! ”

Everyone present couldn't help but look at each other, no one thought that Pang Xuelin was not even going to build experimental devices such as superconducting tokamaks or inertial laser confinement fusion, but what kind of fusion research was he thinking?

James was curious: "Professor Pang, what about the controllable steady-state constraints of high-temperature plasma?" What to do with this problem? ”

Pang Xuelin said with a faint smile: "Our fusion reactor material project is only a supplement to ITER in a short period of time, and the controllable steady-state constraint of high-temperature plasma is the focus of ITER's research. ”

Pang Xuelin's explanation can be understood by everyone present.

Indeed, with the current talent pool of the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study in nuclear fusion, it is more realistic to study the material problem.

The smile on Pang Xuelin's face did not change, and he naturally did not tell everyone that he was familiar with the problem of how to accurately solve the problems of how to accurately solve the problems of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations used to describe the controllable steady-state constraints of high-temperature plasma, the NS equations that constrain the motion of fluids, and the Boltzmann equations that constrained the motion of a large number of molecules.

In the world of the Wandering Earth, scientists have long given quite clear results.

Even the computer program that controls the controllable steady-state confinement of the high-temperature plasma can be written at any time using MOSS and the quantum computer on which it is built.

For Pang Xuelin, the biggest problem in manufacturing controlled nuclear fusion is in the field of materials.

The fusion reactor material system is mainly composed of three systems: fusion reactor cladding, high-temperature plasma components and magnet materials.

The fusion reactor cladding is divided into four parts: the structural material of the fusion reactor cladding, the tritium breeder material, the functional material, and the coolant.

High-temperature plasma components are mainly divided into low atomic number materials (low Z materials) and high atomic number materials (high Z materials).

As for magnet materials, it naturally refers to the family of superconductor materials.

At present, in the three-body world, the material problem of controlled nuclear fusion has been bothering scientists around the world.

In the field of fusion reactor structural materials, especially the structural materials of the first wall, the candidates include low-activation ferritic martensitic steel, vanadium alloy and silicon carbide fiber composites.

Tritium propagation materials can be divided into liquid propagators and solid propagators.

Liquid breeder also has liquid metal lithium, fluorine lithium beryllium molten salt, liquid lithium-lead alloy, etc.

Solid proliferators are divided into aluminum-lithium alloys, lithium oxide, lithium metaaluminate, lithium metasilicate, lithium metazirconate, lithium titanate and so on.

The main functions of functional materials are to prevent tritium penetration, as an insulating layer, reduce MHD effect, and as an anti-corrosion layer, mainly including oxide coating, titanium-based ceramic coating, silicon carbide coating, etc.

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These materials have many candidates, different materials, different functions, and different processing properties, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

It takes a lot of time, effort, and resources to select one that is suitable for fusion reactors and can be mass-produced at low cost.

Pang Xuelin is not optimistic that with the current research ecology of various countries, breakthroughs can be made in these fields in the next few decades.

But he is different, in the wandering earth world, although he can't write down the manufacturing methods and production processes of many materials used in nuclear fusion reactors, he knows very well what kind of materials are needed for each component.

This alone can save countless hours for researchers at Transwarp.

Next, Pang Xuelin will be divided into seven research groups, corresponding to the structural materials of fusion reactor cladding, tritium breeder materials, functional materials, coolants, low atomic number materials, plateau sub-number materials and superconducting magnet materials.

In each group, Pang Xuelin clearly gave two or three materials as key research projects.

Although the scientists present were a little surprised by Pang Xuelin's request, the other party was a wall-facing person and an investor in this project, so they could only choose to agree.

It took a whole day for Pang Xuelin to determine the overall research direction of the newly established Institute of Fusion Materials at the Transwarp Institute for Advanced Study, and then the meeting was concluded.

As a result, as soon as Pang Xuelin came out of the conference room, Cheng Xin hurriedly greeted him and said, "Professor Pang, I just got the news that Dr. Luo Ji asked the PDC to hold a hearing on the wall-facing plan not long ago!" ”

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