In a restaurant near the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, sitting at the table waiting for food, looking at the words on the mobile phone screen, Lu Zhou's expression was a little unnatural.

[Shocked! Professor Lu, chief designer of the controllable fusion project, commanded the manned landing on the moon?! 】

[Lu Zhou: Our journey is the sea of stars! 】

[His three words accidentally revealed a shocking secret! ] 】

[Chief Designer Lu said in one sentence, the ultimate purpose of the moon landing program is actually for it?] 】

Lu Zhou: "??? ”

Didn't you say that you weren't the chief designer?

Don't these reporters listen to people?

Noticing the stiff expression on Lu Zhou's face, Xu Yuanming held back a smile in his heart, coughed dryly and said, "Our journalists are more optimistic, it's better to be optimistic." ”

Can a positive rumor be considered a rumor?

Putting down the phone and looking at the soybean braised hooves that had just been served on the table, Lu Zhou sighed and said, "You really caused me a big problem." ”

"Let's stop talking, let's eat the food, this elbow will not taste good when it is cold." Pretending not to hear, Xu Yuanming broke off the chopsticks and said with a smile, "This restaurant is very good at this dish, I used to come here to eat when I was in school." I didn't expect that after so many years, the taste has not changed at all. ”

Lu Zhou: "......"

It's too blunt to change the topic.

But for the sake of this meal, he decided not to care about these details......

After dinner, Lu Zhou and Xu Yuanming arrived separately, and then got into the car waiting at the door.

"Take me to the station."

While starting the car on the road, Wang Peng asked: "Shall we go back to Jinling?" ”

Lu Zhou: "Well, I'm not at ease when I leave the lab for too long. ”

Wang Peng smiled and said, "Aren't you on vacation?" Why are you still so busy. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and didn't speak.

Of course, he wouldn't say that it wasn't that he wasn't worried about the unfinished experiment, but that some artificial intellectual disability was having fun in his lab with a new toy.

Of course, even if there was no unstable factor of Xiao Ai, he should almost go back.

Wreckage Three still has a lot of secrets waiting for him to uncover.

If you can't say it, it may become the key to solving the problem of landing on the moon......

When I arrived at the station, I got on the nearest high-speed train from Shangjing to Jinling, and after a few hours of driving, Lu Zhou finally got off at Jinling South Station.

After changing to the black red flag, Lu Zhou did not let Wang Peng send him home directly, but sent himself to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Because many experiments need to be guarded, this research institute is not closed at night.

After letting Wang Peng go back first, Lu Zhou walked into the main building of the research institute alone, passed through the alloy door at the end of the sample library corridor on the second basement floor, and came to the laboratory on the third basement floor.

However, when he walked into the laboratory and looked at the situation inside, the whole person was stunned.

Hold the grass?

Bumblebee?

……

With the resumption of China's manned lunar landing program and the implementation of the three policies, it has not only caused a sensation in the domestic media, but also attracted a lot of attention around the world.

In particular, the British "Daily Mail", one of the originators of the headline party and the most trouble-making British newspaper, reported the news with a rather inducing headline.

"Huaguo Moon Landing Program! The prelude to a new space race? 》

At the same time, the three alpha companies.

In the president's office on the top floor, Bendbauer, who was sitting in an office chair, looked at the newspaper in his hand and frowned slightly.

After a while, he spoke.

"That's not good news."

"They're still far from the second generation of controlled fusion, so you don't need to worry about it at all."

The speaker was Professor Burton Richter, an expert in particle physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., who is a member of the advisory board of Triple Alpha Energy and a '76 Nobel Laureate in Physics.

Although he didn't get the news from the Daily Mail, he still knew something about it.

Just a few hours ago, China announced concrete measures to implement a manned lunar landing program, and announced in a rare and high-profile announcement that it intends to establish a permanent scientific research station on the lunar surface to explore for helium-3 reserves in the lunar soil.

It is widely speculated that this is paving the way for the second generation of controlled fusion, but Professor Richter, who really understands how difficult helium triple fusion is to achieve, is well aware that these speculations are just nonsense.

"No, it's not the second generation of controlled fusion that worries me," Bendbauer leaned back in his office chair and pressed his index finger to his eyebrows, putting down the newspaper in his hand, "but the budget committee of Congress......"

After the successful ignition of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor in China was announced at the beginning of the year, the United States also quickly launched its own national controlled fusion project, choosing to build a giant demonstration reactor between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the allocation for the first phase of the project reached tens of billions of dollars.

In this demonstration reactor project, Triple Alpha successfully defeated its competitor General Atomics and won the order for heating components by virtue of the excellent heating performance of the FRC field reverse configuration.

If nothing else, the order will bring hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to his company and far more than hundreds of millions of dollars in value growth on the Nasdaq plate.

However, at this time, China suddenly announced the launch of the lunar landing program, and even announced the strategic layout of the lunar exploration of helium-3 resources, which will undoubtedly have an impact on the demonstration reactor project in California.

After all, research funding is not unlimited, and no country can launch two mega-projects at the same time while keeping its finances running smoothly.

However, whether it is controlled fusion or the moon, the United States is unwilling to give up.

Predictably, once the United States is drawn into the space race, Congress will almost certainly re-examine existing research programs and budgets, and axe less pressing projects to ensure that NASA's appetite is satisfied.

For example, plasma heating components, which are relatively insignificant......

It may be postponed until the main body of the demonstration reactor is completed, and the re-tendering may be re-tendered.

This is clearly not a pleasant thing for Bendbauer, and it is something that is almost certain to happen.

He could even imagine the image and how the people at NASA cheered when they saw the news.

These people are worried that they have no excuse to ask Congress for money, and now they are comfortable, and the country on the other side of the Pacific has already helped them with the excuse.

Just as Bendbauer was flipping through the newspaper in a heavy mood, the hand that was flipping through the newspaper suddenly stopped.

I saw that his gaze was locked on a certain line in the interview with Lu Zhou in the newspaper.

"Plasma Engine ......"

There were words in his mouth, and when he thought of something, his voice gradually became excited.

"Plasma engine! That's it! ”

Throwing away the newspaper in his hand, Bendbauer slammed himself up from his office chair and walked around the office with his hands behind his back, talking excitedly.

"Electric propulsion, controlled fusion, it totally works! We can combine these two concepts perfectly! ”

At least on PPT, it won't be very difficult to do.

"Sir, I'm not pouring cold water on you......" Retting, looking at him oddly, Burton Rickett reminded, "We haven't solved the most critical problem of controlled fusion, and you're going to miniaturize something to the plasma engine." ”

Stopping, Benderbauer looked at Professor Richter with a smile.

"My dear Professor Richter, I know, of course, that before bread can be hot, there must be bread first."

"However, this is not the past, and before we can bring bread to the table, we first have to convince those who support us that we can do it!"

"It's more important than anything else!"