"Sneeze ——!"

Luo Zhanyuan: "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing ......"

Isn't the temperature of the air conditioner a little lower, and the blowing is cold......

Sucking his nose, Zhou Chengfu muttered in his heart.

At this moment, he was sitting on the return plane, and he didn't know that he had been remembered by someone.

About a dozen hours ago, he and Deputy Director Luo, who was sitting across from him at the moment, as well as several other experts from the China International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center and representatives appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had just attended an informal closed-door meeting of ITER in Saint-Paulet-Durandz, France.

The final outcome of the meeting was not encouraging.

However, compared with the attitude of the US representative, he is now more worried about the situation at home.

"Director Luo."

"Huh?"

With a bit of temptation, Zhou Chengfu opened his mouth and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Luo Zhanyuan still respects this academician-level domestic controllable nuclear fusion expert, and after hearing this question, he explained.

"There's basically no hope at the top for ITER right now, and with the sincerity that Europeans and Americans are showing so far, even if we make this part of the technology public, there is a risk of being left out. Before we came, the top leaders of the ministry held a special meeting with us, emphasizing that we should delay for as long as we could, and that we must not let up on technical issues. Either let them trade their own technology, or leave everything at bay. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Chengfu sighed secretly in his heart.

Sure enough, what he feared most came true.

Seeing that his more than ten years of hard work would be ruined, even though he knew that once the high-level decision was made, the opinions of experts like himself would probably be useless, he still couldn't help but speak.

"So we're just out of ITER? We paid so much to add it in the first place......"

Luo Zhanyuan shook his head: "Otherwise? If we don't stop our losses in time, our losses will only be greater. ”

Speaking of this, Director Luo paused for a moment.

And, while this may not be the right thing for me to say, withdrawing from ITER may not necessarily be a bad thing. At least we can invest the money we give to Europeans in our fusion projects at home. ”

What's more, Professor Lu promised to be able to complete the demonstration reactor by 2025...... If he succeeds, we may not be passive, but we may even take the initiative into our hands. ”

It's Lu Zhou again......

Hearing this name, Zhou Chengfu's eyebrows twitched fiercely.

"What if that kid is bragging—"

Although would love to say this.

But Zhou Chengfu didn't say this sentence in the end, but just held it in his heart.

After all, although he can't swallow this breath, he is not stupid......

……

According to Murphy's theorem, the more you worry about something, the more it tends to happen.

Although the ITER representatives are trying to buy as much time as possible, what should come will come after all.

The last day of August.

The first "victim" appeared.

Before winning the cooperation of its allies, the United States intends to unilaterally exert a little pressure on China.

Maybe it's because it's usually too high-profile, grabbing the headlines every year, and the Luyang Institute of Physics, which originally had nothing to do with the STAR Device Research Institute, was innocently lying on the gun.

Dragging the suitcase, Xiao Le, who was dressed in dust, stood at the door of the house with a complicated expression.

Three days ago, he was a visiting student at the DIII-D laboratory of General Atomics in the United States, and originally planned to return for the Chinese New Year at the end of the year.

Unexpectedly, a document signed by the president himself repatriated them to the country in their entirety.

Professor Li, who led the team, gave them a week's leave and asked them to wait for news at home. The person in charge of General Atomics said that he would negotiate with the Ministry of Energy and the local court on this matter, after all, General Atomics did not want to lose the financier, but I am afraid it is of little significance......

Anyway, let's rest for a while, and then report to Luyang later.

The doorbell rang and the security door opened.

Looking at his son standing at the door, Xiao Zhiping was stunned.

"Didn't you come back for the New Year? Why are you back now? ”

"What? The son is back? The mother's voice came from afar in the living room, looking at the son at the door, Wang Li stepped forward with a frown, and snatched the suitcase from his hand, "Come in and rest." Really, you kid came all the way back and didn't know to make a call in advance. After a while, let your dad buy two elbows, and Mom will braise them for you. ”

Xiao Le smiled a little reluctantly: "...... It was a bit sudden, our communication equipment was taken away and returned to us before we got on the plane. ”

Later, he didn't care about the phone call.

Xiao Zhiping was stunned, frowned, and said, "Take it away?" What's going on? ”

"Probably...... and recent trade. Yi Zhan has something to do with it, I don't know the specific situation," Xiao Le shook his head, sat on the sofa, picked up the cup and took a sip, "The morning before yesterday, we were about to attend a seminar on plasma physics, and the professor who was in charge of receiving us over there suddenly informed us that the seminar was temporarily canceled. Then, when we got back to the hotel, several people claiming to be FBI agents confiscated our communications equipment and searched our room......"

Wang Li looked surprised: "...... You guys, you can't have encountered robbers, right? ”

Xiao Le shook his head: "No...... They have a search warrant from the district court, so it probably can't be fake, right? ”

Although it is not fake, it makes no difference.

When he got his phone back, he found that all the photos in the album had been deleted from the photos taken in front of General Atomics. However, he originally only used those photos to post on Moments, and the loss was not big.

Wang Li: "This, this is too scary...... If you don't go to the institute next time, I don't think you'll go. ”

Xiao Le shook his head: "What else are you going to do, the visas have been cancelled!" ”

In this wave of repatriation, it is estimated that several of them will have to be blacklisted, not to mention going to study, I am afraid that normal travel will be affected.

To be honest, he is still a little confused, and he doesn't know what kind of nerves these Americans have.

At least in his opinion, controllable nuclear fusion has seen a shadow, and it is difficult to say whether it will be another 50 years, and suddenly those who engage in fusion reactors are the same as those who engage in fission reactors, and their profession has become a sensitive technology.

Under malicious speculation, he even suspected that this was just a hawkish president's attempt to show his toughness on China.

After all, it's 2020 soon, and it seems that there is another general election over there.

Hearing the injustice suffered by his son, Xiao Zhiping's face was full of anger and righteous indignation.

"Heh, it's okay if you don't go, I still don't believe it, the earth can't turn without them? Aren't atomic bombs and satellites still the same? ”

Xiao Le shook his head: "Okay, okay, I told you that you don't understand." ”

A lot of people don't know it, and the news certainly never promotes it like that. In fact, the EAST device on Science Island is not designed by domestic research institutes, and the main reference is the DIII-D tokamak device of General Atomics in the United States.

At the end of the day, there is a difference between scientific research and farming, and it's not like someone else gives you seeds and hoes, and you can plant them yourself.

If it is a mature technology, as an unfinished technology, especially a large-scale scientific research project involving many disciplines such as controlled fusion, how to conduct follow-up research and what to do next is far more critical than what has been made.

And now, their cooperation with General Atomics has been halted.

Of course, the EAST device can still be used, but how to study it in the future......

You can only rely on your ability.

Of course, Xiao Le is not without confidence.

Learning itself is a part of scientific research, and it is important to recognize your own shortcomings, but there is no need to be presumptuous. And in fact, their EAST unit has also made quite a bit of innovation. For example, the all-superconducting D-section technology is the first to be created by the Luyang Institute of Materials.

It's just that, compared to win-win cooperation, from now on, you can only go it alone.

This still made him feel a little worried about the future of the domestic controllable fusion industry......

Xiao Zhiping: "I don't understand what you learned, but your Luyang Institute of Physics should be regarded as the leader of controlled fusion research in our country, right?" Come on, fight for Lao Tzu, let those Yankees come over and beg us to go back, we are not rare! ”

Hearing his father's words of encouragement, Xiao Le shook his head and continued to eat.

It's easy to say, how can it be so easy.

What's more, now they are not considered leaders.

Now ITER is ready to turn to make star mimics, the Yankees and Europeans don't want to continue to play with us, and it is unknown whether the domestic CFTER will be able to do it.

It's hard to say, China now plans to push the stellar with all its might.

It seems to be called STAR-2?

After all, the light at the foot of the Purple Mountain blinded the eyes of the entire world......