Time passed day by day, and soon it was April.

Faster than the original plan, the construction project of the STAR Stellarum Research Institute was finally officially completed with five times or even ten times the manpower of the Nuclear Industry Construction Group.

When Commander Dai took the ribbon-cutting scissors and handed it to Lu Zhou, he solemnly raised his right hand and gave him a military salute.

Although Lu Zhou is not a soldier and does not know what this military salute means, through the eyes of Regiment Commander Dai, he can clearly feel the expectation placed in his sight.

At the same time, the EGA stellarator, which was disassembled and packed, also entered the port from the port of Haizhou with the footsteps of the returning delegation.

500 million euros, which is converted into nearly 4 billion RMB.

Although the money was not spent on his own, Lu Zhou still felt a little painful watching so much money be spent.

But he also knew that the money was definitely well spent.

Although the EGA device was shut down for more than five years, during the five-year shutdown period, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics did not let it rust there, at least regular maintenance and maintenance was a lot.

Again, counting the R&D costs, the Germans spent at least 1 billion euros on the construction of this equipment.

If you think about it this way, he can be regarded as picking up a bargain.

After all, the related technology of SG-1 wire is not worth as much as 1 billion euros.

Under the coordination of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, the equipment of the EGA stellarator arrived in Jinling from the port of Haizhou at the fastest speed and was sent to the STAR Stellarum Research Institute at the foot of the Purple Mountain.

Standing in the laboratory embedded in the mountain, looking at the pile of valuable equipment and parts, Academician Pan's face was full of excitement.

But at this moment, the old man, who was still excited, suddenly sighed again.

"It's a pity that I bought it back,......" Academician Pan shook his head and sighed, "When the time comes, if we also have that ability, it would be good to build one from beginning to end." ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou almost choked on his own saliva.

As soon as I bought it, I was thinking about counterfeiting.

Is this a longwang shu?

He is not an engineer and is not very good at engineering the engineering difficulty of the stellaroid orbit. But even from the point of view of appearance, he can tell which project is more difficult, tokamak or stellarator.

To tell the truth, even the Americans, who designed the stellarumer, couldn't build this thing themselves, and finally threw aside the half-built C-type stellarumer and followed the former Soviet Union to stir up the tokamak.

So, there's nothing to be ashamed of not being able to build.

Specialization is not only applicable in academia, but also in industry.

Coughing lightly, Lu Zhou said: "You have to eat one bite at a time, this is just the beginning, it would be good if we could complete every step by step." And we don't need to be perfect in every place, we just need to be irreplaceable in the key places. ”

Academician Pan shook his head: "That's what I said, but what is inferior to others, I always feel unsure." ”

Regarding Academician Pan's words, Lu Zhou was silent for a while.

Because he didn't know how to answer.

After all, many things cannot be solved with one drawing.

Otherwise, that's not a problem.

Standing on the other side of Lu Zhou, unlike Academician Pan, who suffered from gains and losses, Sheng Xianfu, who was excited, was already gearing up at this time.

"Now do you want to assemble it?"

After more than a month of training in Germany, it's finally his turn to make a difference.

Looking at Sheng Xianfu, Lu Zhou nodded.

"Well, let's get started."

"In addition, the outfield coil does not need to be installed for the time being, and we will use a new one when the time comes."

……

According to the original plan, after arriving in China, the EGA device was officially renamed the STAR device.

With the personnel and equipment in place, the research program for the stellar simulator project has moved to the next stage.

So far, to complete the puzzle of the controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor, Lu Zhou has mastered two pieces.

One of them is the He-3 atomic probe technology as the "eye", and the other is the STAR device itself as the "torso".

In fact, as the prototype of the Spiral Stone 7-X device, the STAR device has everything that should be on it, and as long as some of the components are updated, Lu Zhou is confident that it will be able to complete an ignition that is not inferior to the results achieved by the Spiral Stone 7-X.

The key to this is the third piece of the puzzle on the blueprint for controlled nuclear fusion – the superconducting magnet as the "legs".

In fact, this piece of the puzzle is already halfway completed.

Since the completion of the SG-1 wire synthesis technology, the project of designing "superconducting magnets based on carbon-based superconducting materials" has been launched.

As Lu Zhou expected, the good thermal conductivity of the SG-1 wire makes the engineering volume of the liquid helium refrigeration component greatly reduced. The data reflected on the drawings shows that compared to copper oxide coils, at least 20% of the engineering area can be saved.

And what does 20% of the project area mean?

This means that he can more than double the strength of the constrained magnetic field of the STAR stellarator compared to its predecessor, the EGA!

On the other hand, stimulated by orders worth more than 500 million RMB and administrative orders, Baer Group's factories are continuously expanding the production capacity of SG-1 wires.

As soon as the wires were manufactured, they were sent to the STAR Stellarum Research Institute, where they were refined by engineers to create a cluster coil with a cross-sectional diameter of about the thickness of a calf and a vertical height of about two people.

In these coils, a tube is built to allow liquid helium to pass through, which is used to maintain the SG-1 material inside below the critical temperature of superconductivity.

In order for the coil to output a stable magnetic field during the energizing process, a strong insulator bracket is also assembled on the outside of each set of cluster wires. After all, for such a delicate instrument, even a millimeter of wire shaking may lead to serious experimental accidents.

After all, inside the stellarumer, the temperature of the star is simulated......

These days, Lu Zhou has basically been immersed in the stellar laboratory of the STAR Project Research Institute, directing this work in person.

After a month of hard work, in the first week after Labor Day, the engineers of the STAR project team finally completed the assembly of the last set of coils.

Standing in front of the reborn STAR stellarumer, Lu Zhou wiped half of his sweat.

Although he did not take turns to fight, he has been involved in the project since the beginning of the design of the entire superconducting magnet, and he knows very well how many difficulties he has gone through to get to where he is today.

But the good thing is that the work is finally done.

The rest.

That's to verify his guess!

The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, Lu Zhou looked at Sheng Xianfu who was standing next to him, nodded and ordered.

"Check the installation of each component of the unit."

"If there's no problem, get ready to power up!"