Chapter 455: One Step to the Heavens
The news that Duke won this year's Nobel Prize is like a hurricane sweeping across the land of China, and the crazy forwarding of Weibo makes the news known to hundreds of millions of Chinese people in a very short period of time, and the long-suppressed national sentiment seems to be ignited in an instant.
Although Duke, a scientific genius, was thought to win the Nobel Prize sooner or later, no one expected that this day would come so early. It is important to know that the recognition of a scientific and technological achievement by the Nobel Prize is usually very lagging behind, and it takes a long time to verify it before it is recognized by the experts of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee.
As is customary, even if Duke makes a huge breakthrough in the study of nuclear reactions, it should not be understood by many nuclear physicists until 5 or even 10 years later.
What caused this surprise was that Duke quickly transformed his academic research results into actual lotus reactors, first the experimental reactors achieved impressive super results, and then the rapid advancement of 300M and 600M commercial reactors, proving that Duke's achievements have extremely strong vitality.
The exchange at CERN in Switzerland and subsequent research work have made the world's leading nuclear physicists realize that a new way of nuclear reaction will change the world. Duke's lotus pile will be a key to breaking the world's energy crisis.
Some nuclear physicists have speculated from Duke's theory that the future is not only uranium, but also thorium and plutonium, which are close to uranium, can also use Duke's theory to complete nuclear fission in the future, releasing huge energy, and thorium can release energy more fully in nuclear reactions.
According to some sources, the construction of a "thorium-based reactor" using thorium as fuel could make one ton of thorium fission produce more energy than 200 tons of uranium.
The earth's thorium reserves are many times larger than uranium, and according to the calculations of these nuclear physicists, the world's known thorium reserves can provide the world with energy support for at least 10,000 years, based on the current growth rate of the world's energy demand.
If it can really support such a long time, I believe that human beings can completely research new ways to replace thorium power generation in the future, that is to say, with Duke's achievement, the earth's energy crisis is actually just a false proposition.
It is precisely on the basis of such great prospects and near-perfect theories that the vast majority of physicists on this year's Nobel Prize selection committee will nominate and support Duke's latest achievements in nuclear reaction research as this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
These behind-the-scenes things mean little to the public, and even less to the Chinese public, who only know that the homegrown scientist has finally won the coveted crown of science and technology, although some people in the know will regret that the fly in the ointment is that there is also a professor Andrew attached to it.
But these did not prevent fanatical young people from posting countless words of admiration for Duke on the Internet, as well as the fanatical pursuit of Duke's major enterprises, Cai Siqiang's science and technology idol shaping plan, this time without a gunman, with the help of the Nobel Prize, effortlessly completed the creation of the first national science and technology idol in Chinese history.
If Duke used to be a well-known tech genius in everyone's minds, then now, Duke is a well-known national tech icon, and even kindergarten children rarely don't know him.
The leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering were especially grateful to Qin Tairan for his efforts at this time, so that Duke applied for the academicians of the two academies early.
Although the academic background of this position is much larger than the administrative background, after all, he is still a genuine high-ranking official at the deputy ministerial level, and in the officialdom, it is equivalent to Duke ascending to the sky in one step at a time and entering the ranks of the provincial and ministerial level.
It is impossible to say that there is no one else behind this arrangement, for the hierarchical Chinese officialdom, every position with a level is the result of the will of the organization. In this era of step-by-step order, Duke is almost like a myth, but a real-life version of a myth.
No matter how the above is considered and operated, anyway, at this point, it can be seen that the iron heart above has shaped Duke into a banner in the domestic science and technology industry!
This series of changes made Duke himself a little dizzy, let alone others. Duke has no choice in the middle of this process, the country needs this flag, the people also need this flag, Cai Siqiang felt that SAL also needed this flag, so Duke had to become this flag.
This is seriously not in line with his expectations, and becoming a star living in the spotlight and officialdom is a serious destruction to his lifestyle. No, since the news of the award spread, countless interview requests have exploded all the phones of their home in an instant, and I don't know how these reporters have the power to find out these private information about their family.
Duke had to transfer all the answers to all the phones in his home to his office secretariat, and he had to let Cai Siqiang secretly apply for a new number.
But even if the reporters of the big and small media like flies can hide, the central regular army in the media has no way to refuse when they come to the door, because these powerful people either pull Qin Tairan or drag Cai Siqiang, and some people even find the provincial propaganda minister to come to the door to do a special topic together.
The theme of promoting the national spirit, at this time, there is nothing more eye-catching and increasing the ratings than taking the dukla out. One news network wants Duke to talk about the latest research progress, and the second station needs to use SAL as a sample to study and reveal the significance of scientific and technological progress to the company's unconventional development...... These are very pertinent activities, and Duke put up with it.
But Radio 3 asked Duke to be a guest on a variety show, and Radio 4 asked for attention today...... Even the children's channel asked for a few episodes of Uncle Duke's close contact with teenagers across the country. This made Duke a little unbearable. Because if they continue to toss like this, they will directly change to the entertainment industry in the future!
In the face of these media people who have so many magical powers that they have managed Qin Tairan and Cai Siqiang, Duke has expressed a very rare attitude of non-cooperation towards these media activities that have nothing to do with his work.
For the position of vice president of the Academy of Sciences, Duke immediately refused to take the position, but when this idea was persuaded by Mr. Liu, Duke reluctantly agreed on the condition that he would not participate in all official entertainment occasions in the future.
However, there is often more work than the main business, and Duke has to postpone this kind of entertainment in advance, and only agree to appear at major scientific and technological decision-making meetings such as the formulation of the domestic scientific and technological development outline.
However, Rao is like this, in the remaining 2 months of 2016, it is also an unprecedentedly busy day for Duke, family affairs, state affairs, and company affairs are intertwined, which makes a superman like Duke feel a little unbearable.
The days of one step to the sky are also the days of pain and happiness.