The first major demonstration meeting of the nuclear fusion engineering project has ended.

In the first round of meetings, there was a lot of progress, including the determination of the formal demonstration project, including the determination of the main direction of the design study, and the determination of the person in charge of the project.

The main leaders of the demonstration project determined by the meeting are Wang Hao, who is the chief designer, Tang Jianjun, who is the deputy chief designer, and Wang Ye.

Wang Ye is a director-level researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Engineering.

He has been involved in the 'Artificial Sun' project and is one of the main designers, and is very knowledgeable about nuclear fusion reactions and tokamak devices.

At the same time, Wang Ye is also recognized as a 'candidate academician'.

The so-called 'candidate' does not mean that he has participated in the selection of academicians, but that he can be elected as an academician if he is recognized as participating in the selection of academicians.

The project is still in the demonstration stage, but the success of the first meeting has also brought the project into the 'formal demonstration stage', which means that the science and technology department and other relevant institutions will provide funding to support the experimental research and design related to the project demonstration.

In the demonstration stage, the budget will be 1 billion yuan.

This also represents the importance of the superiors to the research, if the argumentation stage cannot be passed, one billion is equivalent to a waste.

After the meeting.

Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye have already started their work.

At this stage, they are responsible for assigning the work related to the argument, for example, for a certain difficulty and design, there will be a research team or individual to apply.

They will form an expert jury to review the relevant research applications.

If the work is assigned, there will be a lot of individuals and teams involved in the demonstration work, and all the results will be summarized, and the next meeting can be started.

After determining the work arrangement, Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye were very excited.

Tang Jianjun has a sense of achieving his goal in life, and his lifelong dream is to be able to participate in the research of nuclear fusion, and he never even thought that he would be able to complete the research in his lifetime.

Now he is involved, and he still bears the name of deputy chief designer.

Wang Ye was much younger than Tang Jianjun, and he didn't expect to be able to take on such an important job.

The scale of the nuclear fusion project is undoubtedly far greater than that of the 'artificial sun', which is just an experimental project, and the nuclear fusion engineering project is preparing to complete the research of nuclear fusion, and the two are not the same at all.

Wang Hao's position is the highest, he is the chief designer, chief engineer, and the top person in charge of the nuclear fusion engineering project.

However, his position is more nominal, with the highest authority in his hands, but he does not participate in the actual project work, he is responsible for the research of core technical directions.

Now that he has decided to start the nuclear fusion project, Wang Hao is naturally confident, the nuclear fusion project is very large, and it has really entered the experimental manufacturing stage, and the minimum investment is 10 billion yuan, and even 100 billion or more.

However, after the main direction of the research has been obtained, it is only a larger project, and it is no different from other research.

For example, the research and development of superconducting batteries.

The design and research of superconducting batteries is also not easy, and many technical problems have been overcome halfway, but they have been completed after having the main direction.

Fusion projects are only larger and involve more people.

The project research is still carried out in the same way, mainly through several stages such as demonstration, design, and manufacturing.

Now that we have entered the first stage, we can just proceed step by step normally.

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The first demonstration meeting of nuclear fusion did not cause waves.

The scale of the demonstration conference is still very large, and it is impossible to completely keep it secret, but most people who know the news only think that it is an academic exchange meeting, not a real project.

This kind of academic exchange conference is not the only one.

In China, there have been several similar conferences, but on a smaller scale, with the aim of allowing scholars in related fields to exchange ideas.

The same is true for other countries.

For example, the country.

They have held a large-scale nuclear fusion research conference, and the conference has also planned to demonstrate the creation of a large-scale tokamak device.

A large group of scholars got together to make arguments about the problems that might be encountered in the study, and they did a rough calculation, which turned out that the amount of money needed was too large.

In the end, I gave up.

This is mainly due to the fact that the feasibility of implementation is low, and it is impossible to find a source of funding.

The international community is more concerned about another thing, Annihilation Technology has issued a new announcement confirming that the renovation of the 'No. 2 machine' is coming to an end, and they will re-price the first-order iron material and openly accept relevant orders.

The pricing and sale of first-order iron materials is the most important thing.

After several months of continuous suspension of sales, many institutions have run out of research materials, and their research has naturally been suspended.

Now that the first-order iron material can finally be bought, it also makes many organizations look forward to it, and they also pay attention to the trends of the annihilation technology company at any time, hoping to make news as soon as possible.

Soon.

Annihilation Technologies has issued a new announcement confirming the production of first-order iron materials with purity of more than 95%, priced at US$800,000 per tonne.

This news immediately caused international public opinion to boil.

The price of first-order iron, which used to be very expensive, about $80 to $1 million per kilogram, is now 1,000 times lower, which is a staggering drop.

"1,000 times lower!"

"It seems that there has indeed been a major breakthrough in the manufacturing technology of first-order iron......

"Annihilation Technology directly produces first-order iron with a purity of more than 95%, and the production efficiency is still so high? Eliminating the extraction process, can you still make dozens of tons a day? ”

"There must be dozens of tons, otherwise it wouldn't be so cheap......"

“……”

Annihilation Technology's pricing of first-order iron is not a decision made by a brain, but a figure calculated according to the scale of market demand for first-order iron.

At present, first-order iron materials are mainly used for research and development.

According to the sales in the past year, the market size of first-order iron materials is about 20 billion US dollars.

Annihilation Technology is a monopoly material company, and on the premise of achieving extremely high profit margins, their goal is to expand the market size in order to achieve higher profits.

At present, their main customers include major metal research institutions, large steel companies, superconducting materials companies and other materials-related institutions.

The number of these large institutions is limited, and the funds that can be invested in the purchase of upgrading materials are also limited, and only by expanding the market can they get more profits.

The same goes for magnetized lithium materials.

Now the market size of lithium magnetized materials is only just over 10 billion US dollars, mainly because of the high price of lithium magnetized materials, the cost of lithium batteries with lithium magnetized materials will naturally rise sharply, and the products manufactured in this way are very expensive.

If you want to expand the market, you must reduce the price so that ordinary people can afford high-end lithium battery products.

For example, electric vehicles with a range of more than 1,200 km.

The purpose of lowering prices is to expand the market.

When ordinary people can use 'upgraded material products', the market scale will naturally become very large, and it will bring more huge profits.

Of course, for the time being, it is impossible.

This is mainly due to the limited production and manufacturing capacity, and the No. 2 machine is dedicated to the production of first-order iron materials, which can temporarily produce about 110 tons per day.

Annihilation Technologies is manufacturing machines 3 and 4 and is constantly improving the manufacturing process with the goal of fully automating the process in order to significantly increase the production capacity of first-order iron materials.

Although the market size is limited, because of the ultra-high profit margins, Annihilation Technology is still like a 'money printing machine', with an estimated profit of more than $20 billion in the next year.

This profit is very staggering.

By comparison, the world's most profitable company, Amriken's fruit company, made a profit of less than $30 billion last year.

Annihilation Technologies' announcement also states that the company is continuously improving its manufacturing processes in order to continue to expand its production capacity.

If the production capacity continues to be expanded, the selling price of first-order iron materials will continue to decrease.

It's a given.

But there are still a lot of organizations that order materials, and they don't wait for cheaper materials, because time is money in the market competition.

Those large international iron and steel companies must take the lead in coming up with high-end products in order to seize the market in advance, otherwise they may not even have the qualifications to compete in the same field.

A large steel company and one of the main customers of Annihilation Technologies.

In comparison, the order size of scientific research institutions is much worse, and even Amriken's Lake Groom project has a limited number of first-order iron materials.

Scientific research institutions are pure investment institutions, and R&D funding is naturally very limited.

The total funding of the Grum Lake Project is 55 billion US dollars, which sounds very large, but they do multi-faceted research, and there are many institutions and teams involved, and the funds that can be used to purchase upgrade materials are naturally limited.

The size of their first order was only about $300 million.

Gamov-Shapley believes that for the current stage of research, 300 million dollars, nearly 400 tons of first-order iron materials are enough.

After confirming that he would be able to get the first batch of materials next month, Shapley was also very excited, and he felt that he had come from hell to heaven.

Research had already been considered unfeasible, but now that there is more material to support it, it is natural that the research can continue.

Shapley vowed to make a comeback.

He actively devoted himself to the work, convened many experts and scholars, and began to prepare for experiments on the anti-gravity properties of materials.

This is the most important experiment.

Now their research has two main contents, one is that the cooperative institutions and teams study the superconducting materials of the first order iron, and the other is to test the anti-gravity properties of the superconducting materials of the first order iron.

"We will test the anti-gravity characteristics and find first-order iron materials that are suitable for the manufacture of strong annihilation fields."

"When the time comes, there will be a major breakthrough in research!"

"It is a very important direction for advanced materials to create a strong annihilation force field, and we will use this to catch up with Wang Hao's team and master the highest-end strong annihilation force field technology......"

That's what Shapley and Decision One said.

Decision One encouraged Shapley to continue his efforts and lead the Lake Groom project to success, and at the same time, set a time for him to --

Half.

"I hope to see results in six months."

"You don't need to catch up with Wang Hao's team, but you must create an annihilation force field of sufficient strength......"

"That way, we can continue to support research!"

There is also a lot of pressure on decision maker number one.

The Lake Groom Project is a scientific research project that he initiated and supported, and if the plan fails in the final determination, it will definitely be a failure of his work as the No. 1 decision-maker.

That could be a huge stain.

However, the number one decision-maker also began to think about failure, and he felt that he could not put all his chips on the Grom Lake project, and he should also find other directions.

For example, the International Organization for the Theory of Annihilation.

Ameriken has actually withdrawn from the International Organization for the Theory of Annihilation, but nominally, they have not completely withdrawn.

If the Lake Groom plan fails, they will have to 'return' to the International Annihilation Theory Organization ahead of schedule.

However, it is not realistic to talk about 'returning' at this stage.

Other countries were not involved in the Lake Groom, and the results of the research were not shared with other countries, so it was not possible for other countries to return Amriken to the organization.

"Let's hope Gamov can do it......"

"Seeing that he is very confident, it should be fine." Decision One let out a long sigh, and could only put his hope on the Lake Groom plan for the time being.

……

Meanwhile.

Wang Hao has come to the F-ray experimental base.

The experimental base was busy.

Liao Jianguo took a piece of silver metal material and introduced, "This is a granular material manufactured by Donggong Precision, we have done detailed testing, and the largest particle material inside is 160 microns, and the smallest is about 39 microns." ”

"The deviation of the particles is a bit large, but the direction and shape are consistent, and the connection is very tight."

He asked, "Academician Wang, there is no effect on the inconsistent particle size, right?" ”

"Theoretically, it won't have an impact." Wang Hao said, "As long as the direction is the same, it's fine." If the direction of the particles is the same, the direction of the excited anti-gravity field will be the same, and the anti-gravity field can be connected together. ”

Liao Jianguo nodded clearly, "We are ready, the new equipment has been almost installed, and the experiment will probably be carried out tomorrow." ”

"We'll do a detailed test tonight."

"Hopefully there will be progress......

Liao Jianguo and Wang Hao are very much looking forward to it.

They have done anti-gravity experiments based on millimeter-scale granular materials, with particles about 2 millimeters in size, and the strength of the anti-gravity field produced is 18.3%.

This strength can already be used to make F-ray generators.

Now that the size of the particles has been reduced by an average of more than twenty times, the strength of the anti-gravity field that can be created can be expected.

The next day, the experiment officially began.

Everyone involved in the experiment is very much looking forward to it, because the layout of the materials has been completed, and the experiment is just a systematic opening of the equipment.

To put it simply, power-on, detection.

Wang Hao and Liao Jianguo stood in the data room together, staring carefully at the numbers that kept jumping on the computer--

“0.001%、0.023%、0.913%……”

“2.009%、3.511%……”

“4.314%、6.345%……”

“9.301%……”

The numbers are rising.

When the number exceeded "18%", Liao Jianguo couldn't help but shout, "It's more than 18!" ”

"It's 20!"

"It's still going up!"

As he spoke, he shouted, "What's the temperature?" ”

Someone next to me reported, "193K. ”

"Go on!"

Liao Jianguo's face turned red with excitement, and after he finished speaking, he immediately looked at the numbers on the screen, and the numbers were still jumping and rising.

“20.831%……”

“25.300%……”

“30.144%……”

When the number rises above 30%, the jump speed slows down significantly.

Liao Jianguo is still very excited.

The basic anti-gravity field strength of the F-ray generation equipment they are using now is only 18%, and the extrusion of the outer spiral force field coupled with the nuclear reaction inside pushes the excitation of the F-ray intensity to more than 7 times.

30% or more strength ......

He didn't even know what the concept was.

Wang Hao was also very excited, he held his breath hard, as if he was afraid that he would pause the jump when he exhaled the number, but in the end the number was frozen.

“33.433%！”

He gritted his teeth and shouted.

Liao Jianguo also read it vigorously, and he immediately looked at Wang Hao and asked, "Academician Wang, what does this number represent?" How high can we excite the F-rays with this? ”

In the past, Wang Hao always answered questions, as if he knew everything.

This time is different.

Wang Hao shook his head directly, "I don't know either." But for sure, when the time comes, we won't be able to do point-of-care testing. ”

Liao Jianguo naturally knows what it means to be 'unable to detect instantly'.

The upper limit of their detection of the strength of the annihilation force field is '10 multipliers', and the inability to detect it immediately means that the intensity must exceed 10 multipliers.