"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening, today, Monday, April 22, 2024, the 14th day of the third lunar month, welcome to the news broadcast."

"The main content of today's program is that China's controllable nuclear fusion reactor 'Kuafu' successfully completed the first trial operation that lasted 24 hours......"

"See the detailed report below."

"China's controllable nuclear fusion reactor was ignited at 9 a.m. on the 21st, and as of press time, controlled nuclear fusion is still in continuous and stable operation...... Through remote video, the project team was condoled and encouraged, and important instructions were given. ”

“…… He pointed out that the success of controlled nuclear fusion is a sign of human civilization moving towards a new era, a hope for solving the energy crisis, a feat of modern science, and an important weapon of the country. ”

“…… It is emphasized that achieving the stable operation of controlled nuclear fusion is only the first step, and the most important goal is to use controlled nuclear fusion to bring stable energy income, benefit the country and the people, and benefit mankind. ”

Ye Ming, chief designer of the Kuafu project, and Luo Qi, chief engineer, said that the Kuafu project team will make persistent efforts to carry out demonstration commercial power generation attempts on the basis of the successful operation of controlled nuclear fusion.

……

The broadcast of news broadcasts did not detonate Internet media in an instant like a hot news in the past.

But...... There was silence for at least half an hour.

Within half an hour of the broadcast, except for a few voices on social media, the entire Internet media was in a state of indescribable silence.

It's like the silence before the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

It was as if someone was deliberately closing the floodgates to prevent a single sound.

And half an hour later, the global Internet ......

Exploded.

The news that the Kuafu Project has been running smoothly for more than 24 hours with a Q value of more than 10 and has been running continuously instantly occupied the top of the hot search charts of all social media around the world, as well as the front page headlines of all traditional media on the Internet.

……

Three days later, Ye Ming packed his luggage and returned to the provincial capital.

During these three days, he refused all interviews, held several meetings with the research group one after another, and set a plan for future experiments and observations.

However, in addition to his busy schedule, he still took the time to reply to the congratulatory emails of some well-known professors abroad, such as Horns, Ezio, and so on.

Moreover, he also paid special attention to social media.

In the face of such scientific and technological projects that promote all mankind, the domestic media are full of exciting and positive reports, needless to say. Even abroad, except for a few that are a little sour, the general stance is congratulations.

Of course, in addition to congratulations, BC also sent a lot of reflection papers.

This made Ye Ming and He Mo look extremely coke.

……

BYD drove onto the highway under the control of Yin Ta.

"Professor Ye." He Mo let go of his hands and looked back at Ye Ming.

"Name." Ye Ming leaned on the back seat and said lazily: "Ask me to give you an extension again." ”

"You!" He Mo's eyes immediately widened: "You...... Dare! ”

"Hey, you try?"

He Mo came over last year, and he was directly inserted into Professor Tang's research group, which is considered to be Tang's doctorate. Today, with Ye Ming officially hired as a professor by the school, it is natural that she will become the first graduate student and the first doctoral student under Ye Ming.

Frankly, this is inconsistent with the "rules".

But who cares?

Countless people sharpened their heads and wanted to send the students to Ye Ming's hands, what rules did they talk about......

Being able to appear in the news broadcast the title of chief designer, and before Academician Roach, indicates the official attitude.

"You're ruthless!" He Mo turned his head.

"Angry?" Ye Ming looked at her side face with a smile: "Then I apologize." ”

“……”

When he turned back again, He Mo already had a smile in his eyes: "Actually, I just want to ask ......."

Saying that, she turned around, thought for a while, and looked at the robot sitting in the co-pilot's seat: "Are you Aita or Yinta?" ”

"Guess."

"Yin Ta, stop in the emergency lane."

"Roger."

The car stopped, He Mo glanced at the camera, and the whole person was like a civet cat from the gap in the front driver's seat to the back row.

Because the weather was getting hotter, she was wearing just a very ordinary white open-collared shirt, and when she bent over, the faint mountains wrapped in lace came into Ye Ming's eyes.

Ye Ming was dumbfounded: "Lie down...... Groove, you just came over like this? ”

"Save time."

He Mo propped up the back seat with both hands, and sat next to Ye Ming with a gorgeous turn.

She straightened her hair and coughed lightly: "Yin Ta, drive." ”

……

"Why, all of a sudden, controlled nuclear fusion is realized?"

He Mo held up his mobile phone, which displayed the hot search list of a well-known domestic science and technology Q&A platform.

Although three days have passed, it is clear that the heat of controlled fusion cannot be viewed with the experience of ordinary hot events.

In the past three days, all kinds of hot searches, topics related to controlled fusion have been turned over and over the ground, changing methods on the ground.

For example, today's hot list is the first.

"Why did the forever fifty-year-old controlled nuclear fusion suddenly come to fruition? Does this mean that we are free from the shackles of energy? ”

Looking at the doubts in He Mo's eyes, Ye Ming smiled, and then clicked into the topic on her mobile phone screen.

There are thousands of answers to this question below.

"Aren't there so many answers?"

"It's the standard answer if you say it."

Ye Ming took her mobile phone, quickly flipped through a few pages, and handed the mobile phone to He Mo after clicking on an answer.

"This answer is very well said and represents my point of view."

……

This is the answer written by a respondent named "Professional Fishing".

"Why is it that all of a sudden, controlled nuclear fusion has gone from 50 years to sustainable operation?

Because Ye Shen is awesome! Ye Shen is awesome! Ye Shen is awesome!

Say the important thing three times!

Here's the point.

Controlled nuclear fusion is not a new thing, and its theory is already more familiar than that of a 25-year-old girl.

The most popular tokamak device is invented in the 50s of the last century by Azimovitz and others at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, the Soviet Union.

In the past two decades, both ITER, an internationally coordinated controlled nuclear fusion research program, and various major powers that are qualified to participate in this game, have also "lit up the sun" to varying degrees.

Even China was the first to break the 100-second mark.

It can be said that you can't even get up to the street tabloids just by igniting a fusion reactor of this magnitude.

However, there have always been two major problems in the previous controlled nuclear fusion.

The first problem is the plasma circulator, which determines the upper limit of temperature, density, specific pressure, and bootstrap current - but this problem is actually not very difficult, because the circulator used in this fusion is the iterative No. 3 circulator, which can reach a high temperature of 180 million degrees and operate stably.

This is not a technology that can be achieved with black technology.

The second problem is to increase the Q value - because in essence, the tokamak can work miracles with great force.

As long as you don't consider the q value, then it will definitely run stably.

Kuafu adopts Professor Ye Ming's "black technology" design, using Ye dysprosium as the material and Ye field to confine the plasma beam, which not only saves a lot of energy consumption, but also solves the neutron constraint problem by the way.

So as long as there are no problems with the field generator, then fusion will continue.

Controlled fusion never requires a breakthrough in the inner wall material.

Because no material can withstand hundreds of millions of degrees of heat. ”

"And the second question, does it mean that we are free from the shackles of energy?"

"The current fusion is all deuterium-tritium fusion, and the cost of deuterium is very low, but the cost of tritium is ...... It's ridiculously high. ”

"Don't look at the fact that the technology for controlled nuclear fusion is mature enough to build commercial reactors, but the source and production of tritium are still extremely limited."

"So, my answer is ......"

"The revolution has not yet succeeded, and we are still not free from the shackles of energy."

Looking at the answer, He Mo looked up in amazement.

Ye Ming nodded with a smile.

He Mo: "That ......"

"Because it's the first step to space, to helium-3 fusion." Ye Ming looked at her: "This answer is very good, why don't you like it?" ”

He Mo snorted: "It's more familiar than a 25-year-old girl...... He deserved to have few likes. ”