"In fact, according to the current breeding plan of the United States, there is no problem in replacing thermal power and traditional nuclear power for commercial operation." Ye Ming picked up the cup and said with a smile: "It's a big deal that the conversion rate is a little lower, and the dependence on tritium is a little higher, but these can be solved on a large scale." ”

"Can Lao Mei still go to large-scale infrastructure now?" Professor Huo Liang looked at him, and then at Chief Engineer Luo, very unconvinced.

Academician Luo is the chief engineer of the State Nuclear Corporation, and no one knows more about the ability to build power stations in the United States than him.

"Hehe, how to say it, now that history has entered a new stage, everything is possible." Chief Engineer Luo didn't say anything to death, but he knew it by looking at his eyes......

He really didn't believe it.

The last time the United States engaged in infrastructure construction was during the Roosevelt era, when the people were mired in the Great Depression and still relied on many complex reasons, including World War II, to get up.

Nearly 100 years have passed now.

Do you let them do infrastructure again?

Difficult!

"In the energy field, the cost of a penny per kilowatt-hour of electricity is an advantage." Academician Luo continued to laugh and said: "And deuterium-tritium fusion can't bypass boiling water - 80% of the energy is in neutrons, how can you go around?" So Musk's deuterium-tritium fusion engine, I think it's also bragging. Unless he works a miracle and uses only 20% of the plasma, then there will not be enough tritium in the world for him to do alone. ”

A group of people nodded in agreement.

Ye Ming also smiled and nodded.

In the past few months, the Kuafu project team has been divided into two routes, one to verify tritium value-added and the other to verify helium-3 fusion.

Today's meeting, in addition to talking about tomorrow's trial power generation, is mainly to discuss these two directions.

"Okay, let's not ridicule Lao Mei." Chief Engineer Luo glanced at the time: "Let's have a meeting, I'll summarize it first." ”

Although Chief Engineer Luo is nominally the general person in charge of the project and presides over the meeting every time, in fact, everyone's position in the project team is fair and consistent - this is a clear cooperative project team, only the division of labor is different, there is no difference in position.

"Since the last successful operation for a month, the reproduction program of Lao Chang Lao Liao Lao Chen Lao Jiang is very good, which can make our reproduction recovery rate up to 98.5% - an increase of 0.5% compared to the plan, but don't underestimate this, when we can't find a new way out, 0.1% is all progress."

Ye Ming took the lead and applauded.

Professor Chang Wendao and the others were also smiling - the row on their side was in charge of this work.

After the applause stopped for a while, Professor Chang Wendao coughed lightly: "Mr. Luo, I'll make a mistake." ”

"You say."

Chang Wendao looked at Ye Ming: "Professor Xiao Ye, after Aita gets on the quantum computer, will the computing power be infinite?" ”

Ye Ming was slightly stunned, this ...... What didn't happen, how dare he pack the ticket?

However, all of the people present are acquaintances and his own people, so he naturally will not hide it, and nodded at the moment: "As long as there are no accidents, Aita is indeed a bridge connecting quantum computing and classical tasks." ”

Although there is no positive answer, the meaning is already obvious.

Professor Chang smiled slightly: "Well, when the quantum computer can be counted as a classical problem, maybe we can complete another breakthrough and achieve true self-sustaining operation." ”

"You're not going to be exhaustive, are you?" Ye Ming was taken aback.

"Is Aita still afraid of being poor?"

"Uh...... I'm afraid, but I'm not afraid. Ye Ming coughed and said with a smile: "It's just that I don't know how resistant the quantum well computing unit is yet, in short, everything is still waiting for later." ”

Professor Chang waved his hand: "It's okay, we believe in Aita." ”

Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement.

- Everyone in this room has unlimited computing rights for Aita, and they know how terrible Aita's ability to coordinate computing tasks is.

Let's put it this way, traditional computer systems can easily be filled with computing power by a computing task with extremely high authority, so that it "crashes".

But Aita is different, Aita never crashes.

Because her dynamic management level is "anthropomorphic", it can even be said to surpass humans.

- Aita can schedule an infinite number of tasks in parallel at the same time to call different computing units on the fly, and even if she performs 10,000 π operations in a row, she can take on other tasks with ease.

This mechanism does not mean how many computing units are reserved, but that she can automatically allocate computing cores when she receives a task.

As a result, Aita never stopped responding because of the exhaustion of computing power - of course, due to the limitations of computing power and the need to ensure commercial use, she was a little slow to do a lot of calculations.

Some people even joked that if they encounter a shortage of computing power, it is better for Ye Ming to do mental arithmetic.

"So, the public opinion of the western media against Aita a while ago is purely a sour grape mentality." Academician Luo smiled and sighed.

After Academician Luo completed the summary, Professor Huo Liang also made a summary on behalf of the helium-3 direction, saying that the calculation and demonstration have been passed, and the next step can be to build a demonstration reactor.

It's just that this demonstration pile can really only be demonstrated.

Helium-3 is abundant on the Moon, but ...... on Earth

Let's put it this way, the current HE3 can only be produced by the β decay of tritium in the heavy water reactor - but tritium is also in short supply!

And unlike deuterium-tritium fusion, it is a proper consumable and cannot complete self-sustaining proliferation.

……

When it was Ye Ming's turn at the end, Ye Ming looked at Chief Engineer Luo.

"Mr. Luo, I have a question, what is the current progress of domestic heavy water reactors?"

"The planning has been completed, and it is expected that eight will be built within five years, and after the completion of construction, it will be able to produce about 200 kilograms of tritium per year, and helium-3 is indeed a bit of a headache, and now all research directions are actually staring at the moon. China is also relatively advanced, and there is no gap with Lao Mei. ”

Saying that, Chief Engineer Luo sighed: "To be honest, once helium-3 fusion is lit by us, it will really be whoever takes the lead in laying out on the moon." ”

"That's why Lao Mei hastened the Artemis Project." Professor Huo Liang said with a smile: "Five years ago, I said that I would log in before the next year, but this year is about to come to an end, and there is no trace of it." ”

Ye Ming shook his head with a smile: "It's useless for Artemis to go up, they are still traditional fuel propulsion, and it can only be said that the political influence is a little greater." ”

A group of professors laughed.

What they want to do is not fuel propulsion, but fusion engine propulsion.

After laughing, Ye Ming pursed his lips: "Since helium-3 is very scarce and it is fusion fuel, then our first helium-3 pile will be loaded into the spacecraft." ”

"Does that mean that domestic fusion reactors are still dominated by deuterium-tritium fusion first?"

"Well, anyway, the craft of boiling water is already so skillful, it doesn't matter if you boil it for a few more years." Ye Ming raised his head and silently calculated: "If 200 kilograms are used, according to the current multiplication recovery rate, it will probably be able to meet more than 80% of the domestic electricity consumption." ”

"Almost." Chief Engineer Luo nodded with a smile: "The price of electricity connected to the grid can be reduced to about 3 cents." ”

"What is the current price of electricity connected to the grid?"

"About two or three cents."

"That means...... The overall electricity price can only be cheaper by 2 cents? ”

Chief Engineer Luo spread his hands: "You know that the power plant is making hard-earned money, right?" ”

The crowd laughed.

"The main thing is to look at the quantitative change, but also to look at the helium-3 fusion." Chief Engineer Luo sighed: "After the construction of a redundant helium-3 fusion reactor in a real city, then the money for buying roads for the power grid will be saved." At that time, the cost of electricity is estimated to be really five cents a kilowatt of industrial price. Moreover, the heat energy generated can also be used for heating, and it can also be used for fine crop production. ”

"Well, so it's important to go to the moon to build a base first and grab helium-3." Ye Ming exhaled lightly, smiled and nodded.

"Mr. Luo, I think we can find the aerospace department." After a pause, Ye Ming looked at everyone.

"Recently, when I was working on a stabilization scheme for a quantum computer, I seemed to have touched the door of the gravitational field."

Everyone's eyes swept to him!