Chapter 382: The Investigation of the United States

After chatting with Peng Hongxi about questions related to controlled nuclear fusion, Xu Chuan did not stay at Qixia Mountain for a long time.

It will take some time for the subsequent modification of the Daybreak fusion device and related experiments.

This includes optimization of the water-cooled deflector hardware and the NC model software for ion turbulence, which can be handled by someone else.

With part of the experimental data, Xu Chuan returned to the villa.

After taking a hot bath in the bathroom to wash off the cold, he made a cup of tea and carried it to the study.

In front of the computer, Xu Chuan first sorted out the data and then began to write the paper.

The Daybreak Fusion Facility's 45-minute high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation, breaking history and setting a new world record, is certainly worthy of publication.

As a phased achievement, its achievements are fully sufficient to be published in top journals such as Science and Nature.

This is not only the credit of him alone, but also the credit of all the people of the entire Qixia controllable nuclear fusion project.

For those who have made significant contributions to the Daybreak Fusion project, a signature in a top journal such as Science or Nature is also a reward they deserve.

With complete data, it is not difficult for Xu Chuan to write a paper.

The only thing that needs to be noted is that some things that need to be kept secret should not be written, such as key methods, transformation techniques and the like.

As for the data, there is nothing wrong with the experimental data on controlled nuclear fusion being published.

This thing is not like materials or other things, it belongs to the public, and you can only watch with a blank eye, not knowing how the other party made it.

After checking the paper and confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, and that the names of the researchers and engineers who could be signed after deliberation were not missed, Xu Chuan thought about it for a while, clicked on the mailbox, and submitted it to Science, which was uploaded to Arxiv's preprint website by the way.

For other scholars, especially Chinese scholars, it is not easy to submit papers to the world's top journals like Science, but for Xu Chuan, it couldn't be easier.

Not to mention the rest, his name is a guarantee, the honor brought by the Nobel Prize + Fields Medal winner, let him submit to any journal, is enough for the review editor to take seriously.

As for throwing it on Arxiv, that's a personal habit.

Compared with professional journals, preprint sites such as ARXIV do not have a long review time and threshold, so they can let others see their papers and ideas in the first place, so as to avoid problems such as stolen manuscripts.

After processing the paper, Xu Chuan clicked on the webpage.

During this time, because the dawn fusion work was too busy, he didn't go online much, and he didn't go to the news media reporters to be interviewed, even if the dawn fusion pile made a forty-five minute running time, it was not him who was interviewed by the outside world but Peng Hongxi.

However, the fact that he does not go out does not mean that media reporters are not interested in him.

Since he won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in 18 consecutive years, both domestic and foreign media have been quite interested in him and have been chasing his footsteps.

And he lives up to expectations, and in recent years, he has done something almost every year.

From the reuse of nuclear waste, to the lithium dendrite problem and high-temperature superconducting materials, to the NS equation, for more than three years, the results he has made will attract the attention of many media reporters every year.

Especially this time, the dawn fusion device broke through the 45-minute high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation, which caused heated discussions in the field of nuclear fusion and on the Internet.

【Forty-five minutes!】 Hiss ~ Sichuan God is awesome! 】

[I suddenly remembered the 450 seconds reported a few days ago!] That's seven and a half minutes, a full six times worse! Laughing to death, the old man before said that the fusion reactor of the Kawajin would be considered successful if it ran for more than 20 seconds, wouldn't it be a slap in the face? 】

[Awesome! Forty-five minutes! How far are we from controlled nuclear fusion? 】

[It's not how far away it is.] Rather, it must be planted with flowers and the home is lit first. Hydrogen fusion, helium fusion, and even silicon fusion at the end, need to be ignited here! The first degree of fusion power generation must be sent out in this red land!! 】

[Pouring cold water, forty-five minutes is a high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation simulated by helium-3 and hydrogen, not a real deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation, and there are still many problems to be solved later.] 】

[Tokamak device is a dead end!] The problem of magnetic surface tearing during deuterium-tritium fusion cannot be solved at all! If it can be solved, the United States will not give up magnetic confinement to study inertial constraints, and Europe will not give up tokamaks to study stellarstellarsers. 】

[Dare to ask what academic qualifications are upstairs?] You old man knows better than the god of Sichuan, right, why don't you make it yourself? 】

[Le, when I read the first sentence of magnetic surface tearing, I thought you were sensible, after all, the tokamak does have this problem, but when I read the second sentence, I know what kind of character you are. 】

After briefly reading a few domestic news reports, Xu Chuan set his sights on the international media.

In fact, there is nothing good to see in the domestic reports, and most of the media report the good news and not the bad news according to the usual practice.

Of course, this is indeed good news.

As for foreign ones, it may be different.

The 45-minute operation of the Daybreak Fusion Device is a blockbuster for the field of controlled nuclear fusion, which will comprehensively enhance the world's confidence and expectations for controlled nuclear fusion technology.

Especially at this point in time, it should be the darkest time for controlled nuclear fusion technology.

Both magnetic and inertial constraints are currently in a dilemma.

Even ITER, an international thermonuclear fusion project with international cooperation, is constantly delaying construction and ignition due to funding problems.

Not only that, but some time ago, it was reported that the United States was going to withdraw from ITER.

Naturally, the decision was made by Mr. President, who had cool hair.

It's not a big deal for him to quit ITER, as there have been various exits from group chats since he took office.

In his first year in office, he withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UNESCO, and the Global Migration Agreement.

Up to now, more than a dozen different international group chats have been withdrawn one after another, and now it is not a matter of retiring another ITER.

However, this is not a good thing for ITER, which is in the field of controlled fusion and international cooperation.

After all, the United States is still one of the farthest countries in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, and if it even withdraws, ITER may soon fall apart.

However, just when the future of the entire controllable fusion industry is bleak, the results of the 45-minute operation of the dawn fusion device have brought a new dawn to the industry.

Of course, this will certainly stimulate the sensitive nerves of some countries.

Especially when this achievement first appears on the land under our feet, and not on those Western countries that think they are more advanced, the attitude of the entire Western countries is worth waiting and seeing.

It's not even impossible to take some targeted actions.

Therefore, compared with these discussions on the Internet, Xu Chuan wants to know more about the practices and opinions of those Western countries after this matter is announced.

Here, when Xu Chuan was brushing the news report

The other side of the Atlantic West Coast.

A targeted investigation is also underway.

Dan Bluyet, the new head of the company, is flipping through a paper in his office that has just been printed out of Arxiv's preprint website.

It was the manuscript that Xu Chuan had just sent in less than half an hour.

In addition to this, there is a thick stack of letters on his desk, as well as various investigative reports.

Compared to the paper in his hand, the letters and investigation reports had been piled up on his desk for several days.

It has to be said that the forty-five minutes of operation time of the Daybreak Fusion Device has indeed touched the nerves of some people.

In the field of controlled nuclear fusion, although the United States is not the founder, they have always been at the forefront of the country after the fall of the Red Su.

However, in this area, their path forward is not as smooth as in other areas.

Neither inertial nor magnetic constraints have made much of a breakthrough.

Especially in 2012, after the failure of the laser ignition of the national ignition device NIF in the United States, the budget that can be applied for by the controllable nuclear fusion project has fallen all the way to the bottom.

If it weren't for the fact that NIF could still play a role in the development of nuclear weapons, it is estimated that the relevant scientific research funds would have stopped supplying a long time ago.

Flipping through the papers in his hand, the newly appointed energy chief threw the paper in his hand on the table, pinched the bridge of his nose with a headache, and muttered a curse in his mouth.

"What a bunch of rubbish!"

Bruyet is well aware of the importance of controlled fusion technology.

Of course, he also knows very well how pitiful this technology is.

Whether it is the United States, the former Red Su, or their surface ally the European Union, they have all fallen into the abyss on this road, stumbling all the way forward, and they are still trying to maintain the operation for more than ten or twenty seconds.

However, at this moment, the country opposite the foot suddenly broke out with a running time of forty-five minutes, how can this not be a headache.

That's 45 minutes, not 45 seconds!

And more importantly, these forty-five minutes were still achieved on the tokamak line.

Does this mean that the red eastern country is not far from this technology now?

If so, how can they counter it?

Doesn't it mean that the so-called dawn is difficult even for twenty seconds?

How did it suddenly become forty-five minutes?

Thinking of this, Bluyet couldn't help but curse again.

"A bunch of liars!"

PS: There is another chapter in the evening, asking for a monthly pass