Chapter 395: The Last Hope for All of Europe
When there was a lot of talk on the Internet, Xu Chuan had locked himself in his office for several days.
He didn't pay attention to these news on the Internet, and he was concentrating on studying the magnetic plane tearing caused by deuterium-tritium fusion.
I have to say that after having the actual operation data, and with the relevant theories that have been perfected before, he has made it easy to break through this problem.
It is unlikely that a mathematical model of plasma turbulence alone can solve this problem, but by modifying the outer superconducting coil of the Daybreak fusion device, he is sure that the magnetic surface tear will be suppressed to the point where it will not affect the operation of the high-temperature plasma in the reactor chamber.
Although the problem has not been completely solved, if it can be done this step, the impact will not be great.
Just wait for the next dawn run, and then do the experiment again to verify.
If both the magnetic surface tearing problem and the first wall material can be solved, the demonstration reactor can be directly started.
In terms of the completeness of the Qixia controlled nuclear fusion park, the construction of the demonstration reactor only needs to assemble a new controlled nuclear fusion reactor in the core area.
It doesn't take much time.
As for those comments on the Internet, unless he sees it himself, no one at the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base will take the initiative to show it to him.
After checking the sorted out data, Xu Chuan saved the relevant data with satisfaction.
At this moment, a call came to his phone.
I picked up my phone and looked at it, and it was Professor David Gross, the president of CERN.
"Professor Gross, long time no see, how about CERN come in and work?"
After answering the phone, Xu Chuan asked with a smile, the preliminary solution to the magnetic surface tearing problem made him feel very good.
But David Gross was in a terrible mood.
"Not good, not at all." Gross replied with a sigh of relief.
Xu Chuan smiled and asked curiously, "What's wrong?" Problems with the construction of the LHC? ”
After CERN decided to stop the exploration of dark matter and inert neutrinos in the first half of the year, the CERN Board of Directors decided to upgrade the large strong particle collision LHC and also purchased a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials from his side.
According to the progress, the LHC upgrade should be about halfway through.
Gross sighed and said, "Yes." It's not just CERN's thing, it's about you. ”
Hearing this, Xu Chuan was keenly aware of something and asked, "Has anyone interfered in the construction of the LHC, and will you cancel the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials?" ”
On the other side, Professor David Gross was silent for a moment, nodded with a wry smile, and said, "Well, the matter on ITER's side has affected us. Governors from the Member States. Cancelled the order from CERN and you, and are ready to re-source high-temperature superconducting materials from Sakura Country. ”
The excessive involvement of the financiers behind the scientific research work is a fate that almost no large-scale international joint scientific research institution or organization can escape.
Although, in normal times, the Member States behind these might not be dictators of research and procurement of equipment, materials, etc.
But if it involves some important scientific and technological competition, or a decision on something, such as the site selection for the construction of the ITER demonstration reactor, the member states behind these institutions and organizations will come up with their brains.
After all, these things are of great benefit to the nation-building.
The same is true for CERN, where members and directors don't interfere much in their work in normal times, but once the member states come together to decide what to do, they as academics and researchers don't have much effect.
Unless there is a collective exit, but this is clearly not realistic.
In the field of high-energy physics, there is currently no other research institute that can replace CERN.
What makes him regret is not only the cancellation of the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, but also Professor Xu's exploration of dark matter and inert neutrinos on the phone.
Previously, Professor Xu agreed to cooperate with CERN on the basis of an order for high-temperature superconducting materials, but now that the order has been cancelled, he is no longer obliged to cooperate with CERN.
Hearing this news, Xu Chuan was not too surprised or surprised.
He had been greeted by the above long ago. It is not surprising that CERN has now cancelled orders for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials.
After thinking for a while, Xu Chuan asked, "What happened to the results on ITER's side?" ”
Hearing this, David Gross asked with some curiosity: "You don't know?" ”
Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "I've been doing my own research for the past few days, and I don't know much about what is happening in the outside world. ”
Gross sighed and said, "Your country has voluntarily withdrawn from the ITER organization, and is currently cleaning up the materials and related things to prepare for evacuation. ”
Xu Chuan smiled indifferently and said: "Retreat, retreat, ITER's progress is too slow, countries are tearing each other, scientific research funding or something endless, I believe you also feel this." ”
Gross nodded and sighed softly.
Indeed, this kind of problem is common to almost all international joint agency organizations, and CERN is no exception.
During the years he has been in charge of CERN, the most important thing he has done is not to conduct research or direct CERN operations, but to explain to Member States the use of funds and the results of various scientific research.
No way, in the scientific research community, generally speaking, whoever has the funding is the father.
After chatting with Professor David Gross for a while, Xu Chuan hung up the phone.
CERN canceled the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials under pressure from the United States, although it was expected, but it was still a bit painful.
After all, this is a large order of billions.
However, it is not unacceptable in the face of the publication of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials and plasma turbulence numerical control models.
It is a pity that the high-temperature superconducting materials produced by the Western Superconductor Group for LHC transformation are wasted.
After all, after signing the contract, the relevant materials were already being produced.
The high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material can hardly change its shape after being finalized because of its physical properties and can be used on other devices.
Perhaps, the schedule and arrangement of building a large strong particle collider by itself will be put forward.
Thinking about it, an idea popped up in Xu Chuan's mind.
Due to the influence of controlled nuclear fusion technology and ITER, CERN may further exclude Chinese scholars.
If that's the case, it's absolutely necessary to build your own large strong particle collider.
In the office, Xu Chuan thought for a while, turned on the computer, and searched for ITER-related news reports.
Although Huaguo's initiative to withdraw from ITER has not spread widely in China and is well known, it has also been on the hot search.
I have to say that there is really a lot of ignorance on the Internet.
Whether it is a foreigner, a self-righteous guest, or the guilt of the victim, related comments occupy most of the Internet on the Internet.
Maybe there are not many of these people in reality, but on the Internet, they are always the first people to charge at the major hot news.
Coupled with the amplification effect of the Internet, this also leads to a miasma of smoke under various hot news.
Especially in the case of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, many people think that it is because he sold the materials and obtained billions of dollars, so he is unwilling to disclose relevant information and is unwilling to accept investigations.
From this point of view, he then commented on Huaguo's 'withdrawal' from ITER, feeling that he was delaying the country's development.
I have to say that the angle of these people's departure and the rhythm of the belt do seem reasonable, and they have been echoed by many people.
It's just that they have never understood what the truth of the matter is, and they all rely on the reports of some media to catch wind and shadows, and even learn the distorted truth from the reports of marketing accounts and some foreign propaganda media, and then judge him.
Xu Chuan didn't care about these comments or anything, and he wouldn't be angry because of them.
Although he is not a star actor or anything, his fame on the Internet is not low. After all, he can now be said to be the first person in the current academic world in China, with his own celebrity attributes.
In fact, at his current height, or with the attributes of a celebrity on the Internet, the attention and curiosity of the general public about him is no longer how many scientific research achievements he has made, or what contributions he has made to the country, or what he has developed.
Although the above things can indeed attract the attention of netizens, at most they can praise two awesome sentences after the news report.
And if there is a report on private life or morality, it can cause a wave in an instant.
Just like back then, the old man who let the Chinese people eat enough and kept the food crisis from being stuck in the neck caused a scolding on the Internet because he touched a Mercedes-Benz out of curiosity at the auto show.
Someone asked him if he had embezzled the hard-earned money of the common people, and why did a scientific research worker drive a luxury car and live in a villa.
As everyone knows, the old man's villa was rewarded to him by the state because of the great contribution made by the old man.
And the old man did not live in this villa, but transformed this "mansion" into a rice research center.
It was in this villa awarded to him by the state that the old man led the team to research the salt-alkali tolerant "seawater rice".
Relying on the results of this research, the country can increase grain production by at least about 50 billion kilograms a year and feed at least 200 million more people.
Xu Chuan knows the minds of some people very well, and in the hearts of some people, scientific researchers should be poor and poor.
Of course, more than that, it is because these things can allow them to stand on the highest point of morality and evaluate a person who they could not otherwise evaluate.
After all, for the vast majority of keyboard warriors, their knowledge and level are only enough to support them in morally scolding Fang Xuan.
After briefly flipping through the ITER-related news reports, Xu Chuan shook his head and closed the webpage.
After thinking about it for a while, he sent a message to Senior Brother Fan Pengyue Fan of the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute.
For him, since Mi Guo used his influence in CERN to cancel his order, it would not be in his character not to respond to something.
On the other side, Chuanhai Materials Research Institute.
Fan Pengyue, who was dealing with CERN's cancellation of orders for high-temperature superconducting materials, rang the ringtone of his mobile phone.
Putting down the pen in his hand, he picked up his phone and looked at the message.
"Through the media, it was announced that due to ITER's non-compliance with international conventions, Chuanhai Materials Research Institute will no longer provide high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials to ITER and the remaining six member countries of ITER."
Seeing this news, Fan Pengyue's mouth took a hint of curvature, and he shook his head with a smile.
He wasn't very surprised by the news.
With the character of that little junior brother, if he knew that CERN had canceled the order and related reasons, he would definitely not suffer this dumb loss, and it would be his character to go back.
The one who sent him a message would not care about these huge markets at all.
If it were someone else, if it was a businessman, I would probably choose to hold back, right?
After all, ITER and these countries are the real main buyers of high-temperature superconducting materials.
Smiling and shaking his head, Fan Pengyue touched the phone on the table and called the department in charge of media reports.
Now that the decision has been made, it would be good for him to carry it out as required.
Anyway, Boss Xu is not short of money, so it doesn't matter.
Instead, he wanted to know how the European side would react when they learned the news.
Since the Spiral Stone 7X made an hour-long operation results, the European side has been contacting him, hoping to purchase a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials from the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute.
Now that hope has been directly extinguished, it is estimated that the intestines in Europe will regret it, right?
After all, the superconducting properties of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials are much better than other high-temperature superconducting materials on the market.
Without this, the progress of controlled nuclear fusion research will be much behind.
As for the Planck Institute for Plasma Research in German, it was lucky enough to close the deal by June. If it drags on for a while, it will also be affected by the-stirring stick of the United States.
For now, it is expected to be the last hope for all of Europe.
This is good news for the Germanic country, but other countries that follow the United States are not so happy.
The EU seems to be a whole, but there is a lot of caution on its part.
Especially when it comes to controlled nuclear fusion.
PS: Yesterday's chapter, I went to Xiangya Hospital this afternoon, and I came back late, sorry.