Ammon is not in a good position right now.

The second manned launch of the Dream Chaser, which was also the first to undertake the ISS launch mission, ended in such an embarrassment, or on the second day of John's inauguration, causing a series of chain reactions.

If there is no space race, there is no new far, then a few problems in a manned launch will only be an internal investigation, and will not have much impact.

However, in today's environment, the main participants and directors of the Dream Chaser project face severe accountability and public pressure.

The day after the Dream Chaser landed, crowds of people unfurled banners and signs appeared on the streets of Washington.

"Keep them alive!"

"NO RACE NO RISK"

“It was a murder！ (It was a murder)"

“We need big shuttle！ (We need a big shuttle)"

“……”

The crowd of people in the rally was diverse, as the nine crew members came from several European countries, and they were responsible for most of the cost of the Dream Chaser's launch.

Most of the ISS's member states, including Lucia, have demanded accountability for the failure, and the latter has not been able to satirize the Dream Chasers for cutting corners and promote how reliable their Soyuz ships are.

Instead of explicitly asking for punishment for the Dream Chaser's research team, John focused on catching the bloody head of the dog who didn't pay attention to the safety of the astronauts and called a bunch of people to the office to scold.

He then locked himself in his office by himself, and Pio could hear the roar inside through the door.

"These so-called elites, they take the money, our money, I used to pay so many taxes, billions of dollars at every turn, and then treat the taxpayers like this!"

Pio knocked cautiously on the door, and after hearing a "come in" for a while, he pushed open a little gap, and John had calmed down by this time, but he still crossed his waist and complained:

"As soon as I was ready to do something, these worms began to hinder me from leading Aramco to revival, and perhaps it would be more useful to find a group of Indian engineers than they would be.

You know what, the whole world is definitely watching our jokes right now. ”

Pio rolled his eyes: "That's right, boss, our European allies simply don't have the ability to send people into space, Ami has to take care of them when he lands on the moon, they should be considerate of NACA's efforts instead of falling into the ground." ”

John nodded vigorously: "Yes, that's it, they are moths, allies are dragging us back, and we are not satisfied with getting benefits in vain, we can't go on like this."

Well...... There is also the Aviation Development Commission, they must have planned to use the space shuttle to see the joke a long time ago, they are questioning Aramco's space strength! We gave them orders, capital and technology, but in return. ”

The more John spoke, the more angry he became, and a rush of blood rushed to his mind, and he suddenly thought of something and pulled out a thin wad of paper, which was a proposal he had hesitated for a long time.

At this moment, he held it in his hand, squinted his eyes and said slowly:

"They have only achieved a small achievement, don't think that this can replace the great Ami, we, we are the only one, God bless Ami!"

Pio glanced at the proposal in John's hand with trepidation and guessed what he was going to do.

Although reason told him that the most important thing to do at this time was to calm down the boss, but the words came to his lips and swallowed back.

Compared with being an annoying rational guest, it is still a flattering villain who can be liked by the boss more.

"Boss, you're right, we need to show our strength and let the world know that we are still an irresistible defender of order."

John: "I know a lot of people want this proposal to pass, so I'm just going to do it." I have the courage, we have nothing to fear, let them feel the dissatisfaction from us! ”

……

"Nuclear fusion?"

Lin Ju couldn't help frowning.

Controlled nuclear fusion thing...... He's not sure.

In the past, he tried to build a new nuclear fusion research mission in the Systems Research Institute, but the progress bar was still zero after investing 20 million......

The progress shown by the system task is not equal, the early stage is generally theoretical and feasibility study, the middle stage is the principle transformation, and the later stage is the specific technology research and development work.

The amount of funds consumed by the mission is related to the knowledge, technology, number and level of personnel mastered by the base, and the more fully prepared the preliminary preparation, the easier it is to advance the mission.

There is only one possibility for this situation, where there is no theoretical progress in research: there is no theory at the base to support controlled nuclear fusion technology......

In other words, the current mainstream of human beings, magnetic confinement and inertial confinement, cannot complete the manufacture of controllable nuclear fusion devices.

The magnetic confinement is the tokamak device, which is the ITER of international cooperation, the European Joint Nuclear Fusion Experimental Device (JET) and the EAST independently developed by the country.

There are also two ways: inertial restraint and gravitational constraint.

Inertial confinement was also studied in the early days, and Aramco's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is inertial confinement fusion.

Inertial confinement and magnetic confinement are considered to be the most likely controllable nuclear fusion methods in the future, but it is obvious that these theories are extremely imperfect in the eyes of the Systems Research Institute, so the pre-theoretical research needs huge financial promotion.

As for the gravitational constraint of the partial gate? This must work, and the sun is like that, and the principle is to rely on the superposition of gravity to forcibly make the hydrogen nucleus fusion, and at the same time emit a strong flow of neutrons, but it is impossible for humans to achieve this method for hundreds of years.

Here we have to mention the characteristics of fusion raw materials, and there are three types of hydrogen fusion types designed:

Isotope fusion of hydrogen, deuterium, tritium: relatively easy, one deuterium and one tritium fuse to form a helium tetraatom and radiate 3 seeds;

Deuterium and helium triple fusion: a helium-four (i.e., helium containing four neutrons) is generated, and a small number of neutrons may also be emitted;

Helium-3 and helium-triple fusion: 4 helium atoms and 2 hydrogen atoms are generated, all neutrons are allocated, no neutrons are produced.

From top to bottom, they are called first, second, and third generation nuclear fusion, respectively.

The neutron flux is extremely penetrating and can cause serious harm to the human body, and the simplest deuterium and tritium fusion tests are currently being tried by various countries.

The problem is that deuterium and tritium are produced in very small quantities on the earth and can only be produced in small quantities by dedicated nuclear reactors, and the output is calculated in grams, which is very precious.

Tritium has another important purpose: the third-generation hydrogen bomb gas detonation core.

In the early days, the first-generation hydrogen bomb used the atomic bomb as a nuclear trigger to detonate liquid tritium, which was large in size, cumbersome to maintain, and weighed more than ten tons to dozens of tons, and had almost no actual combat value; The second-generation hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb to detonate lithium deuteide, which can be controlled at 2 to 3 tons in weight and can be used in actual combat.

The third-generation hydrogen bomb needs to use a gas-assisted detonation core made of tritium, which can replace the atomic bomb as a trigger, greatly reducing the mass of the hydrogen bomb, and can achieve a mass of 100 kilograms to achieve a yield of hundreds of thousands of tons, which is the latest generation of technology.

The problem is that the tritium in the gas detonation core needs to be replaced every three or four years, otherwise it will fail due to the decay of tritium, which highlights the preciousness of tritium, and it is impossible to use it for commercial fusion at all.

Whether it is the second generation of deuterium, helium 3 or the third generation of helium 3 fusion, it needs the abundant helium 3 on the moon, which is why human nuclear fusion must develop the moon.

No matter which path Xinyuan chooses to take, it means tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of investment, unless it comes up with helium triple fusion, otherwise the early preparation of deuterium and tritium fuel is enough to torture people.

(End of chapter)