Heqi, EAST General Laboratory.

Ai Quan hurriedly walked past an inconspicuous building, and inside was the most advanced tokamak nuclear fusion device in the country and even in the world: EAST.

The mushroom scientists from the Academy of Nuclear Sciences also had a basic understanding of the progress of EAST, and while marveling at the imagination of the local team, they couldn't help but sigh.

In terms of thinking, EAST has many innovative points, and all of them are highly feasible in theory, allowing people to get a glimpse of the dawn of controlled nuclear fusion.

However, the shortcomings in materials and control technology have become the biggest obstacle, and there are currently no conditions to meet the requirements in the world, so EAST can only wait.

and other aspects such as superconductivity, strong magnetism, lasers, materials and other aspects to make breakthroughs one after another, and then increase the ignition time little by little, until one day it can stably output considerable energy.

These basic science problems are destined to have to wait for a long time, and the success of the prediction of 2050 experiments is important for other research to keep up, otherwise it will remain empty talk.

In contrast, the super hydrogen bomb project is progressing rapidly, and the final four options have been completely completed.

For the most feasible No. 1 plan, some samples of liquid deuterium and liquid helium-3 were brought from the northwest to build experimental machines here.

Eventually, all four experimental devices will be sent to the moon and placed around the test-exploded nuclear bomb, using the hydrogen bomb as a trigger to try to cause nuclear fusion involving helium-3 through a special configuration.

The reaction utilization rate of Scheme 4 to Scheme 1 is designed to be between 0.85% and 2.2%, respectively, but as long as Scheme 3 with a reaction rate of more than 1% is successful, the above is willing to design a 100-million-ton equivalent hydrogen bomb based on it.

This is far from being comparable with the limit reaction utilization rate of helium-3, but it can already be satisfying, in fact, Ai Quan is very worried about the No. 4 plan personally designed by Yu Min, and whether he can ignite helium-3 is a big question.

Yu Min had limited energy and only proposed the most conservative plan 4, he led the 2nd plan, and the EAST team was responsible for the 1st and 3rd plans, respectively.

However, in fact, none of the program groups had much confidence and were ready to give up or wait for follow-up trials.

Ai Quan, who was preoccupied, pushed open the door of the office area as usual, and then found that the atmosphere was different today.

There was no nervous silence and hurried footsteps, and no group of people arguing seriously around the blackboard and chalk heads all over the floor.

Fu Mingdong looked extremely excited, and he was shaking the information in his hand vigorously.

Yu Min next to him was also smiling in a wheelchair, and most of the rest of the people were like this, as if they had encountered something good.

"Director Ai, come on, let's see the good news!"

Fu Mingdong walked straight over happily and poked a stack of A4 papers.

"The masters are in the people, I can't imagine that one day, those of us who are engaged in cutting-edge physics will actually benefit from the market!"

"What's the situation?"

Ai Quan muttered and took the information, and found that it was actually a technical data sheet of equipment provided by the supplier, and the XAP letters at the top and the flat X-shaped logo separating the top and bottom were very conspicuous, and he often saw this sign.

There are no specific device models below, only two technologies are indicated:

150T (Tesla, magnetic field strength unit) above super artificial magnetic field and precise control technology;

An enhancement technique based on multiple reflections of gaseous plasma to amplify the laser power to more than 100 times.

The back is some simple relevant data, indicating the potential of the first two technologies and the current degree of development, of course, the most important thing is that the latter says that the relevant equipment can be customized for EAST, but it needs to be interviewed by the person in charge of the chief engineer level.

On each page of the information, the seal of the General Armament Department and the steel stamp with the words "top secret" are also stamped below, indicating that it belongs to internal information and is strictly forbidden to be disseminated externally.

With just a cursory glance, Ai Quan can fully understand the necessity of doing so.

The first 150 Tesla and above super magnetic field technology is too shocking, the magnetic field strength of the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument does not exceed 1.5 or 2T, the current laboratory limit does not exceed 20T, and China is tackling 35T to 40T related technologies.

It is conceivable how difficult it is to achieve 150T, and judging from the data, it seems that the volume and power consumption of the device provided by Xinyuan are not too exaggerated.

He had never heard of the second plasma mirror technology, codenamed "trampoline", but the extreme potential that could be magnified a thousand times could not help but be amazing, especially since Xinyuan had achieved considerable technical results.

He finally understood why everyone was so excited, strong magnetism and lasers are precisely the main technologies for the ignition of tokamak fusion devices, and if the information is true, EAST will improve the feasibility of controlled nuclear fusion after modification.

"How? The internal reference was just sent, next month, no, I'm going to go there next week to see, it's really hard to believe that a private enterprise would get involved in such a high-end technology! ”

Fu Mingdong was excited, but Ai Quan instantly thought of more:

"But any action of companies is aimed at making profits, what products are they developing these two technologies for, do they need these for rockets and spaceships?"

"Of course, ahem......"

Fu Mingdong lowered his voice, although everyone in the office was qualified to know, he was still extra careful:

"Strong magnetic technology should be a subsystem technology of the 'trampoline', the main purpose is to enhance the laser power, what I know is that United Mining intends to use the laser to smelt the ore on the moon, and build a super large laser satellite to irradiate the ore directly from space."

"Isn't this thing ......?"

Ai Quan, who was born in equipment design, instantly thought of the use of weapons and imagined the situation of smelting satellites appearing in the earth's orbit.

Since it has enough capacity to smelt raw ore, the output power must be more than 10 megawatts to be enough, so it is estimated that it is not much worse to do some other things.

Fu Mingdong nodded thoughtfully, although he and the laser are not the same system, but they both belong to high-energy physics, which is somewhat basic, and you can guess it.

However, he is not too concerned about the weapon system, and is mainly excited about the fact that EAST will have another major hardware upgrade.

"Wait, if Xinyuan becomes an important component supplier to EAST, will it be ...... even if they are involved in the fusion project?"

"Other companies may be fine, Xinyuan...... I think they are more reliable than some state-owned enterprises, at least they don't have foreign executives and no foreign assets, and if they can even participate in that thing, then joining EAST is almost the same.

And their nuclear department is also powerful enough, the fission technology is at its peak, and the leaders may not be inferior to you and me, and it is a good thing to join in, Yu Lao has a very high evaluation of Professor Cheng, saying that he is also the leader of the younger generation. ”

"That's right, tsk, aviation, aerospace, automobiles, electronics, and now lasers and nuclear fusion, is this Ambrera or Stark Industries?"

(End of chapter)