Chapter 451 Prelude
The world's attention is almost focused on China, especially the estuary of Hebei Province where a controlled nuclear fusion demonstration reactor is built, which is a place that many institutions hope to explore. However, the protection work is done well enough, and the place where mosquitoes can hardly enter is bound to disappoint the institutions with ulterior motives.
ITER, NAA, many similar conversations with almost angry roars echoed inside and outside the laboratory.
"SHIT... How did they overcome the obstacles? How did they solve the problem of the interacting neutron source? How did they solve the problem of material resistance to radiation? How did they solve the problem of tritium self-sustaining in the reactor? And how did they solve the problem of superconducting materials and plasma confinement?"
Obviously, everyone is facing similar difficulties, and there are still so many problems that cannot be solved? Damn, how did the other side bypass these barriers, solve the problems, and build a demonstration reactor?
If it were that when the news first came out, everyone might still suspect that the other party was cheating, but with the other party's tough attitude and a series of actions, they had to admit that the other party might have really broken through various technical barriers, really mastered the controlled nuclear fusion technology, and harnessed the power of stars!
Although, by utilizing the inertia of the fuel and the magnetic cage formed by the strong current to initiate pulse ignition within the microsecond time range, under the mixed magnetic and inertial restraint method, they once achieved the world record in temperature!
But people who truly understand fusion reactions know that fusion reactions are never about the temperature limit. For fusion reactions, temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees are enough. Even if the most ideal material He3 is used to achieve second and third generation controlled nuclear fusion technology, the critical temperature is only the high temperature level of 600 million degrees Celsius!
The key to breakthroughs in controlled fusion technology has never been in plasma heating methods, but in how to maintain the confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma. They claim to be advanced in this regard, but have not yet achieved it for many years. How can the other side do it?
Is it just because they have the Queen of Mathematics? Which of their research institutions doesn't have mathematicians joining them? There are so many mathematicians, why haven't they done it?
Or is it that the other party is hiding something and just pushing the queen of mathematics to the front?
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However, no matter how angry many research institutions were, it did not affect the success of the Jinwu Demonstration Reactor Project under heavy protection. In fact, in their uncontrollable panic, China officially announced that it would conduct an ignition test of controlled nuclear fusion on the Chinese New Year's Eve. And their news was because the other party took the initiative to announce it, and there were less than twelve hours before the ignition time.
At present, there is almost no means to stop the other party's actions!
Many organizations were in an uproar amidst the impossibility of the situation.
However, more people, especially in China, are also looking forward to the feast of igniting the fire of prosperity and the boost to the rise of a great power while celebrating the arrival of the New Year.
On January 30, 2014, the rising sun just jumped out of the sea level, dispelling the previous fog and indicating that today is a rare day of good weather.
For many people, at this moment, they may not have woken up yet and are still sleeping soundly.
However, the R&D personnel at the Jinwu Demonstration Reactor Engineering Base at the estuary have already entered into a busy and orderly work. In other words, many of them have stayed up all night, taking turns to stick to their work positions, and making the final inspection and confirmation of the Jinwu Demonstration Reactor and its ancillary devices.
The security personnel also increased their vigilance throughout the base. Inside the base, well-equipped security personnel checked almost every inch and patrolled back and forth. The entire base and the area within a few kilometers were all key sentries. All pedestrians and tourists were intercepted and persuaded to leave and were not allowed to approach...
To ensure that all potential safety hazards and threats are eliminated, the ignition of the Jinwu demonstration reactor will be carried out today without any disturbance.
All kinds of protection arrangements and early warning considerations were taken into consideration in advance, and the surrounding protection forces were prepared to deal with any sudden changes. They took a more serious attitude than the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to meet the test of ignition safety protection this time.
The domestic security force is absolutely reliable, trustworthy, respectable and admirable enough!
Inside the experimental factory, at the core of the nuclear power plant, the entire assembled Jinwu pile stands before the eyes of all the researchers and developers. Just standing there, it is already extremely majestic.
The staff who had experience in the research and development of the Golden Crow stellarator device, now deeply felt that the stellarator orbit device they had developed before was really dwarfed by the one before them. Everyone's eyes were filled with amazement and obsession. This was the real mythical beast, the Golden Crow.
All R&D personnel are carrying out the final verification and inspection, checking and inspecting again and again, just to ensure that every detail is refined and foolproof. Every detail is related to the success or failure of today's ignition. They cannot afford the possibility of failure, nor can they let their small omissions lead to the failure of the entire Jinwu project!
From the core to the coil, from the supercomputer to the intelligent program, from the plasma control solution to the entire auxiliary power generation group and heating device... these components, which embody the hard work of everyone present over the past few months, now form the mythical beast Golden Crow before their eyes.
They finally completed the last step and passed the final inspection without error. For the R&D personnel present, this trip of research and development can be considered to have come to a temporary end.
"Mr. Wu, the final inspection is complete and confirmed. We can proceed to the ignition test!" Academician He, who was in charge of the final inspection of the ignition test, suppressed his excitement and reported to Wu Tong. They had already conducted countless inspections and confirmations, and they personally checked every detail.
The assembly of each component was personally supervised by Mr. Wu. They almost touched the entire core configuration of the huge Jinwu demonstration reactor with their own hands.
After all the inspections were completed, all irrelevant R&D engineers were escorted out in an orderly manner by security personnel. At the same time, inside and outside the control room in another direction, all the preparations were also arranged in an orderly manner.
The final assembly procedures of the Jinwu demonstration reactor had actually been completed several days ago. During the repeated inspections, they also conducted several simulation operations around this ignition, thoroughly enriched and improved the safety operation manual, and took into account all possible emergencies.
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