"Good!" The two academicians showed admiration. Such a young and outstanding scholar can still maintain the original intention of striving for excellence and polish the solidity of the foundation instead of relying on talent to make a great leap into empty construction. What reason do they have not to support him?
The two academicians applauded inwardly, feeling more confident about working on the project with Wu Tong. Although Mr. Wu was young, he possessed exceptional talent, outstanding achievements, and was steady and reliable.
"The Dongfang Ring has just completed a mission and is currently undergoing comprehensive cooling and maintenance. It will not be able to carry out a second mission for a while. Academician He, what about SST-1?" Wan Funian analyzed the current situation of the current tokamak device in China in a realistic manner.
One is their Oriental Ring in South China, one is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and the other is the SST-1 which was recently established by the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics. There has been no news of it carrying out any mission this year!
"Then let's send the samples to the Southwest Institute. We were planning to start an ignition test soon. If we work hard in the next two days, we can still ignite it directly!" Academician He naturally would not lag behind and agreed immediately. Fortunately, they were almost ready and there would not be too many problems if they rushed.
"Thank you for your help, Academician He!" Wu Tong expressed her gratitude and immediately decided that she and Academician He would lead the team, accompanied by the core members of the team, to go to the southwest in person to conduct the final material verification and data statistics.
Actually, Wu Tong didn't have to go there in person, but she wanted to experience the ignition of the tokamak device and the current state of the fusion reaction in person. So she decided to go to the southwest in person. A fusion ignition is not easy given the current domestic situation.
Chu Hengyuan immediately noted it down and said, "Please confirm the time, Academician He. I will connect the special plane to take you to the southwest. It is not convenient for Mr. Wu to take civil aviation!" Although he is currently conducting closed research, Mr. Wu's security level has been raised again after he came out into the public this time. Civil aviation cannot guarantee Mr. Wu's safe travel.
"Okay, Chief Chu, I'll contact you once I've made the arrangements!" Academician He agreed with understanding. They knew very well that a genius like Wu Tong, who was almost comparable to a nuclear weapon, had to be protected!
It just so happened that she had flown there once. Before the trip, Wu Tong and her team prepared some special lithium sheets, which were to be used in experiments to verify the capacity of liquid lithium for neutron recovery. She needed accurate data to fill in the design model of the liquid lithium recovery system. Even with Wu Tong's absolute deduction, she could not deduce without data support. She was not an omniscient god.
Wu Tong made the most of this ignition test, making the most of it. This made Academician He, who was also working with him, laugh. Wu Tong, at such a young age, had already inherited the virtues of diligence and thrift from his ancestors.
After finalizing the materials and handing over the project's supervision and management to the two academicians, Wu Tong focused her full attention on the southern section of the project. Only after seeing off the two academicians and Minister Chu did she finally have time to speak with Lu Xiao. Plasma confinement was also a major challenge.
How to better confine the fusion reaction so that it occurs within the control of the plasma confinement program and minimize the pressure on the first wall.
"Brother Lu, thank you so much!" This is to thank Lu Xiao for his strong support in the meeting and thank Brother Lu for his continued trust in her!
Lu Xiao's eyes were filled with smiles. "Isn't this as it should be? I have full confidence in Mr. Wu. This is enough trust you have given me, isn't it?"
After a brief chat, reminiscing about the past, Lu Xiao and Wu Tong got down to business. Their time was essentially spent on the collision of ideas. When two people of the same level communicate, their thoughts work like lightning. What you say, I understand immediately, and what I say sparks inspiration. This kind of collision is a supreme enjoyment of progress.
"For plasma research, I now have a preliminary design idea. Let me tell you about it!" Lu Xiao took out his laptop, opened the research and development materials, and began to explain his current breakthrough to Wu Tong.
The particles in the plasma have kinetic energy. Without a strong binding force, they will move around and spread out.
In fusion reactions, the limited magnetic field cannot give full power and can also bombard the walls of the vacuum chamber, causing the loss of plasma particles and their energy.
Thermonuclear fusion reactions in the sun and other stars rely on gravitational fields to confine plasma. These stars have large masses and strong gravity, which is enough to hold the plasma together and carry out thermonuclear reactions.
However, it is impossible to confine the high-temperature plasma on Earth and make it undergo thermonuclear reactions by relying on weak gravity. Other confinement methods must be used.
The primary methods for confining plasma in thermonuclear fusion research are magnetic confinement and inertial confinement. Magnetic confinement, a technique often considered the opposite of thermonuclear fusion, is also sometimes used in low-temperature plasma film formation or etching to reduce plasma particle and energy losses.
However, the technology of low-temperature fusion is currently a difficult barrier. The difficulty is only higher than that of thermonuclear fusion from scratch. It is a technology that still exists and is a fantasy. Wu Tong made a note in her mind that once she has achieved thermonuclear fusion, cold fusion will be her extended topic.
For Wu Tong, every project is driven by needs and interests. She dedicates herself to whatever she's passionate about, and the sense of accomplishment she feels from a breakthrough is unmatched by anything else! Wu Tong enjoys the joy of exploring this field, peak after peak, and the sheer joy of it.
"The current mainstream international approach to magnetic confinement is to use the interaction between a magnetic field and plasma to confine the plasma to a certain area. This method primarily relies on the Lorentz force exerted by the magnetic field on plasma particles, causing the particles to cyclotron around magnetic field lines and be confined by the field. The magnetic stress of the magnetic field can exert a macroscopic force on the entire plasma, thereby confining it!"
If there is current in the plasma, the interaction force between the plasma current and the magnetic field generated by itself - the pinching force can cause the plasma to pinch, that is, to confine it; the magnetic mirror effect can make the plasma charged particles whose speed meets certain conditions be reflected back in the strong magnetic field area, confining the particles.
Magnetic confinement can only confine plasma in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field, but cannot confine plasma moving along the magnetic field lines..." After a brief introduction, Lu Xiao went on to the key point of his idea.
"Speaking of which, plasma is also a major turbulence problem. I want to use macroscopic quantification to determine a coordinate core to perform plasma calculations. This part of the mathematical model, Mr. Wu, is your forte. I need your help!"
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