Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 501 The Consternation of the Institute of Plasma Physics

Europe, a city in northern Germany, the city of Greifswald, compared with Chinese cities with millions of people and millions of people, Greifswald city has only 6.3 people, it is undoubtedly a very small city, Even a town in Huaxia has almost the same population.

But Greifswald has important railway stations, ports, machinery manufacturing (automotive and ship repairing, etc.), textile, furniture, food, clothing and other factories. There are universities founded nearly 600 years here, and there are specialized There is a weather station, a town hall built in the [-]th century, and a church from the [-]th to [-]th centuries.

Of course, what makes the city of Greifswald most famous in Europe and the world is that there is the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Max Planck Society. this.

Every year, the Institute of Plasma Physics occupies a considerable share of papers in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, and the citation rate of its papers is increasing year by year. Fusion researchers are undoubtedly a surprise, and then forget about eating and sleeping to study the paper.

In a certain way, 'Helix 7-X' is the holy land of controllable nuclear fusion research, no matter how bad it is, it is also the holy land of magnetic confinement controllable nuclear fusion research.

I don't know how many scholars and engineers in the world want to be visiting scholars at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics to further study academic research in related fields of controllable nuclear fusion.

"Everyone, one month later, we will start the 'Helix 7-X' experiment again. The goal of this experiment is to continuously confine the ultra-high temperature plasma for up to 10 minutes in one operation, which is a further step on the basis of the previous experiment's 8 minutes. !” Heisinger said in a deep voice.

The outside world believes that the progress of 'Helix 7-X' is 6 minutes and 30 seconds for continuous confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma in one operation, tying the record set by the Tokamak device.In fact, this was done a few years ago. Just last year, "Spiralite 7-X" launched an experiment, and that experiment achieved a continuous confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma for 8 minutes, setting a new historical record. It is doubtful that this is a great pioneering work of controllable nuclear fusion. It represents that the stellarator has gone further than the tokamak device, and it also represents that the stellarator is more hopeful than the tokamak to realize the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion. Realize real controllable nuclear fusion!
And this time, 'Spiralite 7-X' started the experiment again, this time the goal is to achieve a new breakthrough, one operation to continuously confine ultra-high temperature plasma for 10 minutes, so that it can be realized by 2030~2035, 'Spiralite 7-X' -X' achieves the goal set at the beginning, and one operation can continuously confine the ultra-high temperature plasma for 30 minutes, so that the controllable nuclear fusion of 'Spiralite 7-X' is basically commercialized!
At that point, the Institute of Plasma Physics will continue to persuade the German government to build a controllable nuclear fusion reactor together with all parties, so as to achieve a historic breakthrough from the laboratory stage to actual commercial application.

7% of the construction cost of 'Spiral Stone 70.00-X' comes from the funds of the German government, and the remaining 30.00% comes from the support of various Max Planck associations and many European scientific research institutions and enterprises.The same is true for the annual scientific research funding, and it is exactly the same. The German government has a great say in the "Screwstone 7-X", after all, the biggest funder behind it is the German government!
If you want to get funding, then 'Spiralite 7-X' must make achievements, let everyone see the hope of realizing the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion, and everyone will be willing to pay.

"Director Heisinger, I think we can rest assured that we have improved the water-cooled divertor during this period, and I believe we can achieve the goal of 10 minutes without any problems!" Bach said.

The goal of the construction of 'Helix 7-X' at the beginning was to continuously confine the ultra-high temperature plasma for up to 30 minutes in one operation, so as to realize the commercial application of controllable nuclear fusion.In the design stage, various theories and supercomputer simulations are able to achieve this goal.However, when it was built, various situations occurred. For example, the "Screw Stone 7-X" is a high-precision equipment, and the materials required are very high-end. The construction of the stellarator was only half built and could no longer continue and had to choose to give up.But even so, there are still some materials that still fail to meet the design requirements.

Furthermore, some are theoretically possible, but in practical applications, there are deviations.Moreover, the motion of plasma is also beyond the theoretical research, making it extremely difficult to restrict the motion of plasma at high temperature.

The damage to the material of the first wall after the high-energy neutron bombardment fails is also a headache, but it can only be improved step by step, and there is no way to fundamentally solve it.

In addition, a large number of problems have emerged, each of which is more difficult than the other, making the scholars of the Institute of Plasma Physics very troubled, and countless brain cells have died. Some pessimists even believe that even after another 50 years, Controlled nuclear fusion cannot be achieved either.

Of course, these remarks will not be spread easily, because once it is spread from the Institute of Plasma Physics, it will deal a heavy blow to the world's research on controllable nuclear fusion, and by the way, even the estimated funding will be greatly reduced or even eliminated.

Just like the current International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, a black swan has appeared since 2020, and some officials have spoken out, which has caused ITER to encounter difficulties and is almost in danger of disintegration. ITER put down its posture and went to China several times. Proof!
'Spiral Stone 7-X' started this experiment to achieve the goal of 10 minutes, but also wanted to take the results, and then invite Huaxia to join the project, so as to ensure that 'Spiral Stone 7-X' has enough funds to continue to run and explore .

There is no way, the black swan has been raging for three years, and it has not been resolved until now. The world economy is shrouded in a cold wave. The negative economic growth is not a matter of one country or two countries, but everywhere, which means that China’s continuous economic growth is positive. , The previous GDP growth rate was as high as 8.8%, which blinded countless people's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes, and performed so well.Huaxia is rich, and Huaxia is a local tyrant, this is already the consensus of the whole world!
Take a look at Huaxia, where major projects have been launched one after another. The completion of the Bohai Rim Tunnel Project was completed and opened to traffic. However, major European media broadcast live broadcasts, allowing people to see the grand occasion. Just after it opened to traffic, the traffic volume exceeded that of the English Channel Tunnel.

Moreover, China's desert eradication project is in full swing, and a large area of ​​desert is covered with green. That kind of feat is absolutely shocking, so that some organizations have to issue research results saying that desertification is also a kind of environmental pollution. , Existence is the truth, deserts should be allowed to exist instead of destroying deserts artificially, this is unscientific and unecological!

The meeting of the Institute of Plasma Physics is going on, and Heisinger is arranging the pre-experimental inspection preparations to ensure that the state of the 'Spiralite 7-X' is not problematic, otherwise, if there is a hidden danger if the inspection is not in place, then It is very likely to lead to the failure of the experiment.

"Everyone, a very bad news came from Huaxia!" At this moment, the door of the meeting room was opened, and a young scholar showed a look of panic, and he couldn't care less about Hesinger and other big bosses who wanted to kill people. With eyes, he said: "There is news from Huaxia that the 'Golden Crow Device' independently designed and developed by Huaxia's 'Golden Crow Project' has started its first experiment, and it has been ignited for half an hour. It has continued to operate without any problems, and has achieved a complete success!"

"They made history and created miracles!"

"Huaxia leads the world in controllable nuclear fusion, and they are ahead of everyone!"

Bach suddenly got up and said angrily: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Don't we know about Huaxia's controllable nuclear fusion research? Their tokamak device divertor is far inferior to ours. They can't solve the fatal injury. For 30 years, it is impossible for them to achieve the goal of 30 minutes, and it is even more impossible for them to have no problems at all!"

"That is, plasma confinement at high temperature is so difficult, billions of billions of plasmas, even if it is simulated by a supercomputer, it will take more than half a year, and it is only a simulation, and it will be greatly improved in reality. Not the same, if the plasma escapes from the confinement, it will be fatal to the material damage of the first wall!"

"And to maintain such a long-term operation, helium 3 atoms must be monitored. How could they monitor helium 3 atoms? This is completely a fantasy!"

"Huaxia has always lagged behind the world in superconductor technology. How did they solve the superconductor technology? Even our most advanced superconductor materials cannot achieve high-temperature plasma operation for 30 minutes!"

"Not only superconductor technology, but also cold cutting technology, current stable power generation technology, and the energy generated by nuclear fusion in 30 minutes far exceeds the input energy. How do they make the energy stable into electrical energy, otherwise, the power of an explosion will be absolutely No less than a small hydrogen bomb!"

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The eyes of the researchers in the conference room were full of disbelief and astonishment. They are experts in this field and represent experts in controllable nuclear fusion. With so many problems, even if they vowed to the outside world that by 2030 and 2035 at the latest, they can realize the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion, but that is to give confidence to outsiders and to fight for funding.

In fact, for most of them, to be able to achieve controllable nuclear fusion in 2050 is already very ideal, very incredible.

As for their retirement by 2030, who will settle accounts with them? Even if it doesn’t happen by then, so what? Just find an excuse to prevaricate it, for example, it’s about to happen, it’s about to happen, As for whether it is one year or ten years, anyway, it is soon.

As a result, let them now tell them that Huaxia's 'Golden Crow Device' has been launched for the first time and has achieved a historical goal of 30 minutes, and it is still in the ignition state. How can they accept this.

(End of this chapter)