Rebirth of science and technology academic master

In Europe, the city in northern Germany, the city of Greifswald, is undoubtedly a very small city with only 63,000 people compared to Chinese cities with millions of people. Even a town in China has almost as many people as it.

However, Greifswald has an important railway station, a port, machinery manufacturing (automobile and ship repair, etc.), textile, furniture, food, clothing and other factories. There is a university founded nearly 600 years ago, and there are specialized There is a weather observatory, a town hall built in the 14th century, and a church from the 13th to 14th century.

Of course, what makes the city of Greifswald most famous in Europe and the world is that it houses the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Max Planck Society. The world-famous 'Helix Stone 7-X' in the field of controlled nuclear fusion is located here. this.

Every year, the Institute of Plasma Physics occupies a considerable share of papers in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. The citation rate of its papers is getting higher year by year. Every time there is a paper produced by the Institute of Plasma Physics, it has a significant impact on the world's controllable nuclear energy. There is no doubt that fusion researchers are all surprised, and then work on the paper without sleep or food.

In a way, ‘Helix Stone 7-X’ is a holy place for controllable nuclear fusion research, or worse, a holy place for magnetic confinement controllable nuclear fusion research.

Countless scholars and engineers around 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, the 'Helix Stone 7-X' experiment will be started again in one month. The goal of this experiment is to continuously confine ultra-high temperature plasma for 10 minutes in one operation, which is a step forward based on the 8 minutes of the previous experiment. !" Heisinger said in a deep voice.

The outside world believes that the progress of ‘Helix Stone 7-X’ is that the continuous confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma in one operation is 6 minutes and 30 seconds, tying the record set by the Tokamak device. In fact, this was a few years ago. Just last year, 'Helixite 7-X' launched an experiment. 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 major innovation in controllable nuclear fusion. It means that stellarators have taken a further step forward than tokamak devices. It also means that stellarators are more promising than tokamakes in realizing the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion. Realize true controllable nuclear fusion!

This time, 'Helix 7-X' started the experiment again. This time the goal is to achieve a new breakthrough. It can continuously confine ultra-high temperature plasma for 10 minutes at a time, so that by 2030 to 2035, 'Helix 7' -X' has achieved the goal set at the beginning, and can continuously confine ultra-high temperature plasma for 30 minutes in one operation, thus making the controllable nuclear fusion of 'Helix 7-X' basically ready for commercialization!

At that point, the Institute of Plasma Physics will continue to persuade the German government and unite all parties to build a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, thereby achieving a historic breakthrough from the laboratory stage to actual commercial applications.

Seventy percent of the construction cost of 'Spiral Stone 7-X' comes from the German government's funds, and the remaining 30% comes from the support of various Max Planck societies and many European scientific research institutions and enterprises. The same is true for the annual scientific research funding. It is also true that the German government has a great say in 'Spiral Stone 7-X'. After all, the biggest financial backer behind it is the German government!

If you want to obtain funding, then ‘Helix Stone 7-X’ must achieve results and let everyone see the hope of commercializing controllable nuclear fusion, so that everyone will be willing to spend money.

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

The goal from the beginning of the construction of 'Helix Stone 7-X' was to continuously confine ultra-high temperature plasma for 30 minutes in one operation, thereby realizing the commercial application of controllable nuclear fusion. During the design phase, various theories and supercomputer simulations can achieve this goal. But when it was being built, various situations occurred. For example, the 'Spiral Stone 7-X' was a high-precision equipment, and the materials required were very high-end. This high-end was only achieved by Germany and other European countries, including the United States. After only half of the construction of the stellarator was completed, we could no longer continue and had to give up. But even so, some materials still fail to meet the design requirements.

Furthermore, some things are possible in theory, but when it comes to practical applications, deviations occur. Moreover, the movement of plasma also goes beyond theoretical research, making it extremely difficult to constrain the movement of plasma under high temperature conditions.

The damage to the first wall material after the failure of high-energy neutron bombardment 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 last, causing scholars at the Institute of Plasma Physics to rack their brains and kill countless brain cells. Some pessimists even believe that even in another 50 years, Nor can controllable nuclear fusion be achieved.

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

Just like the current International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor project, a black swan has appeared since 2020. Some officials have spoken out loud, which has caused ITER to encounter difficulties and is almost in danger of disintegration. ITER has put down its dignity and traveled to China several times. Proof!

'Spiral Stone 7-X' started this experiment to achieve the 10-minute goal, and also wanted to take advantage of the results, and then invite China to join the plan, thereby ensuring that 'Spiral Stone 7-X' has enough funds to operate and explore. .

There is no way, the black swan has been raging for three years, and it has not been resolved yet. The world economy is shrouded in a cold wave. Negative economic growth is not a matter of one or two countries, but can be found everywhere. That is to say, China has continued to have positive economic growth. , the previous GDP growth was as high as 8.8%, which blinded countless people's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes, and it performed so well. China is rich and China is rich. This is the consensus of the whole world!

Look at China, which has successively launched major projects. 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. As soon as it was opened to traffic, the traffic volume exceeded that of the Channel Tunnel.

Moreover, China's desert eradication project is in full swing. Large tracts of desert are covered with green. That kind of feat is absolutely shocking, so much so that some organizations have to issue research results saying that desertification is also a kind of environment. , Existence is truth, deserts should be allowed to exist instead of artificially eradicating deserts. This is unscientific and unecological!

The meeting at the Institute of Plasma Physics is in progress, and Heisinger is arranging the inspection preparations before the experiment to ensure that there is no problem with the status of 'Helixite 7-X'. Otherwise, if the inspection in one place is not in place and there are hidden dangers, then It is very likely to lead to the failure of the experiment.

"Everyone, a very bad news has come from China!" At this moment, the door of the conference room was opened, and a young scholar looked panic-stricken. He no longer cared about Heisinger and other big bosses who wanted to kill people. Eyes in the eyes, he said: "There is news from China that the 'Golden Crow Device' independently designed and developed by China's 'Golden Crow Project' started its first experiment, achieved ignition for half an hour, and continued to operate without any problems. It was a complete success!"

"They made history and created a miracle!"

"China is leading the world in controllable nuclear fusion, and they are ahead of everyone!"

Bach stood up suddenly and said angrily: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Don't we know about China's controllable nuclear fusion research? The divertor of their tokamak device is far inferior to ours. They cannot solve the fatal injury. Even after 30 years, they can’t achieve the 30-minute goal, let alone have no problems at all!”

"That is, it is so difficult to confine plasma under high temperature. Even if it is simulated with a supercomputer, it will take more than half a year to simulate billions of plasma. And that is just a simulation. In reality, it will be much different. It’s different. When the plasma breaks away from its confinement, the damage to the material on the first wall is fatal!”

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

"China has always lagged behind the world in superconductor technology. How do they solve 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, stable current power generation technology, the energy generated by 30 minutes of nuclear fusion far exceeds the input energy. How do they make the energy stably converted into electrical energy? Otherwise, the power of an explosion would 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. They know very well that the commercial application of magnetically confined controllable nuclear fusion faces many challenges. There are so many problems, even if they swear to the outside world that they can commercialize controllable nuclear fusion by 2030 or 2035 at the latest, but that is to give confidence to outsiders and to fight for funds.

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

As for 2030, they will most likely have retired. Who will settle the score with them? Even if it is not realized by then, so what, just find an excuse and pass it by. For example, it will be realized soon, it will be realized soon. As for whether it is one year or ten years, it is soon.

As a result, now let’s tell them that China’s ‘Golden Crow Device’ started the test for the first time and achieved the historic goal of 30 minutes, but it was still in the ignition state. How can they accept this?