From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

【Two chapters in one】

In the main control room, Lin Xiao and Li Gang stood in front of the main control console.

At this moment, Li Gang, Song Tao, the high-level executives of the Institute of Plasma, were no less excited than the researchers outside.

1.6 million degrees, and the continuous running time exceeds the original 20 seconds. For them, it is undoubtedly the best reward after working for so long.

Although in this process, the person who did the most critical work was actually Lin Xiao, and they all admitted this, but as participants, they were honored.

So, they were all excited about it.

Moreover, as far as it looks now, let alone 1.6 seconds at 20 million degrees, it is estimated that it can last for 40 seconds, 60 seconds, or even several minutes.

And this is undoubtedly an extremely outstanding achievement. I believe that after the news is released, the whole country, and the whole world, will be shocked by it and will pay attention to them.

"Master Lin, should the temperature continue to rise?"

Song Tao asked with excitement in his tone.

Lin Xiao, who was standing in front, shook his head and said, "1.6 million degrees is enough. This temperature can be considered to fully meet the needs of deuterium-tritium fusion. If it is higher, it is not worth it."

"What's more, we still have some ordinary tungsten plates inside, and ordinary tungsten plates can't last that long."

Song Tao nodded, although he still wanted to try and improve, and even wanted to see if he could reach 2 million degrees this time, but at this time he unconditionally supported Lin Xiao's words, So he said: "Well, 1.6 million degrees is fine, just to see how long we can last this time."

Then he turned his gaze back to the console.

There is a screen on it, and the screen shows the situation inside the Dongfang Super Ring.

This is an image captured by an infrared camera, which is imaged by receiving internal infrared rays, so it can capture pictures of hundreds of millions of degrees.

At this moment, although there is some red light in this picture, the overall perception is relatively dark.

As for why the inside is dark, it is because the impurity content inside is relatively small.

In the controllable nuclear fusion reaction, a degree of purity is emphasized, that is, it is necessary to keep the internal plasma as much as possible to be deuterium and tritium plasma, because the higher the purity, the easier the fusion reaction to occur, and if there are impurity particles , will affect the concentration of deuterium and tritium particles, thereby reducing the efficiency of the reaction.

And where do the impurities inside come from?Naturally, it comes from those inner wall materials.

When neutrons bombard these inner wall materials, these material molecules will be smashed apart, and then enter into the reaction. When the deuterium-tritium particles collide with these impurity particles, naturally it is not a nuclear fusion reaction, maybe it is possible produce more impurities.

The existence of these impurity particles will show a greater brightness under the detection of the infrared camera, and then appear bright red on the screen.

In the past ignition tests of Song Tao and his plasma, the screen displayed on the screen would show an extremely bright red color in just a few seconds, especially when the internal temperature reached 1.6 million degrees. It can almost make people feel that there is no problem with a giant of light appearing inside.

And whenever this time, it basically means that they have to stop heating and cool down.

Otherwise, if the inner wall material is completely worn away and other precision components are exposed, once these precision components are damaged, they will have a headache.

Therefore, even if it ran for 1.6 seconds at 20 million degrees, the whole process actually included two processes of heating up and cooling down.

It is equivalent to saying that they actually persisted for about ten seconds, and then withered, properly "withered in seconds".

And now they are equivalent to "reviving their glory".

Seeing this scene, Song Tao couldn't help looking at Lin Xiao's back.

Strictly speaking, being able to achieve this level has nothing to do with fusion tungsten blocks.

Because although they replaced the inner wall with powerful fusion tungsten plates, don't forget that half of the tungsten plates inside are just ordinary tungsten plates.

According to the barrel effect, the tolerance of those ordinary tungsten plates has not changed, so in order to protect the precision devices under those ordinary tungsten plates, their experiment can not last much longer than before under normal circumstances.

But now, due to Lin Xiao's modification of the internal magnetic field circuit, even though the original wooden barrel effect is still there, the tungsten plates are less impacted, allowing them to last longer.

Therefore, it can be said that in this experiment, apart from serving as helpers and doing some work that can be regarded as manual labor, they did not provide much help to the final success.

He shook his head, probably, they don't need people from the Plasma Institute, even if Lin Xiao comes alone, he can do it, right?

And just as he was thinking this way, Lin Xiao's voice suddenly sounded.

"Yo? Everyone, it seems that we have another good news here now."

Lin Xiao frowned, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Everyone else was taken aback, what good news?

But Lin Xiao didn't explain first, but turned on the walkie-talkie and said, "Now, each heating group, stop the external energy input."

After Lin Xiao's order was conveyed, a lot of slightly disappointed sighs came from the walkie-talkie.

Now, they have persisted for 1.6 minute at 1 degrees, and there is a high probability that they should be able to continue, but now Lin Xiao actually asked to stop.

They were very puzzled about Lin Xiao's choice, but since it was the chief engineer's decision, they could only follow through.

So each heating group began to cut off the power supply, stopping the energy supply to Dongfang Chaohuan.

"Ion cyclotron resonance heating has ceased."

"Electron cyclotron resonance heating has ceased."

"The low-clutter current drive has also been discontinued."

"..."

The news came from each heating group one by one, and many people in the research institute sighed again, this time the ignition is over.

Of course, they all quickly thought that there would be another ignition, and the next time would be the limit ignition test.

At that time, you must be able to have a good time, right?
Thinking of this, these people feel full of motivation again.

However, when others were looking forward to the second ignition test, the main control room was surprisingly quiet.

Because none of them had forgotten what Lin Xiao said suddenly just now.

good news?
What good news?

Although Lin Xiao didn't tell them, they were all waiting for the moment when the answer was revealed, so even when they heard that Lin Xiao was going to stop providing energy, they still remained patient.

In this way, time passed by every minute and every second, and soon, Li Gang discovered the clue.

"Wait... something is wrong, the temperature! Why is the temperature still at 1.6 million degrees? It hasn't dropped at all?"

He made a sound in doubt, then picked up his walkie-talkie and asked, "Every heating group, are you sure you have cut off the power supply?"

At the same time, those people in the heating group also heard a puzzled voice: "It has been cut off."

"It's all cut off."

"Certainly cut off."

Hearing these responses, Li Gang and the others around were in doubt.

And at this moment, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Didn't you think of another possibility?"

"Another possibility?"

The people present pondered for a moment, and Song Tao suddenly came to his senses, and then spit out a few words in disbelief: "Lawson...judgment?!"

After Song Tao said these four words, the eyes of everyone present widened.

Lawson's Judgment!

For researchers of controllable nuclear fusion, Lawson's criterion can be said to be a situation that they want to achieve even in their dreams.

Because when the nuclear fusion reaction reaches the Lawson's criterion, it means that all the energy output by nuclear fusion next belongs to the net output energy!

This is because when Lawson's criterion is reached, the energy produced by nuclear fusion can already support its spontaneous reaction.

In other words, even if the external energy supply is stopped at this time, it can continue the fusion reaction.

This is why Song Tao made this judgment, because at this moment they stopped the external energy supply, but the temperature did not drop, which means that the energy provided by the internal reaction can keep the temperature at 1.6 million degrees!
In other words, from now on, the Dongfang Super Ring can already be called a commercial fusion reactor, because its output energy is greater than the input energy, and it has achieved a positive net value.

And this has never been done by any controllable nuclear fusion reactor in the world.

"We are... making history!"

Seeing this scene, Li Gang even trembled in his voice, with tears running down his face.

"In my lifetime, in my lifetime! I was able to see this scene, to see us reach Lawson's criterion, this is really..."

When other people saw Li Gang's excited expression, they couldn't help being moved, and Song Tao was the same. He stepped forward and hugged Li Gang excitedly for a moment, and then said to Lin Xiao: "Mr. Lin, this time, thanks to the You!"

If it weren't for Lin Xiao's reminder, they probably wouldn't have thought that they could meet Lawson's criterion.

Because before that, they never thought of being able to meet Lawson's criterion. After all, this condition was completely a fantasy for them in the past. Who would have thought that it would be realized this time?
But Lin Xiao not only discovered it, but also discovered it early.

At this moment, his gaze towards Lin Xiao was no longer just the admiration he had before, but admiration.

Although he is quite old, in his 50s and 20s, he still admires Lin Xiao, who is a dozen or [-] years younger than him, just like when he heard the stories of historical giants when he was young, he felt admiration for these people. Giants born of worship.

This is an era of walking with giants!

After hearing Song Tao's words, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just guessed that Lawson's criterion was met."

"guess?"

"Well, just now I found that the rate of internal temperature rise suddenly increased a lot, and the power of our input energy is fixed, there should be no signs of such a rapid increase, so I guess it has reached the labor force. Sen's Judgment."

"This..." Song Tao opened his mouth. What Lin Xiao said was very simple, but they were all attracted by the timer next to them just now. How could they pay attention to the temperature change?

Not to mention those slight speed changes.

Thinking of this, his admiration became even stronger.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk so much, let's enjoy the joy of success now."

"That's right." Song Tao also smiled, and then joined in the celebration with others.

Of course, at this moment, not only their main control room, but the entire laboratory is already in celebration.

While celebrating, the time also passed by every minute and every second. Until the end, they had persisted for 1.6 minutes at 10 million degrees.

At this time, although the burning could continue, Lin Xiao still issued an order to terminate it.

Because there is no need to continue at this time, it is best to prepare for the second ignition test as soon as possible.

As for how to stop the reaction when Lawson's criterion is reached, it is very simple, just stop inputting deuterium-tritium gas.

When the concentration of the internal deuterium-tritium plasma decreases below the limit of Lawson's criterion, naturally the conditions of Lawson's criterion can no longer be satisfied.

So soon, this ignition test came to an end as the temperature in the fusion furnace dropped from hundreds of millions of degrees to normal temperature.

The next step is to take out the two internal tungsten plates and test their radiation loss.

However, this requires the fusion furnace to cool down for a few days. During these few days, staff are prohibited from entering the fusion furnace to take out the tungsten plates.

So the entire plasma institute also waited with peace of mind.

Of course, during this waiting time, the results of their first ignition test were naturally publicized.

【东方超环点火试验实现重大突破！本次点火试验实现了1.6亿度等离子体运行600秒以及1.2亿度等离子体运行2000秒的巨大成绩，同时实现342秒能量输出净值大于0的巨大成就！……】

After this important news spread, the whole world was shocked!

……

"What the hell is this?I remember that the last time it only ran for tens of seconds at 1.6 million degrees?Why did it suddenly become six hundred seconds?Even 1.2 million degrees turned into 2000 seconds?Are you kidding me? ! 』

"Look carefully, who is mentioned below this announcement? 'Thanks to Academician Lin Xiao for his great contribution', have you seen this passage?Do you understand what I mean? 』

"Damn, I understand, I understand, my mother, it used to be tens of seconds without Lin Shen, but hundreds of seconds with Lin Shen?Directly increased by dozens of times, right? 』

"Hey, you don't even think about it. At the beginning, 1.2 million degrees continued to run for 101 seconds, and the fractions of the single digits were added, but this time they are all integers. Maybe they even erased the fractions? 』

"According to what you said, isn't there 342 seconds left?What does it mean that the net energy output value is greater than 0? 』

"Graduate students majoring in nuclear physics came here uninvited. Let me briefly explain that the net energy output refers to the difference between the output energy minus the input energy in a controllable nuclear fusion reaction. This value refers to the net energy output. Of course, it can also be Use 'Q value' to calculate, Q value refers to the ratio of output energy to input energy.

When the output energy is greater than the input energy, it means that the energy generated by the controllable nuclear fusion at this time is greater than the energy we input to achieve nuclear fusion, and the extra energy can be used to generate electricity for us. , which means that this part is the energy we earn.

In the past, basically no fusion reactor in the world could achieve this. The most common one was the JT-60 in Japan with a theoretical Q value of 1.25, but it was only a theoretical Q value, let alone They took it all down.

So, this time, I can only say one thing about the Dongfang Super Ring, which is invincible. This is truly making history. I estimate that the entire nuclear fusion world will change.

Let me say one last thing, God Lin is really awesome.』

"I'm going, boss, is it really so awesome?I'm a little confused.』

"Don't talk about it, just start blowing it up, this Bolin god can just be a god, okay?" 』

"You are called Lin Shen and you still need to be a god?" 』

"My Cao, we won't really use nuclear fusion, will we?What about 50 years forever? 』

"I came back from time travel in 2027. During the Spring Festival of 2027, the Golden Crow Project was successful, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area is using electricity generated by nuclear fusion."

"Eye, wait until 2027 to see if I want to come back to kill you"

"Eyes inserted"

"CY"

"..."

Huaguo's network is full of heated discussions about this news. Of course, basically every netizen is excited about it.

After all, they must be excited to achieve such a huge breakthrough in this important technology.

However, for foreigners, this is not the case.

……

Wright House.

"My God! Look, look, what did I say at the beginning? Those experts thought this technology was impossible to realize, what's going on now? I said it all, those experts, one counts as one, It's full of shit! Shet!"

The president was as angry as ever.

"Think about it, without Lin Xiao, they could only burn for 20 seconds, but now with this guy, they can burn for 600 seconds!"

"If you don't think about it anymore, people will use controllable nuclear fusion to limit us in turn. For example, have we used room temperature superconductors until now?"

"Don't you want to be rice buckets too?"

Faced with the president's anger, everyone present bowed their heads, especially the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State never expected that Lin Xiao would actually create another incredible miracle.

According to the experts, they were all shocked and incomprehensible that the Dongfang Superring continued to run for 1.6 seconds at [-] million degrees.

This kind of huge leap-forward progress is completely unreasonable for experts like them who are used to step by step, let alone persist in the fact that the net energy output value for 342 seconds is greater than 0.

In the face of the shocked expressions of those experts, the Secretary of State realized that although their president liked to get angry at them, sometimes what he said was not unreasonable.

It is true that these experts cannot be compared with Lin Xiao, because none of them can achieve Lin Xiao's level.

"Okay, that's the end of my words. If you can't think about how to solve it, then just wait and get out!"

The president waved his hand and sent all these people away.

After leaving the office of the president, the secretary of state approached the director of the FBI again.

"How did your arrangements go? Is there any progress? Otherwise, we can wait to be fired together!"

The FBI director said angrily: "Do you think I am not in a hurry? But do you really think that the Golden Crow Project is so easy to install our people? We have already paid tens of millions of dollars for this, and it is completely a little progress nothing."

The Secretary of State frowned and said: "No progress at all? What are your people doing? Tens of millions of dollars are useless? You are wasting money!"

"Hey, waste of money? Mr. Secretary, I'm the FBI. Be careful what you say, or I don't mind posting some pictures of you jogging in parallel with some women of your wife's equal status."

"You..." The Secretary of State glared angrily, but in the end he was cowardly, and said harshly: "Anyway, if you can't handle this matter well, let's prepare to apply for an unemployment certificate together!"

After speaking, he left.

The director spat at the secretary of state behind his back, and finally remembered what the president said just now, and finally left here with a headache.

……

Time passes quickly.

The great success of Dongfang Chaohuan has caused a shock all over the world, while the work of Dongfang Chaohuan is also going on in full swing.

After a week of cooling, the staff finally took out the tungsten plates in the fusion furnace.

The ordinary tungsten plate has been slightly worn, but the fusion tungsten plate hardly shows any wear.

After putting the fusion tungsten plate under the microscope for inspection, they also got a gratifying news——

"Basically, it can be determined that there is no obvious radiation damage."