You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 372: Okay, the more I hear it, the more outrageous it becomes!

Luzhou, EAST!

The Artificial Sun Research Institute is China’s fully superconducting Tokamak Fusion Research Institute.

On this day, Zhao Xian was invited to come here to visit another plasma discharge experiment that was about to begin. It was also the first plasma experiment after applying the new superconducting material device he developed.

There are many routes to controllable nuclear fusion. my country’s is magnetic confinement, and the core research team is EAST.

If magnetic confinement is to achieve controllable nuclear fusion, there are many problems that need to be overcome. The core one is that the magnetic field must be strong.

If you want the magnetic field to be strong, the current flowing through the magnet must be very high.

Superconducting materials with zero resistance perfectly meet this requirement. They can pass extremely large currents and the magnetic field generated is naturally strong.

In theory, the magnetic field generated by superconducting materials can easily reach more than ten times that of ordinary materials!

As one of the founders of the field of superconducting materials research in my country, Zhao Xian is naturally very concerned about controllable nuclear fusion in superconducting materials application engineering.

When he received the invitation, he immediately agreed.

"...A year ago, we overcame the shortage of funds and the loss of personnel and realized the long pulse plasma discharge of the divertor at 100 million degrees Celsius in 1500 seconds, with an average current of 1 megaampere. Now, using the technology developed by you, Academician Zhao, Brand new superconducting material, we are confident of making another breakthrough in this experiment..."

As people often say, if you are not happy at work, there is only one reason in the final analysis: lack of money.

Kuang Xiantao said this, but he was thinking in his heart: "Well, you are the boss. If you don't hear it, I can't ask you directly. We will see our experiment later. If the experiment exceeds our expectations, we will create History, you are still stuck on not approving funds, maybe I will take part in your book~"

If funding is sufficient, salaries and bonuses will naturally be sufficient. Will researchers be lost?

99% of them won’t!

A breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion was achieved despite insufficient funds and loss of personnel. If funds were sufficient, wouldn't the breakthrough be even greater?

This is obvious.

In addition to the arrival of Zhao Xian, there were also Director Sima of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Director Tang Yao of the Ministry of Science and Technology who came here to inspect.

He was noncommittal about Zhao Xian's words, but he could tell that Kuang Xiantao's words were a roundabout criticism of their reduction in EAST's funding over the years.

Zhao Xian agreed very much with his words.

He simply had enough!

He simply didn't respond to what Kuang Xiantao meant, pretending that he didn't hear it.

Zhao Xian nodded happily after hearing this, then waved his hand and said, "I just did some trivial work. The real core work was done by you, so you don't have to blame me~"

“Just have confidence~”

As for the loss of personnel, to put it bluntly, it is actually a lack of funds.

In the past two years, due to funding cuts, in addition to the impact on project progress, staff turnover is a big problem, and those who remain have great opinions.

Listening to their conversation, Captain Sima, as the highest-ranking person at the scene, said with a smile: "Everyone has merit, and they all serve the country and the people~"

Now that it was time for the experiment, he flew from the capital to Luzhou as soon as possible. He wanted to watch the experiment live and know the results of the experiment as soon as possible.

"Yes, they are all serving the country!"

"That's right~"

Moreover, recently, America's peers have also created new historical breakthroughs, which has put great pressure on him.

Kuang Xiantao and Xu Wei accompanied Zhao Xian to visit the control room and explained at the same time.

Especially on the Internet, those voices of criticism and cynicism made him feel particularly chilled. A large group of people jumped out and mocked them for having spent so much money from the country over the years but had no results. They said everything, but they didn't even go directly to Luzhou to knock on the door, as if they It's like committing a heinous capital crime.

The superiors want to cut funding, but they don’t understand him;

The team members below are upset and don’t understand him;

When Chinese people outside see others achieve something, they blame them, but they don’t understand them either;

In this situation, no matter how good-tempered a person is, he can only endure it for a while, not for a long time.

He also discussed it with Xu Wei and reached a consensus with the team to fight back with a breakthrough and negotiate terms with the boss, so Kuang Xiantao has endured it until now.

Even so, he decided that if the superiors still wanted to "wrong" their EAST team, he, the director, was going to give up.

Do whatever you like!

"What do you mean by serving the country and the people? Saying it makes people laugh out loud!"

Xu Wei, the junior, had no right to speak and could only silently follow Kuang Xiantao, murmuring in his heart.

He is no longer as arrogant as before. It's not that he doesn't want to, but he is hit by reality. Who made him choose the hard steel industry?

In the past, he had great ambitions to achieve magnetic confinement and controllable nuclear fusion within 20 to 30 years. However, with the news about the reduction of funds from above and the successful ignition of America's laser, especially the difficulties currently encountered, his The mentality began to change. It no longer pursued the rapid realization of controllable nuclear fusion, but began to pursue continuous breakthroughs in previous achievements.

In Kuang Xiantao's view, this is a steady approach. But for him, this is just a helpless compromise based on reality.

At the same time, for the people at the top, especially those like Captain Sima who firmly support the reduction of their funds, it is enough not to have a good impression of them, but not to scold them in their hearts.

This time, Captain Sima and others came over. They were invited to see the situation of EAST on the spot and the results of EAST's experiments this time, so as to secure funds for the next fiscal year.

Kuang Xiantao quickly finished introducing the relevant situation.

Captain Sima expressed his recognition and said that he was very happy to see their efforts and looked forward to this experiment being able to break through past achievements.

Later, seeing that there was still some time before the experiment, Kuang Xiantao took the opportunity to ask Zhao Xian about the "nickel-based superconductivity" in the small book: "Mr. Zhao, do you think nickel-based superconductivity will be the next stage of development?" In terms of performance, will it be better than iron-based superconductors and copper oxide compounds?"

Zhao Xian is a big boss in the field of superconducting materials research. His opinions largely determine the future research direction of superconducting materials in our country. The EAST he leads is a major application project in related fields, and we must prepare for a rainy day.

Hearing this question, Xu Wei, Captain Sima and others also looked at Zhao Xian, looking forward to his answer.

They all knew the importance of it, and naturally wanted to know what Zhao Xian thought.

Zhao Xian did not think for too long, and replied with a smile almost without thinking: "The mechanical properties of nickel-based materials are indeed better than copper oxide compounds, and they have broad application prospects, but I recommend graphene materials. Some time ago, Academician Zhao Mo solved the problem Regarding the superconducting theory of graphene materials, my team and I produced samples based on Academician Zhao Mo’s theory and achieved superconducting properties at a high temperature of 80.5K. Combined with the rapid development of my country’s graphene industry in recent years, I think graphene Superconductivity is the direction that our country should vigorously develop."

"???"

Both Kuang Xiantao and Xu Wei were confused at this moment with question marks on their faces.

What the hell, Zhao Mo came up with graphene superconducting material?

When did this happen?

How come we don't know?

"80.5K, how many degrees below zero is this?"

Captain Sima murmured to himself, and then asked: "I remember that this conversion formula is based on the Kelvin temperature. How much is it?"

He glanced at the Minister of Science and Technology, Tang Yao, Zhao Xian, and others, and didn't know who to ask. He should ask everyone.

Zhao Xian smiled and said: "The Kelvin temperature is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius, and 80.5K is minus degrees Celsius."

"I'll just say it~"

Captain Sima smiled suddenly, and then said: "If I remember correctly, this temperature should have entered the liquid nitrogen temperature zone, right? I remember the liquid nitrogen temperature is minus 196°C."

Zhao Xian nodded: "At this temperature, it has indeed entered the liquid nitrogen temperature zone."

As the two sang in harmony, Tang Yao, the head of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and others all laughed and echoed, saying some words about how great Sima Bo Wenqiangji and academician Zhao Mo were indeed.

Both Xu Wei and Kuang Xiantao, who had come back to their senses, were speechless.

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but look at each other.

The two of them never expected to hear such "explosive" news at this juncture. Zhao Mo, who they "couldn't deal with", would actually come up with a new version of superconducting material: graphene!

You know, although graphene is a star material, it is very difficult to popularize it in conventional applications, let alone study graphene and superconducting materials together.

Who in the right mind would imagine that?

People who study superconductivity are now studying iron-based superconductors and copper-oxide compounds. The little book is very creative and has made a nickel-based superconductor, but graphene superconductor? Sorry, I can't imagine it!

What's even more outrageous is that Zhao Mo not only developed graphene superconductivity, but also brought the temperature of the graphene superconducting material into the liquid nitrogen temperature zone in one breath!

Is this something a human can do?

“Isn’t the preparation process of graphene very complicated?”

Kuang Xiantao hesitated and mentioned a difficulty.

Zhao Xian was startled, and when he was about to explain, Tang Yao, the head of the Ministry of Science and Technology, spoke in advance: "Director Kuang, large-scale preparation of graphene is actually not difficult anymore, it is just a cost issue. Our super battery is Graphene is being used on a large scale."

Kuang Xiantao was shocked: "Super battery?"

Tang Yao, the head of the Ministry of Science and Technology, smiled and said: "Yes, super battery, a major national defense project led by Academician Zhao Mo when he was not an academician."

"It seems that Academician Zhao Mo has been studying superconducting materials for a long time~"

Captain Sima also had a smile on his face.

Kuang Xiantao, Xu Wei: "..."

Good guy, this is really good guy!

Why is there this guy Zhao Mo everywhere?

Even a graphene material has been played with by Zhao Mo!

Kuang Xiantao opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Zhao Xian shook his head and said to Captain Sima: "It's not that he has been studying for a long time, it should be that he knows all the properties of graphene. You don't know, This graphene superconducting material is very different from ordinary graphene, and it cannot be determined by doing experiments. It is deduced by him based on the study of the Yang-Mills equation, and it is a purely theoretical derivation!"

Kuang Xiantao: "..."

Okay, this is getting more and more outrageous!

(End of this chapter)