Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 397
February 2 happened to be the beginning of February in the lunar calendar.

In the northern country where thousands of miles of snow drifts, the beginning of spring has passed at this time, and the melting of ice and snow makes the weather a bit colder.

Hefei, Ontario, has more or less a prelude to the blooming of spring.

Wan Kun had just returned to the office from inspecting the tokamak device in their research institute, and before his butt was hot, Shen Beihai, the chief engineer, came in.

"Wan Suo, Qinling has been doing a lot of things recently!"

Wan Kun raised his head in surprise: "What action did they make?"

"During the time you went to Xizhou for an exchange, Qinling dismantled the tokamak device and sold the whole device as scrap." Shen Beihai was also full of doubts.

"Disassemble the tokamak and sell it as scrap? Their heads are flooded?" Wan Kun said suddenly with a confused face.

"Not only that, they also ordered 60 supercritical steam turbine generator sets of 100 million kilowatts from China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry a few days ago." Shen Beihai continued.

"60 100 million-kilowatt supercritical steam turbine engines?" Wan Kun was shocked by this number.

Wan Kun is not a novice with 60 100-kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets. These generator sets can generate 6000 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in one hour.

The Galaxy Consortium seldom develops thermal power stations. They play wind power and photovoltaics, and they buy so many steam turbine generator sets all at once. What is it going to do?
"This is what surprised me. What do you think of Wansuo?" Shen Beihai asked.

Wan Kun pondered, countless thoughts flashed in his mind, ruled out all the impossibilities, what was left was that their nuclear fusion power generation technology had made a breakthrough.

"Beihai, do you think it is possible that the nuclear fusion power generation technology on the Qinling Mountains has made a breakthrough?"

"I'm not sure, after all, those people from Yinhe Technology, who knows how much black technology they have." Shen Beihai shook his head and smiled wryly.

Suddenly Wan Kun patted himself on the forehead: "What's the use of guessing here, Beihai, you and Liu Jingguan from Qinling don't have a good relationship, you can make a phone call to find out."

Shen Beihai smiled bitterly and said, "Hehe, you think I haven't called. Liu Jingguan can't get through the phone now. It seems that Qinling Plasma Research Institute doesn't allow foreign communication."

"You're not even allowed to communicate?" Wan Kun didn't expect that the Qinling Plasma Research Institute was completely sealed. As an old fritter, Wan Kun certainly felt something was wrong in this unusual atmosphere.

For a while, all nuclear fusion research institutes in China were amazed by the big move of the Qinling Plasma Research Institute. After all, they have all installed generator sets. If there is no breakthrough, what is the purpose of customizing the generator set? Is it possible to buy it back and turn it into ashes?
So many supercritical steam turbine generator sets have to be bought with real money. Even if they are different from the generator sets of thermal power plants and do not require the relevant supporting facilities of thermal power plants, the cost is not uncommon.

A thermal power station previously invested by Lu Province has two 100 million-kilowatt supercritical steam turbine generator sets. The total investment in the first phase is 79 billion Chinese yuan. Excluding other miscellaneous expenses, it is estimated that a 100 million-kilowatt generator set will cost 10 million yuan. Billion Huayuan.

In fact, Qinling Plasma Research Institute contracted the price of 12 billion Chinese yuan to CNNC, and the order for 60 units was 720 billion Chinese yuan.

Such a large order is definitely not something a manufacturer can take. Harbin Boiler, Shanghai Electric, and Dongfang Electric each received 20 orders, which were subcontracted to them by China National Nuclear Corporation and First Heavy Industry.

Obviously, these actions cannot be concealed. The relevant domestic research institutes and even the Academy of Sciences all know that the Qinling Plasma Research Institute has already launched a generator set.

In this situation, if it is said that the Qinling Plasma Institute has no breakthroughs, they will not believe it.

They unanimously mobilized their contacts to find out, but the Qinling Plasma Research Institute is currently in a state of physical isolation, and all information exchanges must be approved by Zhong.

Obviously, Shen Beihai and the others hit a wall directly. Facing this feeling of seeing flowers in the fog, everyone was eager to know the real situation of Qinling Plasma Research Institute.

As scholars who have studied nuclear fusion power generation for a lifetime, now they see a possibility of nuclear fusion power generation that is suspected to be successful, and they feel anxious at this moment.

As a model of the cooperation between the Academy of Sciences and the Galaxy Consortium, Academician Ma has also been swollen by phone calls from Shen Beihai and others these days, so he had no choice but to call Fei Anming.

"An Ming, it's my old horse."

"It turned out to be Academician Ma, why did you call here when you have time?"

"I am also very helpless. Your big move has made those who study nuclear fusion in China think about it!" Academician Ma said with a wry smile.

"Haha, it turned out to be this matter. What I said was blown by you all the time."

"I was also annoyed by calls from Shen Beihai and the others. It's fine if it involves confidentiality." Academician Ma also knew the seriousness and did not embarrass Fei Anming.

"It does involve confidentiality. Our institute has now been upgraded to top secret. I can't say anything about these things." Fei Anming explained.

"In that case, I won't ask any more questions, and congratulate you on your early success." Academician Ma said with a smile.

"Thank you for your understanding."

After Academician Ma hung up the phone, he already guessed that the Qinling Plasma Research Institute is very likely to have a breakthrough in nuclear fusion power generation technology.

He called Shen Beihai and the others directly, told them that there was nothing he could do, and told them not to go around looking for information about the Qinling Plasma Research Institute.

the other side.

Qinling Institute of Plasma.

The progress of the Jinwu No. 1 project is getting closer and closer to completion. Three of the twelve laser power generation pipelines have been installed. In order to install these 800-meter-long laser power generation pipelines, Zhang Huaide directly demolished a lot of buildings and equipment in the institute.

In addition, the substation subsidiary of the State Grid also sent people to install the substation.

"Boss, what are they going to do with such a large substation?" An engineer looked at the research institute not far away and asked.

"Don't ask if you shouldn't. Curiosity will kill the cat. This kind of unit is very high-level. Knowing too much is not good for us." The project leader warned seriously.

"Eh..." The engineer who asked the question suddenly didn't dare to speak nonsense.

Huge transformers were hoisted up by the crane airship, and the engineers were working intensively.

Although these engineers dare not talk about it publicly, as leaders in the power industry, they can more or less see the tricks in it through the scale of this substation.

At least one trillion kilowatt-hours of annual power generation requires such a large-scale substation, but a power station with an annual power generation of trillions of kilowatt-hours is simply unheard of.

Thinking that the Qinling Plasma Research Institute is engaged in nuclear fusion power generation, a group of engineers guessed in their hearts, has nuclear fusion power generation technology been successful?
In fact, the State Grid has guessed from various signs that the nuclear fusion power generation technology of Qinling Plasma Research Institute is very likely to be successful.

Du Lidao, President of the State Grid, convened the engineers in the grid system and the heads of various departments.

After some analysis and research, they estimated that the Qinling Institute of Plasma Research has a 90% chance of successfully developing nuclear fusion power generation technology.

(End of this chapter)