From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

The first large-scale demonstration meeting of the nuclear fusion engineering project is over.

A lot of progress was made in the first round of meetings, including the determination of the formal demonstration project, the determination of the main direction of design research, and the determination of the person in charge of the project.

The leaders of the demonstration project determined at the meeting mainly include Wang Hao as the chief designer, Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye as the deputy chief designers.

Wang Ye is a director-level researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Engineering.

He has participated in the "Artificial Sun" project and is one of the main designers. He is very familiar with nuclear fusion reactions and tokamak devices.

At the same time, Wang Ye is also recognized as a 'candidate academician'.

The so-called "candidate" does not mean that he participated in the selection of academicians, but that he can be selected as an academician if he is recognized as participating in the selection of academicians.

Now the project is still in the demonstration stage, but the success of the first meeting has also brought the project into the "formal demonstration stage". support.

In the stage of demonstration, the budgetary funds are one billion yuan.

This also represents the importance that the superior attaches to research. If the demonstration stage cannot pass, one billion is tantamount to wasted.

After the meeting.

Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye have already started work.

At this stage, they are responsible for assigning work related to demonstration. For example, for a certain difficulty and design, there will be a research team or individual to apply.

They will form an expert jury to review the relevant research applications.

In this way, if the tasks are assigned one by one, many individuals and teams will participate in the demonstration work, and after summarizing all the results, the next meeting can be started.

After confirming the work arrangement, both Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye were very excited.

Tang Jianjun has a feeling that he has achieved his life goal. His lifelong dream is to be able to participate in the research of nuclear fusion, and he never even thought that he can complete the research in his lifetime.

Now he is involved, and he still has the title of deputy chief designer.

Wang Ye is much younger than Tang Jianjun, and he never expected to take on such an important job.

The scale of the nuclear fusion engineering project is undoubtedly much larger than that of the "artificial sun". The "artificial sun" is just an experimental project, and the nuclear fusion engineering project is preparing to complete the research of nuclear fusion. The two are completely different.

Wang Hao's position is the highest. He is the chief designer, chief engineer, and the top person in charge of the nuclear fusion project.

However, his position is more nominal, and he has the highest authority in his hands, but he does not participate in the actual project work. He is responsible for the research of the core technology direction.

Now that he has decided to start the nuclear fusion project, Wang Hao is naturally confident. The nuclear fusion project is very large. When it really enters the experimental manufacturing stage, the minimum investment will start at tens of billions, and it will even reach hundreds of billions or more.

But after the research has a main direction, it is only a larger project, and it is no different from other research.

For example, the research and development of superconducting batteries.

The design and research of superconducting batteries is also not easy. Many technical difficulties have been overcome in the middle, but it is still completed after the main direction is established.

Fusion projects are just bigger and involve more people.

Project research is still carried out in the same way, mainly going through several stages such as demonstration, design, and manufacturing.

Now that we have entered the first stage, we can proceed step by step normally.

...

The first fusion demonstration meeting didn't make waves.

The scale of the demonstration meeting is still very large, and it is impossible to keep it completely confidential, but most people who know the news only think it is an academic exchange meeting, not a real start of the project.

This kind of academic exchange meeting is not the only one.

Domestically speaking, several similar conferences have been held, but the scale is smaller, and the purpose is to allow scholars in related fields to communicate.

The same goes for other countries.

For example, Germany.

They once held a large-scale nuclear fusion research conference, and the conference also planned to demonstrate the manufacture of a large-scale tokamak device.

A large number of scholars gathered together to demonstrate the problems that may be encountered in the research. They also made rough calculations and found that the required funds were too large.

In the end, I gave up.

This is mainly because the feasibility of realization is very low, and it is impossible to find a source of financing.

The international is more concerned about another matter. Annihilation Technology Company issued a new announcement, confirming that the transformation of the "No. 2 Unit" is coming to an end, and they will re-price the first-order iron materials and openly accept related orders.

The pricing and sales of first-order iron materials are the most important.

After several months of suspension of sales, many institutions have no research materials, so their research can only be suspended.

Now that I can finally buy the first-order iron material, many organizations look forward to it. They also pay attention to the movements of Annihilation Technology Company at any time, hoping to make news as soon as possible.

soon.

Annihilation Technology Company issued a new announcement to determine the production of first-order iron materials with a purity of more than 95%, and the price is US$800,000 per ton.

The news immediately caused an uproar in international public opinion.

The price of first-order iron in the past was very expensive, about 800 to 1 million US dollars per kilogram, but now it has been reduced by 1000 times, which is really amazing.

"Reduce it by 1000 times!"

"It seems that the manufacturing technology of first-order iron has indeed made a major breakthrough..."

"Annihilation Technology Company directly produces first-order iron with a purity of more than 95%, and the production efficiency is so high? Eliminating the extraction process, can it still produce dozens of tons a day?"

"There must be dozens of tons, otherwise it wouldn't be so cheap..."

"..."

Annihilation Technology Company's pricing of first-order iron is not a decision made on the fly, but a figure calculated based on the scale of first-order iron market demand.

The current first-order iron materials are mainly used for research and development.

According to the sales situation in the past year, the market size of first-order iron materials is about 20 billion US dollars.

Annihilation Technology Company is a monopoly materials company. Under the premise of achieving extremely high profit margins, their goal is to expand the market size in order to achieve higher profits.

At this stage, their main customers include major metal research institutions, large steel companies, superconducting material companies and other materials-related institutions.

The number of these large institutions is limited, and the funds that can be invested in purchasing upgrade materials are also limited. Only by expanding the market can we obtain more profits.

The same is true for magnetized lithium materials.

At present, the market size of magnetized lithium materials is just over 10 billion US dollars, mainly because the price of magnetized lithium materials is high. The cost of lithium batteries with magnetized lithium materials will naturally rise sharply, and the products manufactured with this will be very expensive.

If you want to expand the market, you must lower the price so that ordinary people can afford high-end lithium battery products.

For example, electric vehicles with a range of more than 1,200 kilometers.

The purpose of lowering prices is to expand the market.

When ordinary people can afford "upgraded material products", the market size will naturally become very large, and it will bring even greater profits.

Of course it's temporarily impossible.

This is mainly due to the limited manufacturing capacity. The No. 2 machine is specially used to produce first-order iron materials, and it can produce about 110 tons per day for the time being.

Annihilation Technology Company is manufacturing the No. 3 and No. 4 machines, and is constantly improving the manufacturing process, with the goal of realizing a fully automated process in order to greatly increase the production capacity of first-order iron materials.

Although the market size is limited, due to the ultra-high profit margin, Annihilation Technology Company is still like a 'money printing machine', with an estimated profit of more than 20 billion US dollars in the next year.

This profit is very amazing.

In contrast, the world's most profitable company, American's Fruit Company, made less than $30 billion in profit last year.

Annihilation Technology's announcement also stated that the company is constantly improving the manufacturing process in order to continue to expand production capacity.

If the production capacity continues to expand, the price of first-order iron materials will continue to decrease.

This is inevitable.

But there are still a large number of institutions ordering materials, and they will not wait for cheaper materials, because in terms of market competition, time is money.

Those large international steel companies must be the first to produce high-end products in order to seize the market in advance, otherwise they may not even have the qualifications to compete in the same field.

A large steel company is also one of the main customers of Annihilation Technology Company.

In comparison, the order scale of scientific research institutions is much worse. Even for American's Groom Lake project, the order of first-order iron materials is very limited.

Scientific research institutions are pure investment institutions, and the research and development funds are naturally very limited.

The total cost of the Groom Lake Project is 55 billion US dollars, which sounds really huge, but they are doing multi-faceted research, with many institutions and teams participating, and the funds that can be used to purchase upgrade materials are naturally limited.

The size of their first order is only about 300 million US dollars.

Gamow-Shapley believes that for the current research, 300 million US dollars and nearly 400 tons of first-order iron materials are enough.

After confirming that he could get the first batch of materials next month, Shapley was also very excited. He felt that he had come to heaven from hell.

Originally, the research was considered infeasible, but now that there are more materials to support it, the research can naturally continue.

Shapley vowed to fight a comeback.

He actively devoted himself to the work, convened many experts and scholars, and began to prepare for the anti-gravity property experiment of materials.

This is the most important experiment.

Now their research has two main contents, one is to cooperate with institutions and teams to study superconducting materials of first-order iron, and the other is to test the antigravity characteristics of superconducting materials of first-order iron.

"We will find out the first-order iron materials suitable for producing strong annihilation force fields through anti-gravity characteristics test experiments."

"At that time, the research will make a major breakthrough!"

"Producing a strong annihilation force field with upgraded materials is a very important direction. We will use this to catch up with Wang Hao's team and master the most advanced strong annihilation force field technology..."

That's what Shapley and Decision Maker One said.

The No. 1 decision maker encouraged Shapley to continue to work hard and must lead the Groom Lake project to success. At the same time, he also set a time for him——

half a year.

"I hope to see results within six months."

"There is no need to catch up with Wang Hao's team, but we must create a strong enough annihilation force field..."

"This way, we can continue to support research!"

Decision maker #1 is also under a lot of pressure.

The Groom Lake Project is a scientific research project initiated and supported by him. If the plan fails in the end, it must be a failure of his work as the No. 1 decision maker.

That could become a huge stain.

However, decision maker No. 1 also began to think about failure. He felt that he could not put all his chips on the Grom Lake plan, and he should look for other directions.

For example, the International Annihilation Theory Organization.

American has actually withdrawn from the International Annihilation Theory Organization, but in name, they have not completely withdrawn.

If the Groom Lake plan fails, they must 'return' to the International Annihilation Theory Organization in advance.

However, it is not realistic to talk about 'return' at this stage.

The Groom Lake project did not allow other countries to participate, and the relevant research results will not be shared with other countries. Naturally, it is impossible for other countries to allow American to return to the organization.

"I hope Gamow can do it..."

"It seems that he is very confident, so there should be no problem." Decision maker No. 1 sighed, and could only put his hope on the Groom Lake plan for the time being.

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at the same time.

Wang Hao has arrived at the f-ray experiment base.

The experimental base was busy.

Liao Jianguo introduced a piece of silver metal material, "This is a granular material manufactured by Donggong Precision. We have done a detailed inspection. The largest particle material inside is 160 microns, and the smallest is 39 microns. about."

"The deviation of the particles is somewhat large, but the direction and shape are consistent, and the connection is very tight."

He asked, "Academician Wang, does the inconsistency in particle size matter?"

"Theoretically, there will be no effect." Wang Hao said, "As long as the directions are the same. If the directions of the particles are the same, the direction of the excited antigravity field will be the same. The antigravity fields can be connected together."

Liao Jianguo nodded knowingly, "We have already made preparations. The new equipment has almost been installed, and the experiment can probably be carried out tomorrow."

"A detailed test will be done tonight."

"I hope there will be progress..."

Both Liao Jianguo and Wang Hao are looking forward to it.

They have done anti-gravity experiments based on millimeter-scale granular materials. The particle size is about 2 mm, and the anti-gravity field strength produced is 18.3%.

This intensity can already be used to manufacture f-ray generating devices.

Now the size of the particles has been reduced by more than twenty times on average, and the strength of the anti-gravity field that can be produced can be expected.

The next day, the experiment officially started.

Everyone who participated in the experiment is looking forward to it, because the layout of the materials has been completed, and the experiment is just to turn on the equipment systematically.

Simply put, power on, test.

Wang Hao and Liao Jianguo stood together in the data room, carefully staring at the constantly jumping numbers on the computer——

"0.001%, 0.023%, 0.913%..."

"2.009%, 3.511%..."

"4.314%, 6.345%..."

"9.301%..."

The numbers keep going up.

When the number exceeded "18%", Liao Jianguo couldn't help shouting, "It's over 18!"

"20!"

"It's still going up!"

He said and yelled, "What's the temperature?"

Someone nearby reported, "193K."

"continue!"

Liao Jianguo blushed with excitement, and immediately looked at the numbers on the screen after he finished speaking. The numbers were still jumping and rising.

"20.831%..."

"25.300%..."

"30.144%..."

When the number climbed above 30%, the jump speed slowed down significantly.

Liao Jianguo was still very excited.

The f-ray generating equipment they are using now has a basic anti-gravity field strength of only 18%. The extrusion of the outer spiral force field and the internal nuclear reaction push the excited f-ray intensity to more than 7 times.

30% more strength...

He doesn't even know what the concept is.

Wang Hao was also very excited. He held his breath hard, as if he was afraid of stopping the jump when he exhaled the number, but in the end the number was still frozen.

"33.433%!"

He gritted his teeth and shouted out.

Liao Jianguo also read it hard, and he immediately looked at Wang Hao and asked, "Academician Wang, what does this number represent? How high can we generate f-rays with this?"

In the past, Wang Hao always answered every question, as if he knew everything.

This time is different.

Wang Hao shook his head directly, "I don't know either. But it is certain that we will not be able to do instant detection by then."

Liao Jianguo naturally knew what "unable to detect immediately" meant.

Their upper limit of detection for the strength of the annihilation force field is '10 times', and the inability to detect it immediately means that the strength must exceed 10 times.