Chapter 537: Helms' countermeasures

Time is getting closer and closer to the end of the month.
Finally, all the contradictions are on the threshold.
Soon the next closed-door meeting of the iter council will be held in Saint-Paul-d'Oriente, France. In this meeting, the US will once again question Chinese representatives on the Star Institute and intellectual property related issues.
If nothing else, this may be the last time the iter council discusses this issue.
Because various signs are showing, the outcome of this meeting will determine the stay of Hua Guo in iter.
As for the compromises made by the Chinese nation, the outside world has basically no expectation.
Even iter employees, who asked not to be named, were created in an interview with the media, which may be the cause of the collapse of the iter organization.
This sounds a bit exaggerated.
But in fact, this possibility is not without it.
As we all know, there are seven major participating countries in iiter, namely Europe, America, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, and India. And almost every participating country, in addition to iter, has its own domestic controllable nuclear fusion project.
Establishing their own technological advantages in research on controllable fusion has almost become the consensus of various countries.
In the international public project such as iter, it is not difficult to predict the attitudes of each country.
This can be seen from the insufficient annual funding of the iter project.
Obviously, no one thinks how far this bloated, reluctantly cobbled together can drive.
Not to mention, the captain at the helm is still European.
The US's sudden troubles over intellectual property rights can be said to put contradictions on the table.
The light of fusion that finally ignited, like a candle remaining in the wind, drunk in the cold night.
However, no matter how the international form changes, for scholars engaged in research in this field, the experiment should be done.
At the same time that Lu Zhou received a good news from Daya Bay, at the spiral stone 7-x laboratory in Germany, an experiment on magnetic confinement time was also going on.
"37 minutes and 6 seconds," looking at the computer screen and timing, Kerwin continued. "This is probably the best result of this month."
Although there is still a horrible gap from the 1-slope of the star device, at least they are now able to stabilize the east magnetic constraint time to be more than half-slope.
Professor Millek asked: "Can you enter the show fire experiment?"
Professor Kreiber swayed: "Irradiation has not yet been resolved."
Professor Millek: "Any progress?"
"Progress?" The expression on Professor Kreiber's face became even bitterer. "The only progress is probably that we vaguely feel that the alloy route may not work. The swelling effect of metallic materials under neutron irradiation is Too obvious, no matter how we try, it will be difficult to change this situation unless we can restrain neutrons? But this sounds too magical. "
The latest technology is to use a molybdenum and zirconium alloy. This alloy is quite effective in resisting the swelling effect of neutron radiation. However, the alloy doped with molybdenum is more difficult to weld than austenitic steel.
And not only that, no matter how much molybdenum is doped, the radioactivity of its transmutation product will always be an unstable factor.
Miller thought for a moment, and then suddenly thought: "alloys don't care, what about non-metal materials?"
Kerwin shrugged helplessly: "There are many non-metallic materials, but the question is do you have a good suggestion?"
This view is not the first time in the field of controlled fusion research, and it has even been mentioned in the last century. The problem is that research in this area has not made much progress.
Thinking of this, Kerwin couldn't help but be lost in thought.
If it was Lu Zhou, what kind of ulcer would he do?
However, Kerwin, thinking about this, had no clue.
Thinking of this, he sighed.
If only we could cooperate with the Star Research Institute on stellar research
If his teammate is Professor Lu, he is confident that the commercialization of controllable fusion will be shortened by at least 20 years.
Once this technology is completed, the entire human civilization will benefit from it.
But as things stand now
This is obviously impossible.
Outside the lab, Helmsy County, sitting in the lounge, was drinking coffee, and his eyes drifted from time to time to his watch.
A few months ago, he was just an ordinary middle-level official at the CIA, but he received high-level appreciation for an evaluation report on controlled fusion research.
Now he is the Intelligence Commissioner for Controlled Fusion appointed by the CIA. He is fully responsible for the collection of important information in related fields and enjoys certain decision-making powers in some matters.
This time he came to Germany to understand the latest progress of stellar research at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics and to meet with senior officials of the German Ministry of Economy and Energy.
The countermeasures on the China issue have worked. At least on the surface, research on controllable fusion in China has come to a halt.
The star-1 device and hl-2a went on strike, and the cooperation between the east device and General Atomic Energy Co. was interrupted, making one wonder how far they could go on this subject without the help of the international community.
In any case, now is the time to win.
Of course, although on the surface, everything was going well, he never underestimated the stupidity of his opponents.
At least the name Lu Zhou was an unstable factor that made him unable to let go.
From the limited information, the cause of the failure of the two devices could not be related to the person's name.
At this moment, sitting opposite him was Lehmann, the CIA's intelligence commissioner in Germany.
Unlike the general agent who lurks underground, his identity is public and registered with the German Ministry of Defense. The main responsibility is to sit in the office for coffee or exchange information with the German intelligence service.
Hems co-ordinated this meeting with senior officials of the German Ministry of Economy and Energy.
When they were chatting, they just met the name Lu Zhou.
Although Lyman's focus is not here, he raises his eyebrows with interest.
"So how many divisions do you think Professor Lu is worth?"
Helms: "If you really understand him, you would not ask such stupid questions. His value is not calculated by a few divisions, but should be used in Silicon Valley or Seattle."
He didn't care about Helms' ridicule, Lehman smiled and said, "When did Silicon Valley and Seattle become units of measurement?"
Helms: "Silicon Valley and Seattle are not, but the underlying economic value is. If a person can create 10 billion or even 100 billion gdp, I think he has this potential."
Lehman: "A Nobel laureate can create 100 billion gdp? Is this Zimbabwe or Venezuela's currency?"
"Of course it's the U.S. dollar, and it's just a conservative estimate. The more I study his data, the more I'm sure of my inferences," Helms said. "However, whether it is the White House or the CIA, The attention is obviously not enough, and I think it is quite dangerous. "
Lehman leaned back in his chair: "Perhaps you can write a detailed report to the White House to remind the president who is showy."
Helms: "Actually ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I'm doing this."
There was a crowd at the door while talking.
Headed by the Secretary-General of the German Ministry of Economy and Energy, Norbert.
Standing up, Helms extended her right hand with a smile.
"Hello Mr. Norbert, glad we met again."
"Hello, Mr. Helms," Grimson's right hand shook, Norbert didn't have too many greetings, went straight to the point, "You probably flew over from the United States to drink with me. Coffee, just say anything. "
"It's like this," retracted his right hand, sorted out his thoughts for a moment, and Helms said with a smile. "Our Congress re-evaluated the controllable fusion plan and restarted an investment with a budget of about $ 2 billion. A new satellite simulator is expected to be built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. For German companies, this will mean at least one billion US dollars of orders and thousands or even tens of thousands of jobs. I believe you should be interested. "
"Oh?" Norbert raised his eyebrows with interest, but no more expression. "Although I'm interested in this topic, why are the CIA people coming to discuss it with us."
What made him even more confused was why people at the CIA wanted to disclose the news to themselves.
"Because the specific bidding plan will come out next month. If you are interested in this project, I have a small proposal."
Norbert said quietly, "What's the proposal?"
"The closed-door meeting of the Iter Council at the end of the month," looking at Norbert's expression, Helms's face smiled. "We think it's time to ask China to go out."
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