Chapter 597: Too big a step?

The entire controllable fusion battery project was disassembled into 13 sub-projects, covering everything from laser ignition devices to generator sets. A total of six scientific research institutions participated in the research.
With the successful case of Pangu fusion reactor at the front, Luzhou is quite confident in this project.
However, disagreements still continue over the discussion of nuclear fuel for fusion cells.
Stunned and listening to the crazy plan described by the landing boat, he opened his mouth in surprise, and after a while, he spoke in an unbelievable tone.
"Are you sure you want to use helium three as fuel? The cross section of the reaction between helium three and deuterium is only one tenth of that of DT. It will be more difficult to ignite it than dozens of times of DT mixed fuel!"
It is not just him who holds this view. Academician Wang Zengguang, chief engineer of the Nuclear Industry Group, also nodded.
"I also think that it may be impractical to directly use helium III. Although you said that it saves the core space and cost, in fact, this part of the cost is only passed on to the laser ignition or microwave ignition device and other Parts. "
Academician Yu Jiannan, who is not very familiar with Lu Zhou, did not directly object, but only expressed his opinions in a vague manner.
"Walking too far may not be a good thing."
Forefinger tapped gently on the table, Lu Zhou thought for a long time.
This is a matter of trade-offs.
If a DT mixture is selected as the fuel, a liquid lithium neutron recovery system will be loaded on the reactor core, and the volume energy density of the entire fusion battery will be reduced. If He-3 / D is selected as the reactant, the core volume can be saved by at least 15%, and the volume energy density of the entire battery pack will be increased accordingly.
However, Academician Wang's words did speak to his heart. With the current domestic laser ignition technology, rashly choosing this radical technical route may not be able to achieve the desired effect.
The silence lasted about five minutes, and Lu Zhou's mind had an idea, he said.
"Then make a compromise."
Sheng Xianfu: "A compromise?"
Lu Zhou nodded: "Like the ignition device, we go in two technical lines. One is a fusion battery for DT fuel, and the other is He-3 / D fuel. We can agree on a unified interface size. Standard, if the technology bottleneck of the fusion battery of He-3 / D fuel can't be solved, we can also adopt DT fuel immediately. When the problem of helium trifusion technology is solved one day, even if the technology is upgraded, the equipment will be upgraded Easier."
Academician Wang Zengguang thought for a while and nodded, "I think so."
Academician Yu Jiannan still said very little, but just nodded and said, "As long as there is no opinion on the budget, I have no opinion."
After looking at a few others, and seeing no more suggestions, Lu Zhou clapped and said, "That's OK, this thing is settled."
Directly on the helium three, it is still too far ahead.
The persuasion of several old "teammates" also made Lu Zhou sober.
He acknowledged that when the technical route of controlled fusion miniaturization was excavated from the wreckage from a higher civilization, he did swell a bit, so that he ignored the industrial level of earth civilization.
In fact, being able to make fusion energy batteries is not an easy task in itself.
As for the complete restoration of the technology on that engine, I am afraid that it may not be possible even at the end of the century, let alone now ...
After leaving the conference room, Lu Zhou originally planned to go back to the underground laboratory to continue to ponder the Hall propulsion unit, but thought that there was one thing left unaddressed, he returned to his office.
Some time ago, while approving the project, high-level officials suggested that he submit the paper on the feasibility demonstration of fusion battery technology to relevant academic journals.
Although guessing what the top executives were thinking, Lu Zhou had no opinion.
What is written in the thesis is his academic opinion.
If senior management has no opinion on the content of the public paper, he will naturally not object to submitting the paper for submission.
I took out the paper I wrote a while ago and deleted the possible inspirational content. Lu Zhou only kept a few similar to the "detachable core", "laser heating", "microwave heating" "Such ambiguous concepts were then translated into English.
In fact, this technical feasibility argument does not matter even if it is submitted directly without modification. After all, such a highly subjective paper does not involve specific research ideas and experimental schemes. OK "discussion.
As for whether you can do it or not, you still have to do it yourself.
After reading the revised paper from beginning to end, he stared at Lu Zhou, the PDF file on the screen, and fell into thought.
Which journal is better?
After thinking for a while, a smile evoked from the corner of his mouth, and an idea suddenly came to mind.
I found a list of mailboxes that I hadn't used in a year, and found the mailbox edited by PRL. He thought about the wording and attached the manuscript to the post and posted it.
When clicking to send, Lu Zhou's expression couldn't help but be a little funny.
I don't know if anyone will praise their spirit of internationalism after seeing this paper?
In addition to my colleagues in the field of controlled fusion, I think it will be possible ...
...
While completing the submission of the PRL, Lu Zhou hung the paper on Arxiv, and then he didn't care about it.
What he didn't know, however, was that the paper was integrated into his PPT almost the afternoon of the second day when his paper was hung on Arxiv.
Los Angeles International Hotel.
Hundreds of square meters of meeting room.
When he heard that Mr. Bendbauer, president of San Alpha, announced that the company's next plan was to build a plasma engine equipped with nuclear fusion batteries for the US moon landing plan, there was an uproar.
Although investors sitting here do not necessarily understand what is controlled nuclear fusion, it does not mean that they are stupid.
The Pangu demonstration reactor has been ignited for less than three months. The other side of the Pacific Ocean has not even seen the shadow of controllable fusion. Now I come out and talk about the miniaturization of controllable fusion.
Many people even started to look at their watches. They seemed to have made up their minds. If they didn't hear anything valuable for another five minutes, they would get up and leave.
However, in the face of this situation, Bendbauer did not panic.
I saw him wearing a plaid T-shirt, dressed in Silicon Valley, cleared his throat, facing the investors at the scene, with a frustrated voice, continued.
"Miniaturization of controlled fusion!"
"I know this may sound a little weird, but in fact it is not as high as we thought."
Soon, the PPT turned to the next page.
Appearing on the screen is a paper hanging on Arxiv.
As for the author of the paper, Lu Zhou is the chief designer of controllable fusion engineering who is gaining popularity.
After seeing this paper, the audience was in an uproar again, and the voice of discussion spread from the middle to the surroundings.
Even those originally dismissive of the conference couldn't help but look at that PPT twice more.
After all, this is Lu Zhou, the recognized father of controlled fusion!
Others say that miniaturization of controlled fusion may be farted by them, but what the Daniel said is completely different.
At this moment, sitting in the corner of the back of the venue, ExxonMobil CEO Woods stared at the name on the screen with a complex look.
To be honest, in fact, he is not optimistic about Tri-alpha, an exaggerated Silicon Valley company. In contrast, he is more inclined to invest in a more stable and longer-established general atomic energy company.
However, when he saw the name, his mind was shaken.
No way, just because the name left a deep impression on him.
Now the scale of the lithium battery market has more than 100 times more than full, seeing this cake is getting bigger and bigger, the entire Wall Street is breastfeeding.
From the negative electrode material of lithium battery to the positive electrode material of lithium sulfur battery, this creamy cake originally belonged to them. As a result, they have thrown money in the field of new energy, but now they can only watch others lie Fortune.
Now that nuclear power technology breaks through, power generation costs are further reduced, and the size of the lithium battery market will only grow larger.
It was precisely because he had missed such a big piece of cake that he couldn't pay less attention to this dissertation on technical feasibility studies completed by Lu Zhou.
On the other side, Benderbauer standing on the stage, holding Lu Zhou's paper, continued to talk eloquently.
"... This is a detachable structure. We can make the reactor core something similar to a battery. This design allows us to ignore the damage to the material structure to a limited extent."
"Based on such a design, this kind of disposable controllable fusion battery is much less difficult in engineering than the fusion reactor! Although its cost is an issue, it is not at all compared to the money we spend on aerospace. what."
Seeing that the eyes of the investors in the audience had gradually changed from suspicion to fiery, Bendbauer knew that the time was almost up, so he threw out the last bait and said with a bright smile.
"As for whether our products can find the market, you don't need to worry at all."
"In fact, just yesterday, we reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Space-X to prepare for the development of fusion batteries that can be used in spacecraft. Miniaturized controllable fusion devices will be preferentially used in the aerospace field. Related topics have already been in Congress. The budget committee passed the review! "
"I believe that soon ~ EbookFREE.me ~ our rockets will be able to use clean and endless nuclear energy, and our footprint will be all over space. I can even assert that this day will be more than the state-controlled fusion device in California fast!"
The passionate voice seemed to ignite the mood of the entire venue.
Looking at the secretary next to him, Woods lowered his voice.
"I need a financial report on Tri-alpha, a briefing on the state of business operations!"
A slight movement in the secretary's mind immediately made clear the idea in the CEO's mind.
"Okay sir, what you want will be on your desk tonight."
Woods said blankly, "Go ahead and I'll see it before the six o'clock dinner."
Hearing the strong man's request, the secretary nodded arrogantly.
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