Institute 171, full name Northwest Special Research Institute 171.
This was information that the outside world could check, but the exact location of the research institute and what it was researching were classified.
Liu Xi was the only one who knew a little about this research institute because of his parents, but only a little.
Sixty years ago, in order to deal with the threat from the north, many military facilities were built in the northwest.
The military shooting range that Liu Xi was currently at was a remnant of that era.
According to a conservative estimate, there were at least tens of thousands of similar military facilities in the entire northwest.
Together with the military facilities, there was an underground research institute.
One was in the light, and the other was in the dark. Even the highest-precision military spy satellites would find it difficult to lock onto 171 of the tens of thousands of facilities.
On the other side of the military shooting range was a simple road that led directly to an oil field in the desert. On the surface, he often went to the oil field to carry out security missions, but in secret, he was transporting the necessary materials for the laboratory.
As for people with a high level of confidentiality, such as Liu Xi, they were brought in through contacts placed outside.
The desert itself was the best camouflage.
Moreover, the entire military shooting range looked like it was on the regular defense, but there were hidden sentries everywhere.
In a military area, people who were not allowed to do so would be shot dead. This was not a lie. They would really shoot.
There was a heavy alloy door in a storeroom behind the shooting range.
It was round, ten meters in diameter and two meters thick.
There had always been three such alloy doors.
In Wu Wenhua's words, even if a nuclear bomb was used, the facilities in the research institute would not be affected at all.
After putting on his protective suit, Liu Xi went 50 meters underground and saw the steel beast.
20 meters in diameter and 11 meters in height. And this was only the core vacuum chamber!
Coupled with the cooling system, the entire device could no longer be seen clearly. It was like a steel dragon coiled underground.
This was a typical Tokamak device that used a magnetic field to confine high-temperature plasma. Compared to the laser confinement device, its performance was even more outstanding.
The entire building was a model of modern craftsmanship built with all kinds of cutting-edge technology.
In the past few years, there had always been people who boasted about the various craftsmen and masters in Japan, while at the same time trampling on China as a counterfeit.
These people should all come and see what a true Great Country craftsman was like, and what kind of great country's weapons they were making.
A chef from a small country who could cook a few bowls of rice and make a few sushi-onigiri was praised by everyone. And the one who had created such a soul-stirring thing was unknown underground. This shouldn't have happened.
"This device is much bigger than I thought.”Liu Xi praised.
Liu Xi had seen the " national ignition " device of the Star Stripe Nation. It was the pinnacle of laser confinement, and its scale was unprecedented.
However, this generation of laser confinement was about to be eliminated due to technical difficulties. Now, the mainstream magnetic confinement was the Tokamak device. The largest one was the one in Gaul that was jointly developed by seven countries, including China. Just one core alone weighed more than 1,200 tons!
Secondly, it was the " artificial sun " project of a nuclear fusion center in a province in central China. That was a project that was made public in Xia country. Every progress was made public.
However, no one expected that in the desert of Xia country, there was actually a device that was far larger than before!
This core was more than a thousand tons? It was probably more than double!
The amount invested in this must be astronomical!
For ordinary countries, investing in a single project would already be a strain on the national treasury. Even the Starstreak Kingdom had not regained its ambition after the failure of the nuclear fusion project.
The investment in controllable nuclear fusion was endless.
The billions of dollars that you might invest are just for trial and error, just like the laser confinement device of the Star Stripe Nation.
As for some small countries, even if they did not do anything, once this project was successfully developed, it would benefit all of mankind.
It was very difficult for a big country to do this for profit, but they could do it for fame.
In fact, whoever developed it first would be able to dominate the world's order.
Because this was the key to the advancement of human civilization!
As a result, the R D countries were also competing with each other.
They all wanted to be one step ahead, to spend less money to do big things, and to see others fail to provide valuable experience for themselves.
However, China might have been afraid after being beaten up all these years.
He always wanted a copy of important things to be at ease.
China's nuclear fusion project, the artificial sun, and the 171 Institute, one was in the open while the other was in the dark.
Even if the artificial sun was destroyed by the enemy one day, the project of Institute 171 could still be carried out as usual.
Even the project of Institute 171 itself was much more advanced than the artificial sun.
Liu Xi had reason to believe that the man-made sun might be a smokescreen used to confuse other countries.
Who asked Xia country to be famous for being two-faced?
"What is this project called?" Liu Xi asked.
"Code 095, we also call him Man-made Sun!”
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