"Team Leader, we seem to have solved the problem of the superconducting material needed to maintain the controllable nuclear fusion reactor at a high temperature of hundreds of millions!”
After Li Qiu entered the laboratory, Wang Jie immediately said to him excitedly.
"Well done!"
Li Qiu wasn't as excited as everyone had imagined. He only nodded slightly.
Although solving the problem of superconducting materials to maintain the high temperature of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor had always been a difficult problem for mankind, solving this problem would allow mankind to take an extremely important step in the research of controllable nuclear fusion technology.
However, for the large-scale energy supply station that Li Qiu wanted to build, this was actually just one of the small technologies.
"The graphene superconducting material is not only far ahead of the copper oxide-based superconducting material used in the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, but also because it is not a metal but a carbon-based superconducting material, so the engineering volume and weight are greatly reduced.”
"This is a huge advantage, but it also brings us a new technical problem. How do we make carbon-based materials into wires?”
Li Qiu asked everyone.
This was only a small problem. Li Qiu would not give directions to everyone in the laboratory project team for everything.
Instead, he hoped that after these people stayed under him for a few years or two to three projects, they would be able to go out and help the 019th hospital and the military industry of the Dragon Country in the future.
Li Qiu could lead the direction of cutting-edge research and development for the Dragon Country's military industry. However, after these military equipment were developed, the remaining projects that used ready-made technology to carry out horizontal research and development would also require a large number of middle and high-level technical personnel.
"You guys have a meeting to discuss it. In three days, I hope that you can produce the controllable nuclear fusion reactor to provide hundreds of millions of high-temperature transformation wires and prepare them into a cluster coil that can be used in the reactor!”
After Li Qiu finished speaking, she turned around and left the laboratory. Instead, she went straight to the office of the hospital leader.
The emergence of a new type of high-temperature superconducting material that could provide hundreds of millions of dollars could almost announce a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Of course, this material was only established in theory and mathematical models, so the cluster coil made of the new superconducting material had to be used in a real controllable nuclear fusion reactor, which was a nuclear fusion experiment on the Tokamak device.
Li Qiu had only completed half of the technical analysis of the large-scale energy supply station. He hadn't designed his own controllable nuclear fusion reactor, so he could only borrow the only Tokamak device in the country to experiment.
The device was called ESTAR, which meant East.
Dongfang was a small-scale controllable nuclear fusion research Tokamak device that was independently designed and built by the Dragon Country.
Currently, the device was very advanced internationally and could support controllable nuclear fusion-related research experiments.
However, just like other foreign projects, this device could not develop a superconducting material that could maintain and provide hundreds of millions of high temperatures. Ordinary copper oxide-based superconducting materials would melt as soon as the experiment was initiated, so controllable nuclear fusion could only be used for a short period of time in the experiment. It did not have any practical significance.
After arriving at the hospital director's office, Li Qiu skillfully brewed tea.
Perhaps it was because she had interacted with the various chiefs and leaders, Li Qiu had also started to drink some tea.
"Leader, I'm here to ask for your help this time.”
Li Qiu went straight to the point.
"What favor?"
"From your project?"
The hospital leader asked curiously.
It had only been two months since Li Qiu's project was established. Such a large-scale project would last for years, so he really didn't know much about Li Qiu's project team.
"Yes, we have developed a new type of superconducting material that can theoretically provide hundreds of millions of temperature changes for controllable nuclear fusion reactors.”
" So, I would like to ask you to help coordinate and let our superconducting materials be tested on the 'Dongfang' device.”
Li Qiu continued.
After hearing Li Qiu's words, the head immediately put down the teacup in his hand.
Fortunately, it was Li Qiu who brewed the tea this time. There was a problem with the control of the fire, so the tea was too hot. He did not drink it yet. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would choke on the tea again.
The project had only been established for two months, and Li Qiu said that he had solved the most important problem of controllable nuclear fusion?
If anyone else had said this to the hospital leader, the hospital leader would have thought that the other party might be bragging.
But now, these words had to come out of Li Qiu's mouth.
The hospital leader took a deep breath and tried his best to regulate his breathing. He immediately picked up the phone on the table and contacted the general assembly department.
He wanted to report to the General Assembly and ask them to coordinate Li Qiu's use of the Dongfang device for testing.
Ten minutes later, the hospital director nodded slightly at Li Qiu.
" That's enough. Three days later, we'll head to the location of the 'Dongfang' device to conduct the experiment.”
"Our Dragon Country spent a lot of money to build this device. It was originally meant to be used by the various controllable nuclear fusion project teams in the Dragon Country for testing. With your current status, you are fully qualified to use this device.”
the hospital leader said.
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A day later, Wang Jie, Li Chao, and the others successfully held a meeting to discuss the method of making graphene, a carbon-based material, into a superconducting material.
According to their plan, two-dimensional graphene was stacked at a special overlapping angle and successfully prepared into a superconducting material with a transition temperature.
Three days later, the new wires needed by Li Qiu's project team were successfully produced by the technical workers in the institute.
Moreover, this new type of wire was cut into a cluster coil that was 50CM thick and nearly ten meters tall.
There was a specially-made tube inside the cluster coil, and inside it was the area where the controllable nuclear fusion material liquid helium flowed.
When the new wire provided more than 100 million high temperatures, the liquid helium was stimulated and produced a nuclear fusion reaction in the Tokamak device!
On May 26th, Li Qiu, Lieutenant General Wang Hang, and the hospital leaders took a private plane arranged by the military and landed at an airport built in the mountains of the West River area.
The Dongfang installation was built inside a mountain not far from here.
As soon as Li Qiu and the others arrived, the engineers of the project immediately replaced the new cluster coil that Li Qiu had brought with the Dongfang device.
The engineers in their base often did such work.
Ever since the construction of the Eastern facility, countless experts in the field of controllable nuclear fusion from the Dragon Country had come to experiment with new materials.
Unfortunately, controllable nuclear fusion was like a mountain in front of the entire human race. Not only the Dragon Country, but even the entire world could not solve this problem.
Two hours later, the person in charge of the project walked over to the rest area where Li Qiu and the others were.
"Chief Instructor Li, the cluster coil you brought has been installed on the Dongfang device by our engineers. We can go and test it at any time now!”
The person in charge of the Dongfang installation looked at Li Qiu curiously and said.
Although he and Li Qiu were not in the same system, he had heard of Li Qiu's name long ago. It could even be said that he admired him very much.
"Alright, let's start the experiment!”
Li Qiu immediately said.
He wasn't as nervous as the other experts who came here to experiment. Instead, he was looking forward to this experiment.
After entering the large laboratory of the Dongfang device inside the mountain, the project leader checked the equipment again.
"Start the experiment. Inject 10 milligrams of helium!”
The person in charge of the Dongfang project laboratory said to the engineers.
As he gave the order, buttons were activated one by one, and the internal tube connected to the Dongfang device injected 10 milligrams of helium into it.
The 10 milligrams of helium was insignificant to the entire huge device. It immediately dispersed after entering the device.
At this moment, the button to install the device was pressed. As the device buzzed, the temperature of the cluster coil continued to rise.
At this time, the helium gas injected into the plasma was gradually formed as the temperature continued to rise, and it was bound by the magnetic field in the Eastern device.
After more than half an hour of warm-up, the helium inside the cluster coil was finally heated to the critical point of nuclear fusion reaction, which was close to 100 million degrees Celsius. The nuclear fusion reaction had already begun.
" It can reach a temperature of 100 million?"
The person in charge of the Dongfang project laboratory said with some surprise.
Even if the new superconducting material brought by Li Qiu could make the nuclear fusion reaction happen for a second, it would be worth it for them to work hard for the past few hours.
In fact, many project teams that brought new superconducting materials to experiment had already melted when the temperature reached 7,000 to 8,000.
For example, a material that could sustain a 100 million high-temperature nuclear fusion reaction for a few seconds was already an extremely excellent material!
"The nuclear fusion reaction is already in progress, and the Dongfang device is continuously emitting electricity!”
Lieutenant General Wang Hang said excitedly.
In the command room, everyone was so nervous that they could even hear each other's heartbeats.
At the same time, on a huge screen next to the command room, Arabic numbers began to appear," 1, 2, 3…"
It was recording the duration of the nuclear fusion reaction.
Every time the number jumped, it represented a huge improvement in the controllable nuclear fusion reaction.
"Why don't everyone sit down and wait? The experiment might take quite a long time!”
Li Qiuhou pulled a few stools from the back of the command room and said to Lieutenant General Wang Hang and the hospital leaders.
"What are you sitting for? How can you sit at such an exciting moment?”
The hospital leader was determined not to sit down. He paced back and forth excitedly in front of the room, watching the nuclear fusion reaction in progress and the numbers jumping on the big screen.
Lieutenant General Wang Hang had the same attitude. He stood at the forefront and watched everything.
Every second of time represented great success and joy. How could anyone sit still?
However, after an hour and 3600 seconds, the hospital leader and Lieutenant General Wang Hang's legs were numb. Their eyes were sore and teary as they watched the surveillance cameras and the big screen.
Looking at the controllable nuclear fusion that was still going on, the two of them began to doubt their lives!
Everyone in the monitoring room was so shocked that their mouths were wide open!
It had been more than an hour since the initial nuclear fusion reaction?
1,000 seconds was the limit of controllable nuclear fusion, but the Dongfang device had been stable for more than an hour?
He had even added helium halfway through?
"Reporting to the chief, the Dongfang device has accumulated over 700 million amperes of electricity!”
"It is estimated to be able to meet the electricity demand of a large city!”
"According to this discharge estimate, the controllable nuclear fusion reactor seems to have practical value!”
At this time, an engineer who was monitoring the discharge could not help but report in a trembling voice.
Accumulated discharge of 700 million amperes?
Stable operation for more than an hour?
The controllable nuclear fusion reactor has preliminary practical value?
Didn't that mean that the light of controllable nuclear fusion had been ignited in the east of the world?
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