Chapter 284

Xiao Yi: "I promise you something."

"That's good." Luo Mingya nodded: "If you lose, then I will ask you to continue researching nuclear fusion, and you must truly realize nuclear fusion for our country."

"A very good request." Xiao Yi expressed his approval, "But what if you lose?"

Although Luo Mingya didn't think she would lose, she thought about it and finally said: "Then... I will go to the Science Island Laboratory to work for you."

Xiao Yi laughed and then said: "Okay, I agree."

Luo Mingya nodded slightly, then raised her head and looked at the falling snow in the sky.

"The snow will stop soon."

Xiao Yi nodded slightly and raised his head to look at the snow in the sky.

"When the snow melts, spring will come."

After quietly admiring the snow for a moment, Luo Mingya turned around and said, "When the snow stops, I will leave. I have to get back to work tomorrow, the eighth day of the lunar month."

Xiao Yi said "hmm" and said, "I hope that by the time I win, you will already be a full researcher."

"Is this important?"

"It sounds interesting to recruit a full-time researcher from the military research institute."

Xiao Yi smiled.

Just now Luo Mingya was thinking of capturing him in the army, but now he is doing the opposite, which is of course very interesting.

Luo Mingya rolled her eyes at him, turned around and walked away: "Okay, I'm going back to the room first, it's still a little cold."

"OK."

Xiao Yi nodded.

He didn't stay long and turned around to leave.

Return to the house.

As a result, he saw Father Xiao and Mother Xiao sitting in the living room, looking at him quietly.

"Uh..." Xiao Yi was confused: "What's wrong?"

"What's going on with those two girls?" Father Xiao asked immediately.

Although I said yesterday that I have reached the age of marriage, it’s not like we’re just going to get married, right?

Xiao Yi was speechless. Their feelings were seen just now, so he said: "The daughter of the old lady next door is a professor in our school. I know her. She is in her thirties."

"That's it." Father Xiao suddenly realized.

"What about the other girl?" Mother Xiao asked at this time, "I see you two were chatting alone for a while."

Xiao Yi held up his forehead and said, "That's also from the University of Science and Technology of China."

"How old are you? He looks several years younger. Is he also a professor at the University of Science and Technology?" Xiao's mother said, "She is quite beautiful too. You should seize the opportunity."

Xiao Yi waved his hand, "Okay, I'd better stop telling you and ask about people's household registration."

With that he went upstairs.

"You kid!"

Xiao's mother made up her mind to find time to ask the old lady next door.

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Chapter 241 The battle of ideas

After a snowfall, more than half of the Spring Festival of 2025 has finally passed.

The wave of rework begins again.

Xiao Yi also returned to the Science Island Laboratory in the eighth grade of junior high school.

As for EAST-S, there is no rush, because it will be busy next, so he also allows the project personnel to rest until after the Lantern Festival before returning to work.

As for the Science Island Laboratory, since the expansion project has been fully completed, he has to come back to deal with related arrangements. For example, his office will be moved to the administrative building first.

His new office is also more spacious and open, and there is also a lounge dedicated to him, so he can stay in the office directly when resting in the future.

In addition, other new test instruments that have been ordered will also be moved to relevant laboratories.

There are three laboratory buildings, the materials laboratory building, the condensed matter laboratory building, and the mathematical physics laboratory building. Of these three laboratory buildings, although the first two laboratories have a higher construction cost due to various instruments, Xiao Yi The Mathematical Physics Laboratory was not treated badly either.

He specially provided the mathematical physics experimental building with the most pleasant scenery in the entire Science Island laboratory. He also upgraded the interior decoration and configuration of this laboratory. If the other two laboratories are the most attractive to researchers, The place may be the advanced and brand-new experimental instruments inside, but the mathematical physics laboratory building itself is very attractive, allowing researchers to not feel bored even if they sit there for a day.

In addition, the first floor of the mathematical physics laboratory building is also connected to an exquisite tea room. The tea room provides a variety of drinks, including tea, coffee, etc. The tea room faces the scenery of Chaohu Lake, allowing these researchers to relax when their thinking is stagnant. Sometimes, you can also come here to broaden your mind.

Although this does not directly help researchers who study mathematics and theoretical physics in the laboratory, it can always give them some psychological support.

This type of research is definitely not possible in a hurry.

In addition to matters related to laboratory expansion, there is naturally another important thing, and that is about recruitment.

Relevant recruitment was actually completed a year ago. In the end, a total of 95 people were recruited, including 35 principal and associate researchers, and the rest were assistant researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and intern researchers.

Among the full-time researchers, four more outstanding researchers were attracted, probably related to the three outstanding researchers who were attracted in the first place.

The three outstanding young people who first joined the Science Island Laboratory did not waste their abilities at all. Basically, they achieved certain results every year. Xiao Yi never failed to communicate with them. Among their achievements, Basically, there is a certain amount of Xiao Yi's help in it.

Of course, the most important thing is their freedom in the Science Island Laboratory. The Science Island Laboratory does not have so many meetings to hold, and the funding is quite sufficient, so that these outstanding young scientists can also enjoy the experience of sufficient funding.

Perhaps it was because they accidentally talked to others about their feelings in the Science Island Laboratory that they attracted the attention of other outstanding young scientists.

Among the four outstanding young scientists this time, one is studying mathematics, and the other three are studying condensed matter and materials, which can be regarded as further strengthening the Science Island Laboratory.

So Xiao Yi returned to the Science Island Laboratory in advance, which can be regarded as making some preparations in advance to welcome these new researchers.

Soon, the Lantern Festival was over, and a simple welcome ceremony was prepared for the nearly 100 new researchers, and the work of the new year officially began.

…

After staying in the Science Island Laboratory for a few days and everything was on track, Xiao Yi finally came to the project department of the EAST-S plan.

Today, a simple research institute has been built in the northern suburbs of Luyang District, where the EAST-S project department is located, which is directly called the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute.

When the name was first chosen, some people actually opposed it. The opponents were mainly from other research institutes in China that were studying nuclear fusion, such as the Southwest Institute of Physics under the name of China Nuclear Corporation.

In fact, the Southwest Institute of Physics was also the first research institute in China to start studying nuclear fusion, but the EAST developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics later made the Institute of Plasma Physics directly become the most important nuclear fusion research institute in China.

However, a few years ago, the new tokamak device developed by the Southwest Institute of Physics, the China Tokamak III, made it an important research institute in China for nuclear fusion again, and the researchers it has also have a considerable status.

Therefore, when Xiao Yi and his team wanted to directly name the institute of the EAST-S project department as the Institute of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, they were opposed by the Southwest Institute of Physics.

After all, everyone is studying controlled nuclear fusion, so why is your new institute named this directly?

In addition to the opposition from the Southwest Institute of Physics, other research institutes also expressed opposition.

But in the end, the name was finalized and passed.

Although other research institutes were very dissatisfied with this, they could not stop it. They just kept staring at Xiao Yi and his team to see what results they could come up with. Of course, if they messed up, these research institutes would definitely come out and criticize them.

In this way, the time came to February 22.

It had been ten days since the Lantern Festival.

As the chief designer, Xiao Yi also held the first plenary meeting of the new year in the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute.

At this meeting, he was going to announce an important thing.

In the conference room, hundreds of people in the entire project all looked at Xiao Yi standing in the front.

After scanning the people present, Xiao Yi began to speak.

"Dear researcher friends, today is the first meeting of our EAST-S project in 2025."

"And it has been several months since the establishment of the EAST-S project."

"According to our original arrangement, the first thing is to complete the primary design of our EAST-S."

"Now, I have completed it."

When Xiao Yi said this, the whole audience was boiling.

More than a hundred people were almost all confused.

The design was completed?

And it was done by Xiao Yi alone?

Is this... a little too fast?

But when everyone thought about it, it was not difficult to understand.

After all, there is a lot of experience in the design of tokamaks. Now it is nothing more than changing the scale and making some changes to the details.

But for those researchers who have been absorbed into the Sun-making Project, it feels a little bad.

This design... was brought out so quickly?

Is this a little hasty?

Could it be that their chief engineer Xiao also gave up the realization of the Sun-making Project because of the difficulty?

Only Zhao Zhanyou and Li Jiangan realized something.