Chapter 287
"The magnetic fluid generator has also been inspected."
The voice of the inspection team came over the intercom again.
At this moment, Zhao Zhanyou walked in with a phone in his hand, his expression looked unhappy, "I received a call from Director Cao of the Southwest Institute of Physics. He said that they had arrived at Fei City and wanted to visit. Our UO mini.”
"Especially, that Chu Lansheng is here too."
Upon hearing this, Li Jiangan frowned.
"Is that old guy really here?"
Previously, Chu Lansheng said that when UOmini is launched, he will come and see the results in person.
And now he's really here?
Zhao Zhanyou snorted coldly and said, "I think that old guy can't sit still anymore and wants to see with his own eyes whether the UO structure works."
Immediately he asked Xiao Yi: "Old Xiao, will you let them in?"
Xiao Yi smiled and said: "They are already here, let's let them come. Isn't it a pleasure for friends to come from far away?"
Zhao Zhanyou complained: "I don't think they came here as friends."
But despite this, he still made another call.
Not long after, a noisy sound came from outside the control room.
Finally, a group of people walked in, led by an old researcher who looked about the same age as Li Jiangan.
After the man walked in, he looked around first, then stayed on Xiao Yi's face for a while, then turned to look at Li Jiangan, and said: "Lao Li, Lao Li, we haven't seen each other for a long time, what are you doing now?" It’s not possible anymore.”
Li Jiangan didn't look good when he saw this person, and snorted coldly: "What's wrong with the surname Chu? I can't sit still. I want to see if the UO structure can work?"
This old researcher is none other than Chu Lansheng.
Chu Lansheng smiled and stabbed unhurriedly: "Oh, I forgot, you Li Jiangan is no longer the chief designer. I'd better talk to the chief designer."
Then he turned to look at Xiao Yi, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Xiao, this is our first official meeting. I would like to thank you for letting us in."
Xiao Yi smiled lightly, stretched out his hand to shake hands with Academician Chu, and said: "Hello, Academician Chu, let you come in. Of course, I also invite colleagues from the Institute of Western Physics to witness that magnetic confinement fusion is not just about tokamak. It can go in both directions with the stellarator, and there is a more perfect direction.”
Chu Lansheng's smiling expression did not change, he just said: "Then I'm really looking forward to the result."
"The tokamak was developed by the Soviets, and the stellarator was developed by the Americans. Now if our country can develop a new nuclear fusion structure, it will indeed mean that our Chinese people have indeed reached the level of nuclear fusion. It’s a leading level.”
But at this time, his topic changed again: "However, Chief Master Xiao, even if your UO structure is successful, will it be able to help our nuclear fusion go further? We all know that materials are the key to nuclear fusion. The biggest difficulty.”
Xiao Yi said calmly: "How about discussing this issue after the verification work is completed?"
Chu Lansheng stared at Xiao Yi for a while, and finally said: "Okay, you are the chief engineer, you have the final say here."
"I won't say anything anymore. I'm just waiting here for the results."
Afterwards, he didn't say a word.
Xiao Yi clapped his hands, and then said into the intercom: "Now each department will conduct a final inspection, and then the ignition verification will be officially carried out!"
"..."
Chapter 243 Lawson’s Criterion!
All preliminary preparations have been completed, and the next step is the official ignition.
In the control room, everyone present said nothing, and all focused their attention on Xiao Yi, who was standing in the middle.
As the chief designer, he can only give orders next.
Of course, for Zhao Zhanyou, Li Jiangan and other people involved in the sun-making project, they were relatively nervous at this time.
After all, this is their first time trying the UO structure. They don't know whether this brand new structure will work. They can only rely on their trust in Xiao Yi to bring this structure to the forefront.
If it fails, it will undoubtedly be a very serious blow to their entire project.
As for those people at the Institute of Western Physics, only they know what they think. At least, although Academician Chu Lansheng said a few months ago that the UO structure would fail, he is less talkative now.
However, in the view of Li Jiangan and others, this is just because the results will come out soon, so they will not say harsh words for now. After the specific results come out, they will probably change their faces.
As for Xiao Yi, who is the protagonist, standing in front of the console, his heart is particularly calm.
The day has finally arrived.
Although it is not the most critical day, it can still be regarded as a critical node.
However, there is no such emotion as nervousness. The simulation results in Perfect Project have already told him the answer very well.
All the processes now are just moving the processes in the simulation into reality.
Therefore, at this time, Xiao Yi was even more impressed by the power of the perfect engineering skill.
This saved him countless time and money.
For a moment, he couldn't help but look forward to what new skills it would be able to bring to him after the BUFF was upgraded to another level.
After coming back to his senses, he refocused his gaze on the device outside the observation window. Then, he picked up the intercom and said, "How are the preparations of each unit now? Diagnosis team, have you finished the diagnosis?"
The head of the diagnosis team quickly reported: "All inspections have been completed, all sensors are functioning normally, the lines are normal, and the data can be uploaded normally."
"The control room received it!"
Xiao Yi continued to ask: "The situation of the power group."
The head of the power group replied: "The power system is ready, the capacitor energy storage is fully loaded, and the power of the city power plant next door is also full, waiting to supply us. "
"Control room received, magnetic confinement group reports the status."
"Magnetic confinement system is ready, superconducting coil temperature is normal, superconducting state is good, and magnetic field distribution diagram is completely in line with the design."
"Control room received, vacuum group, report vacuum state."
"Vacuum system is ready, chamber pressure has dropped to 10^-7 Pa, in line with experimental requirements."
"Control room received, finally, fuel control group."
"Fuel injection system is ready, deuterium-tritium fuel has been loaded, injection control can be performed at any time."
"Very good, all groups have completed."
Xiao Yi took a deep breath.
Recalling the last time he was responsible for ignition.
At that time, Li Jiangan invited him to be responsible for ignition, but the process of checking the status of each group was completed by Zhao Zhanyou, and finally pressing the button to pass the current was completed by him.
And now, he can be regarded as a complete experience of the whole process.
However, this will never be the last time.
Next time, he will ignite the real sun.
Then, he fixed his eyes and said, "Then, all teams will evacuate the scene. In five minutes, the ignition countdown will begin."
The working group still on the scene quickly evacuated the scene and returned to the safe zone.
Soon, five minutes passed, and the ignition countdown began on the scene.
"10!"
"9!"
"8!"
...
"2!"
"1!"
"Ignition!"
Xiao Yi pressed the power button.
A huge current was instantly introduced, and various heating components began to heat the fuel injected inside. The huge current introduced into the superconductor also directly brought a strong magnetic field of up to 25T to the entire UO chamber.
As the deuterium-tritium fuel entered the plasma state at high temperature, these plasmas began to be constrained by the magnetic field and rotated at high speed in the O-type tokamak ring chamber of the UO chamber.
The temperature rose rapidly, from thousands of degrees, ten thousand degrees, one hundred thousand degrees, one million degrees, until tens of millions of degrees.
When it reached tens of millions of degrees, according to the alpha particle detector, the fusion reaction had begun to occur.
However, this was not enough.
The temperature is still rising rapidly until -
"The plasma current rises to 10 million amperes, and the temperature reaches 100 million degrees!"
Many researchers clenched their fists in excitement.
This heating efficiency is much faster than EAST. Everyone looked at the line of numbers quickly calculated on the big screen, which is equivalent to 130% of EAST!
This means that the input energy of the UO structure will be about 23% lower than that of EAST!
This is undoubtedly a major breakthrough, and the significance it brings is that the Q value will be able to become higher.
"Good!"
Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou couldn't help but wave their fists and applauded.