The reform of scientific research funding caused panic within the East Asia Power Group.
Cutting half of the scientific research projects, stricter approval of funding …
Although these scissors had not yet fallen, everyone was worried that they would eventually fall on themselves.
But in general, everyone's mood was relatively stable.
Especially for those scientific researchers who could not see the light of day and worked diligently, although Lu Zhou's approach was a bit tough and could even be said to be unreasonable, it was still quite popular.
To be honest, they had long been fed up with those who relied on nepotism to get to their positions. They had no ability at all, and they could only rely on the power in their hands to do whatever they wanted in the department.
As for whether those people were satisfied with his reform or not …
Lu Zhou didn't care, and he didn't want to care at all.
In his opinion, the East Asia Power Group at the moment was already a terminally ill giant. If he wanted to cure its disease, he had to use strong medicine.
Cleaning up the moths was only the first step.
The second step was to kick out those people who were just messing around!
It wasn't that Lu Zhou was unreasonable. He didn't mind keeping a few idlers in other positions. But as a scholar, when it came to scientific research, he had zero tolerance!
Because he knew very well what it felt like to devote a lifetime of effort to scientific research, but in the end, not get any attention. Instead, the academic achievements had to be taken away.
As long as he was still sitting in the position of chairman, he would not allow this kind of unfair thing to happen under his nose!
Moreover, he didn't expect those people to be able to help him with an engineering miracle like the second generation of controllable fusion.
If they didn't want to contribute, it was better to go home as soon as possible.
…
After the meeting, Lu Zhou, who had arranged the work of various departments, immediately devoted himself to the research of the second generation of controllable fusion technology.
Although he didn't understand the rules of this era, doing scientific research was always the same.
Choose a general direction, then through constant trial and error, explore a feasible path. From the perspective of a chief designer, what he needed to do was to plan the framework of the entire large-scale scientific research project, choose a few technical routes with the highest possibility of success, and then formulate strategic directions for the academic leaders in various fields, and do everything possible to reduce the number of trials and errors and time costs.
At present, the three problems faced by the second-generation controllable fusion technology were basically the same as the problems he faced with the first-generation controllable fusion technology.
The only difference was the difficulty.
The scattering cross section of deuterium and helium-3 was much smaller than that of deuterium and tritium. The cross section of deuterium and helium-3 was only 0.8b at 300 keV, which was much smaller than the latter. Therefore, more energy input was required, and the fusion conditions were more demanding.
For example, for the same fusion reactor, the temperature needed to achieve the DT reaction, which was the deuterium-tritium reaction, was only 100 million degrees.
However, if one wanted to make deuterium and helium-3 fuse and keep the reaction stable, the temperature needed would be billions of degrees.
Temperature was just one of the factors.
This included density and time constraints. None of the three could be omitted.
According to the literature information that Lu Zhou had consulted, so far, the core problems faced by the second-generation controllable fusion were mainly focused on the reaction temperature.
Especially how to confine and compress high-temperature plasma in a very small area.
The strength of the magnetic field required to achieve this would be a very terrifying number.
However, although there were so many difficulties, Lu Zhou did not feel that this was an unsolvable problem.
When he designed the first-generation controllable fusion core, he also worried about the same problem. The situation at that time would not be more optimistic than it was now. Including computational materials science, many key technologies had only just emerged, and they were still in the conceptual stage.
However, in that era, he still led a group of excellent engineers and scholars to complete a miracle in the history of human science.
Since he could do it in the past, he had reason to believe that in the future when science and technology were more developed, he would definitely be able to accomplish this miracle again!
Chairman's office.
Tang Yunge, who came to the group building to report, was standing at his desk with a nervous expression. He looked at the great man from a hundred years ago with uneasiness and curiosity in his heart.
In the morning, he received an email from Academician Lu.
In the email, Academician Lu sent an invitation to him, hoping that he could come to the group building. He wanted to discuss the second-generation controllable nuclear fusion project with him.
Strictly speaking, Tang Yunge was not researching the second-generation controllable fusion. His identity was just a senior researcher in the electromagnet research laboratory. His usual work was to hold meetings and research to design magnetic field containers for the East Asia Power Plant's reactors.
He really didn't understand why Academician Lu would ask a nobody like him to help him.
Just when he hesitated to take the initiative to say hello, Lu Zhou, who was sitting behind the desk, took the initiative to speak concisely.
"Please sit down."
"Thank you."
Looking at Tang Yunge, who sat down on the sofa, Lu Zhou went straight to the point and continued.
"I have read your paper. In the area of electromagnet research, you have put forward a lot of interesting design concepts and ideas, many of which have impressed me."
After being praised by Academician Lu, Tang Yunge couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, but he still spoke modestly.
"You are flattering me. Those research results are not just my own credit."
"No matter who the credit is, it can't be that Liu Sihai."
Looking at Tang Yunge, who was left there like an honest man, Lu Zhou continued after a pause.
"According to my calculations, I need a magnetic field that can generate 10000 T intensity in a small space to restrain the high-temperature plasma in the reactor core."
"Can it be done?"
"Almost … impossible." With an embarrassed expression on his face, Tang Yunge said with difficulty, "With the current technical reserves of East Asia Power, the strongest electromagnet we can make has a magnetic field strength of just over 5000T, and the duration is less than 50 milliseconds. It can't be used to power the nuclear core. As for 10000 T … Not to mention how long it can be maintained, this is a bit too much. "
What was the concept of 10000 T?
Intuitively speaking, the MRI machine used in general hospitals was about 3T, and only 13T was needed to make a frog float in the air.
Ordinary people would not be able to imagine how terrifying 10,000 Tesla would be.
Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "There is no hope at all?"
Tang Yunge was about to give an affirmative answer, but at this moment, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.
Is there really no hope at all?
Not really.
But in East Asia Power …
He really couldn't see any hope.
After struggling for a while, Tang Yunge finally took a deep breath and gritted his teeth.
"It's not completely hopeless … But with the current situation of the electromagnet research laboratory, it's no different from hopeless!"
"Oh?" Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows, looked at him, and asked, "It seems like you have something to say."
Tang Yunge smiled bitterly and was about to talk about the problems of the electromagnet research laboratory.
However, at this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the chairman's office.
There were two knocks on the door before it was pushed open.
Lu Zhou's secretary appeared at the door anxiously.
"Lu.
Academician Lu, bad news! "
Lu Zhou looked at the secretary standing at the door and frowned.
"What happened?"
With an anxious expression on his face, the secretary didn't even have time to catch his breath as he spoke nervously.
"The electromagnet research laboratory!"
"They're on strike!"
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