Not just the guests sitting in the Heart of Asia.
At the same time, almost everyone in the eastern 8 time zone of the Northern Hemisphere saw the bright light hanging in the night.
In the suburbs of the Yangtze River Delta city group, Lili stood on the balcony, her little hand on the windowsill, looking at the sky eagerly.
Probably last night, the big brother named Academician Lu sent her a message, saying that if she stood on the windowsill at seven o 'clock tonight, she would see very, very beautiful fireworks.
Although it was almost seven o 'clock and there was still no movement in the sky, Lili still believed that the nice big brother would not lie to her.
The time was getting closer and closer. Just when she raised her little hand to rub her sore eyes and began to feel a little sleepy, a bright light curtain suddenly opened in the air.
Looking at the dreamy light, the little girl was slightly taken aback, then she jumped up excitedly, and the sleepiness in her heart was instantly swept away.
"Tails, Tails, come out and see!"
Hearing the sound coming from the balcony, Tails, wearing an apron, walked out of the room and looked at Lili and said softly.
"What's wrong, Lili?"
"There, there," Blinking her innocent big eyes, a small white lotus-like hand pointed to the sky. The little girl's face was full of joy and excitement, "Look, look, it's the Aurora Borealis!"
Looking up at the colorful light curtain in the sky, Tails was slightly taken aback, and a smile gradually appeared on her face.
"So beautiful …"
Although she couldn't perfectly understand what kind of existence beauty was, she couldn't.
But deep in her heart, she still couldn't help but hope that this moment could last forever …
…
A small restaurant on the outskirts of Jinling.
Like most dormant people, Director Li didn't celebrate the strange Ignition Day. Usually, at this time, he would find a place to drink and brag with his fellow dormant people.
Originally, he planned to call Lu Zhou and Wang Peng this time, but unfortunately, Lu Zhou went to the Heart of Asia as a special guest, and Wang Peng couldn't come because of work. In the end, there were only two lonely old men drinking alone at the table.
After two glasses of wine, Director Li was talking about the grand occasion of controllable fusion ignition back then. The fellow who was sitting with him suddenly narrowed his eyes and raised his head, looking at the light in the sky.
"What is that thing?"
Director Li raised his head slowly, glanced in that direction, and replied straightforwardly.
"I don't know."
The old man sitting across the table chuckled and said teasingly, "F * ck, you old man. A hundred years ago, you would have been the leader of the R&D department. No matter how I ask you, you don't know anything."
"I'm not Doraemon, ask that guy." Director Li took a sip of white wine and looked up at the sky. He smacked his lips and suddenly said, "Speaking of which, today is ignition day, right?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"That's probably something made by Academician Lu." Director Li smiled and said in a natural tone, "The aurora appearing in the temperate zone is a once-in-a-thousand-year spectacle. It's unlikely to happen under normal circumstances."
…
While the entire Pan-Asian Cooperation was in a jubilant festive atmosphere, the second-generation controllable fusion experimental reactor base of East Asia Power on the Moon was busy and tense at this moment.
The ignition was successful!
A huge amount of energy had also been projected onto the Earth's atmosphere through a high-power laser array. The gas molecules ionized by the laser formed a bright aurora at the edge of the atmosphere. This was a gift from East Asia Power to the people of the world.
However, although they had completed a historic ignition, no one dared to stop the workstation at hand to celebrate.
After all, for a mature experimental reactor, ignition was only the threshold; what came after was the key.
Which was to maintain the stable operation of the reactor.
Standing in front of the console, Xie Tian's eyes stared at the various data on the holographic screen. He stood there motionless like a statue. Even though the parameters of the reactor were maintained in a stable range, he didn't dare to relax at all.
After all, the plasma running in the reactor had a temperature of up to ten billion degrees. Forget about searching the entire solar system, even if they searched for another ten or twenty light-years outside the solar system, they might not be able to find a flame with such a terrifying temperature.
If it wasn't for the magnetic field's restraint, compressing this terrifying energy into a fist-sized area and allowing it to expand freely, perhaps half of the moon would have been engulfed by that boiling energy.
Not to mention Guanghan City next door.
"It seems that the reactor is in good condition." Jia Siyuan walked to Xie Tian's side. He glanced at the jumping parameters on the holographic panel and said, "You go rest for a while, I'll take over."
Xie Tian shook his head. He didn't dare to look away from the holographic panel for a moment.
"The experiment will end in a while, it's not time for me to rest."
It took East Asia Power a whole year to win the trust of the citizens of Guanghan City on behalf of their compatriots on Earth. If he failed to live up to this trust, not only would his conscience feel bad, but the sense of responsibility in his heart would also not let him go.
Jia Siyuan guessed what his old friend was thinking, so he no longer tried to persuade him. He just stood there with him.
At this moment, the staff member sitting in front of the control panel suddenly spoke.
"The fuel ratio in the reaction chamber has dropped to 13.7%. Do you want to open the gate and continue to inject fuel?"
The moment he heard this, Xie Tian's tensed expression immediately relaxed, and his heart that was hanging in the air finally relaxed.
So far, half of the ignition experiment had been completed.
When the fuel in the reaction chamber dropped to 10%, the temperature of the nuclear core would gradually begin to drop to a safe value, and the fusion reaction would naturally stop.
The next step was to shut down the reactor.
This department's work was not challenging. Xie Tian stared at the parameters on the holographic panel and ordered decisively.
"Connect the heat dissipation rod to the nuclear core heat conduction port! Turn on the core catcher and set it to standby mode! Weaken the confinement magnetic field in batches! "
A series of orders were issued. The staff sitting in front of the console operated the instrument in an orderly manner, shut down the reactor, and conducted the remaining heat to the ground through the heat conduction rod.
Jia Siyuan looked at the temperature indicator that had returned to a safe value. He had a happy smile on his face.
"It's finally done."
"Yeah." Xie Tian also smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "When we report this good news to Academician Lu, we can also have a good celebration here!"
After all, this was an epoch-making moment.
From this moment onward, human civilization had truly mastered the power of fusion, and the richest treasure in the Earth-Moon system was in their pocket.
Everyone standing here had created history at this moment.
Even though not everyone's name would be remembered by history, this did not prevent them from being proud of their achievements.
Not to mention that today itself was a festival of extraordinary significance …
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