Time quickly passed by, and it was soon April.
The construction of the STAR Stellarator Research Institute was finally completed faster than the original plan. The China National Nuclear Corporation used five or even ten times the manpower to build the STAR Stellarator Research Institute.
When Regiment Commander Dai handed the scissors to Lu Zhou, he solemnly raised his right hand and gave him a military salute.
Lu Zhou wasn't a soldier, so he didn't know what this military salute meant. However, from Regiment Commander Dai's eyes, he could clearly feel Regiment Commander Dai's expectation.
At the same time, the disassembled WEGA Stellarator entered the port of Haizhou along with the returning delegation.
500 million euros, which was almost 4 billion yuan.
Even though this wasn't his own money, Lu Zhou still felt the pinch when he saw so much money being spent.
However, he also knew that this money was definitely well spent.
Even though the WEGA machine had been shut down for more than five years, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics didn't let it rust during this period. At the very least, regular maintenance had been carried out on it.
Also, including the research and development costs, the Germans spent at least 1 billion euros to build this machine.
Thinking about it like this, Lu Zhou got a bargain.
After all, the technology related to the SG-1 wire wasn't worth 1 billion euros.
Under the coordination of the Suzhou provincial government, the WEGA Stellarator equipment was transported from the Haizhou port to Jinling as quickly as possible. It was then sent to the STAR Stellarator Research Institute at the foot of Purple Mountain.
Academician Pan stood in the laboratory that was embedded into the mountain and looked at the pile of expensive equipment and parts. He was full of excitement.
However, at that moment, the excited old man suddenly sighed.
"Unfortunately, we bought it …" Academician Pan shook his head and said, "When we have the ability, we can build one from the beginning to the end."
When Lu Zhou heard this, he nearly choked on his own saliva.
They just bought it, and they already want to make a replica.
Is this what they call greedy?
He wasn't an engineer, so he couldn't evaluate the engineering difficulty of the stellarator orbit from an engineering perspective. However, just by looking at it, he could tell which project was more difficult, the tokamak or the stellarator.
Honestly speaking, even the Americans, who designed the stellarator, couldn't build this thing themselves. In the end, they threw aside the C Stellarator and followed the former Soviet Union to work on the tokamak.
Therefore, there was nothing to be ashamed of not being able to make it.
Specialization was not only applicable in academia, but also in the industry.
Coughing lightly, Lu Zhou said, "Rice has to be eaten one bite at a time. This is just the beginning. It's already not bad if we can complete each step step by step. Also, we don't need to make every part perfect. We just need to make the key parts irreplaceable. "
Academician Pan shook his head. "That's true, but how am I not as good as them in any way? I just don't feel at ease."
Lu Zhou went silent for a while after hearing Academician Pan's words.
Because he didn't know how to answer.
After all, there were many things that could not be solved with a single blueprint.
Otherwise, this wouldn't be a problem.
Sheng Xianfu was standing on the other side of Lu Zhou. Unlike Academician Pan, who was worried about personal gains and losses, Sheng Xianfu was already rubbing his hands together.
"Should we start assembling now?"
After receiving more than a month of training in Germany, it was finally time for him to show off his skills.
Lu Zhou looked at Sheng Xianfu and nodded.
"Okay, we can start.
"Also, don't install the external field coil for now. We'll use a new one when the time comes."
…
According to the original plan, after the WEGA machine arrived in China, it would officially be renamed the STAR machine.
Now that the personnel and equipment were in place, the stellarator research project had entered the next stage.
So far, Lu Zhou had already mastered two pieces of the controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor puzzle.
One of them was the He3 atom probe technology, which acted as the "eye". As for the other, it was the STAR machine itself, which acted as the "body".
In fact, as the prototype of the Wendelstein 7-X machine, the STAR machine had all of the necessary components. As long as some of the components were upgraded, Lu Zhou was confident that he could achieve a fusion ignition that wasn't inferior to the results achieved by the Wendelstein 7-X.
The key to achieving this was the third piece of the controllable nuclear fusion blueprint — the superconducting magnet, which acted as the "legs".
Actually, Lu Zhou had already completed half of this puzzle.
After the SG-1 wire synthesis technology was completed, the "superconducting magnet based on carbon-based superconducting materials" project was already underway.
Just like Lu Zhou expected, the SG-1 wire had excellent heat conductivity, which greatly reduced the engineering volume of the liquid helium refrigeration component. The data shown on the blueprints was that compared to the copper oxide coil, it could save at least 20% of the engineering area.
What did 20% of the engineering area mean?
This meant that he could make the magnetic field strength of the STAR stellarator more than double that of its predecessor, the WEGA!
On the other hand, Baosheng Group's factory continued to expand the production capacity of the SG-1 wire due to orders worth more than 500 million yuan and the government's order.
The wires produced were sent to the STAR Stellarator Research Institute as soon as they left the factory. The engineers there modified them into cluster coils that had a cross-section diameter of about the thickness of a calf and were as tall as two people.
These coils had built-in conduits that allowed liquid helium to pass through. These conduits were used to maintain the SG-1 material at a superconducting critical temperature.
In order for the coils to output a stable magnetic field during the energization process, a solid insulator bracket was installed on the outside of each set of cluster wires. After all, for this kind of sophisticated instrument, even a millimeter shake of the wire could cause a serious experiment accident.
After all, the inside of the stellarator simulated the temperature of a star …
Over the past few days, Lu Zhou basically spent his time in the stellarator laboratory at the STAR Research Institute. He personally supervised the project.
After a month of hard work, on the first week after Labor Day, the engineers of the STAR project team finally completed the assembly of the last set of coils.
As Lu Zhou stood in front of the reborn STAR stellarator, he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Even though he didn't participate in the project himself, he had been involved in the superconducting magnet project since the beginning. He knew exactly how difficult it was to get to this point.
Fortunately, the project was finally completed.
The rest.
It was time to verify his speculation!
With a smirk on his face, Lu Zhou looked at Sheng Xianfu, who was standing next to him. He nodded and gave an order.
"Check the installation of the various components."
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