Twenty minutes later.
The car stopped at the entrance of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
When Lu Zhou got out of the car, Sheng Xianfu happened to arrive at the same time.
When he saw Lu Zhou, he greeted him and walked over.
"What a coincidence, I was about to call you."
"Good thing you didn't. My phone hasn't stopped ringing." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "How have you been?"
"I'm doing okay, but I'm a bit bored. People like me will probably work my entire life." Sheng Xianfu smiled and looked at Lu Zhou as he said, "What do you think? I'm quite loyal. As soon as I heard you called me, I even left my job as the director and came to you. Since I'm such a loyal friend, can you tell me what project we're going to be working on now? "
Lu Zhou looked at him and said, "The State Administration for National Defense didn't tell you what project it is?"
Sheng Xianfu shook his head.
"The people who came to talk to me said it's confidential, but they couldn't tell me the specifics."
"Is it that serious?" Lu Zhou smiled and cleared his throat. He said, "It doesn't matter. I invited you guys here today because I wanted to talk about this. Come with me."
The two followed Lu Zhou through the main entrance of the Institute for Advanced Study. They arrived at the Institute of Physics building and walked into a conference room at the corner of the corridor.
When the two arrived, there were already a dozen people sitting in the room.
In the conference room, there was a whiteboard covered by a gray plastic sheet. It would probably be used later.
Sheng Xianfu took the opportunity to look at the people sitting in the conference room.
He knew some of them, such as Professor Li Changxia from Yuhua University and Academician Li Jiangang from the Fuyang Institute of Physics. There were also some people he didn't know, but he had heard of them.
For example, the old man with gray hair was Academician Yu Jiannan from the Institute of Engineering Physics and Institute of Fluid Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On the list of designers of the "Julong No. 1" laser ignition device developed by the Chinese Academy of Physics and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, the name of this big name was on it.
Compared to the "Divine Light" series of ignition devices, Julong No.1 far surpassed the former in terms of performance and core technology. This included 1,440 pulse capacitors, 720 field distortion switches, 24 laser-triggered gas switches, and 12 high-performance lasers. The project directly corresponded to the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF).
Now, laser ignition and inertial confinement were basically used in the military. The Julong No. 1, which was built by the original team of the Divine Light series of ignition devices, was even clearer about this. It was designed for nuclear testing from the beginning. Whether it was the miniaturization of the laser array or the degree of integration, this equipment was at the forefront of the world.
In the past, Sheng Xianfu had only heard of this big shot's name, but had never seen him. He didn't expect that he would have the chance to see him today.
There were also some unfamiliar faces that he didn't know, nor did he have any impression of. However, since they were sitting here, they obviously weren't ordinary people. However, they probably weren't in the field of plasma physics and controllable fusion engineering.
Sheng Xianfu couldn't help but feel emotional.
Being able to be elected as an academician meant that this professor's reputation, status, and connections in the academic community far exceeded that of ordinary scholars.
In any research institute, academicians were the academic leaders. A strong research project was usually led by an academician, with professors and researchers at the Changjiang Scholars as the core team. Below them were Qing Qian, Jie Qing, and other small bosses, as well as countless post-doctoral and PhD researchers. As for master's and undergraduate students, there might be some, but they generally weren't included.
To be able to form a core team with a group of academicians.
In China, other than Professor Lu, there weren't many people who could do this …
Sheng Xianfu felt a wave of shame when he thought about how he had hesitated to come earlier.
Even though no one would blame him if he didn't come, he would be the one who suffered the loss.
After all, this kind of opportunity only came a few times in his life.
If he could grasp this opportunity, it would be of great help to the selection of academicians and the advancement of his academic career.
Lu Zhou looked at the people who had been sitting here for a while. He smiled and said, "Sorry to keep you guys waiting, I just came from school."
Academician Li Jiangang smiled and said, "It's fine, we just arrived. Let's leave the small talk until after the meeting. I was suddenly called here, and I don't even know what our project is going to be. If you have time, talk about this first. "
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Okay then, in order not to waste everyone's time, I won't waste any more time on small talk."
Lu Zhou's expression changed. He walked in front of the whiteboard in the conference room and reached out to remove the plastic sheet on it.
Half of the people in the conference room looked at the content on the whiteboard, and the other half were expressionless.
Sheng Xianfu, who didn't know the specific content of the project, was obviously the former.
However, the shock in his heart wasn't completely unexpected.
It was also surprise …
"This is …"
Sheng Xianfu's voice trembled. He stared at the content on the whiteboard in disbelief. His mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't say the second half of his sentence.
"A miniaturized controllable fusion reactor, or fusion battery." Lu Zhou looked at the expression on his face and smiled. He then said, "It doesn't matter what it's called."
Lu Zhou didn't care about everyone's shock. He cleared his throat and spoke.
"I have done a technical feasibility demonstration for the miniaturization of controllable fusion technology. I will send the relevant thesis to your email. Of course, in a few days, you will also be able to read it in the Journal of Nuclear Physics, so I won't repeat it here.
"I invited everyone here today to have a simple meeting and assign your research tasks."
Lu Zhou pointed at the whiteboard with a laser pointer and spoke.
"The roadmap on the whiteboard is the general research plan for the entire project. The content might be a bit abstract, but I think it's quite comprehensive. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me."
Sheng Xianfu, who had recovered from the shock, raised his hand and said, "I have a question …"
Lu Zhou: "Please go ahead."
Sheng Xianfu carefully stared at the roadmap on the whiteboard. He frowned and asked, "Why inertial confinement confinement? Compared to inertial confinement confinement, we obviously have more experience in magnetic confinement confinement. "
"Good question." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "The reason why we didn't choose magnetic confinement is because magnetic field overflow will interfere with the normal operation of other precision components on the spacecraft. Secondly, it's to save space on the spacecraft.
"We can't install a superconducting magnet that covers an area of thousands of square meters on a plasma engine just for a nuclear core the size of a thigh. It doesn't seem realistic right now, and it's not necessary.
"In terms of maintaining the fusion reaction, we chose pulse ignition. We don't need to maintain the stable operation of the plasma in the reflection chamber for a long time. We just need the reaction to occur quickly."
Li Jiangang frowned and said, "Pulse ignition? Let's not talk about the advantages and disadvantages of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement confinement. Without the liquid lithium neutron recovery system, what do you plan on using to offset the radiation damage of the neutron beam? "
"I'll talk about this later." Lu Zhou paused for a second and spoke.
"The entire design of the nuclear battery can be roughly divided into three major parts. The first part is the nuclear core components, which I will personally lead the team to solve. The second part is the generator connected to the nuclear core. I want the China National Nuclear Corporation to handle this part. "
Academician Wang Zengguang: "Using ferrofluid electric energy generators?"
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, it depends on the design of the reactor and the specific requirements."
He paused for a second and continued.
"As for the third part, it's the reactor ignition device. Since we're using inertial confinement ignition and pulse ignition, I'm more optimistic about laser ignition in terms of heating. Of course, we can't completely rule out the possibility of microwave heating.
"This part of the research is very important. I hope that Academician Li Jiangang and Academician Yu Jiannan can be responsible for this. They can research from two different technical routes, namely laser ignition and microwave ignition."
Academician Yu Jiannan thought for a bit and said, "I don't have any objections, but the laser ignition device takes up a lot of space. If you want to put it on a spacecraft, I'm afraid it will be difficult."
"I know." Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Because of this, we need to do experiments."
"The State Administration for National Defense has given us a large budget. If anyone has any good ideas, feel free to bring them up. We have enough funding to find solutions."
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