Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
He almost wasn’t able to breathe.
“One hour?!”
Zhou Chengfu’s fingers were trembling, and he nearly dropped his phone on the ground. His eyes widened, and his wrinkly old face was red from his rising blood pressure.
“How is this possible!”
This is impossible!
There’s no way!
Even the latest Wendelstein 7-X’s achievent was only 30 minutes.
How did they modify the WEGA machine, which was retired in 2013, to be able to achieve a one hour run ti?
How the f*ck?
Jiang Liang was sweating bullets as he said, “I-I only just heard about this. I called you as soon as I heard about it... How about... I go to Jinling and see if it’s legit?”
“... It’s fine.”
Zhou Chengfu took a deep breath and gradually cald down.
Even though he didn’t want to believe it, but since Jinling Daily reported heavily on this issue, it was unlikely that it was fake news.
It wasn’t like it couldn’t be fake, it was just that the only benefit from faking sothing like this was to make the mbers of Jin Ling city council happy. It was quite useless otherwise.
After all, private capital investnts in these types of large-scale projects were basically negligible. Most of their research funding ca from the governnt. A non-expert article from Jinling Daily or even a scientific journal for that matter wouldn’t co into play in terms of governnt scientific research funding decisions...
Therefore, since the news was released by Jinling Daily first, the legitimacy of the news source was high.
However, by the ti the public heard about this news, Lu Zhou and his team were probably already preparing their Science and Nature theses.
Zhou Chengfu thought about this and had a sliver of fear in his eyes.
He didn’t expect this kid to be this smart. He purposely didn’t respond to his provocative article. Instead, the kid dug a hole and waited for him to jump into it.
Fortunately, he didn’t do anything out of line. Otherwise, this ss would be even more difficult to clean up...
However, Zhou Chengfu didn’t realize sothing.
Which was that since the beginning, Lu Zhou never viewed him as a worthy opponent. All Lu Zhou did was follow his research plan step by step.
Jiang Liang quietly asked, “Director Zhou, what do we do now?”
Zhou Chengfu had a bitter smile on his face.
What do we do?
He was contemplating this as well.
This would be easy to solve if Lu Zhou was under the sa jurisdiction as him. Unfortunately, Lu Zhou wasn’t part of the China National Nuclear Corporation, nor was he part of the China International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Execution Center.
Simply put, he had no power over Lu Zhou.
It seed that his usual tactics wouldn’t work here.
Of course, these were all secondary.
The most important part was this one hour magnetic confinent ti since it was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else.
This result in and of itself was breathtaking...
...
In so sense, Zhou Chengfu’s analysis on the television program was correct.
The water-cooled divertor was one of the most important components in the controllable nuclear fusion device. Which was also one of the shortcomings in China’s controllable nuclear fusion field. Without solving the problem of the divertor, theoretically, there was no way for the STAR machine to perform better than the WEGA did.
In other words, if the water-cooled divertor problem was solved, then the dostic tokamak magnetic confinent tis would also increase by quite a bit... Of course, there were also other unsolved problems, like the magnetic surface tear of the internal plasma current.
However, this wasn’t it.
To achieve a long plasma confinent ti, one would have to solve the heat dissipation problem of the first wall material. Increasing the cooling rate wasn’t the only way to solve this problem.
Improving the control sche and precisely controlling the external field coil could reduce the direct contact of the plasma and the first wall material. This could produce the sa cooling effect.
Even though this approach was more difficult than the water-cooled divertor from a technical perspective, it was very easy from an engineering perspective.
After they created a control sche, achieving a 30-minute confinent run-ti was only a matter of ti.
However, Xiao Ai played a crucial role as for how Lu Zhou went from half an hour to one hour.
After the supercomputer was built, he fulfilled his agreent with Xiao Ai and gave it a new ho.
His original server acted as a “repeater” between his local network and the internet, which was stored in his ho so that he could contact Xiao Ai through his phone.
As for the cybersecurity problems...
Honestly, if soone could hack into the artificial intelligence that the high tech system gave him, he would admit defeat.
After all, anyone that could do such a thing probably didn’t co from Earth.
In short, after Xiao Ai was moved into its new ho, it finally did sothing useful.
Through the control sche algorithm that was stored in the supercomputer and its analysis of the plasma experintal data, it had greatly improved and optimized the original control sche algorithm.
On the day of the experint, Lu Zhou executed the experint as planned.
Their original plan was to achieve a thirty-minute run ti. However, after thirty minutes of experinting, they didn’t expect the sensors to indicate that the reactor was running normally.
After that, he received a text from Xiao Ai.
[(๑•̀ᄇ•́)و✧].
Therefore, after a short conversation with Xiao Ai, Lu Zhou decided to change the experint plan on-the-go. He ordered his assistant Sheng Xianfu to continue the experint and set the experint target to one hour...
This was the story behind the shocking one-hour run-ti achievent.
...
Inside the pure white system space.
Lu Zhou stood in front of the translucent mission panel and confird his mission completion details.
1. [Congratulations, User, for completing the “artificial intelligence” technology branch mission!]
2. [“Fusion Light” mission chain]
[Optional branch mission: 1-hour high-density plasma confinent. (complete!)]
The first mission was from his technology branch.
After so many years, he almost forgot it existed.
According to the system’s experience reward rules, leveling up his “artificial intelligence” technology branch to level 2 also gave him 10,000 information science experience points, which leveled up his information science discipline to level 2.
The second mission rewarded him with 50,000 engineering experience points, just enough for him to level up.
Other than that, there were also 500 general points.
This experint could be considered a huge success.
Lu Zhou closed the mission panel and ordered, “System, open my characteristic panel!”
A blue light swept across the screen. Soon, his updated characteristic panel was presented in front of him.
[
A. Mathematics: Level 7 (144,000/1.2 million)
B. Physics: Level 5 (83,215/300,000)
C. Biochemistry: Level 4 (74,000/100,000)
D. Engineering: Level 4 (0/200,000)
E. Materials science: level 5 (13,000/300,000)
F. Energy science: Level 2 ( 0/50,000)
G. Information science: Level 2 (3,000/50,000)
General points: 5,475 (one lucky draw ticket)
]
[
Technology branch:
Artificial intelligence: Level 2 (0/50,000)
]
Lu Zhou looked at his updated characteristic panel and nodded in satisfaction.
Ever since he activated the controllable nuclear fusion mission chain, he felt like he was leveling up at the speed of light.
The only downside was that he didn’t get a lot of mathematics experience points.
As a mathematician, he couldn’t help but feel a little gloomy...
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