Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

This laboratory is the “industry” under the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, but this global study is certainly not just a unit of the Plasma Physics Institute.

Lu Zhou has seen the list of cooperative research units, and the names of those research units are enough to fill a page of A4 paper. If thesis’s signature principle is the same as CERN here, as long as the participation in the study is shared, I am afraid that the first few pages of thesis will be free to write a signature.

However, compared to this large cooperative research group, the imitation star as the object of research is “small”.

Following the footsteps of Kreb’s Professor, Lu Zhou and Cleace Professor came to the radiation isolation room and finally saw the full picture of the spiral stone 7-X.

Quietly located in the center of the radiation protection room, the 3.5 meters and 16 meters wide, it looks like the “Millennium” of the smuggled cargo ship captain Han Solo in Star Wars.

It is just a battle that has just experienced a big battle. At this moment, it is docked in the “Star Harbor” and can only be tinkered by technicians.

As we approached the past, Lu Zhou could clearly see that various sizes of equipment were densely attached to the surface of the unit, and numerous cables spread from the equipment to all directions, seemingly tangled together.

“This stuff… how much is it cost?”

“It is said to be more than 1 billion euros.” Looking at the installation, standing next to Lu Zhou’s Klee Chuang Professor, some enviously said, “If you count the cost of research together, I am afraid it is an astronomical number.”

The funding of the Plasma Physics Institute is especially envied by the peers who are engaged in physics.

It is also clearly the Max Planck Society, which is also the physics research institute, but the condensed matter physics research institute is less expensive than them.

I admire envy, and Klee also understands this situation.

After all, this multi-country cooperative R&D project is not only funded by the German government, but all countries in the world are saving money.

“So expensive?”

Lu Zhou screamed.

Originally, he still had some expansion to think about whether or not to come over and study and research, but now it seems that it is more realistic to engage in Taiwan’s supercomputer…

“Well, don’t worry about how much money, budget is not something we need to worry about,” patted Lu Zhou’s shoulder, Krebs Professor said with a smile, “The final debugging has been completed, I am about to start experimenting, now Let’s go to the observation room.”

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Unlike the experience at CERN, the hadron colliders from start to finish are all running underground in 100 meters, and unless they have a professional qualification engineer, they cannot enter the pipeline.

Presented in front of the theoretical Physics students are just the data on the screen and the images that have been processed further.

Now, in front of Lu Zhou, in addition to the detectors attached to various parts of the singularity, he can even observe the inside of the orbit through a camera-like thing.

In the observation room, all the staff are waiting.

“The track seal test is normal!”

“Filling protective gas!”

“The protective gas is filled and the pressure measurement procedure begins!”

“…”

“Achieve the superconducting critical temperature and the circuit is fully charged!”

“The magnetic field is confirmed to be normal!”

After listening to the reports of the study groups, Krebs Professor immediately issued the test start command.

“ignition!”

At the instant when the magnet current reaches 15kA, the thyristor switches quickly and the magnet current is transferred to the first-stage energy-consuming resistor, generating 2400V voltage, causing the gas in the vacuum chamber to be broken down, thereby generating plasma.

Lu Zhou saw through the screen a layer of pale red membranous material that formed a twisted ring in a twisted circular orbit.

To his surprise, this scene is quite beautiful.

“…the temperature of these plasmas will break through hundreds of millions of degrees after reaching the peak, almost equivalent to the interior of the star. No material can block this burning energy, even if it is found in the solar system.” Looking in front of the screen, Klee Green Professor whispered next to it.

Lu Zhou asked casually: “How did the imitation star do it?”

“Rely on the twisted magnetic field,” explains Klein Professor. “We use magnetic fields to constrain them, bind them to a limited space and keep them away from the inner walls of the track. But even so, it can’t last too long…”

The two are talking, and the experiment has entered the most critical moment.

With the Level 2 energy dissipation resistor, the thyristor’s switch is closed and the voltage drops to 1000V. At the same time, the current rises to the peak and the entire track is suddenly filled with hot rays of light, even if it is separated by the screen Lu Zhou. Stinging.

However, this rays of light did not last long.

In less than six seconds, the rays of light suddenly became loose, just like the flames that were annihilated, disappearing into the screen.

The running star-like device gradually stopped, and the observation room was like a boiling boiled water, and it quickly became busy.

Standing not far from the two, Krebs Professor ordered the researchers in the observation room: “Collect data immediately, check the condition of the equipment, move faster!”

At the same time, the door of the radiation isolation room was opened, and the staff wearing the radiation protection suit quickly entered the isolation room with various tools and began to check the condition of the track from the physics level.

Looking at the Krebs Professor who took off the helmet, Lu Zhou squatted slightly.

“This is over?”

“Yes, it’s over,” Throttor said with a smile when he threw the helmet on the table. “It now takes only a few seconds to discharge. The longest time I remember is probably 6.” Seconds, in the shortest time, only a few picoseconds.”

Lu Zhou’s faceless expression.

“…I thought it would be even more amazing.”

Krebs Professor pouted laughed: “Theoretically, the discharge time can be made longer, but now the divertor target has not been installed. Excessive discharge time may cause excessive heat load to damage the material of the first wall. After another two years, the water-cooled divertor is installed and you can try the 30 minute pulse discharge.”

The discharge time here refers to the time during which the basic magnetic field configuration can be maintained in one discharge, that is, the so-called pulse time of one discharge.

30 minutes is the goal of the spiral stone 7-X at the beginning of the design.

If it can be done, the impact on the entire nuclear fusion project will undoubtedly be enormous, and will even affect the choice of the international community on the mainstream technical route of nuclear fusion engineering.

After all, the mainstream choice now is the tokamak device, but the tokamak device is caught in the bottleneck during the discharge time.

The longest discharge record is currently held in 102 seconds of the “EAST” of China, which almost marks the ceiling of the Tokamak installation on the “discharge time” and wants to raise the ceiling by one inch. It must be costly.

Looking at the device, Lu Zhou’s face showed a thoughtful expression.

Suddenly, there was a whimsical thought in his mind.

If you let system to price magnetically constrained nuclear fusion technology, how many integrals do you need for a mature blueprint?

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(Getting a good cold today is better. I will try to break out tomorrow. I can’t go on such a salty fish. In short, let’s make a flag and say…)