The entire controllable fusion battery project was demolished into thirteen sub-projects, covering everything from laser ignition to generator sets, with a total of six research institutes participating in the study.

The success story with the Pangu fusion reactor is in front, and it is quite confident for this project.

However, there has been disagreement on the discussion of nuclear fuel for fusion cells.

Suddenly listening to the crazy plan described by Lu Zhou, the victory and defeat opened his mouth in amazement. After a while, he opened his mouth in an incredible tone.

"Are you sure you want to use cesium for fuel? The reaction cross section of 氦3 and 氘 is only a tenth of the dt reaction, and the difficulty of igniting it will be dozens of times more than igniting dt blended fuel!"

It is not just him who holds this view. Academician Wang Zengguang, the chief engineer of the Nuclear Industry Group, nodded.

"I also think that it may not be practical to go directly to the third, although you are saving the space and cost of the core, but in fact this part of the cost is simply passed on to the laser ignition or microwave ignition device and so on. On the part."

And Lu Zhou is not very familiar with the academician Jiannan, but there is no direct opposition, but concealed his own opinions.

“It’s not a good thing to step too big.”

The index finger gently knocked on the table, and Lu Zhou thought for a long time.

This is a trade-off.

If the dt mixture is selected as the fuel, the liquid lithium neutron recovery system is loaded on the reactor core, and the volumetric energy density of the entire fusion battery is reduced. If he-3/d is selected as the reactant, it can save at least 15% of the core volume and the volumetric energy density of the entire battery pack will increase.

However, the words of Academician Wang did say that his heart was swaying. With the current domestic laser ignition technology, rashly choosing this radical technical route may not be able to achieve the effect he expected.

The silence lasted for about five minutes. Lu Zhou had an idea in his heart and said.

"That's a compromise."

Sheng Xianfu: "A compromise?".

Lu Zhou nodded: "As with the ignition device, we have two technical routes to go. One is a fusion battery for dt fuel, one for he-3/d fuel. We can agree on a uniform size in the interface size. Standard, if the bottleneck of the fusion battery technology of he-3/d fuel can't be solved, we can also use dt fuel immediately. One day, the problem of solving the fusion technology will be solved, and even if it is a technology upgrade, the equipment will be replaced. Easier."

Academician Wang Zengguang thought for a moment and nodded: "I think so."

Academician Yu Jiannan still has very few words, just nodded and said: "As long as the budget has no opinions, I have no opinion."

After seeing a few other people, seeing no more comments, Lu Zhou made a slogan: "That line, this is the case."

Directly on the third, it is still too advanced.

The persuasion of several old "teammates" also made Lu Zhou wake up a bit.

He admits that when he digs from the wreckage of higher civilization to the technical route of controllable fusion and miniaturization, he does expand a bit, so that he ignores the industrial level of earth civilization.

In fact, it is not easy to make a fusion battery.

As for the complete restoration of the technology on that engine, I am afraid that even at the end of the century, it may not be possible, let alone now...

After leaving the meeting room, Lu Zhou originally planned to go back to the underground laboratory to continue to ponder the Hall propulsion unit, but thought that there was still one thing left untreated, so he returned to his office.

Some time ago, while the senior management approved the project, he suggested that he submit the paper on the feasibility study of fusion battery technology to relevant academic journals.

Although I guessed that the top is playing an idea, Lu Zhou has no opinion.

What is written in the paper is his academic point of view.

If the top management has no opinion on the content of the public paper, he will naturally not object to submitting the paper for submission.

I took the paper I wrote some time ago and turned it over. I deleted some inspiring content. Lu Zhou only kept a few things like “detachable core”, “laser heating”, “microwave heating”. "This kind of vague concept is then translated into English.

In fact, this kind of technical feasibility argument does not matter if you don’t make corrections directly. After all, this kind of paper with strong subjective color will not involve specific research ideas and experimental schemes, but it is only “feasible” or “not feasible”. Discussion of the line.

As for doing it, everyone still has to rely on the ability.

After reading the revised paper from beginning to end, I stared at the pdf-format file on the screen and fell into thinking.

Which journal is better to vote for?

After thinking for a while, his mouth twitched with a smile, and his heart suddenly had an idea.

I pulled out the list of mailboxes that I had not used in a year, and found the mailbox edited by prl. He considered the wording and attached the manuscript to the mail and posted it.

When clicking and sending, Lu Zhou’s expression can’t help but have some fun.

I don't know if someone will praise their internationalism after seeing this paper.

In addition to studying the peers of controlled fusion, it’s probably going to be...

......

At the same time as the submission of the prl, Lu Zhou hangs the paper on the arxiv, and then does not manage this matter.

What he didn't know, however, was that his paper was integrated into his own ppt almost the afternoon after his paper was on arxiv.

Los Angeles International Hotel.

Hundreds of square meters of meeting room.

When I heard that Mr. Bender Bauer, the president of San Alpha, announced that the company's next step was to build a plasma engine equipped with a nuclear fusion battery for the US moon landing program, the announcement platform was in vain.

Although investors sitting here don't necessarily know what is controlled nuclear fusion, it doesn't mean they are stupid.

The Pangu demonstration reactor was only less than three months old. The shadows on the other side of the Pacific Ocean were not even seen in the shadow of controllable fusion. Now I ran out to talk about the miniaturization of controlled fusion. What is it?

Many people even started to look at the watch. It seems that they have already made up their minds. If they have not heard any valuable news for another five minutes, they will plan to get up and leave.

However, in the face of such a situation, Bender Bauer did not panic.

I saw him wearing a plaid t-shirt and dressed in a very Silicon Valley. He cleared his throat and faced the investors on the spot. He continued to speak with his voice.

“The miniaturization of controlled fusion!”

"I know this may sound unbelievable, but in fact it is not as high as we think."

Soon, ppt turned to the next page.

What appears on the screen is a paper hanging on arxiv.

As for the author of the paper, it is the chief designer of the controllable fusion project, Lu Zhou.

Seeing this paper, the audience in the audience was once again in a state of utter disappointment, and the voice of discussion spread from the middle to the surrounding.

Even those who were dismissive of the press conference couldn’t help but look at the ppt.

After all, this is Lu Zhou, the recognized father of controllable fusion!

Others say that controllable fusion miniaturization may be a fart for them, but the meaning of the big cow is completely different.

At this moment, sitting in the corner of the back row of the venue, Exmo Mobil's ceo Woods is staring at the name on the screen intricately.

To be honest, in fact, he is not optimistic about the exaggerated Silicon Valley enterprise of tri-alpha. In contrast, he is more inclined to invest in the general atomic energy company that has been working hard and has been established for a long time.

However, when he saw the name, his thoughts were shaken.

No way, just because the name left him with the impression is too deep.

Now the scale of the lithium battery market has turned over a hundred times. Seeing that the cake is getting bigger and bigger, the entire Wall Street is smashing.

From the negative electrode material of lithium battery to the positive electrode material of lithium-sulfur battery, this piece of cake that spits nǎi oil originally belonged to them. As a result, they are only paying attention to others in the field of new energy. Lying down to make a fortune.

Now that nuclear power technology has broken through, power generation costs have been further reduced, and the lithium battery market will only grow larger.

It is precisely because I have missed such a big piece of cake, and he is even more unable to pay attention to this paper on the technical feasibility study completed by Lu Zhou.

On the other side, Bender Bauer, standing on the stage, took the paper of Lu Zhou and continued to talk.

“...this is a detachable structure. We can make the reactor core a battery-like thing. This design allows us to neglect the damage of the material structure to a limited extent.”

"Based on this design, this one-time controllable fusion battery is much less difficult in engineering than the fusion reactor! Although its cost is a problem, it is not a lot compared to the money we spend on aerospace. what."

Looking at the eyes of investors in the audience has gradually turned from doubt to fiery, Bendbauer knows that the timing is almost the same, so the last bait is thrown, and the smile is bright.

"As for whether our products can find the market, you don't need to worry at all."

“In fact, just yesterday, we reached a strategic cooperation agreement with spae-x to prepare and develop fusion cells that can be applied to spacecraft. The miniaturized controllable fusion device will be preferentially applied in the aerospace field, and related topics are already in Congress. The budget committee’s desk passed the review!”

"I believe that in the near future, our rockets will be able to use clean and endless nuclear energy, and our footprint will be all over space. I can even assert that this day will be faster than California's national controllable fusion device!"

The passionate voice seemed to ignite the emotions of the entire venue.

Looking at the secretary next to him, Woods lowered his voice and said.

"I need a briefing on tri-alpha's earnings, business operations!"

The secretary’s mind moved slightly and immediately understood the thoughts in ceo’s heart.

"Good sir, what you want will appear on your desk tonight."

Woods said with a slap in the face: "Go and do it now, I will see it before the dinner at six o'clock."

Hearing the hard-hitting request of the strong man, the secretary nodded his head with a hard scalp.

"Yes."