Chapter 393 Go Have Fun by Yourselves
In the morning, near ten o'clock, when the ITER meeting was about to begin, a few snowflakes were floating outside the ITER headquarters building.
Soon, the scattered snowflakes turned into heavy snow.
For France, especially the southern region, due to the influence of the Mediterranean climate, although the winter is cold, snow is not very common, and sometimes there is no snow all year round.
The scene of heavy snow like today has not been seen for several years.
The heavy snow seemed to foreshadow something.
Coming to the ITER headquarters again, Chen Mingji looked out the glass window in silence.
Today, the results will probably come out.
The superiors have no hope for ITER, and he will leave at the end of today.
From 2003 to now, a full seventeen years have passed, and more than ten years of hard work have gone just like that. Chen Mingji didn't know what his mood and feelings were.
However, Xu Mofu, who was sitting next to him, didn't think so much. He looked at his watch. It was nine fifty, and there were ten minutes left before the meeting began.
Compared to them, who arrived on time, the directors of other member countries had already arrived.
If it were in the past, they would definitely be the first to arrive. As for now, they don't care at all.
Looking at the American ITER director who was looking at him, Xu Mofu looked at each other indifferently, and then moved his eyes away lightly.
Five minutes passed quickly.
At ten o'clock, Professor Bernard Bigot, the director general of the ITER Council, presided over the meeting.
The first thing to be discussed was the construction schedule and related reports of the ITER demonstration reactor, but this was just the opening dish of the meeting and was completed quickly.
Immediately afterwards, the discussion on the technology sharing agreement of the ITER cooperation agreement was carried out.
When Professor Bernard Bigot, the director general, announced the start of this agenda, the representative of the American director could not wait to stand up.
"Regarding the ITER technology sharing agreement, we reiterate that we will investigate the principle of sharing controlled nuclear fusion technology."
"This is an investigation report. Since China joined ITER in 2003, it has received a total of 73 technologies related to controlled nuclear fusion from ITER."
"However, while using the ITER technology sharing agreement to receive technology, China has not fulfilled its obligations."
"If China continues to refuse to fulfill its obligations during this investigation and trial, we will jointly apply to the Council for a vote with Sakura Country and Korea to discuss whether China's status as an ITER member country is qualified."
As soon as the voice fell, there was a commotion in the conference room.
Although everyone sitting here today received the news in advance and knew that the United States might be impatient and did not want to delay any further.
But the operation of showing the trump card directly at the beginning still surprised most people.
According to common sense, shouldn't it be a communication first, and then go through the process?
It seems that the United States is really anxious this time.
Do they want to kick the other party out and then concentrate on the ITER demonstration reactor?
After all, if they want to catch up with or even surpass China in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, the fastest way is to build a demonstration reactor directly.
Professor Xu pointed out a way for them. Under the combination of plasma turbulence numerical control model + high-performance superconducting materials, it seems feasible to go back to the tokamak device to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.
If the capabilities of other ITER member countries are really gathered, I believe the progress should be much faster than that of China.
But, can it really be done?
In the conference room, the German representative looked at the expressionless Chinese representative, and felt a little uneasy in his heart.
If China is kicked out of ITER, they can fall behind ITER in the research of controlled fusion. I believe that other member countries are happy to see this situation.
But from the current point of view, the two core superconducting materials and numerical control models of controlled nuclear fusion technology are in the hands of Professor Xu.
After kicking China out of ITER, they basically have no chance to obtain these two technologies again.
At least in controlled nuclear fusion, no country would be so stupid as to give up its advantage.
One step ahead, every step ahead.
Now China has achieved two hours of high-density plasma operation, and has even begun to try to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium materials.
The ITER experimental reactor has not yet been built, and most of the controlled nuclear fusion projects of various countries are also conducting experiments in seconds.
From this point of view alone, China is far ahead of the world.
It is not easy to rely on clearing the other party out of ITER to slow down their research progress?
What's more, the person in charge of the Qixia controlled nuclear fusion project is Professor Xu.
Since he began to emerge in the mathematics community, he has been creating various legendary stories.
Perhaps, it is not a good choice to ask China to leave ITER.
But in this kind of thing, the opinions of a small person like him are useless.
Listening to the discussions and watching the changing expressions on the faces of the representatives of the member states, Xu Mofu met the somewhat aggressive gaze of the US representative.
From the other party's eyes, he saw three parts of complacency, three parts of arrogance, and three parts of confidence in controlling the overall situation.
Glancing at the other party nonchalantly, Xu Mofu stood up, looked around, and slowly said: "There is an old saying in our country that if you want to accuse someone of a crime, you will find a pretext."
"We have already made a complete and detailed explanation of your accusation in the first meeting two months ago. In accordance with the rules of the ITER Contract Technology Sharing Agreement, we have disclosed the relevant progress and necessary data."
"However, in the absence of evidence and in violation of principles, you still unreasonably accused us of not complying with the ITER Contract Technology Sharing Agreement, and for two months afterwards, you tried to put pressure on us through ITER to make us hand over the ITER and ITER. The ITER Agreement and the Technology Sharing Agreement have nothing to do with the technology. "
"From your performance over the past two months, ITER does not have the basis for fair cooperation, and it can even become an excuse for you to suppress other member countries without reason. We have always maintained a vigilant view of this kind of international organization that does not have the nature of fair cooperation and is unreasonable. "
"Therefore!"
Xu Mofu took a deep breath, stared coldly at the US board representative, and continued calmly and forcefully:
"Here, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I announce that from now on, we will officially withdraw from the ITER organization!"
As the words fell, the entire conference room was as silent as the Dead Sea, and a pin drop could be heard.
Xu Mofu ignored these stunned representatives and directors. He smiled lightly and said, "That's all. Goodbye, everyone!"
After that, he sorted out the contracts and documents on the table and turned to leave.
On the side, Chen Mingji looked at the representatives of various countries whose faces were full of various expressions of surprise and astonishment, sighed slightly in his heart, turned around and left with others.
On the other side, at the head of the desk, Professor Bernard Bigot, the general director of the ITER Council, looked at the Chinese representatives who stood up and left with a look of surprise and confusion.
They left ITER on their own initiative?
Why?
This is just the first confrontation. Although the United States wants to clear them out, the voting has not started yet, and the final result is not certain.
At least Europe may not stand on the side of those Americans in this vote.
Compared with clearing China out of the ITER organization, Europe hopes to use the relationship of ITER to trade the two technologies of CNC models and superconducting materials from that Chinese country and Professor Xu.
But now, hope is shattered.
On the other side, across the desk, the representative of the US Council looked at the back of the Chinese representative leaving in a chic manner, with a look of surprise on his face.
For some reason, when he saw the figure leaving gracefully and the empty door, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
It seemed that they made a wrong decision?
With the departure of Xu Mofu, Chen Mingji and others, the dead silent conference room gradually became noisy.
Looking at the messy conference room, Director-General Professor Bernard Bigo sighed again.
China's voluntary withdrawal from ITER is not good news for the international organization ITER.
Even ITER may fall apart because of this.
But for him, the work to be done still has to continue.
I just hope that the Americans can fulfill their promise this time and take the initiative to assume the funding gap and scientific research personnel gap left by China after China withdraws from ITER.
Otherwise, he can see the collapse of ITER tomorrow.
After letting the conference room mess up for a while, Director-General Professor Bernard Bigo reorganized his words and said: "Let's start the next agenda"
In any case, today's meeting must be completed.
Moreover, taking advantage of the opportunity of China's departure, ITER must get the funds and resources from the promised United States. Time cannot be delayed, otherwise God knows whether the United States will regret it in the next second.
It is not the first time that those Americans have messed up a good international joint organization.
With the end of this rare heavy snowfall in ten years, news about the last meeting of ITER has spread.
With the reports of news media and the brief news broadcast of domestic news, this news quickly set off a big wave on the domestic network, and even rushed to the hot search.
Although the ranking is not high, it has also aroused a lot of discussion among the melon-eating crowd.
[Domineering, this is the first time I see us talking so tough! ]
[What's the use of domineering? Were we forced to withdraw from ITER? Domineering can't solve the problem. Without ITER, I really don't know how far our controlled nuclear fusion can go. In short, I am very pessimistic. ]
[? ? ? ? The above person is really a sheepdog. Your impression of the development of controlled nuclear fusion in China is still stuck in the last century, right? The Dawn led by Kawasaki has achieved more than two hours of operation, and the ITER reactor has not yet been built. Whoever leaves will have no way to survive! 】
【ITER is still very strong. Although Dawn has achieved a two-hour result, the Helix 7X has also achieved an hour of operation. Other countries will catch up soon. But now, we have been kicked out, and it is estimated that we will soon fall behind other countries, ε=(ο｀*))) Alas. 】
[I heard that the US targeted us because Professor Xu did not comply with the rules of the ITER technology sharing agreement. According to the agreement, Professor Xu should disclose the research progress and related details to ITER, but Professor Xu did not, which led to our being kicked out. ]
[So it's Professor Xu's fault? ]
[Well, because he developed the superconducting material, he didn't want to hand it over. I heard that CERN signed an order with him. The upgrade of LHC requires billions of superconducting materials. With so much profit, I definitely don't want to hand it over. ]
[Hiss~]
[What are you talking about? First of all, it is EAST in China that is linked to ITER. The Dawn led by Chuan Shen has nothing to do with ITER, and has no obligation or responsibility to disclose it to ITER! Secondly, there are so many countries participating in ITER. Which country has disclosed all its technologies to ITER? Can you use your brain? ]
[Putting aside whether there are problems with other countries, can you guarantee that Dawn is not linked to ITER at all? Do you dare to say that Dawn's ITER technology is useless? If they dare, why not just let the United States investigate? Why withdraw from the group? 】
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At the same time, the news that China took the initiative to withdraw from the ITER organization also spread in the field of nuclear fusion, causing discussions among many nuclear energy scholars around the world.
Compared with the views of those half-knowledgeable netizens, most scholars in the field of nuclear energy have a deeper understanding of this matter.
It seems that China took the initiative to withdraw from ITER, but in fact it is still the United States that is messing around in the middle.
Compared with the concerns of some netizens about China's development in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, most scholars have the opposite opinion, and they are pessimistic about ITER.
Many scholars in the field of nuclear fusion believe that ITER may stop moving forward with China's withdrawal, and it is not impossible that it will be directly disbanded in the near future.
Not only because China is currently at the forefront of the world in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, but also because China has always played a very important supporting role in ITER.
Compared with the United States, China not only bears its share of scientific research funds every year, but also spares no effort in supporting ITER in terms of scientific researchers and scientific research technology.
It is undeniable that China has the intention of using ITER to cultivate its own talents in this regard, but all countries participating in ITER do so.
Moreover, compared with scholars from other member countries, Chinese scholars are more diligent and serious in research, work harder, and can promote the development of ITER.
Therefore, for ITER, China is undoubtedly an important pillar.
Now that this pillar has left, no one knows how long ITER, a large ship that has been pieced together, can sail.
PS: Yesterday's chapter was closed in the small black room.