Chapter 515 Restart the Experiment!

This flight was probably the most tiring that Lu Zhou had ever sat on.

It was also the longest one.

Lu Zhou dragged his suitcase and walked down the gangway of the plane with a tired face. Lu Zhou pinched his sour brows, feeling groggy.

Thinking about it carefully, this seems to be the first confession he has encountered since he was a child?

And it was still by my own students...

Sure enough, is being handsome a sin?

Looking at Lu Zhou with a tired face, Wang Peng, who was waiting outside the gangway, froze for a moment, and immediately stepped forward to take the suitcase from him.

"Isn't the time difference reversed?"

Lu Zhou yawned, and said casually: "It's not that I didn't turn upside down, I didn't sleep at all..."

Wang Peng looked at Lu Zhou with a surprised expression.

"Didn't sleep? Then how did you spend the ten hours?"

To be able to sit on a plane for more than ten hours with eyes open is quite awesome in a sense.

"I'm thinking about something... don't talk about it," Lu Zhou finished the topic perfunctorily, coughed lightly and continued, "Send me back to Zhongshan International, I just want to sleep now."

Wang Peng nodded: "Okay...do you want me to help you?"

Lu Zhou: "...That's unnecessary."

...

After returning to China, Lu Zhou immediately devoted himself to the project of controllable nuclear fusion.

Referring to his previously published paper on the plasma turbulence model in the stellarator, professors from the School of Software and Physics of Jinling University finally completed the preparation of the plasma control scheme.

And almost at the same time, the construction of the supercomputer was also completed.

The problem of the superconducting coil has been solved, as well as the problem of the main control computer and the control scheme. Now there is only one thing left for him to do.

That is experimentation.

After a meeting and discussion, Lu Zhou finalized the next experiment plan and the work schedule of each research unit until the day of the experiment. And the time for the next experiment was finally determined on August 20th.

Although he didn't intend to do anything dangerous, Lu Zhou still reported the upcoming experiment to the Jinling City Government.

What he didn't expect was that what was supposed to be a very ordinary experiment turned out to be like martial law in the end.

On August 20th, at the foot of Zijin Mountain, outside the STAR Stellarator Research Institute.

Looking at the armored vehicle and helicopter parked at the entrance of the research institute, Lu Zhou coughed lightly, and said to Captain Dai who was walking towards him.

"Should I be so exaggerated? It's not a nuclear test."

Head Dai smiled and said, "Professor Lu, please don't be nervous. We are just in case. The head of the military region made a special phone call to explain to me that if there is an accident, the equipment is not required, but the person must be brought out." "

And if the kind of accident you imagined happens, you won't be able to escape with this thing...

There is still a difference between the neutron beam of the fusion reaction and the gamma ray of the fission reaction. In front of the neutron beam, any armor is the same as paper, and it is slightly useful in diving... although it is not as useful as it is. understood.

Lu Zhou explained solemnly: "I have to explain again that controllable nuclear fusion is safe, and it is not the same thing as the fusion of the Second Artillery."

The smile on Captain Dai's face did not change: "I know, we are just in case."

Lu Zhou: "..."

Seeing that Captain Dai was so persistent, Lu Zhou let him go.

Anyway, an armored vehicle and a helicopter parked outside don't take up much space.

Passing through the gate at the entrance of the tunnel, Lu Zhou, followed by Captain Dai and his guards, stepped into the laboratory embedded in the mountain.

Much earlier than he came, the engineers and researchers in the research institute were already working in their respective positions.

In addition, Lu Zhou also saw two men and women in casual clothes.

After seeing Lu Zhou, the young woman's eyes lit up and she immediately walked over here.

"Hi Professor Lu, I am Wu Qingqing, a reporter from Jinling Daily, and this is my assistant Zhang An."

The young man carrying the camera nodded and smiled brightly, "Hello, Professor Lu!"

Frowning slightly, Lu Zhou didn't look at these two people, but looked at Sheng Xianfu who was directing at the scene: "Why did you invite the reporter?"

Sheng Xianfu said helplessly: "I really didn't invite them here. I saw them waiting at the door early in the morning... I thought you invited them here."

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't seem to like them standing here, Wu Qingqing immediately explained: "It has nothing to do with Professor Sheng, the Jinling City Government invited us to come here for an on-site interview... If we disturb your research, we will You can also go out now."

Lu Zhou sighed: "Forget it, you are all here, if you want to keep it, you can keep it. But after the experiment starts in a while, I hope you can keep quiet. Don't make noise, don't move around, and don't sleep." Phone. Also, if you want to take pictures, you'd better do it now."

In the two fields of theoretical physics and plasma physics, many research institutions at home and abroad seem to like to engage in this kind of publicity. The typical one is probably CERN.

However, Lu Zhou doesn't have this habit. In his opinion, apart from the final success of the experiment, even if those phased results are worthy of joy, there is really nothing to publicize.

After all, you can theoretically want as many of those things as you want.

Wu Qingqing said with a smile: "I know! By the way, before the experiment starts, can I interview you?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't take a long time."

"Professor Lu, don't worry, it's just a few simple questions that won't delay your work," Wu Qingqing said with a smile, opened her notebook, and said, "When it comes to the word nuclear, many people talk about it. What I want to ask Professor Lu is, is controlled nuclear fusion really as safe as the experts say? Or what will happen if a nuclear leak occurs in the STAR device?"

Hearing this layman's question, Lu Zhou grinned.

"Ever seen a hydrogen bomb explode?"

Wu Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then said hesitantly: "...I saw it in the movie."

Lu Zhou continued: "If there is an accident, you will probably see a beam of light, or you will not see it at all, and then the high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees will evaporate every drop of water in your body, and you will probably see it before being burnt. It will be detonated by the moisture in the body. But I promise, this process will not make you feel pain."

Looking at the two young men whose faces were gradually pale, Lu Zhou smiled.

"All of the above, I lied to you."

"Ha, haha," Wu Qingqing laughed awkwardly, "Professor Lu, you are really humorous."

Are all scientists joking like this?

To be honest, the joke wasn't funny at all.

Converging his joking expression, Lu Zhou continued in a moderate tone: "Relax, there is an essential difference between fusion reaction and fission reaction. Take a step back, what is being conducted today is just a plasma confinement experiment, and will not involve A true fusion reaction."

Hearing that today's part does not involve fusion reaction, Wu Qingqing quickly asked: "Is there any difference between the plasma confinement experiment and the real fusion reaction ignition?"

Lu Zhou: "The difference is that what we inject into the reaction chamber is hydrogen instead of its isotopes—deuterium and tritium as nuclear fuel."

While talking, the engineers who debugged the equipment had completed the final preparations before the experiment.

At this point in the gossip, Lu Zhou signaled the two reporters to stay quietly, and at the same time signaled the staff to confiscate their mobile phones and cameras and turn them off, and then looked at Sheng Xianfu who was standing there waiting for a long time.

"Are you ready?"

Sheng Xianfu nodded solemnly: "Ready."

Lu Zhou nodded and glanced at the silver watch on his wrist.

Two minutes to go, it was 3:00 p.m.

The work that needs to be done has already been done before.

His gaze passed through the floor-to-ceiling windows and fell on the giant steel beast crawling in the center of the laboratory.

With a solemn and steady voice, Lu Zhou said.

"Then let's get started!"