Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

"It's October 27th."

"This is the ignition command hall of the 'Suiren Pile' controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor."

"In half an hour, the Suiren pile will be ignited for the first time and try to generate electricity."

At this historic moment, there are naturally recorders of history.

For confidentiality reasons, only China News Service entered the command hall for filming.

A vice president of China News Service personally carried a camera and recorded the scene at this moment.

After finishing these few declarative words concisely and concisely,

The vice president stopped talking, and just used the camera lens to slowly scan the entire command hall, as well as the scene footage captured by cameras closer to the demonstration reactor site that could be seen from the command hall.

The camera recorded many figures who were just standing quietly at this moment, looking at the scene and waiting.

At this moment, with his back to the direction of the camera, Mo Dao, the general manager and chief engineer of the demonstration reactor project, paused for a moment.

The direction of the camera continued to scan one by one, and the faces that were nervous and excited at the moment could not help but purse their lips as they stared intently, and even forgot to blink.

At this moment, the vice president of Huaxin News Agency was actually blushing a little.

Even though he has already passed middle age, he still seems to have the blood surging in his chest like a teenager.

One is for the scientific and technological progress of the motherland.

This will be an important chapter in the history of human science and technology.

Second, simply, this historical node is enough to make a person who records history tremble.

Perhaps a few years later, he, the recorder who took the historical images, will also be recorded in the history books along with the magnificent history of controllable nuclear fusion.

As long as he understands one thing, who can't be excited - he is standing at the threshold of history and witnessing this moment with his own eyes!

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This is a historic demonstration reactor ignition test.

In addition to the researchers and technicians of the controllable nuclear fusion project.

The old leader who was in contact with Mo Daochang, who was half a level above him, also arrived at the scene.

However, they did not interfere much with the work of Mo Dao and others. After briefly communicating with Mo Dao, they just stood aside and waited for the ignition test to begin.

In addition, Professor Hong and Academician Zhang were also present.

Professor Hong, who is already seriously ill, is sitting in a wheelchair and is very energetic today.

Since he was diagnosed with the disease, his eyes have never been as clear as they are today. He just stared at the scene at the demonstration pile.

And beside,

In this life, Academician Zhang, as a consultant for the demonstration reactor project, has watched step by step the research on controllable nuclear fusion reach today.

Also at this moment, witness the ignition of the demonstration reactor that is about to begin.

Mo Dao turned his head and glanced at Academician Zhang and Professor Hong.

Look no further at the scene of the demonstration reactor.

The step from Changye reactor to 02301 demonstration reactor is a leap.

has a completely different meaning.

From the perspective of achieving controllable nuclear fusion, the successful ignition of the demonstration reactor is already the final step.

Demonstration reactors, 'demonstration' reactors, were the examples of commercial reactors that were subsequently built in large numbers.

It is no longer just an experimental device,

What is actually a controllable nuclear fusion reactor that can be used to generate electricity and serve as energy output.

On the 02301 demonstration reactor, a generator set has been installed.

In the demonstration reactor, China will truly realize controllable nuclear fusion power generation.

Ignore some other factors.

At this moment, this behemoth is running at full power,

After being integrated into the power grid, the output power is enough to cover the daily power needs of the province where the demonstration reactor is located and an adjacent province.

Of course, this is related to the fact that the size of the demonstration reactor is much larger than that of normal commercial reactors.

The current demonstration reactor cannot operate at full power.

But this is enough to show the essential difference between her and Chang Yedui before.

"Ten minutes countdown."

"Injection of deuterium and tritium fuel."

Ten minutes from the start of the ignition experiment,

The procedural report sounded again.

The Suiren demonstration reactor still uses the deuterium-tritium fusion model.

The fusion of hydrogen elements such as deuterium and tritium is much easier than the fusion of heavier atomic nuclei.

To some extent, this has a lot to do with the limitations of material technology.

The sound of procedural reports made the already quiet command hall even quieter.

Even if you know,

The entire experiment was conducted under a fixed procedure.

Except at the beginning and end, there are very few things that require temporary intervention by the experimenter. They only need to monitor the numerical changes during the experiment.

Even if the entire command hall is noisy, it will not affect the ignition test site some distance away from the command hall.

But everyone was still a little afraid that the loud breathing would affect the ignition test.

"One minute countdown."

Time passes as most researchers and technicians wait,

Many researchers who did not participate in the experiment thought about diverting their attention to ease the waiting time, but their eyes were not so obedient and they could not move away from the scene of the demonstration reactor.

Until now.

The researchers and technicians in the command hall gradually focused their attention on Mo Dao.

They were waiting for Mo Dao to give the final order to start the experiment, or to say something.

However, Mo Dao took a look at the researchers who participated in the construction of the demonstration reactor and the research on controllable nuclear fusion. After the technicians passed by,

Looking at the demonstration pile site again, I just said,

"Project 02301, the ignition test of the Suiren demonstration reactor has begun."

This is a procedural instruction.

This is the end of more than four years of construction and development tasks for the demonstration reactor project.

It is also the end point that has been reached after more than ten years, starting from the establishment of the Changye Reactor project and turning a new page towards controllable nuclear fusion.

In the end, starting from three centuries and lasting for several generations, the final answer was to the exploration of an ideal energy technology based on fusion.

According to this instruction,

02301 Demonstration reactor starts ignition.

This giant is awakened,

Heating coils heat the deuterium-tritium fuel in the tokamak.

The confinement coils constrain the direction and position of the heated fuel in three dimensions.

at this moment,

The command hall is some distance away from the demonstration reactor site.

Of course no actual change is felt.

Under the reduction of distance, even the supporting parts of the demonstration reactor will make some dull sounds.

But it can't be heard from the command hall.

But at this moment, all you need to know is that in a place not so far away from them,

The demonstration reactor was started and the ignition process began.

All the researchers and technicians were still excited.

It's like blood rushing up, like feet stepping on cotton,

As if falling from a high altitude and unable to reach the ground,

The whole person's hands and feet seemed a little light.

However, these were not taken into consideration, and everyone's eyes were focused on the scene of the demonstration pile.

Time was stretched out at this moment, and it seemed that it had lost its measure.

If we look at the history and destiny of mankind from a broader perspective,

Could it be that human destiny and history are intersecting at this moment?

A fish in the net was struggling desperately to escape from the restraints and get out of the hole in the net.

An ancient Homo sapiens covered in animal skin was kneeling on the ground, repeatedly and vigorously digging into wood to make fire.

at the same time,

Inside the demonstration pile, at a microscopic scale,

When the fuel in the demonstration reactor heats up to the expected temperature, and when the pressure inside the tokamak device breaks through the critical point,

Deuterium-tritium fusion occurs.

In the process of combining deuterium and tritium, surging power of fusion bursts out.

"Fusion is starting to happen!"