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"Sorry, I'm not feeling well today. I'm going to go back and rest."

Facing Duke who was somewhat out of his mind, Byrne did not intend to compromise.

He and Duke had worked together for so long, and the two had always had a good personal relationship, but they were not the same kind of people after all.

Duke was a businessman, and he was doing nuclear fusion just to make a comeback in his life, and he didn't consider the consequences of experimental failure at all...

Or rather, he actually considered it, but didn't care.

What if the experiment failed and the device was seriously damaged?

It's nothing more than leaving a mess to Mobil.

But as a physics professor who seriously studies nuclear fusion, Byrne's meaning of this matter is completely different.

Once the LM-26 project can succeed, he will definitely win various international academic awards in the future.

No one will remember who paid for LM-26,

but everyone will definitely remember that LM-26 was created by Byrne.

Joshua Byrne's name will be recorded in history like Edison, Tesla and other famous scientists, and he will become a scientific celebrity respected by all mankind and even the future world.

Even without talking about these utilitarian things, LM-26 is Byrne's hard work for many years, and he can't bear to waste it like this...

And today's experimental failure has basically no impact on Byrne, it's nothing more than delaying the ignition for a while.

Anyway, Mobil has already taken a fancy to them. Even if Duke fires him now, Mobil will have to invite him back after taking over General Fusion tomorrow...

Byrne no longer has to worry about General Fusion going bankrupt and forcing him to interrupt his research.

Therefore, Byrne directly chose to turn against Duke.

Seeing Byrne's back as he left, Duke's face couldn't help but darken, but soon, he set his sights on Crowley who was stunned in the same place.

"Crowley, you continue to lead today's experiment."

"Ah?"

Byrne's assistant was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, "But I'm just an assistant to the director..."

"Not anymore, Byrne has been fired. Now I appoint you as the technical director of General Fusion. As long as you can successfully ignite today, your salary will be twice that of Byrne, which is eight times your current salary!"

Crowley's face suddenly showed a trace of struggle, but soon, greed took over his mind.

Moreover, Duke suddenly added: "If we can successfully ignite today, it will no longer be Byrne who will go down in history, but the two of us."

"Especially you - Crowley, scientific exploration requires some courage, no one will remember a coward without the slightest sense of adventure, the successful ignition of LM-26 will make you the most respected physicist in the world!"

This sentence completely defeated Crowley's reason.

The opportunity to pick peaches is not available every day, especially this peach, which is so ripe that anyone who sees it is salivating...

"It's my honor."

...

"Fuel setting: 0.75mg deuterium-tritium mixture."

"Setting completed."

"Start ignition experiment."

Under Crowley's chairmanship, the experiment soon resumed. Crowley first doubled the nuclear fuel.

As the machine emitted a harsh sound of electricity, the plasma ring successfully entered the reaction chamber.

Bang——

The 120 steam hammers around the device immediately completed the strike action on the plasma ring.

However, this attempt still failed.

However, the data is encouraging. This time they created a temperature of 59.6 million degrees, 130,000 higher than the last time.

"It works, which shows that my guess just now is correct."

Crowley was not disappointed, but was encouraged. He immediately ordered to clean the reaction chamber and continue to add fuel to repeat the experiment.

Until the third experiment, when the fuel was increased to 1.5mg, the temperature in the chamber had reached 63.2 million degrees.

Although the conditions for fusion reaction have been met, the fusion reaction still did not occur.

In fact, this is also normal, because there is a probability of atomic collision and fusion. Only when two atoms collide and fusion reaction occurs, and the first wave of energy is released, a chain fusion reaction will occur and detonate other nuclear fuels.

And what they created is only the lowest fusion reaction condition, so the probability of ignition is very low.

But now the fuel has reached 1.5mg...

Even Crowley, who is obsessed with utilitarianism, couldn't help sweating at this time.

1kg of deuterium-tritium mixture can release about 3.38E14 joules of energy (equivalent to about 93.6 million kWh of electricity without considering the power generation efficiency) when it is completely fused.

According to the design of the LM-26 device, each reaction can only withstand a maximum of 6.876E8 joules of energy,

which means that he can only inject 2.04mg of deuterium-tritium mixture into it at most.

"I think to be on the safe side, we should stay at 1.5mg and try our luck a few times. If it doesn't work... try 2mg."

Duke looked at the time, shook his head and said, "Each of your experiments takes more than an hour, and it's already 9 o'clock in the evening, which means we only have two chances... If you don't want to be kicked out by Byrne tomorrow, I don't think now is the time to hesitate."

Crowley's face suddenly turned pale.

Duke was absolutely right. The moment he accepted Duke's invitation, it was actually a betrayal of Byrne. This decision had sealed his retreat.

Today, they cannot tolerate failure!

"Fuel setting: 2mg deuterium-tritium mixture."

"Isn't this a little too radical?"

"Yes, it's already 9 pm now, I think it's better to call it a day..."

The other researchers felt a little frightened when they saw Duke and Crowley who were already a little confused...

"Please continue to persevere!" Duke immediately comforted him upon seeing this, "After today's experiment, regardless of success or failure, I will give each of you a bonus of 20,000 US dollars! I will pay for it myself and transfer it on the spot!"

Everyone was a little excited after hearing this, and one researcher said tentatively: "We can help you prepare for the experiment, but before we conduct the formal experiment, we want to stay away..."

"make a deal!"

So this group of people immediately started their own experiments and continued to experiment.

As 2 mg of deuterium-tritium nuclear fuel was injected into the plasma injector and heated into plasma, all researchers immediately ran out of the laboratory.

Duke and Crowley stayed in the main control room, performing final operations.

Of course, there are also some unsuspecting security and support staff.

A dozen researchers looked at the laboratory not far away in the cold wind, smoking and chatting.

"It feels like they have gone crazy..."

"Never mind them, Duke is the big boss after all. Even if the company is taken over by Mobil in the future, he will still be a major shareholder. If you really offend him, life will not be easy in the future..."

"That's right, as long as the money is available."

"But if something happens to him, who will get the bonus promised just now?"

"Although I am a little worried, according to the normal design standards of LM-26, the energy released by 2mg of fuel is completely within the tolerable range, and the possibility of an accident is indeed not high..."

"Then why did you run out?"

"Hey, this isn't..."

Boom——

Before the researcher could finish speaking, a violent explosion suddenly came from the laboratory!

The huge impact of the explosion made the entire ground tremble! !

Several frightened researchers knelt down on the ground as soon as their legs softened. They looked at the laboratory where a hole had been blown out and the blue light was emitting, and they showed horrified expressions...

——

Dongyang.

Before seven o'clock in the morning, Kang Chi's cell phone suddenly rang with a rapid ringtone.

Because he helped Yan Hui solve the manufacturing problem of Xunlong last night, he was busy until midnight. Kang Chi was not awakened by the ringing. It was not until the third time that Kang Chi rang. Kang Chi finally forced his eyes open and touched his phone in a daze. Said: "Who is it?"

"It's me, Zhong Weijian." Academician Zhong on the other end of the phone heard Kang Chi's annoyance, but the matter was more important, so he bit the bullet and continued, "General Fusion has exploded!"

Damn it! ! ?

Kang Chi immediately became energetic after hearing this.

"It exploded? When did it explode? How did it explode? Is it powerful?"

"..."

Zhong Weijian was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Why do you sound so happy?"

"Ahem...it's nothing, just a moment of excitement." Kang Chi quickly asked seriously, "Is the situation serious? No one was hurt, right?"

"There are no official reports on the specific situation, but according to rumors in Maple Leaf Country, it seems that a total of five people, including Isaiah Duke, the boss of General Fusion, were sent to the hospital. I don't know if their lives are in danger..."

"As for their magnetized target device, you don't have to think about it to know that it must have been seriously damaged. This incident happened at 10:30 in the evening on the 31st. Including the time difference, it was 10:30 in the morning here yesterday."

"In addition, their technical director, Joshua Byrne, gave a media interview after the accident."

"According to his description, they seemed to have some disagreements during the experiment that day, but he did not disclose the specific disagreements. He only said that he left the laboratory after the first experiment."

"I estimate that Duke, who issued the military order, took the remaining people and conducted some more dangerous and radical experiments, which ultimately led to the accident..."

After Zhong Weijian explained the situation, he said in a solemn tone: "Although the radiation neutrons produced by milligram-level nuclear fuel are not considered a nuclear leak accident at all, it can only be regarded as an accidental explosion in an experiment. Byrne also kept saying during the interview Emphasized this point.”

"But no one believed his words at all. Now all the public opinion media are questioning the safety of the magnetized target device... This public opinion storm will definitely affect us soon."

"The Ministry of Science and Technology also called me just now. Although they did not stop us directly, they hope to send safety consultants to re-evaluate the risks of our experiments..."

"No matter what the result of the assessment is, I estimate that the safety plan will definitely need to be improved by several levels based on the original one... This may delay a lot of time."

"..."

Kang Chi suddenly lost the idea of ​​gloating...

They didn't do their best, and it ended up affecting their own plans?

What is this called?

At this moment, Kang Chi only hated General Fusion and hated iron.

Even if they succeed in igniting the fire first, it is still better than blowing up...

Fortunately, it was Kang Chi who proposed the magnetized target route. For his sake, the leaders only asked them to improve the safety level of the experiment, and even asked Zhong Weijian to convey the notice instead of talking to him directly.

It can be said that they gave him enough face.

If it were someone else, the entire project would have to be re-evaluated.

——

This explosion of General Fusion affected more than just Kang Chi.

The more joyful the stock prices of Mobil and Amazon rose before, the more painful it is to fall now.

Just one day after the news spread, their stock prices fell directly back to the price before investing in General Fusion, and it was even a little unstoppable...

This incident also made the US Energy Bureau more convinced that the magnetized target nuclear fusion proposed by Kang Chi was definitely a huge pit!

Fortunately, it was only General Fusion that was fooled.

If it were them, they would probably not know what kind of criticism they would be given by the media and the public...

At the same time, domestic media also quickly reported this news, and the word "nuclear fusion" appeared in everyone's sight again.

"Fuck, how did they become hydrogen bomb makers when they were working on nuclear fusion?"

"The key is that they blew themselves up..."

"Master Kang, please protect yourself. If anything happens to you, where can we buy cheap graphics cards?"

"Yeah, if it doesn't work, forget it. Saving lives is the most important thing."

"How can it be so exaggerated? I saw the news pictures and felt that the power of the explosion was at most equivalent to an RPG. As long as you keep a safe distance, it doesn't matter if it explodes? You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater, right?"

"I agree with the above, and our General Kang's strength is not comparable to theirs."

"No matter what, I think safety comes first."

Like Zhong Weijian's conjecture, netizens who don't understand the technical details don't directly question Kang Chi, but they generally have some doubts about the safety of this experiment.

But in fact, the safety standard of Jinwu No. 1 is much higher than that of General Fusion. Even if an accident like General Fusion really happens, there will definitely be no casualties.

Besides, Kang Chi doesn't have to joke about such things and conduct some radical and risky experiments.

Because of the general fusion experiment accident, Kang Chi had to temporarily put aside the Xunlong project and let Yan Hui and the team continue in Dongyang. He came to Luzhou in advance and took over the task of assembling Jinwu No. 1, and asked Zhong Weijian to hand over the upgrade work related to experimental safety.

A week after Kang Chi came to Luzhou, the Maple Leaf Energy Bureau finally released an investigation report on the 12.31 general fusion experiment accident.

Kang Chi also immediately summoned the main technical supervisor of Jinwu No. 1 to analyze the report.

[The steam hammer transmission device has an abnormality, and the pressurization sequence of the steam hammer has deviated...]

When Kang Chi saw this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes: "So from the beginning, their experiment was not successful because of the problem of the transmission device..."

"They didn't solve the problem, but continued to add fuel? Tsk tsk tsk... I can only say that if you don't do it, you won't die."

Seeing this, Kang Chi had already guessed the cause of the explosion.

Kang Chi believed that the fuel they injected would normally be able to withstand the device, but they ignored a problem in their eagerness for quick success.

Since there are problems with pressurization, when fusion reaction occurs, these steam hammers rebound and decompress, there may be no problems?

It's a very simple reason.

It's hard to push it in, how can it be pulled out smoothly?

Once the speed of pulling out is not enough, the decompression performance will decrease, and the result is naturally imaginable.

It is probably because their design is too extreme, leaving no room for themselves, so they can't get a venting device, and then it is a thermobaric bomb...

So, bang——

I can only say that they deserved to explode...