Chapter 76: Shortening R&D Time

Xiao Qin comrade, just place it here; you can start now.

Qin Hao answered with a sound, and his mind moved.

【Target locked on Oriental Divine Ring; proceed with replication at the designated position?】

【This replication will consume ten billion Energy Points.】

Replicate.

No omen, no audiovisual effects.

Right before everyone's eyes, another Oriental Divine Ring appeared out of thin air on the empty ground.

Seeing this, Tang Jianbo was not surprised; instead, he quickly handed the computer in his hand to Qin Hao.

The meaning goes without saying.

Taking the computer, Qin Hao operated it skillfully.

Two and a half seconds later.

Academician Tang, this is an optimization plan generated by the system based on the original device; I'm handing it to you now.

"Good, good!" Tang Jianbo exclaimed delightedly.

He quickly walked to the prepared workbench and connected the computer to the supercomputer.

Then he imported the optimization plan data into it and ran a simulation.

Tang Jianbo's gaze swept quickly across the screen.

At first, his expression was relatively calm, but soon his brows furrowed tightly.

"This…… plasma confinement model, how is possible? It actually optimized the suppression algorithm for edge-localized modes (ELM) from the root,

This can reduce energy loss in high-confinement mode by at least thirty percent!"

His breathing began to quicken, and the speed of scrolling the mouse wheel increased.

"Moreover, this new liquid lithium wall material formula has a neutron absorption rate and thermal load capacity,

that is an order of magnitude higher than the next-generation material we are currently experimenting with! This could greatly extend the service life of the first wall!"

"No! Not just that! This divertor design…… it adopts a composite magnetic field structure, capable of boosting helium ash exhaust efficiency by more than double! This is a problem that has troubled the world for decades!"

Tang Jianbo's voice grew louder, shifting from muttering to himself to a loud, excited shout.

He suddenly stood up, hands braced on the table, staring fixedly at a piece of data on the screen, his whole body trembling.

"Q value…… the optimized theoretical Q value can actually stabilize above twelve! This means the energy it produces will be twelve times the energy needed to drive it!"

"This…… this is no longer an experimental device; it is a genuine controllable fusion power plant!"

He snatched off his glasses, rubbed his red eyes, put them back on, and double-checked that he wasn't mistaken.

At this moment, his hands were trembling!

If these data are true, each item alone would be enough to cause an earthquake in the global physics community.

And yet now, they are all concentrated in a single document.

This optimization is basically a huge windfall.

Academician Tang, don't get too excited; what's the situation?

Zhang Yunfeng stepped forward, asking with a concerned expression.

"How could I not be excited!" Tang Jianbo snapped his head, his face showing a complex mix of ecstasy and excitement.

"Old Zhang, do you know what this means? Ten to twenty years? No, we don't need that long—just one year, at most one and a half!"

"We can make it truly light up, outputting steady current. Yanhuang Guo will completely solve the energy problem, and we will have inexhaustible energy!"

Having said that, he no longer cared about etiquette, took out his internal communicator, and shouted:

"Everyone, please note: everyone must immediately drop their work, immediately summon all project team leaders, hold a meeting! Right now! Immediately!"

After Tang Jianbo finished his instructions, he suddenly turned to Qin Hao, bowed deeply, his tone unprecedentedly solemn.

"Xiao Qin comrade, thank you! On behalf of all who have devoted their lives to this cause, thank you!"

Having just finished speaking, without even saying goodbye, he rushed out of the room in a hurry, leaving Qin Hao and the others only a hasty back view.

Zhang Yunfeng watched his retreating direction, smiled and shook his head, sighing:

"These are our scientists! Not for fame or profit, only for research, and even more for our country; they all deserve respect."

"Exactly! It's because of all these selfless scientists that our Yanhuang Guo has come this far; they are the stars the people should admire."

Cheng Haitang followed up.

Qin Hao didn't speak, but he could feel Tang Jianbo's pure passion.

When we hear news of the Oriental Divine Ring next time, it will no longer be a cold machine, but a true sun shining upon Yanhuang,

and even the whole world's—sun.

After Tang Jianbo left, the huge room held only Qin Hao, Zhang Yunfeng, Cheng Haitang, and that new Oriental Divine Ring.

Zhang Yunfeng walked around this massive object, reached out to touch its cold metal shell, and felt a myriad of emotions.

"Ten billion Energy Points can buy such a huge piece of equipment—it's truly a bargain, and what it brings is the future of our entire nation."

Qin Hao smiled, but did not respond.

Looking at the replica before him, his mind kept calculating.

Actually, his idea is simple: to use this Tokamak device as his own exclusive power bank in the future.

Upon thinking this, Qin Hao turned his gaze to Zhang Yunfeng: "Old Zhang, what do Tang Academician and his team plan to do with this device?"

"That depends on Tang Academician and his team." Zhang Yunfeng replied.

However, after seeing the other's expression, he already understood what Qin Hao was thinking.

Thus he smiled and said: "Xiao Qin comrade, such things can't be rushed; we should proceed steadily, step by step."

"Exactly! Your safety is the most important." Cheng Haitang chimed in from the side.

Qin Hao, whose thoughts had been seen through, could only smile helplessly.

"Now that the main business is also finished, we won't disturb Academician Tang and the others; let's just go back!"

Afterwards, the three of them left this place.

And in the core meeting room of the artificial sun project, the room was already full of people.

Several dozen core researchers of the "artificial sun" project were urgently summoned here, their faces all filled with doubt.

Tang Jianbo strode in, face flushed, and slapped his laptop onto the projector with a "pa" sound, getting straight to the point:

"Everyone, don't ask questions first, just look at the data!"

On the huge screen, dense streams of data and 3D model diagrams instantly filled the view.

"Old Tang, what are you up to? Our experiment is at a critical stage."

An old professor complained.

He is an authority in the field of plasma physics—Li Wen Guang.

"Old Li, after seeing this, you can just toss out the experiment you're working on!"

Tang Jianbo replied bluntly.

Li Wen Guang frowned, about to rebut, but his gaze was captured by a set of algorithms on the screen.

"Wait... this boundary local mode suppression algorithm—does it change the magnetic field topology?"

"It's theoretically feasible, but the computational load is huge; our supercomputer would need a year to simulate it."

He muttered to himself, his voice growing softer while his eyes widened more and more.

"Don't worry! This is already the result—just use it directly!"

Tang Jianbo's voice was full of confidence.

The entire meeting room fell silent instantly, everyone's eyes fixed tightly on the screen.

"Is this a new formulation for the liquid lithium wall? The neutron absorption rate is higher by an order of magnitude? The heat load capacity..."

"If we use this, our first wall could last ten years without needing replacement."

Another engineer responsible for materials science stood up excitedly.

"Also this diverter, with its composite magnetic field structure—look at this simulation animation, the efficiency of helium ash removal is almost without residue!"

"The fusion reactor poisoning problem that has troubled us for thirty years has just been solved like that!"