Chapter 735: Cold Violence Is Unacceptable, So Just Take Action Directly

The goal of the first phase is merely to achieve a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius and maintain a steady state for thousands of seconds.

Although the technical approaches of tokamaks differ, they ultimately converge: all paths aim to satisfy the Lawson criterion → achieve net energy gain → enable commercial power generation.

The Lawson criterion is commonly known as the breakthrough of the three fusion parameters—the fusion triple product.

In the second phase, high-parameter operation and commercial feasibility verification involve increasing the fusion triple product (density × temperature × confinement time), and validating energy gain and economic viability.

After resolving challenges such as plasma-wall interactions and divertor thermal load management during thousand-second operations, the third phase integrates negative-triangularity plasma technology to construct a fusion demonstration reactor capable of generating electricity.

Subsequently, the demonstration reactor will sustain discharges for several hours to verify tritium breeding and energy gain (q > 10).

Here, we can briefly explain deuterium and tritium in nuclear fusion experiments.

Deuterium (D) and tritium (T) are isotopes of hydrogen that undergo fusion reactions under high temperature and pressure:

That is, D + T → He (helium nucleus) + n (neutron) + energy.

They are key technologies for commercializing controlled nuclear fusion; within the reactor core, they serve as the equivalent of uranium-235 fuel in fission power plants, except that they are infinite, clean, and safe.

In the office, Xu Qingzhou was pulled back to reality by a message alert on his phone; he checked WeChat and saw a message from Song Yao—this girl had already gone home to cook.

“I was supposed to go home last night, but the experiment delayed me. Sister Song must be seething with anger.”

Xu Qingzhou pondered for a moment, organizing the documents on his desk as he dialed Song Lulu’s number.

“Lulu, have you eaten yet? It’s been days since you came over to have dinner with me and my sister—want to come today?”

Xu Qingzhou extended the invitation.

“Cough~ Don’t lie, brother-in-law, this is concern for you.”

“.”

The two quickly ended the call.

Xu Qingzhou sighed helplessly, thinking his little sister-in-law was beyond saving—he’d hoped to drag her over to share the heat.

He didn’t sit back down; he packed up his files and headed home to face judgment.

At this moment, Dormitory Building 4 at Jingda.

Wu Ziyue, seeing Song Lulu put down her phone, asked curiously, “Lulu, Professor Xu?”

“Yes, he invited me over for dinner. But I suspect he’s trying to get me to be his shield because he pissed off my sister.”

Song Lulu muttered.

“I never expected their daily life to be this interesting—it’s starting to feel like a romantic drama.”

Wu Ziyue propped her chin on her hand and began to indulge in the gossip.

Song Lulu smiled listlessly; in truth, these two really were a bit romantic—high school classmates, both admitted to Jingda, then moved in together, married right after finishing their studies.

Her older sister and brother-in-law were nothing like what the news reported.

Her cousin, Jingda’s top female talent, a career-driven woman, cold and aloof on the surface—but once you get past that, she’s clingy and violent. At first she pretended to be reserved, but Song Lulu had seen several scenes of her scolding her husband.

Of course, it takes two to tango.

Her brother-in-law, a Nobel-caliber giant, world-renowned scientist, yet sometimes truly insufferable.

“I don’t want to be the lubricant in their lives—just as long as no one gets killed.”

Song Lulu thought to herself, shook her head, and turned her gaze back to the documents in front of her.

Project: Optimization of tensile properties of PEDOT:PSS conductive films.

She had accepted Professor He Rusong’s invitation.

As Professor He had said, this project was moderately challenging.

Investigating the interfacial adhesion mechanism between flexible materials and human skin, developing highly conformable sensor materials centered on flexible electronics—perfect for undergraduates.

Over these days, by participating in synthesis, testing, and analysis, she had learned much knowledge not covered in textbooks.

Unlike other professors’ projects, which were wildly ambitious.

As a first-year undergraduate, she was entrusted with a specific section, even guaranteed a chance to publish in an SCI journal.

“You’re clearly drawn to my talent—I won’t even point it out to you.”

Under Professor He’s guidance, she was now preparing doped solutions and had become familiar with the lab’s material testing machines and four-point probe testers.

The greatest challenge now was data analysis: she needed to organize tensile-conductivity relationship curves to assist in optimizing process parameters.