Chapter 747: First Ignition, Record Achieved!

Pre-inspection finished, the final preparations before the experiment were done, and ignition could proceed.

At this moment, in the control room, the tension was pushed to the peak. Everyone subconsciously held their breath, waiting for Xu Qingzhou to issue the order.

In the control room, there was only the low sound of various equipment and instruments running.

Xu Qingzhou scanned the hall. Even Academician Ren had an incomparably solemn expression, not to mention the others, who were visibly nervous.

The hands of Professor Zhao in his sleeves seemed to be trembling slightly.

It was no wonder everyone was like this.

Success or failure depended on this one move.

The world's first negative-triangularity plasma tokamak, and it had to reach 100 million degrees Celsius right from the start.

The temperature inside the sun is only 15 million degrees Celsius, equivalent to the instantaneous heat released by igniting 1,000 football-field-sized pools of gasoline, while the plasma temperature was already 6.6 times that, which is the heat of 6,600 equivalent pools of gasoline.

Replicating stellar energy on Earth...

Previously, they had simulated it countless times, and every piece of equipment had been tested to its best state, but when it truly came to ignition, even Xu Qingzhou, this old "cheat-user," had his heart in his throat.

Finally, Xu Qingzhou's gaze rested on the screen, which showed the real-time image of the vacuum chamber.

"Attention everyone—start the negative-triangularity configuration!"

Xu Qingzhou secretly took a deep breath. Although he was nervous, his expression remained unchanged, and he issued the instructions in a calm tone, word by word.

"Start the negative-triangularity configuration!"

In front of the controller, the operator said, pressing the start button to establish a "magnetic cage" that resists turbulence and withstands high temperatures, so that energy could be injected into the stable magnetic cage later to realize the fusion reaction.

"10, 9, 8..."

Xu Qingzhou's voice echoed in the command hall.

"3, 2, 1..."

"Ignition!"

Xu Qingzhou personally pressed the switch.

At this very instant, the blue-white particle stream exploded inside the vacuum chamber, and the inner wall coating emitted a dark red glow under the high temperature (Data 12), forming a strong contrast with the cold blue plasma.

Inside the control room, the quantum sensing network's alarm light turned from green to red, confirming the emergency signal for fire.

Each group was responsible for monitoring their own portion of data.

"Magnetic field configuration locked! The closure precision of the magnetic field lines in the negative-triangularity curved section reached 99.99%, real-time distortion rate ≤0.01%, sensors working normally!"

"Negative-triangularity configuration turbulence suppression efficiency 90%, no risk of rupture!"

"First-wall nanopore tungsten film temperature balanced, thermal safety system working normally!"

Everything proceeded according to the rehearsed mode.

"..."

"0 seconds."

"Fuel injection complete! Deuterium-tritium ice pellet density 8.3×10m (target ≥5×10), neutral beam power 70MW standby."

Xu Qingzhou looked at the data fed back on the screen, his attention highly concentrated, secretly saying to himself: "Ignition successful, this counts as taking an extremely critical step, but... the real test is still ahead. The equipment must withstand temperatures of over 100 million degrees within a few seconds."

"8 seconds."

"100 million-degree threshold broken, ion temperature 101 million C, electron temperature 170 million C—double 100 million degrees achieved!"

"60 seconds!"

"Negative-triangularity configuration maintained! Magnetic surface tearing index 0.0001, self-sustaining fuel consumption rate 0.08g/s."

The monitor reported the equipment's operating status at the corresponding time.

Ren Nan, Zhao Shengwen, and others had long forgotten their nervousness, each staring at the sections they were responsible for, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

"..."

"1100 seconds!"

"Plasma temperature 102 million C, equipment steady-state operation, target met—requesting shutdown command!"

【Sustained Fusion: 102 million C / 1100s】

On the central screen, a gilded pop-up window appeared. ===== CHAPTER 748 =====