Chapter 755: A 30 Billion Big Project

In the office, Xu Qingzhou sipped coffee to refresh himself, his thoughts continuing to diverge. Besides neutral countries and opposing countries, a considerable number of countries in Europe support them.

For example, France, which has been quite tough.

As far as Xu Qingzhou knows, France's Framatome, as a French nuclear energy giant, relies on the Xia Nation's supply chain for their divertor tungsten-copper materials, accident-tolerant fuel technology, etc.

But the French government has always been fighting with itself, wanting to improve its influence in the EU through a tough attitude toward the Xia Nation, but often coming to seek cooperation.

"Now we need to consider the issue of international cooperation."

"According to the US's nature, they will definitely pressure from ITER."

ITER is one of the international cooperation organizations with the greatest global influence and is also the largest scientific and technological cooperation project in which the Xia Nation participates. Among them, the Xia Nation undertook about 9% of the procurement package research and development tasks.

If the Xia Nation is really excluded, ITER's progress will definitely be slowed down.

For the Xia Nation, the influence accumulated over several years in the field of controlled nuclear fusion will likely also be impacted.

"Fortunately, the Xia Nation is doing well now. Even without ITER's data sharing, we can still do it ourselves."

"The way to break the situation... achieve crushing victory with generational gaps, forcing the enemy to bow their heads."

Xu Qingzhou's gaze deepened.

Commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion is only the first step. Human goals should be the stars and the sea, and the future should be a prosperous age.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window for a few minutes, Xu Qingzhou was also forced back to his seat by the scorching sun.

"Alright, let's work."

He opened the computer; here was the data from yesterday's ignition experiment.

Besides key major goals, such as triple product threshold, net energy gain, etc., the Qiankun No. 1 device will also frequently conduct small ignition experiments to verify key technical sub-items.

And yesterday's experiment was to test coil current parameters to optimize the distribution of the negative-triangularity configuration magnetic field.

"The device's daily ignition experiments will focus on three core sub-items: configuration control, engineering limits, and auxiliary systems."

Before the triple product experiment in July, they will sequentially perform magnetic power supply compatibility tests, cooling system load capacity checks, and divertor heat dissipation verification.

Through intensive and repeated test iterations to optimize data, they will verify the possibility of reaching the nuclear fusion ignition threshold in July.

"Conduct the fusion triple product 3×10kev·s/m magnitude experiment on July 12th."

"Time is tight."

Xu Qingzhou stared at the data on the screen, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, thinking about where to start.

From the report Song Yao produced.

The cost of a single ignition is about 2 million RMB, including liquid helium coolant consumption, electricity consumption, deuterium-tritium fuel, and target materials, etc. In addition, equipment wear and maintenance is about 300,000.

Besides the main controlled nuclear fusion project, the institute's 100+ researchers also have their own personal projects.

Added to Zero Point Technology's external investments, the entire company's annual operating budget is stable at the 800-900 million USD magnitude, with a monthly average of about 64-69 million USD, and a daily average of about 2.1-2.3 million USD.

Every day when they open their eyes, they have to face a capital consumption of over two million dollars.

This is also thanks to the institute's large size; the income from superconducting thin film and battery patents can cover the expenses, and they can even make a profit of 30 million USD every month.

As long as battery patents are used, for mobile phone batteries, electric vehicle batteries, and computer batteries produced, they can all get a share.

"First, establish a plasma boundary turbulence model, use nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) to describe turbulence evolution, and finally predict the optimal angle interval." ===== CHAPTER 756 =====