Chapter 759: Q1NTST Must Achieve Generational Crushing

Germany, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.

In April this year, the W7-X stellarator completed a 70-second triple product peak maintenance of 3×10kev·s/m. After more than 3 months of adjustment, W7-X will start a new challenge in a few days.

Lawrence and Klinger were having afternoon tea on the balcony.

"Obviously, the US is lifting a rock only to drop it on its own feet."

Klinger always believed that communication leads to progress, saying, "Not only does it slow down ITER's progress, but it also loses the opportunity to obtain the Xia Nation's experimental data."

Lawrence said, "Don't worry about the data. The US has opened up their database access rights and is willing to share NIF and DIII-D data with all countries."

This is also why everyone is willing to believe the US. No matter how you look at it, they have no loss.

Furthermore, the data from the US NIF and DIII-D is far ahead.

"And, the US will bear the equipment supply and funding supply that the Xia Nation was originally responsible for."

"How many empty checks have they issued?" Klinger sneered disdainfully.

Lawrence shrugged, "Maybe, but the current situation is that the Xia Nation's development in the fusion field has a tendency to lead the world, and this is not what we want to see."

"You also saw the data of Q1-NTST completing the 2-minute triple product 3×10kev·s/m magnitude maintenance, right?"

"Yes, very shocking."

"No, compared to the word 'shocking,' I prefer to use 'terrifying.' They only used one year to walk the path that other devices took 10 or even 20 years."

Klinger couldn't refute.

It's no wonder the US reacted so strongly.

"However, spherical tokamaks, judging from current technology, still cannot compare to the output electricity of traditional tokamaks. I am quite curious about how Xu Qingzhou solved this problem."

"God knows."

Lawrence smiled lightly, "Alright, let's bypass this heavy topic. We should be optimistic, shouldn't we? After all, it won't be long before our W7-X can surprise the world."

The US and the Xia Nation have achieved world-renowned achievements in the field of tokamaks. As representatives of the stellarator field, they are naturally not willing to fall behind.

This is not it; they have been conducting final equipment tests during this period.

Klinger also laughed.

Facing the aggressive US and Xia Nation, they can hold their ground because they have the foundation.

W7-X will create an even more perfect record.

July 18th, a heavy rain washed away the scorching heat of midsummer.

These days, the Institute of Materials completed all inspection work after ignition and began preparing to analyze experimental data.

Office, Xu Qingzhou rubbed his somewhat sore brows.

This experiment marks that Q1-NTS has the physical conditions for controlled nuclear fusion ignition. The next step is continuous iteration, extending steady-state operation time, and reducing the energy of supporting facilities.

Finally, achieving output energy greater than input energy on the whole, that is, Q > 1.

"The maintenance time of the triple product is still too short."

"True 'generational crushing' requires transforming the fleeting flash of energy into a lasting light that illuminates the city."

According to the higher-ups, as long as he can produce results within a year, the demonstration reactor is still up for discussion.

"But the competition is still very fierce."

The initial investment alone requires 30 billion, plus the subsequent commercial reactor, the cost is estimated to break 100 billion.

Under the premise of ensuring stable fiscal operation, the country can only guarantee the construction of one demonstration reactor in the short term.

This means they must achieve results before the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Institute of Plasma Physics, and attach a feasible technical report.

The structural differences between spherical tokamaks and traditional tokamaks lead to three major hard injuries: insufficient toroidal field strength, low neutral beam injection efficiency, and divertor heat load overload risk.

"Finally, it still needs to be combined with traditional tokamaks."

"Find ways for the first two slowly, let's fix the divertor first." ===== CHAPTER 760 =====