Chapter 763

After taking advantage of Song Yao in the living room, Xu Qingzhou ran upstairs happily.

Outside the window, the rain showed no signs of stopping and was even getting heavier.

"Time to work."

Xu Qingzhou pulled out a few brand-new manuscripts from the side and quickly entered the state, writing four words on the manuscript—Liquid Metal.

"Traditional divertors always have drawbacks, so let's use other materials to replace the traditional solid tungsten target plates in the divertor."

This was something he suddenly thought of while listening to the sound of the rain.

"Liquid metal forms a flowing thin film on the surface of the target plate, taking away high heat loads through continuous flow to avoid local ablation. Moreover, it can automatically fill damaged areas, achieving a self-healing function."

"It's just that the engineering difficulty is relatively high."

"I only saw similar technology in a paper on extreme environment materials science before, which was used as an anti-radiation composite coating at the time."

At this time, Song Yao also shuffled up in slippers and walked behind Xu Qingzhou with a blank expression.

"I suspect you want to murder your husband."

"Angry rubbing of the dog's head!"

Xu Qingzhou: "."

After messing up Xu Qingzhou's hair, she returned to her seat satisfied, took out the legal code she had been reading halfway, and started reading slowly.

Four days passed in a flash.

"Hoo~"

"Finally done."

In the office, Xu Qingzhou looked at the laboratory plan and nodded with satisfaction.

Traditional divertors need to be replaced after a hundred ignitions, but the liquid metal plan, as long as it is well maintained, can theoretically serve permanently.

"Of course, what the effect is like still requires local simulation experiments first."

Upgrading the divertor completely according to the technical route in the plan requires at least a 6-person team.

Before pulling the team together, Xu Qingzhou planned to verify the technical feasibility first. After the test met the standards, he would then connect it to the Qiankun No. 1 device's divertor test platform to carry out verification under a neutron irradiation environment.

"The problem is, everyone in the institute has work on their hands now, and there's no manpower to do the simulation."

"Which means it seems I'm the most idle one."

After considering it, Xu Qingzhou decided to do it himself. Ren Nan and others were each responsible for a section, and the current progress was going smoothly, with not much needing his intervention.

However, he still planned to find a helper.

Although there was no fixed project, he still needed to provide support between various projects and help deal with some problems; he couldn't just guard the experiment all the time.

After thinking about it, he found Senior Sister Ren Xiaoling, whom he had cooperated with before, his old partner from freshman year, with whom he had completed the quantum optical frequency comb experiment.

"Professor Xu, are you looking for me?"

A short-haired girl soon appeared at the door.

Six years had passed, and Ren Xiaoling was now a doctoral student, having lost her former greenness and gained some capability.

"Senior sister, I plan to do a small simulation here and need someone to help. Do you have time?"

Xu Qingzhou said directly.

"Yes." Ren Xiaoling nodded without thinking.

Over the years, she had followed many projects, but by comparison, she still liked the feeling of following Xu Qingzhou to receive knowledge, as she could really learn a lot of things.

"Good, these are the relevant materials. We'll start tomorrow. You take them to look at first; you can hand over the work on hand to others."

Saying this, Xu Qingzhou handed over a stack of documents.

Ren Xiaoling was still helping at the institute as an intern, so she wouldn't have too much work on hand.