Chapter 768

The 3-day holiday ended. For the next period, Xu Qingzhou spent almost every day in the laboratory, closely monitoring the operation of various equipment.

October 12.

The atmosphere in the institute was unprecedentedly tense. The full-time fire brigade was on standby 24 hours a day, and all researchers had their holidays canceled.

In the main control room, Xu Qingzhou, wearing a white coat, walked into the main control room.

He only slept for 3 hours last night. After all the equipment was debugged, he squinted for 40 minutes in the office and handed over the final inspection to Academician Ren Nan.

"Ready?"

"Hmm."

Ren Nan nodded firmly.

Actually, there was nothing to prepare. All inspection work had been completed in the past few days, and only routine inspections before ignition were needed.

"Then let's start."

Xu Qingzhou nodded and said in a deep voice.

As soon as his voice fell, each staff member immediately started the work at hand.

"Qiankun No. 1 ignition sequence started. Negative triangular configuration magnetic field locking completed, plasma configuration stability 99.9%."

"Liquid metal divertor heat shield ready."

"Fuel injection completed—Qiankun No. 1 enters ignition countdown!"

In the main control room, the voices of the researchers reporting were orderly.

On the main control screen, strings of data were flashing.

【Magnetic field preset-->|Negative triangular configuration locking|Superconducting magnet【Magnetic field strength 12.5T】

Liquid metal divertor-->|Heat load preparation 50MW/m|Target plate state【Exposure rate 0%】

Fuel system-->|Deuterium-tritium ratio 1:1|Injection completed】

In front of the console, Xu Qingzhou's eyes were fixed on several screens, and all data were developing in the direction he estimated in his model.

"Core ignition successful! Ion temperature broke through 150 million degrees Celsius, negative triangular configuration suppressing boundary turbulence efficiency 99.7%—Qiankun No. 1 officially entered the high-confinement discharge stage!"

"Energy balance reversed! Continuous net energy gain detected—instantaneous output power 87MW, exceeding input energy by 8.75%! Energy gain factor Q=1.09! Triple product broke through 6.5×10^21 keV·s/m^3."

"Qiankun No. 1 continuous net gain operation for 30 seconds."

"60 seconds."

"Net energy gain locked."

Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics.

At 7:00 PM, the last ray of sunset dyed the clouds on the horizon red.

A car with "CTV" printed on it stopped, and four people got off at the entrance with large and small bags.

A girl with a high ponytail looked at the building opposite. "Is this one of our country's two major fusion physics research centers? It's so imposing."

"No, now it should be the three major fusion physics research centers, and there is also the Kyoto Materials Ding Liyan."

Beside him, the big brother carrying the camera corrected.

The young man with glasses clearly didn't know much about this aspect. "But I heard that the volume of Qiankun No. 1 cannot be compared with Huanliu No. 3 and the Oriental Super Ring."

The camera brother smiled and said: "Sometimes, volume is not the standard to measure the advancement of a device. I think Qiankun No. 1 is very promising."

"This is my first time coming to this kind of technology unit. Wow, Brother Li, that side looks so sci-fi!"

"Little Zhang, don't forget the purpose of coming here."

Seeing the girl chattering, the leading female host reminded helplessly.

"Oh oh, okay."

The girl put away her excited expression, but her eyes couldn't help but glance around.