Chapter 783: You Isolated the Three of Us Alone

December 4th, Saturday.

Xu Qingzhou had originally planned to go out and exercise with Song Yao, but who knew he would stay in the laboratory until 5:30 PM. He had been busy for more than 5 hours and had actually gained something, creating a framework for a plan to prevent high-heat load impacts with the researchers.

Xu Qingzhou came out of the laboratory, took out his phone, first reported to Song Yao, and then went to keep his appointment with Xu Zhengyang and the others, "Have you eaten?"

"I used leftovers to cook noodles."

"Eating noodles at night, be careful of getting fat."

"Pfft, I went for a run in the afternoon. You just got out of the institute?"

"Yeah, I'm planning to go to the Changchun Garden area."

"Don't drink too much."

"Got it, alright, that's all for now."

Xu Qingzhou hung up the phone, intending to go to the parking lot.

The cold wind from the northwest was blowing, the atmosphere of winter was thick, and the snow from a few days ago still remained on the bare branches. Sunlight fell, and the tree shadows swayed.

Walking alone on the small path of the institute, he would still feel a bit dazed occasionally.

Compared to two years ago, the street trees on both sides were thicker, giving it the feeling of an old-established institute.

"All the work for the Longwan demonstration reactor has entered the right track; by this time next year, we should be able to conduct the first ignition experiment."

"In addition to the construction of the demonstration reactor, the miniaturization of the tokamak is also a direction."

Future aerospace fields, distributed energy, etc., all had demands. Take the former as an example: the Qiankun tokamak was huge, already reaching 25,000 tons, but aerospace thrusters required a mass of less than 450 kilograms.

"Once the energy problem is solved, the focus of future competition will definitely shift to space."

Xu Qingzhou pondered, turned a corner, and headed toward the parking lot.

The US had already released a series of plans, among which NASA's MARVL project intended to use fusion reactors to generate electricity, ionizing propellant to generate thrust, and shorten the travel time to Mars to within 2 years.

"Tokamak technology is suitable for spacecraft, but for the energy supply of bases, stellarators are still needed."

"The progress of the CFQS stellarator is still relatively slow, lagging behind Germany and the US, and even worse than Japan. The Xia Nation's foundation in the construction of stellarators is still too thin."

When the CFQS stellarator was first established, it originally had technical support from Japan, and a cooperation agreement was signed at the time, but relations had been tense in recent years, and it eventually became the Xia Nation doing it themselves.

Fortunately, he had previously obtained the plasma confinement optimization and diagnostic and heating technology of Germany's W7-X through an exchange; otherwise, the construction of the CFQS stellarator would have been even more difficult.

"If there's a chance, I still have to get some technology from over there."

Xu Qingzhou was thinking about Klinger and the others' stellarator technology. By this time, he had also arrived at the parking lot.

"Professor." Liu Bin was already waiting in front of the car.

"Go to the Changchun Garden block."

Xu Qingzhou put away his thoughts and said to Liu Bin.

"Alright."

20 minutes later,

Xu Qingzhou arrived at 101's old gathering spot, the Old Kyoto Shabu-Shabu Lamb Restaurant.

Xu Qingzhou entered the private room and found only Xu Zhengyang there, so he asked: "Old Zhai and Old Kong haven't arrived yet?"

Just now in the group chat, these two had already said they were out the door.

"Said they'd be here immediately." Xu Zhengyang smiled.

Xu Qingzhou sat down and sipped some hot tea to drive away the winter chill: "Then serve the dishes first. Don't say, I really do miss this taste."

He had been brainstorming the whole afternoon, and now he was really a bit hungry.

He looked at Xu Zhengyang, who had cut his hair into a big crew cut, "Why the crew cut?"

This guy Xu Zhengyang had been shouting during his undergraduate years that he didn't want to continue studying, but now he had already started his first year of doctoral studies.

"Cutting it short looks spirited."

"Those who don't know would think you just got out of prison."

"Pfft, with me being this handsome, do I need to commit crimes? I could just find a rich woman and have no worries about food and drink."

Xu Zhengyang touched his hair flirtatiously.

"I recorded you, I'll send it to Chen Shiqi in a while."

"Cough~ don't, I'm joking. If she hears it, I'll have to sleep on the sofa tonight." Xu Zhengyang said with a bitter face.

"Your family status..." ===== CHAPTER 784 =====