This incident alone can be regarded as a great achievement for China's controllable nuclear fusion industry.
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Southwest Institute of Physics.
"This is not a question of tuition fees. Are they willing to sell this thing?"
However, now, he can only rely on Academician Pan's connections in this field to find talents here and there.
In order to fill the domestic gap in stellarator research, Nanhua University organized three study tours to the Australian National University starting in 2017, and finally negotiated a cooperation, and finally spent 35 million Australian dollars to buy a "small" return.
He, who has not had much contact with the international academic community, really envy his network resources.
However, Lu Zhou couldn't afford to wait.
If given the choice, who would be willing to choose the H1-Heliac assembled by the Australian National University
After half a month of meetings and discussions, academicians of the two academies discussed and voted, and the project on stellarator research was finally officially implemented.
Lu Zhou returned to China this time and brought two great gifts to China.
Now a young man suddenly appears and another mountain is built next to him. It is impossible to say that there is no dissatisfaction in his heart.
After scolding Jia Liangcai in a low voice and looking at Jia Liangcai who quickly shut his mouth and said nothing, Academician Zhou continued speaking unhurriedly.
In fact, WEGA has been shut down since 2013, and the research focus of the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics has been entirely on the new toy Helix 7-X. There is still hope to convince them to sell WEGA.
After learning the news, Jia Liang couldn't help but clicked his tongue.
That's what I say, but it's impossible to say that it has no impact at all.
As for funding, the state is also quite generous, with a full one billion yuan.
As for Lu Zhou's two great gifts, Hua Guo reciprocated and responded with the utmost attention.
China can afford to wait, and the world can afford to wait. After all, controllable nuclear fusion itself is a century-old project.
Lu Zhou nodded, "If you want to join this industry, you can't save tuition."
After handing a compiled list into Lu Zhou's hands, Academician Pan said: "You plan to conduct research on stellarators. We don't have enough manpower and funds. We must first build a stellarator. This problem is more critical than what you said, how do you plan to solve it?"
Strictly speaking, domestic universities do not have a major in controlled nuclear fusion.
The experts who are engaged in research in this field are most professors in plasma physics or engineers in nuclear engineering.
"One billion dollars, this is too disrespectful of money."
Academician Pan looked moved and said in disbelief: "Are you planning to buy WEGA back?"
Of course, in addition to talent, there is a more critical issue that must be solved.
Now that the rice is available and the chef has prepared it, the only thing missing is a pot for cooking.
Guessing the old man's thoughts, Jia Liangcai continued, "You said that Academician Pan, although he is the veteran of our Chinese ITER cooperation group, the credit is not his alone, not to mention that he has retired. Now you are the leader of our domestic ITER cooperation group." The person in charge of the controlled nuclear fusion project.”
Compared with Japan and Germany, Australia's research on stellarators is obviously at the bottom. The H1-Heliac, independently designed and assembled by the Australian National University, is far from advanced.
The top management held meetings for several days in a row, and during these days, Lu Zhou was not idle. Under the introduction of Academician Pan, he met many domestic scholars engaged in research on controllable nuclear fusion.
One of them is the Nobel Prize, and the other is the pie of controllable nuclear fusion.
"Lu Zhou wants to engage in controllable nuclear fusion. He doesn't come to Chengdu to visit you, but instead takes up Academician Pan's banner and starts a new endeavor. Isn't it a little disrespectful?"
Although the level is parallel to the "EAST" project, in terms of funding, it is enough to cover the budgets of several "EAST" projects.
Lu Zhou thought that Academician Pan was worried about money for the country. After all, the stellarator was expensive to build. Even if it was retired WEGA, it would not be a small sum to buy it back.
Lu Zhou shook his head: "It's hard to say, but this matter can be discussed. I have some friendship with scholars at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics. It should be no problem to convince them to sell their old equipment that they don't use."
Zhou Chengfu, who was sitting in the middle of the office and reading the newspaper, said expressionlessly without raising his head.
After consulting Lu Zhou, the project team was named "STAR", which is parallel to the "EAST" tokamak controllable fusion reactor plan.
It is the so-called H1-Heliac.
The situation in China is different from that at Princeton. Research on stellarators can basically be said to be blank. When Lu Zhou was at the PPPL Research Institute, he could easily create a research team if he wanted to.
"What Dean Zhou said is true, I understand!"
"No matter how much money you have, it is something others have fought for, and we have nothing to do with it."
But the aura of a Nobel Prize winner…
Even if you win a Nobel Prize, it's not worth so much money, right
The research on controllable nuclear fusion itself is a money-burning project, but the country’s investment in this area is not unlimited.
After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.
If the "DEMO" demonstration reactor cannot be successfully ignited before 2025, the "Fusion Light" mission chain will be considered a failure. Although according to the system's consistent Buddhist principles, there is no saying that he should spit out the experience he has gained, but the reward for completing the task chain will undoubtedly say goodbye to him.
"Do your job well. Are you worried about these things?"
It's indeed a bit too dazzling.
There are only eight star simulators in operation in the world, including the H1-Heliac obtained by Nanhua University from Australia. As for the legendary "first quasi-cyclosymmetric stellarator" jointly built by China and Japan, the agreement was just signed last year, and it will take several years for the project to be implemented.
"When things here are settled, I will personally fly to Germany and try to negotiate this matter."
Although the flatbread was still raw and everyone could only look at it but not eat it, he was confident that he would be a good chef and bake the flatbread well.
Upon hearing this, Jia Liangcai suddenly smiled knowingly.
If Lu Zhou really has this way, he can buy back WEGA, which has been shut down in Germany.
Although the expression on Academician Zhou's face did not change much, Jia Liangcai could still tell that the old man was not very happy.
Considering that many equipment, including stellarators, need to be imported, the unit of this expenditure is naturally US dollars...
"He does what he does, and we do what we do. After all, star-simulating devices are not our specialty. If we can cooperate, we can cooperate. If we really can't, it's because our conditions are limited. Can he still blame us?"
However, in fact, what Academician Pan is worried about is not money at all.
After accepting the list from Academician Pan, Lu Zhou thought for a moment and said, "There is a star simulator in Germany that has been shut down, that is, WEGA, which is the prototype of the Spiral Stone 7X. We don't need to build one from beginning to end. You can just get a ready-made one and then modify it based on the original one.”
Hearing this, Pan Changhong looked envious.
After all, he alone had the final say in domestic research on controllable nuclear fusion.