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Chapter 281 Official announcement: Power station plan! International focus on the Chaos Field Research Group!

The two papers published by Source Point Physics have had a huge impact.

International public opinion is discussing the relevant information and its possible impact, and the first thing discussed is the fission of atomic nuclei.

The fission of atomic nuclei by nuclear force is the so-called 'unknown nuclear reaction'.

Once the reaction has been technically deciphered, it's actually no big deal. The focus is on the technology itself, that is, how to create and control the reaction. Of course, there will be no relevant information in the paper.

The main content of subsequent public opinion discussions was several major technologies derived from the rational splitting of atomic nuclei.

Made of gold.

Ion anti-air weapon.

Now there is a new energy technology, which is discussed to be even more influential than the previous two and can be said to be able to affect the world pattern.

Energy is the root cause of modern warfare and involves interests from all aspects.

After the news came out, the first thing to be affected was the price of crude oil. The international crude oil price fell by more than eight points because the outlook for crude oil deteriorated.

Although the paper only contains technology-related information, in simple terms it introduces related technologies and experiments. It is still uncertain whether it can be transformed into applications, but because it is linked to new physical directions, its influence is also different.

Gold manufacturing and ion anti-aircraft weapons, the influence of both can already be seen.

Many people expect that energy technology based on nuclear fission reactions will also have a very large impact, and may even easily surpass the first two technologies in the future.

Crude oil is just one of the fossil fuels affected.

When crude oil prices plummeted, experts immediately stood up and pointed out that "based on publicly available technical information, new energy technologies will support the construction of power plants in the future."

"As a result, all fossil fuels will be affected, but coal will be the most affected."

"If new energy technologies start to support the construction of large-scale power plants, the amount of domestic coal imports will decrease year by year."

“Now we only look at the cost of technology application…”

There is basis for this statement.

There are many thermal power stations in the country, and the raw material of thermal power stations is coal, so the country imports a large amount of coal every year.

If new energy technologies support the construction of power stations, the number of thermal power stations will inevitably decrease in the future.

Coal imports will naturally be greatly reduced.

The cost of manufacturing and maintaining new energy technologies is also important.

If the cost of building and operating a power station is too high, it can only be used as an experiment in the short term. Even if a power station is manufactured, it will only be experimental and will not be popularized in the short term.

But even if it is just a possibility, the impact is still huge.

After a lot of analysis, the coal index plummeted, and other fossil energy sources were also affected, but the decline was relatively smaller.

At this time, many people are just waiting and watching.

Now it is just a technical paper published, and there is no information related to the technology cost. It is still unknown whether the technology can be popularized.

If the technology can really become popular, it will not only affect fossil energy, but also many more areas, because energy involves all aspects of human technological life, and perhaps people's lives will change as a result.

For example, if electricity is easy to produce, then electricity prices will fall and the number of products in our lives that are powered by electricity will increase.

In the international academic field, the most influential is the International Thermonuclear Research Organization.

If the impact on energy status is an expectation for the future, the impact on nuclear fusion research and development is direct.

The reason is simple: the new energy technology is more efficient and controllable than nuclear fusion, and the materials are not restricted at all.

Theoretically, carbon and silicon, which are commonly found on the earth, can be used as raw materials for the reaction.

Nuclear fusion also requires the radioactive element "tritium".

In addition, the new energy technology has a very low radioactivity index and can replace nuclear fusion from a radioactivity perspective.

In this way, the research and development of nuclear fusion seems to have lost its meaning.

The International Thermonuclear Research Organization is a very large project. The "Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project", or ITER, alone costs more than $50 billion.

ITER is just one of the projects of the research organization.

The research group has more than 100 member teams under it, and the domestic artificial sun project team is just one of them.

Countries such as South Korea and Germany have invested heavily in nuclear fusion research.

The purpose of these investments is to hope that one day, nuclear fusion can be controlled and produce energy continuously.

After the emergence of new physics, the research and development of nuclear fusion was not affected. Especially after discovering that Zhang Shuo was also studying nuclear fusion, many countries and institutions increased their investment.

The same goes for the domestic artificial sun project team. They received more funding than in previous years and just completed a new round of equipment modifications a few months ago.

Many people believe that new physics developments will have no impact on nuclear fusion research.

Controlled nuclear fusion represents the future energy technology of mankind, and the main research direction is to control and confine nuclear fusion reactions with the tokamak spiral magnetic field.

Now we have new energy technologies that are more efficient, more controllable, have very little radiation, and have unlimited raw materials...

Even scholars who study nuclear fusion cannot find a reason to continue their research.

Many people can only wait and see for the time being, and can't help but think, "The new energy technology can't be so perfect, it must have shortcomings."

“Its shortcomings may prevent it from widespread use.”

"But I don't know yet."

They can only wait and see.

Some of them were able to get first-hand information. Professor Song Ruifei from the domestic artificial sun project contacted Zhang Shuo as soon as possible.

Song Ruifei asked bluntly, "Is that new energy technology real?"

There was obvious anxiety in his voice.

Like other scholars in the same field, Song Ruifei felt incredible when he saw the new energy technology. He also doubted his academic life, "Does it mean that my work has lost its meaning?"

"I've been researching this for more than 20 years, and in the end... I was eliminated?"

He suffered a severe psychological blow.

Zhang Shuo said bluntly, "The technology is real."

"And it will be put into use soon. I guess they will build a power station, right?"

After he finished speaking, he found that the other party was silent, so he comforted him, "Professor Song, you don't have to think too much. Your research is still very meaningful."

"We have also sent a special team to work with you, hoping to determine information related to the strong force from the ultra-high temperature ion control experiment."

"This kind of research is of great significance. It can increase our understanding of the strong force and improve theories related to the strong force..."

Zhang Shuo said a lot of things in succession, emphasizing that the experiment was very meaningful.

Song Ruifei's mood did not improve. He found that his team had been conducting research for a long time, but the only purpose was to help Zhang Shuo measure the data related to strength?

But, come to think of it, there is no solution.

This is the current situation. What if we don’t accept it?
In comparison, other research teams were even more miserable, and their research became meaningless.

Once it is determined that a new energy technology can be widely used, many research teams face disbandment.

The reason is simple. With new alternative technology directions available, why should we continue to research technology that is extremely difficult to control and has almost no hope of success?
Zhang Shuo had no choice this time.

This is the reality. In the field of scientific and technological research and development, when a certain technology can be realized, there will often be breakthroughs and then it will soon enter the application stage.

Technologies that have been continuously developed for decades but have yet to be applied on a large scale will often be replaced by other alternative technologies, and it will be difficult for research to make breakthroughs.

This is what nuclear fusion is.

The same is true for superconductivity.

Some other technologies, such as magnetic levitation and electromagnetic guns, have been studied for a long time, but there have been very few technological breakthroughs and they have been unable to be applied on a large scale.

Of course, it's not absolute.

This is the current situation. New energy technologies can replace nuclear fusion and are about to enter the application stage. Naturally, research on nuclear fusion has lost its meaning.

Zhang Shuo comforted Song Ruifei patiently because he could understand Song Ruifei's feelings.

After hanging up the phone, he continued to focus on his work, which was to transform the chaos force field research equipment.

The Chaos Field Research Group's restart of safety transformation work did not receive much attention from the outside world.

The international focus has always been on nuclear fission reactions and the energy technologies developed from them.

Two weeks later, a piece of information related to new energy technology once again caused a stir in international public opinion.

The National Development and Planning Commission announced the launch of the 'New Energy Power Plant Construction Plan', preparing to build a large-scale power plant based on nuclear fission reactions.

The release of this news is of an official nature.

At the related press conference, officials and press officers discussed many issues, including plan content, funding, R&D status, and plan schedule.

Judging from the content of the press conference, the plan has been implemented immediately.

After the press conference, various international fossil energy indexes suffered another heavy blow.

International public opinion also had heated discussions surrounding the release of information.

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Institute of High Energy Physics, Electron-Positron Collider Experimental Base, Chaos Force Field Research Group.

Zhang Shuo, Yu Fei, Deng Yunshan and others focused on the safety transformation work, and the core of it was the transformation of the equipment.

A week ago, the equipment modification work was completed and the interior was carefully tested.

After the testing work was completed, the research team welcomed a group of guests, or members of the "international cooperation group".

The project's international cooperation group has been established and now has eight members.

Each member state and institution has sent a special team that will participate in the experimental data analysis, and some scholars are also allowed to join the experiment.

Mohammed Owilan Shahrani is one of the scholars who was allowed to participate in the experiment. He was qualified to participate in the experiment not because of his high academic level, but because of his background - the Shat team.

The Shat team was one of the first members to join the project's international cooperation group.

They signed the cooperation agreement very readily and invested a huge amount of US$3 billion specifically to support preliminary experimental work.

As a big customer, they are naturally treated as big customers, and their scholars have the opportunity to participate in "the most cutting-edge international experiments."

Mohammed was also excited about taking part in the experiment, but he was also worried about the risks involved.

Major experimental accidents occurred last year and this year, affecting Fermilab and the Organization for Nuclear Research, making them unable to conduct experiments and causing huge human and economic losses.

Now it is the Institute of High Energy...

Will it be safe?

Muhammad was really worried. He had to participate in the experiment on site. If any safety problems occurred, his own safety could not be guaranteed.

So after arriving at the experimental base, Muhammad asked several times in a row, "Are you sure it's safe?"

After meeting Zhang Shuo, Muhammad asked, "Professor Zhang Shuo, will you also participate in the experiment?"

"I won't be at the experiment site."

"Why? Because I'm worried about the risks of the experiment..."

"No."

Zhang Shuo said, "Other people were worried about the risks of the incident, so they didn't let me participate, but I personally think that safety is guaranteed."

"..."

Muhammad felt that Zhang Shuo's words were unconvincing.

But there is no way out at this point. Not every scholar is qualified to participate in frontline experiments. He was able to get this opportunity not because of his ability, but because the country paid a large amount of research and development funds.

The scholars from the international cooperation group were very satisfied after arriving at the experimental base.

First, they met Zhang Shuo.

In the field of new physics, Zhang Shuo is the most influential figure and the most authoritative scholar in the world.

Zhang Shuo leads the experimental research, which gives people confidence.

In addition, they received confirmed news that the experiment would be restarted soon.

"It will probably take another half a month. After completing other safety modifications, the experiment can be restarted."

Yu Fei introduced, "Our main equipment has been transformed, and there is still some testing work to be done."

“Those are of a protective nature.”

"As long as there is no problem with the main equipment, there will be no problem with the others."

After it was confirmed that the experiment would be restarted, members of the project's international cooperation group were very much looking forward to it, but at the same time, many people also became worried.

Fermilab conducted an experiment that caused the equipment to explode and also affected the particle collider acceleration pipeline.

The Nuclear Organization conducted an experiment, and the underground accident shocked the whole world, and the specific losses have not been clarified until now.

It can be predicted that no nuclear organizations will conduct hadron collision experiments for at least the next year.

As for the research on chaos force fields, it may take two or three years, depending on the follow-up situation. It is not that the safety problem cannot be solved, but the experiments will not be restarted for a longer period of time.

Now that the Institute of High Energy Physics is conducting experiments, there won’t be any more problems, right?

"Professor Zhang Shuo will lead the team. No problem."

"Not necessarily. The experiment is too risky. There should be a nuclear fission reaction inside, right?"

"According to the paper published by Professor Zhang Shuo, the strong force field must have affected the equipment pipeline, and the high-density material reaction generated a large amount of heat energy, which further led to the explosion."

"The reaction principle is clear, so how is it restricted? What kind of internal modifications have they made? Is it effective?"

Many people were discussing it privately.

No matter what they say, it will not affect the progress of the experimental plan.

Another week passed, and the Institute of High Energy Physics announced that the safety transformation work was completed and that the chaos force field experiment would be restarted soon.

After the news was released, it immediately attracted international attention.

The international focus has once again shifted to the Institute of High Energy Physics' chaotic force field research group.

(End of this chapter)