Chapter 1705: Stable Power Alliance

As the initiator and leader of the entire fusion demonstration reactor project, Chang Haonan naturally has final authority within the team.

After he made his request, Liang Jianguo immediately turned around and instructed a young engineer standing by the door:

"Xiao Liu, hurry up and get the CD number C-017 that we brought back!"

"Yes, Academician Liang!"

The young engineer took the order, turned around and walked away quickly.

While waiting, Chang Haonan continued to sort out his thoughts, as if explaining to the other two:

"There are many possible causes for magnetic field-induced plasma disruption, but the vast majority are related to abnormal magnetic field morphology... Cases like this, where there's a strong correlation with magnetic induction intensity, or coil current, are actually rare. It's most likely due to poorly controlled poloidal flux variations, inducing toroidal eddy currents in the surrounding conductor structure, or the plasma coming into contact with surrounding conductors, generating corona currents."

"Whichever the case, the problem lies in the design of the fusion device itself, not the magnetic field system..."

"..."

Liang Jianguo pondered for a moment, then tentatively spoke, "But Academician Chang, similar situations have occurred in the TCV tokamak devices in Switzerland and the ASDEXUpgrade tokamak devices in Germany..."

What he meant was very simple: if two independent devices have experienced the same problem, the equipment factor can usually be ruled out.

But he was interrupted halfway through his words.

"That doesn't prove anything," Chang Haonan said firmly. "In fact, looking back from my perspective now, the old plasma theory system contained many fundamental errors. These errors led to several common problems in all previous magnetic confinement fusion devices, including EAST."

"In other words, they are not independent of each other on this issue..."

Liang Jianguo stopped talking immediately——

Although he has not fully understood it, he is very sure that the theoretical system of magnetohydrodynamics proposed by Chang Haonan through the general solution of the NS equation is almost a dimensionality reduction attack on the old theory.

There's nothing to question.

Just at this moment, engineer Xiao Liu trotted back to the conference room and handed a CD with the label "C-017" to Liang Jianguo.

The latter quickly inserted it into the CD-ROM drive of the conference room computer.

A folder quickly popped up on the screen, containing dozens of data files named according to date and experiment number.

Chang Haonan walked to the computer, leaned over to control the mouse, and directly clicked on several of the largest files marked with "DisruptionEvent".

Data cascades across the screen, all raw sampled values ​​that are difficult to analyze directly.

Liang Jianguo quickly moved a chair for Chang Haonan to sit down, and he stood behind him, holding his breath and trying to keep up with the pace, hoping to discover details that his team had previously overlooked.

However, Chang Haonan browsed the data at an astonishing speed.

His eyes seemed to be able to instantly capture the relationship between key parameters. The mouse wheel slid rapidly, sometimes quickly scrolling through large swaths of seemingly unrelated data, and sometimes suddenly stopping at an inconspicuous parameter point, zooming in, and comparing it with a curve in another file.

The complex waveforms and parallel timing data of up to dozens of parameters looked like a clearly structured map to him.

Liang Jianguo tried hard to keep up with the train of thought, but found it difficult for him to even see the data values ​​that flashed by, let alone make instant analysis and judgments.

After just a few minutes, he felt his head swelling and had to rub his temples helplessly, giving up the idea.

He quietly walked over to Peng Juexian, who was taking a break while drinking tea, and sighed in a low voice, "Old Peng, does Academician Chang usually always run at this... this speed?"

"That's not it."

Peng Juexian put down the teacup and decisively gave a negative answer.

But before Liang Jianguo could breathe a sigh of relief, he changed the subject and added, "The technical documents related to fusion are still too complicated. Academician Chang used to read other materials faster than this."

"..."

Liang Jianguo was speechless for a moment and could only smile bitterly and shake his head. He was deeply shocked.

For the next hour, the conference room remained silent, with only the occasional sound of Chang Haonan typing on the keyboard and clicking the mouse, as well as the occasional rustling of papers.

Just when Liang Jianguo was about to be hypnotized by this focused silence, he suddenly heard Chang Haonan raise his voice and shout:

"found it!"

Liang Jianguo and Peng Juexian jumped up from their chairs almost at the same time and walked quickly to the computer screen.

Chang Haonan quickly circled several areas on the data waveform with his mouse cursor:

"Look at these data sets. Especially at the point approximately 3.5 milliseconds before the rupture, the current in the toroidal field coil fluctuates abnormally. The data from the coupled induced eddy current monitoring points on the vacuum chamber wall shows a spike, accompanied by a huge radial electromagnetic force load feedback... This is a very typical characteristic of strong toroidal eddy currents induced by rapid changes in the poloidal field!"

After that, he pulled up a structural diagram file. "This is the design diagram of the vacuum chamber and cold shield structure of the TCV device. Look here, its cross-section and conductor loop design are clearly derived from the classic 'Princeton-D' design."

"However, this design has inherent errors in calculating eddy current density when dealing with transient electromagnetic processes at high field strengths. This can lead to electromagnetic interference between the centerline of the toroidal magnetic field lines and the actual inner boundary of the toroidal plasma. This interference effect can significantly exacerbate plasma instabilities and easily induce rapid upward vertical displacement events (VDEs)..."

"..."

Chang Haonan spoke very quickly, but fortunately Liang Jianguo and Peng Juexian were also top experts themselves, so they basically understood most of what he said.

"So, Academician Chang, what you're saying is that the TCV device's rupture problem stems from the mismatch between its vacuum chamber design and the high-field operation mode, not from any flaws or inadequacies in the magnetic field system provided by SNI itself?"

"Exactly," Chang Haonan nodded affirmatively. "SNI's magnetic field system is healthy, and even has excess performance. It's entirely possible to operate the system at a designed strength of 17.5T, rather than the rated strength of 15T!"

Hearing this, the corners of Peng Juexian's mouth immediately curled up.

This means that "JuNeng No. 1" has gained a huge performance bonus out of thin air.

A superconducting magnetic field system with a nominal capacity of 15T but which can actually be used at a standard of 17.5T or even higher will undoubtedly significantly improve the plasma confinement performance of the demonstration reactor and the ultimate energy gain expectations.

But soon, some concerns arose in his mind.

"Mr. Chang, if we use it at 17.5T, then the related recalculations, local structural reinforcement designs, and even adaptive modifications to the control system...will this series of work significantly delay the progress of the demonstration reactor project?"

"No," Chang Haonan said without hesitation. "'Energy Concentration No. 1' was designed based on a completely new theory from the outset, completely avoiding the inherent flaws of devices like TCVs. Furthermore, adjusting the upper limit of the magnetic field system's operation essentially involves unlocking a preset parameter limit at the software level of the central control system, without requiring any changes to the hardware itself..."

"..."

"In short, I can say responsibly that as long as the subsystem production process goes smoothly, the 'Junneng No. 18' demonstration reactor can complete all construction work and achieve plasma ignition within months."

18 months!

Such a clear and definite time point greatly excited Peng Juexian and Liang Jianguo.

They knew that Chang Haonan would not easily give time guarantees.

But as long as we export, we will be fully confident.

Soon, this landmark conclusion was turned into a formal technical report and quickly reported.

Subsequently, it became the core starting point for a series of subsequent major decisions.

A week later, China Nuclear Industry Group held a press conference and officially announced:

Based on major technological breakthroughs and supply chain guarantees, the world's first gigawatt-level commercial fusion power demonstration reactor, "JuNeng No. 2018", has been confirmed to be officially completed and put into grid-connected power generation before the end of .

The global energy industry was instantly shocked!

This is far more specific and severe than the impact caused by Hu Shouzhi's previous remarks.

Because it provides an extremely clear and imminent timetable.

However, this is still just the beginning.

Just a few minutes after the release of the "Energy Concentration No. 1" schedule, China once again dropped an even more powerful strategic-level "bomb".

The China National Nuclear Corporation, together with the China Nuclear Industry Group and the China Nuclear Engineering Group, jointly released the "White Paper on the Development Plan of the Fusion Energy Industry", announcing that within the next five years, it will start building a cluster of fusion power generation facilities with a total installed capacity of more than 15GW, aiming to completely reverse the energy structure and build a world-leading clean energy base.

In addition, to promote regional energy cooperation and green development, State Grid Corporation of China is working closely with the People's Bank of China to launch a cross-border electricity trade agreement framework that will be denominated and settled in offshore RMB and bound to long-term stable electricity use rights. The plan is named the "Stable Power Alliance."

China has pledged to provide green, stable, sufficient and competitively priced electricity resources to member states of the alliance, and to maintain the basic electricity security of member states within the framework of the agreement.

As soon as the news came out, analysts in the global political and economic circles immediately sensed implications that were far more profound and dangerous than fusion technology itself.

The so-called "Stable Electricity Alliance" is by no means a simple electricity export trade, but rather the use of electricity directly as an anchor for currency and a value support.

If successful, it will fundamentally weaken or even completely destroy the current US dollar financial system.

And this is China’s real counterattack against the previous “SWIFT threat”!