Section 296
The workers on the scene responded one after another.
If Xiao Yi's words just now only made them feel convinced, then now, the ability that Xiao Yi showed made them admire him.
The entire project is so huge and the parts are so complicated. It is incredible that he can recognize where several cooling pipes should be installed in such a short time.
This is what a chief designer is!
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The follow-up work continued, and Xiao Yi also stayed on the scene to watch the assembly. As the cooling pipes began to be assembled and installed in the corresponding areas, there were no mistakes in the subsequent installation. All the pipes in area B13 were installed normally, which shows that Xiao Yi's judgment was completely correct.
This also made the workers on the scene more excited. Having such a leader who can quickly make up for mistakes even if they make mistakes is a shot in the arm for them.
So that the overall efficiency has increased a lot.
In this way, the entire installation process has become more orderly.
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Chapter 249 Ignition Day
Under Xiao Yi's command, the speed of the entire project was accelerated again.
However, just as Xiao Yi had expected, as the installation became louder and louder, they, who had already received all kinds of attention, attracted the attention of "foreign friends" without surprise.
More and more cooling pipes were installed, and there were also various cooling equipment, coils, etc., especially those things that were obviously power generation devices transported in, making it even more difficult to hide here.
In other words, nuclear fusion power generation does not need to build cooling towers like thermal power plants, but uses other more advanced cooling technologies. Otherwise, with the shape of the cooling tower, people might have guessed that the purpose of their new nuclear fusion device was to generate electricity.
For a time, whether it was the United Nations or the ITER Council, China was once again confronted.
"Director Zong, you still say that you haven't made significant progress in controlled nuclear fusion power generation?"
At another ITER board meeting, Director Shigeru Yamamoto from Japan started to attack directly at the beginning, and then threw out a bunch of information and handed it to every director present, saying: "According to our existing information, at least 20 steam turbine generators have been transported to China's Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute during this period of time, which is the location of the EAST-S project."
"If it is just for experiments, why bring so many steam turbine generators?"
"Whether from the perspective of experimental costs or experimental planning, this is something that should not happen in normal nuclear fusion research. I think Director Zong should explain this, otherwise, I will doubt that China has not fulfilled its obligations as an ITER member country!"
The representatives of the directors of other major member countries also looked at the relevant information in their hands and nodded, expressing their approval of Yamamoto's words.
"We in South Korea also agree with Japan's views. China's behavior is definitely a betrayal of ITER!"
"China has obtained so many advanced technologies in the field of nuclear fusion from ITER in the past to develop their own nuclear fusion technology. Now that they have made a breakthrough, they have not shared the technology with the organization as promised. I think this is a betrayal of ITER."
"I propose to initiate a vote to remove China from ITER!"
The American director representative also spoke: "Director Zong, I think you really should explain why this happened in your project."
"I hope you can understand what the purpose of ITER is, which is to achieve the major goal of nuclear fusion power generation within the scope of all mankind. This is a task that can benefit all mankind, and all the directors present are developed countries in the world today, and they are also the most important countries. Each of our countries should be aware of such obligations."
Then, other representatives of the European Union also spoke one after another, expressing their response to the United States.
As for Zong Chengping, looking at the information in his hand at this time, he was also puzzled.
Now he himself began to doubt whether their country was really going to achieve nuclear fusion.
Otherwise, why would there be such a big commotion?
Yes, in fact, even he, the representative of the ITER Council of China, did not know what Xiao Yi was researching. Even if he had asked the country before, the responses from the country were basically "It's just an ordinary nuclear fusion research institute!", "It's no different from other nuclear fusion devices!", "Don't think too much, if we really achieve nuclear fusion, do we still need to stay in ITER and suffer their bullying?" and so on.
Of course, he basically believed in these statements in his heart.
After all, he himself did not believe in nuclear fusion, and they could really achieve it with just a word of mouth in their country.
As a member of the Council, he was still very clear about how difficult this thing was.
But now, how come this movement looked like the real thing?
However, as the representative of the Council of China, he certainly did not allow these guys in front of him to spread rumors and cause trouble here, and he immediately began to refute.
"Director Kim of South Korea, look, you're starting over again. We've already said that if we really achieve nuclear fusion, do you think we still need to stay in ITER? Your words are really unreasonable."
"As for everyone thinking that we have achieved nuclear fusion just because some generators have been transported there, that's even more nonsense."
"Generators and successful nuclear fusion are not the same thing. I hope you understand this."
"Based on the current situation, I think you are basically making trouble. As Director Michael said just now, the purpose of our organization is to achieve nuclear fusion for all mankind and to benefit all mankind, not like you are now like children, turning our board of directors into a noisy place..."
After a series of sharp remarks, the directors of other countries were finally furious, but none of them believed what Zong Chengping said.
Until the end, the meeting ended in a whimper.
After returning to his office in China, Zong Chengping took a big sip of water to moisten his throat. At this time, another vice director of China said, "By the way, Director Zong, has our country really achieved nuclear fusion? I read the information and I feel that we have really achieved nuclear fusion."
Zong Chengping pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "You think so now, and I think so now."
"This movement now does look like something big."
He thought about it, and then said, "I'll ask the country what the situation is now."
He said half-jokingly, "I really hope that we can really achieve nuclear fusion, so that we can return to China earlier, and maybe we can enjoy the difference that the nuclear fusion era brings to our lives."
When the people present heard this, they all laughed.
Indeed, who among them doesn't want their country to really achieve nuclear fusion?
Soon, Zong Chengping called China. After some inquiries, the answer he got was not much different from the previous one.
It was nothing more than: Don't think too much, you will know when the time comes.
They could only shake their heads in disappointment.
Time passed quickly again.
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2026 is gradually coming to an end.
"It is still strong after thousands of blows, no matter the wind from the east, west, south or north."
A bamboo field was planted in the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute. It was the coldest month of winter. Under the biting cold wind, bamboo, as one of the three friends of winter, was still tough and upright.
Standing in front of the bamboo field, Xiao Yi couldn't help but recite this poem that all Chinese people are familiar with.
"Chief Engineer Xiao recited this poem. Did he think of our current situation?"
Beside him, many people including Li Jiangan were also standing here. Li Jiangan said with a smile.
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows, became interested, and asked, "What do you mean?"
Li Jiangan said, "We are facing a lot of things in order to build this thing. It can be said that there are wolves around us. There are so many countries outside, all of them are staring at us, and they are almost eating us alive!"
The people around him nodded and agreed with Li Jiangan's words.
In terms of the current international environment, it is indeed the case.
After listening, Xiao Yi smiled and said, "It's okay to be surrounded by wolves. When jackals come, they have hunting rifles, and they dare not take risks."
Then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go. Since our reactor has been built, let's go and take a look first."
Then he did not stay next to the bamboo, but walked towards the white building in the distance.
The white building that originally looked like a semi-finished product is now complete.
Various pipelines, or strange-looking things, are intricately spread around, and quite a number of other buildings have been newly built around, stretching for several kilometers.
And these other newly built buildings are the most critical generators.
In Xiao Yi's design, the peak power generation capacity of the Zaori reactor is as high as 40GW, equivalent to 40,000MW, while the total installed capacity of China's largest thermal power plant is only 7,000MW, which is almost six times the gap.
Of course, the Zaori reactor is naturally impossible to generate peak power right away. It mainly supplies power to Fei City and several nearby cities. The average annual power consumption of these cities is 100 billion, and only 15GW is needed to meet it.
After all, the loss in the transmission process must be taken into account. Therefore, if power is to be supplied to other cities in the future, it is naturally best to build another fusion reactor around other cities to generate electricity.
Wait until the power consumption increases in the future, and then gradually increase to the peak.
For these reasons, the total power of the steam turbine generator near the Zaori reactor is only 20GW, but the area occupied by the 20GW generator set is naturally quite huge. These generators stretch out for several kilometers, which is no joke.
All in all, the area occupied by the entire nuclear reactor plus other supporting facilities is almost several square kilometers.
It is no wonder that those foreign organizations are so anxious. Such a large nuclear fusion reactor must cost tens of billions of dollars. How can they not be anxious?
How can a single country spend so much money on nuclear fusion experiments?
The estimated cost of ITER is only about 20 billion euros, but this money is jointly funded by 7 member parties and it takes decades. On average, it is less than 1 billion euros a year. If you average it out, it will be even less.
But this reactor was funded and built by China itself, and it took only more than a year and less than two years.
How could they not pay attention to this?
But unfortunately, with China's unique industrial capacity and mobilization capabilities, this huge device was built like this.
After entering the white building, Xiao Yi and his team began to circle around the entire device.
The entire UO device is actually embedded in the ground. After all, the size of this device is too large, a thousand times that of UOmini. In order to make the entire device stable, it is naturally built underground for the most stability.
In addition, there are various pipelines, which may be superconducting coils or cooling devices.
There are the most cooling pipes, because they not only cool the superconducting coils, but also the solar reactor, and take away the heat generated by fusion to the nearby steam turbine generators to drive the operation of the generators.
It is so complicated, like a jungle of pipes.
As more and more people on the scene see, they are more amazed at the brain of their chief engineer Xiao.
They really want to know how Xiao Yi designed such a complex device with his own ability, almost to the point of precision in every place.