"How is Academician Katomtsev?"

Hu Wenhai had just got out of the car and walked two steps to see Wan Xi running over to ask him. Although Katomtev was an academician of the Soviet Union, he did easily conquer many people with his great personality charm.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, even many Chinese people present felt that their values ​​had been seriously impacted, let alone those like Katomtsev who devoted their lives to the Soviet Union. When they heard about Katomtsev's depressed will, Wan Xi and others in the plasma institute were the most worried.

Not only because Katomtsev is an authority in nuclear fusion, not only because he is an academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, but also because he is a high position and has a high authority, but also because he cannot bear to see such a pure scientist and patriot, which will fall to such a level.

Wan Xi's anxiety and concerns are also purely out of a person's most basic compassion, and I hope that a good person can avoid an unfortunate ending.

Hu Wenhai smiled and nodded softly: "When I left, Academician Katomtev was destroying a pot of Russian stew and a whole big liba. Not only that, there is also good news to tell Director Wan."

"Oh? Eat? That's good, that's good!" Wan Xi smiled sincerely. Katomtev was willing to eat, and his appetite was very high, which means he had already come out of setbacks. Knowing that he was hungry, that means he had the will to survive and the motivation to survive. As long as people are alive, they can always stand up from all disasters.

Wan Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did he realize that Hu Wenhai had not finished speaking, he asked quickly: "Academician Katomtev can recover, this is the best news. What better news does Mr. Hu have?"

Hu Wenhai pursed his lips proudly, reluctantly curled his smile, and said, "Academician Katomtev has agreed in principle that the Kurchatov Institute and your Plasma Institute jointly set up a joint research institute in Dagang. The main work of this joint research institute in the next three years is to help HT-7 transform and use the experience gained from the HT-7 experimental device to complete the design of an experimental fusion reactor by 1995."

When Wan Xi heard Hu Wenhai's words, he was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. Katomtsev's firm rejection had completely dispelled his hope for cooperation. However, he did not expect that things would have a turnaround.

With the accumulation of the Kurchatov Institute, the transformation of the ht-7 device will not only be faster, but also have a more comprehensive experiment. There is no doubt that this will be the most advanced fusion engineering experimental device in the world at present.

It's quite pitiful to say that the scientific community always claims that "it's only 25 years before the success of nuclear fusion." Then 25 years passed one after another, but there was no result. But few people know that in the early 1990s, there were only three devices that could provide experimental data on nuclear fusion engineering in the world. When HT-7 was built, the fourth nuclear fusion player appeared in the world.

It is not always 25 years to rely on these four devices to overcome the difficult nuclear fusion? If you want to turn 25 years into 24 years, it is not enough to let time pass in vain, but to invest real money and silver.

If the previous distance between the plasma institute and the successful nuclear fusion was "30 years", then with the addition of the Kurchatov Institute, the plasma institute will soon be qualified to reach the "25-year" starting line with the "Kurchatov Institute".

With such a strong support, how could Wan Xi be unhappy? But he did not expect that today's surprise was not just that. Today is destined to be an extraordinary day for Wan Xi and plasma.

Hu Wenhai waited for him to be almost happy, and then continued: "As long as the experimental reactor is designed, the new science will invest 10 billion US dollars in ten years to help you successfully build this nuclear fusion experimental reactor. This is just the investment of the new science. I believe that with this fund, the Institute of Plasma should be able to apply for part of the supporting funds from the Academy of Sciences."

Wan Xi almost didn't hear Hu Wenhai finish his words, and he felt dizzy with a bang. Can the Kurchatov Institute be worth 10 billion US dollars? The Soviet Union began to invest in nuclear fusion research and development in the 1950s, and the total investment was 10 billion US dollars?

As the saying goes, humans have insufficient investment in nuclear fusion. This is not surprising at all, because humans have no need to invest in nuclear fusion research and development. In terms of energy supply, the earth's fossil energy reserves can fully meet industrial needs, and the cost of oil extraction and use is low enough, so they are naturally not interested in the research on alternative energy.

Especially the two countries that have sufficient ability to invest in fusion research, the Soviet Union itself was a "country disguised as a gas station". Its own benefits of oil resources and the demand for new energy is not urgent. There is no reason to invest too urgently in controlling fusion research and development.

The United States is more dependent on the oil economy. The petrodollar system that has been established has been difficult to establish. How threat to this system is due to the successful global turmoil caused by nuclear fusion can be seen clearly by people with a little common sense. If a laboratory really dares to develop fusion technology, it will be invited by oil tycoons to make local aircraft in minutes.

Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union have reason to invest capital to vigorously develop nuclear fusion technology, so it is not strange that insufficient investment is needed.

However, in the fusion club, a new player suddenly appeared.

Before the 1990s, China was also an oil exporter. However, after the 1990s, it would not only be a net oil importer, but also become the world's largest oil importer.

Unlike the United States and the Soviet Union, China not only does not have the ability to manipulate international oil supply, but also is also an amazingly poor oil-poor country. Most domestic oil fields are either exhausted or difficult to exploit. The oil produced is of poor quality and high cost. It can be said that it has suffered enough of oil resources.

China's development of nuclear fusion technology can be said to be without any burden. On the contrary, as long as the Chinese sun is lit, there will be no more factors that can threaten China's industrial system. In the fusion club, only China really wants to develop nuclear fusion.

Historically, civilization progress was often accompanied by crises. Due to food scarcity in the cold zone, agricultural civilization emerged. Europeans had to sail to sea because they were poor, which kicked off the era of great navigation. In contrast, in tropical areas, because food is within reach, there is almost no civilization worth mentioning. The rich East enjoyed the inflow of silver in the Americas and missed the opportunity for great navigation.

From the day China began its rise, it faced an energy crisis. The result of facing this crisis and challenges determines China's destiny for the next hundred years, or even a thousand years.

So in this regard, although Hu Wenhai did not have the slightest advantage of being reborn, he would not frown no matter how huge the investment was. With the ten billion US dollars he invested, the country must provide considerable supporting funds for plasma. At least, the national investment must be equal to Hu Wenhai's investment. Otherwise, if nuclear fusion is really "inadvertently" caused by a private enterprise, wouldn't it be too embarrassing?

Wan Xi may not have considered these questions, but at this moment, he was left with ecstasy that could not be concealed.

One hundred billion US dollars fell from the sky, this one ten billion US dollars! He felt that every step he took was like stepping on cotton, and the beauty was full of unreality. To be honest, Wan Xi even dreamed that there would be such a day.

"By 1995, I took out the design of an experimental pile, but it was a bit tight, right?" Hu Wenhai narrowed his eyes, unable to hide his smile anymore, and asked, "Director Wan, are there any difficulties you have?"

"Difficult?" Wan Xi waved his hand. How could he be afraid of the investors at this time? It immediately became a three-way series: "What difficulty? It doesn't exist, the only difficulty is lack of money!"

That being said, Wan Xi was still worried after all. The nuclear fusion experimental reactor is an unprecedented project in the world. He is really unsure whether he can do it. But no matter whether he has a foundation or not, he must be confident.

Hu Wenhai looked at Wan Xi's perseverance, but he smiled without saying a word. He had stronger confidence in the plasma institute than Wan Xilai's.

With sufficient financial support, it is inevitable that the progress of the HT-7 device will be accelerated. In the original history, China's East full-superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental reactor started project in 1998 and started construction in 2000. It took only more than five years to complete the project construction.

With Hu Wenhai's support, if the new fusion reactor plan starts in 1995 and is completed around 2000, it will only be five years faster than in history.

No experiment can be achieved in one step. With the foundation of this experimental reactor, the transformation investment will continue to be carried out on the basis of this experimental reactor. It takes five to ten years to gradually build it into a perfect experimental reactor similar to the European iter. At that time, compared with the iter with slow progress, China's nuclear fusion experiment will have unparalleled advantages, and we don't even know whether the iter project can exist.

Historically, the Iter project started construction in 2006 and is expected to take ten years. If the project can be successful, it can basically be said that humans are only one step away from the success of fusion energy.

Using the experience accumulated by the Iter project and the verified theories, the next generation of fusion reactors can be fully put into commercial operation. It can be said that the Iter project really looks beautiful in theory, but the reality is cruel.

Judging from the capabilities of the Wanhe Plasma Institute in the original history, it is really not difficult to get rid of the Iter. It is said that it was built in ten years. China's CFETR engineering experimental reactor will start construction in 2020. The experiment of Cadalashe in France may not have been put into experiments, and it seems that the project is completed in a long time.

Hu Wenhai even had a premonition that the cfetr that was put into construction in 2020 might be put into operation earlier than iter...

Even in the worst case, if Hu Wenhai throws this 10 billion in, he will definitely make a better east. The next step is to build China's own commercial pile, CFETR. What else should I worry about?

Speaking of which, the member states of iter include the EU, the United States, Japan, India, South Korea and Russia, and later China also joined in. We must coordinate these seven huge countries and organizations to work together to carry out a nuclear project... The management difficulty is probably more than an order of magnitude higher than the difficulty of research and development of nuclear fusion.

So Hu Wenhai is not confident that he has teammates on his side and is full of pig opponents. What should he worry about?

Wan Xi followed Hu Wenhai into the backstage of the Dagang National Day venue in a swing, and heard the host's voice coming from the stage in front.

"On this National Day, our Dagang was fortunate to invite an important guest. Who is he? Please allow me to introduce it to you!"

"He is the defender of the motherland's sky, the hero of Tomcat fighter entering China, the godfather of the electronic industry, the savior of the male masculinity of human males, the inventor of lithium batteries, igct and mobile phones, the god of war in the financial market, the creator of the Bohai Rim industrial belt, the investor of the Three Kingdoms series of film and television dramas, the leader of the reform model of the embroidery city, the terminator of Boeing's hegemony, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, China Railway Construction Investment and COMAC, China Aerospace Engineering and other transportation systems, the world's richest man and the supreme monarch of China's largest private enterprise, Xinke Group..."

(Get strange skills)

After hearing the host's long list of introductions, the audience below suddenly became excited. Needless to ask, everyone has long been familiar with these deeds. Which one does not affect the lives of thousands or even tens of millions of people, and these deeds all point to the same person.

In the past, everyone only heard of his name and never saw him. The person behind these deeds had never appeared in public and had never been reported by the media in a concentrated manner. He was shrouded behind layers of mysterious halos, and various rumors were flying all over the sky.

Some people say that he is the person with the highest IQ in the world, some people say that he is a "white glove". In some rumors, he became a wise old man, and some legends that he is an incredible young man. In imagination, he should live a luxurious life in the wine pool and meat forest, hold huge wealth and power in his hands, and be able to be domineering to the high-ranking officials and rich people. His temperament is Yue Zhiyuan, awakens his hands and kills his right to kill, and lies in the knees of a beautiful woman drunk...

But behind these speculations is the information black hole behind this name. What kind of person is hidden behind these legends?

"So please tell me who is this person?"

At the moment the host reached out to the audience, it seemed as if the entire sea of ​​Dagang was shouting this name.

"Hu Wenhai!"
Chapter completed!