"The answer is good." Zhu Qinghou signaled Fang Qiang to sit down and said, "But judging by the current technical conditions, it is too early to replace oil energy."

CNN reporter Edwards stood up: "Sir, what do you think?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say."

Zhu Qinghou picked up the mineral water that had been torn off the trademark and fed it, saying: "The energy problem has become an urgent problem that the whole society needs to solve. As a responsible enterprise, Hongwu Group is also racking its brains to make suggestions on this issue."

Continue to continue: "In order to solve the energy crisis that will soon be coming, the Longqing Laboratory of Yongle Technology Company of Hongwu Group began to formulate and implement the "Tai Chi Plan" in 2006. Under the leadership of Professor Zhang Wenhe, the researchers successfully carried out a large number of thermonuclear reactions after no less than 100,000 research and development and practical demonstrations. In other words, it is called the fusion reaction of atomic nuclei. Our scientific researchers have achieved controllable thermonuclear reactions and built a brand new nuclear fusion reactor..."

This time he paused for a long time. "I announced that the Ministry of Energy and Hongwu Group will build the world's first thermonuclear fusion power plant in Qiushan Port, 160 kilometers away from Xiangjing!"

There was a buzzing discussion from the audience, and everyone whispered and kept talking.

Why isn't it an aqueous solution lithium battery engine?

Wait! What was he talking about?

Nuclear fusion power plant!

What a cosmic joke!

The audience was silent in an instant, and the scene was silent, and the needles could be heard. Everyone was shocked, and they all widened their eyes and stretched their necks, as if they had heard the most incredible things in the world.

Immediately afterwards, a loud noise broke out from the audience. Some were shouting, some were calling, some were waving the recorder and rushing towards the rostrum. Some were excited, some were depressed, some were shocked, some were in a hurry, but there was no calm.

Some knowledgeable people looked at each other and saw the unbelievable gazes in each other's eyes.

Let’s first look at the meaning represented by the scientific term “nuclear fusion”. There are two types of energy generated by nuclear reactions, one is nuclear fission and the other is nuclear fusion.

The nucleus releases huge energy when fission occurs. The entire fission of a kilogram of uranium 235 will generate 20,000 megawatt hours of energy, as much as the energy released by the complete combustion of 2,500 tons of coal. For the same level of nuclides, the fusion reaction has a tens of thousands or tens of thousands of times more energy than the fission reaction.

It has been nearly a hundred years since scientists proposed theories to implement them. Currently, nuclear power plants in commercial operations in the world use nuclear fission reactions to generate electricity, and none of them are nuclear fusion because humans have not yet fully mastered the technology of controlled nuclear fusion reactors.

The technology of nuclear fission power plants has been developing and has evolved to three generations. The fourth generation is just a concept. Since the Japanese East China Sea tsunami triggered the nuclear leakage crisis of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, it has caused reflection from various countries. How to use nuclear energy to be the safest?

Of course it can only be nuclear fusion!

Compared with nuclear fission, nuclear fusion obviously has incomparable advantages. It is clean, environmentally friendly, safe, inexhaustible, and there is almost no risk of leakage. If the nuclear fission reactor is a bomb that is always unstable, then the reaction of the second-generation nuclear fusion deuterium and helium 3 will hardly produce neutrons. In other words, the second-generation nuclear fusion power station can be placed directly in the city center. This is undoubtedly extremely safe.

The hydrogen nuclei in the thermonuclear reaction, namely deuterium and tritium, can be directly extracted from seawater. Each liter of seawater contains 30 mg of deuterium. As long as the seawater in the seven oceans has not dried up, the thermonuclear reaction can be endless. Humans may be able to use this energy until civilization disappears.

What a desirable scene this should be.

The problem is that since the successful implementation of controlled nuclear fusion experiments in the 1980s, humans have not yet built a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, let alone nuclear fusion power stations. Scientists' research on controlled nuclear fusion has been at the laboratory stage.

The Hongwu Group actually successfully experimented and actually built a reactor, which was only one step away from the nuclear fusion power station, which was a fantasy.

Once Zhu Qinghou’s speech is confirmed, the dawn of the energy revolution in the new century has arrived ahead of schedule!

And all the experts, scholars, leaders and journalists present are experiencing the dawn of this glorious era, and they are witnessing history!

Thinking of this, the crowd at the scene was involuntarily excited. No one was unhappy or even crazy.

Zhu Qingshen took the microphone, knocked on the table, coughed hard, and said, "When the Red Army soldiers crossed the snow-capped mountains and crossed the grassland, many people could only rely on boiling leather boots and slimming their belly. However, under such arduous conditions, they made a vow to allow the people of the whole country to use electric lights in the future. They are selfless and great. At the beginning of the Longqing Laboratory, our researchers paid tribute to the great Red Army soldiers and also made their own vow to allow people all over the world to use nuclear energy. Now we have taken a solid step towards this goal."

Edwards stood up quickly and asked loudly, "Mr. Zhu, have you really built a thermonuclear reactor?"

Zhu Qingshen said: "Mr. Edwards, please be calm. After the press conference, I will invite some experts, scholars and media reporters to Longqing Laboratory to visit our No. 4 Thermal Nuclear Reactor."

There was another uproar in the audience. The sequence was ranked No. 4, indicating that more than one has been successfully built by Hongwu Group.

Zhu Qingshen was very satisfied with the reaction of the crowd and said to the speech: "Hongwu Group and the Ministry of Energy invested 470 billion yuan to build the world's first thermonuclear power plant in Qiushan City. Construction will start within the year. The construction cycle is planned to be 20 years. We plan to build ten units in these 20 years. The first unit will be built within five years. The estimated installed power generation is 1700 million kilowatts, which is twelve times the power generation of my country's existing nuclear power plants and 10% of the installed power generation of all power plants in the country. At that time, it will provide electricity supply to Xiangjing, Zhonghai, Guangnan, Fuchun and other provinces and cities."

The audience was completely stunned. The power generation of one unit alone accounted for one tenth of the country's power generation. One unit could meet all the electricity needs of several major economic provinces. This ability is really terrifying.

What he mentioned was to build ten units, so if we counted, it would be unimaginable that a single thermonuclear power plant could supply power to the whole country!

The elderly Professor Xie Yinghua stood up tremblingly with the help of the staff, took the microphone and asked, "Mr. Zhu, what materials are you using?"

This question comes to the point. Thermal nuclear fusion reaction produces extremely high temperatures, up to 400,000 degrees Celsius. Due to the current limitations of technological conditions, humans have not yet developed materials that can withstand high temperatures of 400,000 degrees Celsius, which is also the main reason why the thermonuclear reactor has not made progress for a long time.

Zhu Qingshen smiled slightly: "Sorry, Professor Xie, the composition of the materials is state secret, and I cannot make it public. I can tell you privately, but not now."

Xie Yinghua stopped talking, handed over the microphone, and sat down again. He was a national treasure scientist. He refused the Nobel Prize in Physics twice and was received by national leaders many times. He had countless children and students, including senior officials. It was not difficult to get in touch with this secret.

"It's time for reporters to ask questions. Please abide by the order of the venue. Friends who clicked the name can stand up and ask questions." Zhu Qingshen looked at the sign: "Xiangjing TV Station."

Anthony Rockefeller, who ended his trip to Jing, was far from over his depressed mood. A marriage that he was determined to win was rejected mercilessly by the other party. He vowed to teach the ignorant Zhu princess a little lesson so that these frogs in the well would not live in the ancient well for too long and could not see the sky!

Now Anthony is sleeping soundly in his dormitory. You should know that there is a twelve-hour time difference between New York and Xiangjing.

His dream was awakened by a rapid ringtone. It was the butler who called in.

"Dear Mr. Douglas said he would come to visit his house."

Anthony glanced at his sleepy wife, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and lit up the bedside lamps of the ancient Greek bronze artifacts, and asked in a muffled voice: "Which Douglas? Don't look at what time it's now."

"It's Tim Douglas, general manager of ExxonMobil, who said there was something very important. He had just driven two hours and was waiting downstairs."

Anthony immediately woke up, resisted the unhappiness of being disturbed by Mei Meng, and ordered: "Take him to the study on the second floor, wait, let the kitchen prepare snacks, and I will arrive soon."

"Okay, Your Excellency."

Anthony changed into casual clothes and came to the study. Tim Douglas had been waiting in there for a long time.

The general manager of ExxonMobil is in his forties, with a figure of more than 1.7 meters and a little fat, with a beard. But his thick beard could not conceal the anxious look on his face. He looked out the window with his eyes full of thoughts, and paced around the room with his hands behind his back.

The four-color exquisite dessert that the servant just gave him had no sign of moving.

Seeing Anthony appear at the door, Douglas hurriedly shouted: "Your Excellency, you are finally here! I hope I haven't disturbed you."

Anthony raised his wrist and looked at the time, saying, "It's almost six o'clock. I'm about to get up at this time. Please tell me if I have anything to do."

Don't think that the life of a noble is to have clothes and food, and you don't have to worry about anything. In fact, Anthony shoulders the heavy responsibility of continuing the family's glory, and the pressure is not less than anyone else. He has to get up at six in the morning and stay busy until ten in the evening, with a full schedule. Perhaps only when his son really grows up can he stretch a little comfortably.

"TV, I need a TV!" Douglas said with a wave of his hand.

"Give him a TV." Anthony ordered the butler who was guarding the corridor.

The TV was delivered soon, and it was a 41-inch plasma color TV produced by Su Guo Electric Appliances with the label "Made in China". The tentacles of Chinese products have extended to every corner of the world, and even traditional families like Rockefeller are not spared. Eighty percent of his family's items are produced in China, and all kinds of household appliances, furniture, carpets, decoration materials, and papers of books are printed with Chinese labels.

What surprised him even was that the raw materials for paper were produced in the primeval forests of California, USA. The trees were cut down by workers and shipped to paper mills in China, and then sold back to the United States after they were made into goods.

These ubiquitous details reflect China's booming economic strength, so Anthony felt that marriage with the Zhu family was a very good idea.
Chapter completed!