The first large-scale demonstration meeting of the nuclear fusion engineering project has ended.
A lot of progress was made in the first round of meetings, including determining the formal demonstration project, setting the main direction of the design research, and determining the person in charge of the project.
The demonstration project leaders identified at the meeting mainly include Wang Hao as chief designer, Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye as deputy chief designers.
Wang Ye is a director-level researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Engineering.
He has participated in the "Artificial Sun" project and is one of the main designers. He is very familiar with nuclear fusion reactions and tokamak devices.
At the same time, Wang Ye is also recognized as a ‘candidate academician’.
The so-called "candidate" does not mean that he participated in the academician selection, but that he can be elected as an academician if he is recognized as participating in the academician selection.
The project is still in the demonstration stage, but the success of the first meeting has also allowed the project to enter the 'formal demonstration stage'. Simply put, the science and technology department and other relevant institutions will allocate funds to experimental research and design related to the project demonstration.
support.
During the demonstration stage, the budget is one billion.
This also represents the importance that superiors attach to research. If the demonstration stage cannot be passed, one billion will be wasted.
After the meeting.
Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye have already started work.
At this stage, they are responsible for allocating demonstration-related work. For example, for a certain difficulty and design, a research team or individual will apply.
They will form an expert review team to review relevant research applications.
In this way, if the work is assigned one by one, many individuals and teams will participate in the demonstration work, and after summarizing all the results, the next meeting can be started.
After confirming the work arrangements, both Tang Jianjun and Wang Ye were very excited.
Tang Jianjun felt like he had achieved his life goal. His lifelong dream was to participate in nuclear fusion research, and he never even thought about completing the research in his lifetime.
Now he is involved and still holds the title of deputy chief designer.
Wang Ye is much younger than Tang Jianjun, and he never expected to be able to take on such an important job.
The scale of the nuclear fusion project is undoubtedly far greater than that of the 'artificial sun'. The 'artificial sun' is just an experimental project, while the nuclear fusion project is preparing to complete the research on nuclear fusion. The two are not the same at all.
Wang Hao has the highest position. He is the chief designer, chief engineer, and the highest person in charge of the nuclear fusion project.
However, his position is more nominal. He has the highest authority, but does not participate in actual project work. He is responsible for the research of core technical directions.
Now that he has decided to start the nuclear fusion project, Wang Hao is naturally confident. The nuclear fusion project is very large and has truly entered the experimental manufacturing stage. The minimum investment will start at tens of billions, and may even reach hundreds of billions or more.
But after the research has a main direction, the project will only be larger, and it will be no different from other research.
For example, the research and development of superconducting batteries.
The design and research of superconducting batteries was also not easy. Many technical problems were overcome along the way, but it was completed after the main direction was established.
The nuclear fusion project is just larger in scale and involves more people.
Project research is still conducted in the same way, mainly through several stages such as demonstration, design, and manufacturing.
Now that we have entered the first stage, just proceed step by step normally.
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The first demonstration meeting of nuclear fusion did not cause waves.
The scale of the demonstration meeting is still very large, and it is impossible to keep it completely confidential. However, most people who know the information only think that it is an academic exchange meeting, not the actual launch of the project.
This kind of academic exchange conference is not the only one.
Domestically, several similar conferences have been held, but on a smaller scale, with the purpose of allowing scholars in related fields to communicate.
Same goes for other countries.
For example, Germany.
They have held large-scale nuclear fusion research conferences, and the conference also planned and demonstrated the construction of large-scale tokamak devices.
A large number of scholars gathered together to demonstrate the problems that may be encountered in the research. They also made rough calculations and found that the funds required were too huge.
In the end, I gave up.
This is mainly because the feasibility of implementation is very low and it is impossible to find funding sources.
The world is paying more attention to another matter. Annihilation Technology Company has issued a new announcement, confirming that the transformation of 'Unit 2' is about to end. They will re-price the first-order iron materials and openly accept related orders.
The pricing and sales of first-order iron materials are the most important.
After suspending sales for several months, many institutions no longer have research materials, so naturally their research can only be suspended.
Now that we can finally buy first-order iron materials, many institutions are looking forward to it. They are also paying attention to the trends of Annihilation Technology Company at any time, hoping to make news as soon as possible.
soon.
Annihilation Technology Company has issued a new announcement, confirming the production of first-order iron materials with a purity of more than 95%, priced at US$800,000 per ton.
This news immediately aroused international public opinion.
The price of first-order iron was very expensive before, ranging from US$800 to US$1 million per kilogram, but now it has dropped by 1,000 times. The drop is really astonishing.
"Reduced 1,000 times!"
"It seems that the manufacturing technology of first-order iron has indeed made a major breakthrough..."
"Annihilation Technology Company directly produces first-order iron with a purity of more than 95%. The production efficiency is still so high? It eliminates the extraction process and can still produce dozens of tons a day?"
"There must be dozens of tons, otherwise it wouldn't be so cheap..."
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Annihilation Technology's pricing for primary iron is not a decision made in a flash, but a figure calculated based on the scale of primary iron market demand.
The current first-order iron materials are mainly used for research and development.
Based on sales in the past year, the market size of primary iron materials is approximately US$20 billion.
Annihilation Technology Company is a monopoly materials company. On the premise of achieving extremely high profit margins, their goal is to expand the market size so that they can achieve higher profits.
At this stage, their main customers include major metal research institutions, large steel companies, superconducting material companies and other materials-related institutions.
The number of these large institutions is limited, and the funds they can invest in purchasing upgrade materials are also limited. Only by enlarging the market can more profits be obtained.
The same goes for magnetized lithium materials.
The current market size of magnetized lithium materials only exceeds 10 billion US dollars, mainly because the selling price of magnetized lithium materials is high. The cost of adding lithium batteries with magnetized lithium materials will naturally increase significantly, and the products manufactured with this material will be very expensive.
If you want to expand the market, you must lower prices so that ordinary people can afford high-end lithium battery products.
For example, electric vehicles with a range of more than 1,200 kilometers.
The purpose of lowering prices is to expand the market.
When ordinary people can afford 'upgraded material products', the market size will naturally become very large, and it will bring even greater profits.
Of course it's not possible for the time being.
This is mainly due to limited manufacturing capacity. Machine No. 2 is specially used to produce first-order iron materials and can currently produce about 110 tons per day.
Annihilation Technology Company is manufacturing Unit 3 and Unit 4, and is constantly improving the manufacturing process, aiming to achieve a fully automated process in order to greatly increase the production capacity of first-order iron materials.
Although the market size is limited, Annihilation Technology is still like a 'money printing machine' due to its ultra-high profit margins, with profits estimated to exceed US$20 billion in the next year.
This profit is very amazing.
For comparison, the world's most profitable company, Amerikan Fruit Company, had profits of less than $30 billion last year.
Annihilation Technology's announcement also stated that the company is constantly improving its manufacturing processes in order to continue to expand production capacity.
If we continue to expand production capacity, the selling price of first-order iron materials will continue to decrease.
This is inevitable.
But there are still a large number of organizations ordering materials, and they will not wait for cheaper materials, because in terms of market competition, time is money.
Those large international steel companies must be the first to come up with high-end products in order to seize the market in advance. Otherwise, they may not even be qualified to compete in the same field.
A large steel company, it is also one of the main customers of Annihilation Technology Company.
In comparison, the scale of orders ordered by scientific research institutions is much lower. Even for Amerikan's Groom Lake Project, the first-order iron materials ordered are very limited.
Scientific research institutions are purely investment-oriented institutions, and their R&D funds are naturally very limited.
To be continued...