This Spring Festival in China has become anything but peaceful.
There was a lot of celebration at home, but there was all kinds of pressure abroad.
However, from the perspective of China today, these pressures are nothing more than that.
Probably, the only problem is that Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff have to work overtime during the Chinese New Year this year.
Of course, even if they work overtime, they just need to quarrel with those whimsical foreign reporters every day. They are basically indifferent things. Anyway, that's all they did before, and now they just have more people to quarrel with.
As for the many researchers at Sun-Making Plan, naturally they all went home to celebrate the New Year.
As a hero of nuclear fusion, there is still time for holidays and the New Year.
Basically, he is a researcher whose hometown is Fei City. During the Chinese New Year, he still needs to go to the research institute to see the operation of Sun-Making Reactor. After all, there must be someone on site.
As the chief engineer, Xiao Yi would go there every day to guard the reactor. With him as the chief engineer, basically there is no need to worry about the entire reactor.
Of course, he didn't think there was any trouble. After all, compared to facing a lot of relatives who might ask questions during the Chinese New Year, he would rather watch Sun-Making Reactor and stay with Sun-Making Reactor every day.
Have some peace and quiet.
Otherwise, since the broadcast of Xinwen Lianbo on the eve of Lunar New Year's Eve, not to mention the public opinion that has exploded, his relatives group has exploded first, and the various questions asked in it have made him feel overwhelmed. If they really meet in person, it will give him an even bigger headache.
Therefore, for most things, ordinary people only need to know what they are. If they still want to know why, it is completely unnecessary.
In this way, time passed quietly for several days.
Although the discussion about nuclear fusion has not subsided, as the time for rework has come, people can only return to their respective jobs with such enthusiasm.
Of course, maybe after returning to his job, he might be able to restart the discussion on nuclear fusion. After all, he is surrounded by people of the same level at this time, and there can be more related topics.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Yi came to the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute as usual.
At this time, the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Institute also had another name, which was called the "Zone Sun" Controlled Nuclear Fusion Demonstration Reactor Central Research Institute and Sun-Making Reactor Controlled Nuclear Fusion Power Generation Center. As a demonstration reactor, it represents the first successfully realized controllable nuclear fusion reactor in mankind, which has verified the technical feasibility. As a power generation center, it also represents that it is also a successful commercial reactor, which has completed the purpose of commercial power generation and realized the economic value of fusion energy.
Of course, compared to the past few days, the institute has become much more lively today, because most of the researchers are back.
Walking in the corridor of the institute, when these researchers saw Xiao Yi, they all shouted respectfully, "Good Chief Designer Xiao!"
"Chief Designer Xiao Happy New Year."
Although before, they would shout like this when they saw Xiao Yi, but now, there is obviously more respect in their voices.
Facing such a Chief Designer who led them to successfully realize nuclear fusion, the respect they felt at this time all came from the bottom of their hearts.
Xiao Yi smiled and nodded at them, "Happy New Year everyone."
In this way, with greetings all the way, he finally returned to his office.
After a while, there was a knock on the office door.
"Please come in."
Then, Li Jiangan walked in with a smile.
"I heard someone said you were here, so I came over to take a look. I need you to take care of me this New Year. Thank you for your hard work."
Xiao Yi smiled, "It's not hard. I can't let you, an old man, have to come here every day."
Li Jiangan smiled and said, "It's true. Now that people are old, their bodies are no longer useful."
He walked to the sofa next to him and sat down directly.
"Now that the New Year is over, what should we do next? Are there any instructions from above?"
Xiao Yi said, "Nothing has happened yet. When there are instructions, Director Liu will probably have to come over again."
"That's true." Li Jiangan nodded, looked at Xiao Yi, and suddenly sighed, "You should be able to become an academician this year, right?"
Xiao Yi was startled, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Li Jiangan said helplessly, "That's you."
"Others who want to become academicians have to start preparations several years in advance. They all have to treat guests to drinks. But you, on the other hand, are not worried at all."
"I estimate that if you went around in the past few years, you would have become an academician in the past two years."
Academicians have a voting system. As for how to persuade others to vote for you, you can only rely on your own skills. Even if someone helps you speak later, you will most likely have to express yourself first.
So sometimes if the relationship is in place, you can become an academician even if you have some problems with your academic level.
Otherwise, parallel imports like Academician He would not have appeared.
However, considering the various benefits brought by becoming an academician, most scholars can only go this way.
As for scholars like Xiao Yi who don't care about this kind of thing, there are really too few.
Xiao Yi smiled and just said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether you are an academician or not."
Li Jiangan laughed and said, "That's true."
"Chief Designer Xiao still sounds more grand than Academician Xiao."
Xiao Yi nodded. "That's natural."
Li Jiangan sighed with emotion.
Of course, he also knew that it would not matter whether Xiao Yi became an academician or not. The biggest impact would probably be the addition of the title Academician Xiao.
As for other benefits...
He does not think that the treatment of the controllable nuclear fusion researcher Chief Designer will be worse than that of an academician.
Even in terms of funding, academicians may not necessarily have more funding than Xiao Yi. Science Island Laboratory's funding can be ranked among the best in the country.
As for making money...
That would be even more self-inflicted.
I didn't listen to what Musk said. As long as Xiao Yi thinks about it, he can even surpass him in the future.
"Now that I have said that, nuclear fusion has also been researched. What are you going to study next? People on the Internet say that you will work on rockets next. Is it true?"
Li Jiangan said.
Xiao Yi laughed, waved his hands and said, "No, no, researching things like rockets is not that urgent for me."
"After all, you invited me to visit EAST, but no one from the space agency has invited me to visit Tianwen-3 yet."
Speaking of this, Xiao Yi said narrowly, "The reason why you invited me to participate in EAST and asked me to light the fire myself is because I am very knowledgeable."
Li Jiangan laughed, not feeling embarrassed, and said, "Anyway, you are here now, and nuclear fusion has been achieved. What will happen if you discover it?"
Recalling this incident, he couldn't help but sigh at his original wisdom.
In order to invite Xiao Yi to be interested in nuclear fusion, they specially invited Xiao Yi to visit them and let Xiao Yi ignite the fire in person.
They are reluctant to let go of their children, not to mention they are not considered "children" to them.
And now it seems that the goal has been achieved.
As for this matter, he and Zhao Zhanyou revealed this matter when they were interviewed by reporters during the half-hour "exclusive interview".
The reporter who interviewed them at that time was still Xiao Sa, and he summed it up. "So, as long as there is a problem that we cannot solve, then as long as Chief Designer Xiao is interested in this problem, it will be solved, right?"
Then, as the news was broadcast that night, the incident sparked a nationwide discussion and became a hot search term at the time.
Xiao Yi shrugged, okay, he did gradually "take the bait" at first.
However, the most important thing is probably the dream.
But the question came back, what should he start studying next?
He really hasn't thought about this issue carefully during this period, and he really should think about it now.
It stands to reason that now that his Perfect Engineering and Material Mastery have been upgraded, the best next research is to try something with new effects, but now he really has no interest in studying such problems anymore.
Hmm...
"Maybe I should go back to math for a while?"
He began to think.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door again.
"Please come in." Xiao Yi took a look, who is here now?
Then, as the door opened, Director Liu came in.
Li Jiangan said, "Hey, Director Liu came just in time. I was talking about you with Xiao Yi just now, and I was wondering what instructions I would have next."
Director Liu chuckled and said, "I can't talk about instructions. Now I'm here to ask for advice."
He walked to the water dispenser nearby, poured a glass of water from a disposable cup, took a sip, and then asked, "Okay, two chief engineers, this time I am specifically here to ask you for some suggestions."
"The first one is the issue of expansion."
"With our current technology, is it possible to expand?"
This first question is indeed the key question.
After all, once the demonstration reactor is built, it will always be necessary to start building the second, third, and even more reactors.
Regarding this question, Xiao Yi answered directly, "Of course. After all, the purpose of building Sun-Making Reactor is to provide a reference for the new reactor. As long as the material issues can be guaranteed, and the engineering issues, we can follow the experience of Sun-Making Reactor."
Director Liu said with a slight tangle at this time, "Then... we are now planning to build new fusion reactors in several economic circles and the top five electricity-consuming provinces at the same time. When the time comes, can I ask you to serve as Chief Designer again, do you think it's okay?"
Xiao Yi's eyes widened. "So, Chief Designer, I will be responsible for maybe more than 10 projects at once?"
"Well, that's probably it."
Xiao Yi twitched the corners of his lips. "Even the donkeys in Lamo are not trained like this."
First of all, there are three economic circles, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. As for the top five provinces with major electricity consumption, it is even more outrageous.
If you want to build nuclear fusion power plants in these places and meet all the power supply, you must also consider the future growth of electricity consumption. The number of nuclear fusion reactors to be built at the same time must be more than 10.
Now you actually want him to serve as the chief engineer of so many projects at the same time?
Liu Cong directly spread his hands in shame. "Anyway, that's what happened. The leader above asked me to come. Just tell me whether you agree or not! If you don't agree, just help me think of a way and I'll report it to the leader above."
Xiao Yi directly gave the middle finger to this leader in China's science and technology field.
Then he said, "It's okay for me to be a consultant. As for the specific design, you can find other people to do it. UO structure is there and the whole world knows it. Plus Sun-Making Reactor's experience, you don't need me at all."
He then glanced at Li Jiangan next to him and said, "I think Academician Li is totally fine. He just needs to use his remaining heat."
Li Jiangan's eyes lit up at first, but then he quickly waved his hands and said, "I can't do it. I can't do more than a dozen projects with my old bones."
But then he changed the subject and said, "However, if you let me take charge of one or two projects, it's totally fine."
Although he is old and can retire at any time, he is still very willing to work hard on a project like this, so that he can finally make a name for himself.
Xiao Yi laughed and said to Liu Cong, "Look, to be honest, I am still worried about the next arrangements for so many of our Sun-Making Plan researchers. There are hundreds of people. I have to find a place for them to go, right?"
"Wouldn't it be great to directly arrange for them to go to these new projects for guidance now?"
"And our Director Zhao will definitely be very willing."
Director Liu looked at Li Jiangan for a few more times. Seeing the old academician's eyes becoming particularly enthusiastic again, he finally nodded. "Okay, this method is good. I will give feedback to the superiors when I get back."
"However, if you say you can be a consultant, then we have a deal!"
Xiao Yi nodded. "No problem!"
"That's good! Then the second question." Director Liu said, "Is it possible for our technology to be updated in a short time?"
"This issue involves technology export matters."
"Update?"
Xiao Yi pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head and said, "This issue has been considered too early. Whether it needs to be updated depends on the demand."
"Current technology is sufficient to meet society's power supply needs for hundreds or thousands of years."
"So the real replacement is probably the miniaturization of nuclear fusion."
"This technology..."
Xiao Yi shook his head slightly, "It will be a few more difficult levels."
"Okay, I understand." Director Liu nodded.
"Instead of thinking about this problem, I think we should look for more lithium mines." Xiao Yi said, "With the advent of controllable nuclear fusion, humankind's demand for lithium will become greater and greater."
Director Liu nodded again.
And Xiao Yi began to think, and perhaps should start thinking about a more economical way to produce tritium.
Next, Director Liu asked a lot of relevant suggestions, and Xiao Yi also answered them in turn.
It involves issues in many aspects such as science and technology, society, people's livelihood, and international affairs.
Xiao Yi was a little helpless when asked. Are you treating him as a treasure chest?
But in the end, he still adhered to his identity as Chief Designer and gave answers one by one.
Then, Director Liu left again.
After that, a few days passed.
The Lantern Festival is coming soon. After the Lantern Festival, the workers who have returned to work have returned to their posts, and the students have restarted their studies and returned to their schools.
At this time, the state finally made an announcement.
Preparations for the construction of nuclear fusion power plants will begin in the three major economic circles and Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, the top five electricity-consuming provinces.
At the same time, the original National Energy Commission was abolished and National Energy Administration was established to manage all energy planning and development across the country. National Fusion Company was established to undertake the design, construction and maintenance of all nuclear fusion power plants in the future.
As for who will hold the major positions in this general bureau and one company, it is still open to debate, but two positions in both have been confirmed.
Lifetime General Consultant and Chief Scientist, Xiao Yi.