"Controlled fusion reactor ruins discovered in Xizhou City?"
After learning this from Chu Guang, Yin Fang's face immediately showed surprise.
Chu Guang nodded.
"We've already identified the relevant witnesses and the reactor's approximate location. The intelligence is most likely reliable."
His surprise fading, Yin Fang pondered for a moment before speaking.
"...A backup reactor for the underground transit network. That's quite a significant discovery. But even if the fusion reactor is completely intact, it hasn't been started in over two hundred years. Repairing it... probably won't be easy."
"And more importantly, how do you plan to solve the fuel problem?"
Conventional fusion reactors were fundamentally different from the fusion reactors in shelters. The difference was not merely in the size of their fuel rods, but in the design philosophy of the entire system.
One served as a backup for public infrastructure, while the other was the energy core of a permanent fortification. The former pursued energy efficiency, while the latter pursued durability.
Even after being shut down for one or even two centuries, a shelter reactor could still be restarted once fuel rods were inserted.
But conventional reactors...
Most likely could no longer start normally after being shut down for several decades.
Besides restarting the reactor, there was another, even more critical problem: its fuel.
Eighty percent of the controlled fusion reactors on Human Alliance territory used third-generation controlled fusion technology, whose reaction process and products were completely safe—the fusion reaction of two helium-3 nuclei. While releasing tremendous amounts of energy, the process produced no neutrons.
However, the problem was...
There were only two options for mining helium-3 on a large scale.
Either Mercury or the Moon.
Neither was particularly realistic for the New Alliance at its current stage.
After hearing Yin Fang's concerns, Chu Guang thought for a moment