41 Minutes of Fusion Neutron Bombardment

When he heard Wei Changgen introduce himself so seriously,

Li Dong froze for a moment, then asked strangely,

"Academician Wei, aren't you still supposed to oversee the engineering validation of the hybrid reactor at Base 200 and the preliminary research on deuterium-helium-3?"

Wei Changgen sighed when he heard that.

"Academician Li Dong, I won't hide it from you."

"With our current capabilities, the deuterium-helium-3 route is a dead end."

"It's too difficult to ignite. Right now, we can't even establish an effective burning platform, much less turn it into a fusion power station."

Indeed, as Wei Changgen said, the ion temperature and triple product required for the deuterium-helium-3 reaction were far higher than those of the deuterium-Tritium route.

With the world's current effective heating and confinement methods, there was simply no way to stably sustain this thermal ion state through the engineering burn stage.

Wei Changgen continued,

"So the route that truly has hope right now is still deuterium-Tritium."

Li Dong nodded.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Academician Wei."

Over the next two months, Li Dong transferred thirty-six people from the Materials Division of the Weiming Institute, along with twenty people from Base 200's in-reactor materials and irradiation testing team, establishing the Transmutation Replacement Materials Joint Task Force.

They formally began reverse-screening the Transmutation Network.

The work was far more grueling than Li Dong had imagined.

Even with the physical fragment in hand and a thorough understanding of the transmutation chain and defect equations,

they still went through several batches of First Wall specimen materials.

Meanwhile, Wei Changgen led engineers from CAS Instrumentation, Huaxuan Technology, and the Huaxia Atomic Energy Research Institute in overseeing the final assembly and commissioning of the Transmutation Track Tomography Spectrometer.

On the third day after the task force was established, in an