Chapter 429 Dawn!

A week is not a long time.

On October 10, in the Great Hall of Beijing, the commendation meeting for the successful ignition of the Qixia controlled fusion demonstration reactor was held on time.

The commendation meeting kicked off with the speech of the host and warm applause.

Xu Chuan sat in the first row of the venue. On his left was Academician Peng Hongxi, the scientific research director of the project, and on his right was Gao Hongming, the director of daily affairs. In the front row, there were familiar figures such as Wang Yongnian, Hou Chengping, Qi Zhongxing, and Han Jin.

As the familiar old man walked onto the stage, thunderous applause suddenly surged in the auditorium.

All the researchers and scholars who were able to attend the commendation meeting today had flushed faces due to excitement, and their eyes were full of hope, expectation, satisfaction and other emotions.

The old man first expressed his sincere congratulations on the successful ignition of the "Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project·Dawn Demonstration Reactor Project", and then praised and encouraged everyone's efforts and hard work, saying that they are the backbone of the country, and expressed his high gratitude to these scientific researchers and engineers who have made outstanding contributions on the front line of scientific research.

In 1958, China's nuclear industry system was initially established. After the successful hydrogen bomb test, China's nuclear industry began to turn its attention to the research of controlled nuclear fusion.

Against the background of peaceful application of atomic energy, the Institute of Atomic Energy and the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences simultaneously launched nuclear fusion research projects.

Then, under the slogan of "National Atomic Energy", it was expanded to several provinces, and after several ups and downs and adjustments; some units withdrew, and some units joined. Up to now, the research on controlled fusion has gone through nearly 70 years, almost the same age as the motherland.

The long time seemed to be just yesterday. After 70 years, this century-old project has finally been completed.

Today, a grand commendation meeting was held, which brought this world-renowned super project to a successful conclusion.

After paying tribute to everyone, the old man personally awarded 21 unique golden "958 medals" and bright red certificates to researchers such as Xu Chuan, Peng Hongxi, Gao Hongming, Qi Zhongxing, and Wang Yongnian who made outstanding contributions to the project.

Eight outstanding group medals and 98 outstanding individual medals were also awarded to the team that made outstanding contributions to the Qixia controlled nuclear fusion project. To express respect and gratitude to all the great scholars who participated in the controlled nuclear fusion project.

In addition to these medals, there is also a special medal that is uniquely made like the morning star, and belongs only to Xu Chuan.

The name of this medal directly adopts the name of the Dawn Demonstration Reactor, called the "Dawn Medal".

It means that it is like the dawn, bringing new hope, a new era, and a new era to the motherland and the world.

In fact, when designing this medal, many names were thought of, such as "Pangu", "Star of Hope", "Dawn", "Chasing the Sun", etc.

But in the end, the name "Dawn" was finalized.

This is a gold medal made of 24K pure gold. The main pattern is composed of five-pointed stars, Tiananmen, sky, rays of light, stars and other elements with colorful ribbons. It weighs 195.8 grams, which corresponds to the successful conclusion from 1958 to the present.

In the auditorium, with his head down, Peng Hongxi held the golden medal on his chest tightly with his hands, and tears were pouring out from the corners of his eyes.

He vaguely remembered that in 1971, when he was just 30 years old, he followed his mentor and other colleagues to enter the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics with high spirits.

At that time, he also put down his lofty ambitions and wanted to learn from his mentor and great men, and use twelve years to realize the two bombs and one satellite to realize the controlled nuclear fusion technology and give the motherland the most precious gift.

However, twelve years have passed, and now he is eighty-two years old. He has spent a full fifty-two years on the road of controlled nuclear fusion, which seems to have no end.

In the past fifty years, he has been confident, hopeful, confused, lazy, and even thought about giving up, but the only thing he has never regretted is regret. He never regretted embarking on the road of studying controlled nuclear fusion, even if he could not see any hope in the first fifty years.

And now, he has no regrets. Even if he leaves now and goes to see his mentor, he can proudly say that he has realized his dream!

I believe that if the mentor is still alive, he will be proud of him.

On the other side, Wang Yongnian and Hou Chengping, two academicians of the Nuclear Industry Group, sat together and chatted quietly.

Touching the heavy 958 medal on his chest, Wang Yongnian said with some emotion: "I always feel that I am not qualified to wear this medal."

On the side, Hou Chengping smiled and said: "Don't say that, the demonstration reactor project built by our team and the optimized generator set are still very good."

Wang Yongnian shook his head and said nothing.

Although they did make great contributions to the construction of the controlled nuclear fusion demonstration reactor project, that was the team's. As for the combined generator, the core idea of ​​its optimization was also given by Professor Xu. Although they optimized some details later, these things, to be honest, can be done by others.

Of course, what made him a little emotional today was not only the medal on his chest, but also the witness of the rise of controlled nuclear fusion and the retirement of controlled nuclear fission power plants.

After the successful ignition of the Dawn Demonstration Reactor, it is estimated that there will be no more nuclear fission power plants built in China in the future, right?

In other words, even if they are built, they will only be used for scientific research, and will not be used for large-scale power generation.

After all, the construction of each nuclear power plant requires billions or even tens of billions of funds. In contrast, a controlled nuclear fusion power plant can generate dozens of times the power of nuclear fission at the same price.

It is self-evident which is better.

However, for him who has been engaged in nuclear power plant construction for decades, the familiar field suddenly ended. It is impossible to say that he has no feelings in his heart.

Perhaps, after completing this commendation meeting, he should also consider retirement.

On the side, Hou Chengping, a colleague of more than ten years, seemed to see what he was thinking. He smiled and patted his shoulder, saying, "Old Wang, you can't think about retiring now."

"The spark of controlled nuclear fusion has just been lit. As the first batch of builders and witnesses, we must pass it on."

Wang Yongnian glanced at him and whispered, "That person is still here."

Hearing this, Hou Chengping laughed and said, "Forget about counting on him. His energy should not and cannot be wasted on this. Even if he wants to do it, I have to drive him back to study other things."

Thinking for a while, Wang Yongnian put on a smile on his face, nodded, and said, "That's right."

On the other side, compared with the excitement and excitement of others, Chen Mingji, who was also sitting in the front row, felt a little complicated.

Although he is also one of the founders of controlled nuclear fusion in China, sitting here today, with this medal that symbolizes the top honor in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, he always feels uncomfortable.

Looking at the young man who was giving a speech on the stage, Chen Mingji sighed and let the past go.

For Xu Chuan, he didn't think so much.

To be honest, although he and Chen Mingji had some conflicts because of some "butt" problems, everything disappeared when the top ICFR heating antenna was delivered to the Qixia controlled nuclear fusion engineering base.

Moreover, in Xu Chuan's view, without the framework built by the older generation of Peng Hongxi and Chen Mingji, he would not be able to complete the controlled nuclear fusion technology in just over two years.

In any case, he has cultivated a large number of talents and made a lot of technologies.

After all, without these talents and technologies, even if he has the ability to solve various problems of controlled nuclear fusion, he can't find a stove to cook.

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