While China is closely studying miniaturized and controllable nuclear fusion technology, on the other side, across the Atlantic is Washington State.

In the white room, a meeting led by the NSC committee and NASA space agency is underway.

The theme of the meeting is to return to the moon and make America great again!

In the huge conference room, the congressional representatives and grandfathers sitting at the conference table listened to the report of their Vice President, Ms. Kamala Harris.

The core of the report is nothing more than one point. With the realization of controllable nuclear fusion technology, as time goes by, the country opposite them has begun to threaten their international status.

They must take relevant measures or means to reverse the declining reputation of the United States in the world.

NSC, National Security Council (self-translated, blocked words cannot be typed), was established in accordance with the "U.S. National Security Act". The president is responsible for presiding over the meeting, is affiliated with the Presidential Executive Office, and is personally led by the vice president.

Its participating members can be said to be involved in all aspects of American politics, such as Secretary of State, national defense, finance, energy, staff, intelligence agencies... and other aspects.

In addition, some heads of other administrative departments and agencies and other senior officials can also be invited to participate in congressional meetings that require their participation. It can be said that the power is amazing.

After Ms. Kamala Harris completed her report, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson walked up to the podium and introduced NASA's plan to the congressional representatives sitting in the meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen!"

"As the 'leading power' in the international community, our influence on the international stage has been continuously expanding in the 21st century, and our scientific and technological level, economic development, cultural influence and other aspects have performed very well."

After a simple injection of chicken blood, Bill Nelson changed his words and continued in a heavy tone: "However, in the past year, the failure in the energy field has also made us see many shortcomings."

"I believe that in the field of energy and controllable nuclear fusion, our country was undoubtedly No. 1! However, it is a pity that we did not strengthen our determination in subsequent investment, which led to this tragedy.

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"This has not only caused us to fall back a lot in energy, but also made our influence on the international stage fall a lot. We must look at this. No matter what achievements we have made, we cannot maintain our advantages.

If you go down, it will be meaningless!"

"For example, now that China has launched its manned aerospace project and is even preparing to land a man on the moon, do we still have to watch helplessly as they send astronauts and their feet to the moon?"

"You must know that we are the only aerospace power in the world. If we continue to lag behind in the aerospace field, I think this will be an unbearable consequence for us!"

At this moment, a voice came from the conference room.

"Sorry to interrupt, can I say a few words?"

After his speech was interrupted, Bill Nelson looked towards the direction where the voice came from. The person who made the voice was the director of the Bureau of Budget. When he saw this person, a smile suddenly appeared on his face and he nodded.

"certainly."

After looking at the meeting report in his hand, the director of the Budget Bureau said: "I read your report and the budget is as high as 78 billion meters of gold. Can you explain such an exaggerated budget?"

Bill Nelson smiled slightly and said: "This is the entire budget of the new Artemis program, which not only includes manned spaceflight and artificial landing on the moon, but also the subsequent establishment of permanent bases, mining of resources on the moon, exploration of Mars, etc.

A series of projects.”

“In fact, in the first stage of returning to the moon, our budget requirement is only 18 billion meters of gold, which includes manned landing on the moon, detection of lunar ice, helium-3, titanium and other resources, and establishing

Map the distribution of elements/resources on the entire moon, etc..."

This is not the first time the Artemis Project has been proposed.

As early as 2017, the president with the cool hairstyle officially signed the "Space Policy Directive No. 1" and officially approved the Artemis program.

After all, with the decline of the economic cycle, the United States does need a new plan to stimulate and enhance its international reputation.

But unfortunately, less than a year after this plan was proposed, China started the Qixia controllable nuclear fusion project.

In the following time, news of various phased breakthroughs in controllable nuclear fusion directly caused the US Congress to significantly reduce investment in the aerospace field, and the Artemis project died midway.

This time, I don’t know how NASA did it. They convinced the NSC committee and held today’s meeting to try to persuade all members of Congress to pass the Artemis plan to return to the moon.

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But it has to be said that in today's declining situation, they do need a great cause to return the United States' reputation to its peak, even if it is a short return.

Maybe the 78 billion meters of gold overall plan will not be crazy enough to be approved by the Congress, but if it is to return to the moon, send astronauts there again, and draw opponents into the space race in an orderly manner, and use it again

Their strong foundation will slow down the opponent's development, or even bring down the opponent... It is not hopeless.

As Bill Nelson said, their failure in the energy field has caused them to lose a lot of voice on the international stage.

If some counterattacks are not made to break the downward trend, the consequences will be unimaginable.

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On the other side, in Jinling, in the Xinghai Research Institute.

Wen Yuanhang, who went to the capital to report, quickly came back after completing his work.

After discussing with Xu Chuan, Jinling Jun District quickly dispatched an independent group to make a new deployment of the mountains, forests, roads and other areas around the Xinghai Research Institute to strengthen the protection of the institute.

However, this work was not done with much fanfare. The team in the army quietly changed positions and completed the replacement.

After all, the Xinghai Research Institute itself is the focus of various countries' attention, and the high-profile movement will inevitably attract countless eyes.

In the office, after learning about the arrangements and deployment of miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology, Xu Chuan nodded and handed Wen Yuanhang some of his management optimization plans for Xinghai Research Institute in the past two days.

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"Look at this, the management here at the institute is a little behind. This is a new adjustment plan. We will hold a meeting to discuss it later."

Wen Yuanhang took the plan, flipped through it with some thoughts in his eyes, looked up at Xu Chuan and said: "By establishing standards that are consistent with the research institute, and using big data and intelligent systems to control the research process and material product suppliers, this

Are you preparing to pursue intelligent research on intelligent industrial systems?"

Before coming to Xinghai Research Institute, he was the office director of the Strategic Planning Department of Science and Technology. He had some basic understanding of the development of all walks of life. It was not difficult to understand what Xu Chuan proposed.

Xu Chuan nodded and said: "Yes, although the current artificial intelligence is not of much help in the field of academic research, there is no problem in doing some data statistics, screening and analysis."

"Using big data and artificial intelligence to liberate these tasks that originally require tedious manpower can improve a lot of efficiency, both for research and for cooperation in the industrial chain."

Wen Yuanhang nodded and said, "Okay, I will handle this matter."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Sorry to trouble you."

"You're welcome."

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After settling the follow-up work arrangements, Xu Chuan focused on the two projects of the aerospace engine and the Large Hadron Collider.

However, his heart is not as urgent as before, because compared to the almost completely unfamiliar field of miniaturization of controllable nuclear fusion, the research on the latter two is not completely without foundation in China.

The essence of aerospace engines is electromagnetic propulsion. In this regard, China's research is quite good.

For example, the Sky space station uses Hall thrusters in the electromagnetic propulsion system. Its designed operating power reaches 100kW and the thrust can reach 5 N.

Although the number is small, the technology contained in it is among the top in the world.

With this background and the theory at night, he does not need to worry too much about the progress of the aerospace engine.

In fact, this is exactly the case. With the technical support of Sichuan Aerospace Base and Jiuquan Aerospace Base, the aerospace engine has already completed the design and is currently being assembled, waiting for subsequent testing.

As for the Large Strong Particle Collider, it goes without saying. In terms of the collider, China has complete technical reserves. What it lacks is only top-notch detector technology.

In this regard, Xu Chuan had some ideas before, but he never had time to do them.

It just so happened that there had been a breakthrough in miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology. Before completing the final space shuttle, he had several months to study and make breakthroughs in detector technology.

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"Speaking of which, I feel like your busy schedule never stops."

In the cafeteria of Xinghai Research Institute, Zheng Hai sat opposite Xu Chuan with a lunch and suddenly said.

"Why do you say this suddenly?"

Xu Chuan stopped his chopsticks, glanced at him and asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just think you should rest for a while. Being too tired is not good for your health." Zheng Hai shook his head and persuaded.

Originally, he thought that there had been a breakthrough in miniaturized and controllable nuclear fusion technology and that he should have some rest. Unexpectedly, he turned around and devoted himself to research in other fields without stopping for a day.

Thinking of the scene where this man fell sick from exhaustion after returning from St. Petersburg some time ago, he felt that he needed to remind him to pay attention to his health.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "I also want to rest, but now is not the time. Whether it is the development of aerospace or the construction of the collider, it is all a matter."

Although academic research is his hobby, he is also happy to indulge in it.

But it has to be said that his current state has already gone beyond the scope of normal academic research. Even if it is a hobby, it is difficult for a person to work continuously like this.

After all, his current state is not to mention working and researching 24 hours a day, but apart from research and academics, there really seems to be nothing else in his life.

But at this point, it's not that he doesn't want to rest, but that he can't rest yet.

As he said himself, whether it is the development of aerospace or the construction of a collider, they are all things waiting for him to do.

If some management tasks can be left to others, then no one can really replace him in making breakthroughs in cutting-edge technology.

There is no way, he is already at the forefront of science, and no one is more familiar with some related theories and technologies than him, so he can only advance it himself.

For example, the miniaturization of controllable nuclear fusion technology, if he had not decisively changed the research direction from the tokamak device route to the stellarator route, and successfully made improved superconducting materials and designed a permanent magnet stellarator.

...No one knows how long it will take for a breakthrough in miniaturization.

It may take more than ten years, or it may only take a few years.

But no matter how the progress is, as it is now, it is possible to build a fusion reactor the size of an SUV in less than a year, which is probably beyond anyone's imagination.
To be continued...