338: Fifty Years Forever

Director Yu was slightly excited.

He looked at Guo Hao and said.

"Director Guo, EAST is the hope of several generations of our Dragon Country's nuclear fusion scientists, and it is a project that we value extremely highly. Many things on it were painstakingly created by us, and making them in the first place was extremely difficult.

If you want to use it for experiments, absolutely not. If EAST is damaged, it will be an irreparable loss to our Dragon Country's Controllable nuclear fusion, and even to the entire world's Controllable nuclear fusion!"

When Director Yu said these words, he was very excited.

There was nothing he could do; EAST was his lifeblood. If Guo Hao wanted to touch anything else, he could have remained completely silent.

Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with Guo Hao, an outsider, leading experts, it was all still manageable. After all, this kind of thing happens all over Dragon Country.

Now that it was happening to him, there was nothing to complain about; it was quite normal, wasn't it?

Besides, although Guo Hao was a layman in the field of Controllable nuclear fusion, he was still a mathematician and Materials Science expert, with many achievements himself. He wasn't the kind of completely unreasonable layman.

However, no matter what, EAST was the bottom line!

Director Yu had no way to supervise the country's money. Guo Hao could spend it wherever he wanted, and he couldn't manage it.

For Director Yu, the only bottom line was EAST!

At this moment, Director Yu looked at Guo Hao seriously.

"Director Guo, perhaps you want to use EAST to research the new materials you have developed, but no matter what your reason is, you cannot modify EAST!

This is the hope of our Dragon Country's nuclear fusion Physics!"

There was even a hint of pleading in Director Yu's eyes as he looked at Guo Hao.

He knew very well that if Guo Hao used administrative orders to suppress him, Director Yu would be completely unable to resist, and it would be useless to seek help from anyone.

Because according to the several Leaders of the Dragon Academy of Sciences.

Guo Hao's office is on the same level as the Dragon Academy of Sciences, at least administratively!

This also meant that he actually couldn't resist any of his requests.

"Don't worry, EAST will not die. Perhaps it may be damaged, but it will be reborn in a completely new form."

Guo Hao smiled and reassured Director Yu.

"How can you guarantee that?"

Director Yu looked at Guo Hao seriously.

Actually, if it were another Leader, they wouldn't say anything at all at this point. How dare you ask your superior to guarantee such a thing??

You must be dreaming!

However, Guo Hao did not want to use administrative orders to suppress a scientist. After all, he was a scientist himself, and he knew very well that using administrative orders to suppress scientists would lead to endless troubles in the long run.

He was silent for a while.

Guo Hao looked at Director Yu and said seriously.

"Following the current path of Controllable nuclear fusion, how long do you think it will take for us to achieve commercialization of Controllable nuclear fusion?"

"If we're lucky, within thirty years. If we're not lucky..."

Director Yu said, a hint of hesitation appearing in his eyes.

"Yes, thirty years, and that's if we're lucky. But if we follow my idea, perhaps we can achieve Controllable nuclear fusion within ten years. Will you do it?"

Guo Hao looked at Director Yu seriously.

Including Director Yu, the eyes of the other Leaders of the Fusion Institute behind Guo Hao basically showed surprise.

This is impossible!

This was basically their thought.

After all, controllable nuclear fusion technology, including engineering technology, is not yet mature at all. Although the theory is already very mature, and even experimental ignition can operate continuously for hundreds of seconds.

All these signs seem to indicate to everyone that the complete realization of Controllable nuclear fusion is not far off, and people only need to continuously extend the operating time of EAST on the current basis, and continuously extend it.

Eventually reaching a level where it can be commercially operated!

Finally, the construction of commercial reactor cores will be carried out, and then Controllable nuclear fusion will be considered completely realized.

This is the most perfect scenario.

But the current problem is that no one knows whether Controllable nuclear fusion will encounter obstacles if it continues down this path, what kind of obstacles it will encounter, whether they are engineering problems or Materials Science problems.

No one knows. We can only push forward the current experimental process little by little, obtain results one by one, making it seem as if people are approaching the final form of Controllable nuclear fusion.

This is also the source of the so-called 'always fifty years'.

It seems close, but it is actually far!

On this point, the staff of the EAST experimental reactor, especially these Leaders, can be said to see it most clearly.

When Director Yu heard Guo Hao's words, a hint of hesitation appeared in his eyes.

"But... but..."

Director Yu's expression changed for a while, and he was very hesitant.

"Don't worry! If it is finally proven that my path is not feasible, I will restore EAST to its original state for you no matter what before I am transferred from here! I guarantee it with my future!"

Guo Hao smiled slightly and looked at Director Yu seriously.

Hearing Guo Hao's words.

Director Yu was silent for a long time.

"Then... okay! I will follow your orders."

After getting this promise from Guo Hao, Director Yu finally relented, or rather, from beginning to end, what Director Yu wanted was this promise from Guo Hao!

After all, Guo Hao came from Beijing, and he must have funding from above.

And the Controllable Nuclear Fusion Planning Office, this office is at such a high level, it must be able to get a lot of funding!

As long as he promises to be able to restore EAST!

Then no matter what, in the end, there will definitely be money to restore it!

He just prayed that Guo Hao wouldn't mess things up completely!

Thinking of this, Director Yu sighed in his heart.

"I will continue to show you around."

Director Yu respectfully led Guo Hao to continue visiting the interior of EAST, and then also visited the control center.

Afterwards, they basically toured the park.

It has to be said that Dragon Country's investment in this project is really not small.

They invested a lot of money!

After the tour, Guo Hao had dinner with Director Yu and the others in the government canteen.

Around 8 PM.

Guo Hao was arranged in an apartment.

Given his level, the treatment was naturally not low, and he had everything he needed.

Back in the apartment, Guo Hao did not rest.

He still had to work.

Today, he had a general tour of EAST, and his understanding of Controllable nuclear fusion had improved another level.

He had a different view on the final commercial reactor core!

The current situation is to see if EAST can meet his ideas!

If his ideas are correct!

Then Controllable nuclear fusion is really very close to Dragon Country!