Chapter 342: Are You Worthy of It?
Chen Pingqiu took the photo, looked at it carefully for a few seconds, and nodded:
"Yes, this is a student in my laboratory. What? Could it be that...he stole the laboratory's results?"
"To be precise, he learned about these results from you and leaked them out."
"From me? Impossible! I never said that to him!"
When saying these words, Chen Pingqiu felt a little insecure.
Even Chen Pingqiu no longer remembered very clearly what happened at the dinner table.
However, Chen Pingqiu still vaguely remembered that he said some things that he should not have said when he was drunk.
"Chen Pingqiu, it doesn't matter if you can't remember. We'll help you recall it."
The interrogator found a recording and started playing it.
In the recording, you can clearly hear what Chen Pingqiu said at the dinner table.
"Chen Pingqiu, is this your voice?"
Chen Pingqiu still wanted to quibble, but when the facts and evidence were already laid out before him, there was no point in quibbling anymore.
"This ungrateful thing! Why did he leak this information to the Americans! This traitor!"
Chen Pingqiu spoke with indignation, completely shifting the responsibility away from himself.
"You have your sins, he has his sins, don't worry, no one is spared."
"But I didn't mean to do that! Besides, I told them not to talk nonsense. I really didn't want to leak the news!"
"Whether it was intentional or not, it is a crime of leaking secrets. If you cooperate with us in handling the case, there will be a chance for a lighter sentence."
Faced with the ironclad facts, Chen Pingqiu had no choice but to accept them and choose to cooperate.
After explaining all the relevant issues, Chen Pingqiu still held on to the hope that he would be exempt from punishment.
"Comrade police officer, I play an important role in several national projects. If I'm not here, those projects can't operate normally. I ask you to help me apply for a chance to redeem myself! Do you know Xu You, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics? I am his right-hand man in the team! Please help me contact him and ask him to plead for me!"
The police officer didn't know what position Chen Pingqiu held in the project team.
"We will help you apply for your request through normal procedures. However, whether you will get this opportunity is not something we can decide."
If a scientist is truly the type who can have a decisive impact on a project, he or she may indeed receive such special treatment.
However, they didn’t know whether Chen Pingqiu deserved such treatment given his abilities.
…
“Finally succeeded!”
After many experiments, Xu You finally completed the preparation of a new material.
This material is mainly composed of tungsten. Due to the use of some special processes in the preparation process, it has better performance than ordinary metal tungsten.
Because in a nuclear fusion reaction, the internal temperature is very high, reaching tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.
Even these high-temperature plasmas do not directly contact the inner wall of the reactor.
But during the radiation process, the inner wall of the reactor can also reach a very high temperature.
Such high temperatures can even cause steel to melt in a short period of time.
Only materials with very high melting points, such as tungsten, can withstand such high-intensity thermal radiation.
The new material prepared by Xu You not only has a higher melting point than conventional metal tungsten.
At the same time, it also has ductility and toughness far exceeding that of metallic tungsten.
Very suitable as the material for the inner wall of the reactor.
If this material is used in a new type of controlled nuclear fusion device.
This will undoubtedly greatly enhance the performance of this device and bring it one step closer to practical controlled nuclear fusion .
Xu You did not rush to tell Deng Fu the news, but continued to measure the properties of the material and conduct in-depth research on its preparation and molding process.
During the lunch break, Xu You received a message from Wu Jing.
"Protect all confidential information and be careful with what you say and do."
Xu You didn't know why Wu Jing suddenly sent him such a message.
However, it is related to what happened a few days ago.
Xu You basically understood what Wu Jing meant.
"Got it. I'll pay attention to it."
In fact, when he was in school, Xu You was always a cautious person. He was not good at chatting with others except for what he had to say.
As he grew up, Xu You continued to keep this habit.
Xu You had a feeling that he might not see Chen Pingqiu in the project team anymore.
Xu You felt a little regretful about this, but he also believed that he could handle the tasks left by Chen Pingqiu.
After fully understanding the properties of this new material and becoming familiar with various technologies such as material preparation and molding.
Xu You found Deng Fu and explained his achievement to him.
"You are truly a pillar of China. In such a short period of time, you have contributed such a key technology!"
Deng Fu also seemed very excited about Xu You's achievement.
"We will use this material as the inner wall of our new controlled nuclear fusion device. I compared it with the previous inner wall materials. Whether it is the melting point, ductility, hardness, or toughness, this new material is better."
"Well, we have also completed the site selection for our nuclear device test base, and some components are already being processed. The higher-ups have great expectations of us, and once the device is built, we will challenge a higher level."
After saying this, Xu You recalled the scene when Chen Pingqiu was suddenly taken away during the previous meeting.
"By the way, Academician Deng. Do you know what happened to Professor Chen Pingqiu?"
When mentioning Chen Pingqiu, Deng Fu couldn't help but shook his head.
"Alas! Chen Pingqiu's mistake this time is too serious. It has had a certain impact on our entire strategic plan."
Seeing how angry Deng Fu was, Xu You knew that this matter was indeed very serious.
From Deng Fu's narration, Xu You understood the whole story.
"Professor Chen Pingqiu... is so shameless. And that student is so stupid!"
A strong feeling of anger filled Xu You's heart.
The secret that so many people had worked so hard to guard was leaked out so easily.
The reason behind this is even more ridiculous.
"Since it has already happened, we can only try to reduce the impact of this incident as much as possible. The matter of 202K superconducting material can no longer be concealed. Fortunately, the matter of the new controlled nuclear fusion device should not have been leaked out."
