Duke is not particularly worried about the future commercial promotion of Lotus Relief. The base in Maldives was originally used for overseas promotion. If the experimental reactor is successfully verified, Duke will produce most parts on Rahsf Island, and then add high-precision parts produced domestically, and can be assembled into the most critical core in nuclear power plants.

According to Duke's current design, even if the core components such as instruments and steam turbines are purchased from outside, since the core parts of the nuclear island can be produced by themselves, the construction cost of nuclear power plants above 300,000 kilowatts can now be reduced to less than 1,000 US dollars. If the design capacity is above 1 million kilowatts, the cost can be further reduced to about 950 US dollars.

Due to the natural advantages of design safety, the reactor designed by Lime has great advantages in terms of construction complexity and construction cost. The highly intelligent design reduces unnecessary links, and the later operation cost is also greatly reduced. According to the design, a million-kilowatt-level nuclear power plant manager can be reduced to less than 100 people.

For conventional power generation equipment, if Oriental Power Company can acquire it, Duke can promote it to develop a new high-power steam turbine for supporting facilities, which will be lower. With Xincheng Special Steel and Hillington Composite Materials, Duke does not have to worry about the material problems of making large steam turbines at all.

Now Oriental Power has the production capacity of mass-producing 300,000 kilowatt steam turbines. It has been a while since the development of 600,000 kilowatt and 1 million kilowatt steam turbines. The main problem is that there are still problems in processing technology and materials. In this regard, Dushi Heavy Industry can cooperate to solve it.

For Duke, this Oriental Power, which has considerable R&D and production capabilities, has great purchasing value, but now I don’t know how Cai Siqiang is talking to the other party.

However, these things, whether successful or not, are icing on the cake for Duke, and they are just to further enhance their competitiveness in terms of cost. Even at current costs, Duke's reactors don't have to worry about not being able to sell them. Duke is only worried about not having the qualification to sell them.

It is not even a problem whether the buyer has money or not. As long as the power is ensured to be sold, Duke can provide complete construction funds and adopt the bot method, and then make a profit by transferring the operating rights or self-operating recovery costs.

There are many places in the world where electricity is short of electricity now, and low-cost electricity is very popular everywhere.

It’s just that sales and production qualifications have basically been closed in China. Duke needs to wait until the experiment is successful to see if he can obtain this qualification in other countries or regions.

There are many countries with qualifications for nuclear energy research now. If Duke can prove that its nuclear energy technology is safe and reliable with practical evidence, he should be able to find a country that agrees to issue qualifications at a certain price.

Duke just flashed through his mind. Now, his main energy is still devoted to the research and improvement of this experimental reactor. Previous surveillance system improvements have obtained more data for research.

From the periphery to the core, this is Duke's improved research idea. However, there is currently a lack of original information about Bileme's nuclear power plant. Duke has to use the known nuclear energy knowledge on the earth to explain and verify it. If it is really impossible to find it, it is necessary to verify the new knowledge obtained in Bileme's design to further enrich his nuclear energy knowledge base.

This two-way process is extremely complex. Duke also needs to design simulation applications for research and verification, which is equivalent to re-analyzing Bileme's design with the level on earth. This research is of great significance. If it can be done, it will definitely be a huge leap for Duke or the research on fission nuclear energy on earth.

It was not until that time that Duke was truly at the forefront of Earth's nuclear energy research.

This process will undoubtedly be very long. Duke estimated that he could analyze and understand Bileme's design in 3-5 years, which is the best result. Fortunately, Bileme is having fun on Earth now and has an urgent need for time, so Duke is not too worried about time.

To be honest, Duke is already proud to be able to get the essence of Bileme design in 3-5 years and become the number one person in the world's nuclear energy research.

After calming down, Duke was no longer confused. While he was committed to small improvements and researching the commercial design of the lotus pile based on the experimental data of the lotus experimental pile. Through small improvements every day, the lotus pile became more and more mature. While studying Bileme's design by himself, he split the Bileme's design into one detail and one detail for research, and there are new gains every day.

Since basically the work is concentrated on the base, after normalizing the work and rest arrangements, Shu Ya resigned from Feihong's management position and rushed to this scenic base to work side by side with Duke, responsible for the management of the base Duke team. Duke no longer worry about management matters.

Soon, Professor Zhu Yunqian's suggestion received positive feedback. Through the strong push of military tycoons, the superiors agreed to suspend the approval of the introduction of new reactors abroad. Regarding Professor Zhu Yunqian's suggestion to develop commercial reactors, Southern Nuclear Energy Company showed great interest in the proposal to develop commercial reactors and had begun to send people to contact Duke.

For Southern Nuclear Energy Company, which values ​​economic interests more, Professor Zhu Yunqian's excellent performance in economics in the Lotus Drops described by Professor Zhu Yunqian touched the company's CEO Li Shiyun. Zhu Yunqian is the banner of the nuclear energy research industry. Mr. Li believes that this old expert will never speak nonsense.

The construction cost is less than one thousand US dollars per kilowatt and the design life is more than 70 years. These two indicators alone can leave all the piles today a few streets in terms of economics.

Therefore, General Manager Li sent a chief engineer and general manager of the development department to visit Duke, on the one hand, to discuss the technical feasibility and on the other hand, to discuss the possibility of commercial cooperation.

Regarding technical issues, the chief engineer directly understood the operation of the Lotus Drop in the main control room, and had a detailed understanding of the construction cost and operation and maintenance. He checked the entire experimental reactor factory on the spot. After reading these facts that are more intuitive than talking to Duke, the chief engineer said there was no problem.

He has never seen nuclear power plants in other places have such beautiful environments and industrial designs, and there is no nuclear power plant with such intelligent management and control systems.

It can be said that in the eyes of the chief engineer, in addition to the operational stability and safety that cannot be determined yet, from other aspects, the Lotus Drill is almost a perfect pile type.

However, in the face of commercial promotion, the problem was highlighted. The general manager of the development department pointed out that Duke now has no qualifications for production and sales, and Southern Nuclear Energy can only give Duke certain design fees through intellectual property transfer, but Duke will no longer have the possibility of making profits in construction, production and operation.

In other words, Duke has no chance to share most of the commercial interests related to nuclear power plants.

Regarding this result, Duke smiled and said, "If the intellectual property transfer fee can reach the entire operational life cycle of the nuclear power plant, I don't object to this approach."

"Dr. Duke was joking, you know we couldn't make any compensation in this way." The general manager of the Southern Nuclear Energy Development Department said with an awkward smile.

"That means, you are only willing to pay a symbolic fee for my achievements?" Duke continued to smile, "If it is the case, who is willing to engage in scientific research and development of new technologies?"

Duke has no good feelings for this company that relies on monopoly to obtain huge benefits.

"Dr. Duke, Southern Nuclear Energy is a state-owned enterprise. State-owned enterprises have standards for state-owned enterprises to do things. For this design cost, it generally cannot exceed a certain proportion of the investment in the entire construction project." The development manager saw Duke's expression and knew that today's matter could not be negotiated.

But there is no way to do this. There are strict regulations on the design fees for nuclear power projects. According to such huge investment projects, it is usually impossible to exceed 2%. This gap with Duke's demands is too far.

If the Lotus Drop can really achieve a construction cost of US$1,000 per kilowatt and a design life of 70 years, then during the entire operation period, even if calculated based on the current constant on-grid electricity price of 40 cents per kilowatt-hour, the total revenue is almost 70 billion yuan.

Excluding the operating costs of about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour and the initial investment interest, the gross profit is more than 50 billion yuan. If you lose about one-third of the gross profit, it is the largest expenditure of taxation. The net profit is also more than 30 billion yuan, and Duke requires one-third of the profit, that is more than 10 billion yuan.

How is this possible? Whether it is installment payment or other methods, Southern Nuclear Energy will not pay such a huge fee.

But this is what Duke said casually. Duke’s real purpose is to share some of the benefits of his design. Instead of really, the lion will open his mouth and offer such a sky-high price.

You should know that even if the cost and cost-effectiveness of Southern Nuclear Power are not so good in adopting other types of reactors, it will never pay such a high price. This shows how profitable the return on investment of Southern Nuclear Power is in this monopoly condition.

It is precisely because of seeing such a huge profit margin that Duke's ultimate goal is to squeeze into this nuclear power construction and power supply market, which is a large market with gold flowing in the future.

However, Southern Nuclear Power obviously cannot and cannot give such conditions. Therefore, although these two senior management of Southern Nuclear Power confirmed that Duke's Lotus Reactor is indeed a very excellent repository type, the gap between the two sides in terms of cooperation methods is too big, and there is no basis for continuing to talk.
Chapter completed!