Duke ambushed the uranium utilization efficiency of the second-generation lotus pile, but such a huge growth rate still gave Professor Zhu Yunqian another huge surprise. Now the first-generation lotus pile has nearly 40% uranium utilization rate, which will increase by 50%, which is almost 60%.

This is not a small number. It is equivalent to the same amount of uranium resources, which can now extend the service time by half. It also means that the nuclear waste generated will be further greatly reduced, greatly reducing the environmental pressure of nuclear reactors in waste treatment.

"There is no problem with this!" Professor Zhu Yunqian replied flatly. Not to mention that he was ordered to assist Duke in research and development, even if Duke does not have the funding subsidy for that small machine, he will still strongly apply to his superiors to join the Duke research project.

Although the first generation of lotus piles has not made any contribution to domestic electricity supply due to various reasons, Professor Zhu believes that it is just a matter of time. Even if someone obstructs it now, it will ultimately not be able to stop the tide of technological progress.

The miniaturized s1 and s2 systems derived from this first generation lotus pile will bring earth-shaking changes to the ship's power. Professor Zhu believes that in the future, it will not only be naval ships, but also for a large number of giant ships over 10,000 tons, after the s1 and s2 power systems solve the problem of safety and confidentiality, they will become their inexhaustible power in the future.

If this is true, for marine transportation, perhaps a new era of nuclear power is coming.

"Duke, where will the main improvement points of your second-generation lotus pile design be?" Thinking of this, Professor Zhu Yunqian, the elder, couldn't help but feel a little excited, and he asked curiously.

"The main thing is to add a particle bombardment auxiliary system to make the uranium utilization more fully used under particle bombardment." Duke did not have any confidentiality in this principle. Speaking of which, his own nuclear research team is still too weak now. Without Professor Zhu and others participating, many work must be guided step by step before it can be studied.

This is not the research team that Duke wants, but there is no way now. The best nuclear reaction research experts are basically concentrated in the hands of various countries. Even if Duke pays a high salary, it will be difficult for him to gradually come out with a research team that is stronger than the national team.

So when faced with Professor Zhu's problems, Duke explained his ideas in detail. Professor Zhu is a real expert in nuclear research and has a certain understanding of the subcritical particle nuclear reaction research project in Switzerland, so he quickly understood Duke's ideas.

It is just that it is very simple to understand the principle. To truly implement this principle, I don’t know how many design and manufacturing process problems need to be solved. The Swiss subcritical particle nuclear reaction research project is not the first to study this aspect, but they are the most fruitful research in this aspect in today’s world.

After all, Europe's basic research on nuclear reactions and industrial processing are there. They have the best processing machine tools in Germany, world-class operators, and more than half of the world's research in driving attracts and concentration. In this case, research cannot stand at the peak of the world. They can really buy a piece of tofu and kill them.

After hearing Duke's initial design idea, Professor Zhu felt that a nuclear reaction spring was about to begin. For nuclear research practitioners, it was undoubtedly an exciting era, but if Duke's express train was not caught, it would be a sad era.

Professor Zhu is glad that he is old and can catch up with such a spring-like day at the sunset of his life. If he can help Duke create the second generation of lotus piles, he will be very regretful in this life.

"Duke, I'll go back to report what you said. If nothing unexpected happens, we can fight side by side in this field again. Although life is seventy years old, I, an old man, should have retreated to the second line, but when I encounter such a spring of nuclear research, I have to fight again no matter how hard it is." Professor Zhu said excitedly.

With Professor Zhu's guarantee, Duke felt that there was great potential for this matter. He made a preliminary plan, putting a list of the super small machine needs to be purchased, and then handing it over to the Sal's procurement department to make a procurement budget. For him, the money problem is actually a small problem, and the human problem is a big problem that he is difficult to solve at this stage.

The solution sent for verification was soon released. Sure enough, in the simulation calculations re-made according to Duke's suggestion, the existing miniaturized s1 and s2 lotus piles perfectly reflect the various expected output feature parameters of the design, which means that the design work can basically be finalized and the actual experimental pile construction can be started.

For Professor Zhu Yunqian's team, it also means that the project has achieved a perfect phased result. Although Duke solved the biggest problem in the project alone, the team experts have also put in great effort for many design details.

Everyone was very excited to have such a perfect milestone ending point. At the celebration held by the base for this, experts who usually don’t drink wine made an exception and drank several bottles of liquor prepared by the base.

For the construction of experimental reactors after finalization, except for a few customized parts, most of the components that are common to the lotus reactor have been completed long ago, and the infrastructure project part is even more accurate in advance. Therefore, after the design and finalization, the construction cycle of the s1 and s2 small-scale lotus reactors is very short, which is simply a rapid pace compared to the construction cycle of the general nuclear reactor experimental reactor.

Compared with the lotus piles used for power generation, these two sets of small marine lotus piles have a higher degree of automation. In order to adapt to the narrow space on the ship, the two sets of nuclear power systems cover a very small area. They can be installed and debugged in any corner of the lotus pile base.

After the debugging was completed, both systems were successfully completed at one time, which made Professor Zhu, who was secretly worried, very pleased. It was basically a fantasy to create a new nuclear power system in such a short time.

Although there is now Project No. 7, a large number of computer simulation operations can be used to reduce the original actual tests, for the Lotus Drop miniaturization project, if Duke does not have the correct guidance of a god, he will be brought back when the project team has just started to go astray. Professor Zhu estimated that it would take at least two years of research and development time to achieve today's effect.

It can be said that the project team has a genius person, which can reduce the R&D time by at least more than half. Why talent is important? In this kind of high-end project, the huge difference between leading figures and ordinary figures is fully reflected.

Because Professor Zhu asked himself that if this project was led by him, it would probably be too early to even design and shape it, let alone enter the critical test.

This only solves the problem of power drive. Next, design considerations such as safety prevention and resistance to enemy attacks are the topics of another project team. For Duke, this project has basically come to an end now.

It is optimistic that the surrounding design tests will take at least about a year to achieve the real combat power of the s1 and s2 nuclear power systems. However, today the critical test was successful. Those who decided to pause the power system under construction of large ships and wait for the miniaturization of the lotus pile, can finally put their hearts back in their stomachs.
Chapter completed!