In Ye Qing's vision, the two nuclear reactors in front of him represent the highest level of the industry.

Its key equipment hidden in a sealed shell may be very delicate and compact, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a dojo in a snail shell. When the electrocrystalline hands connect the dots and remove the sealing shell on the drawing.

Ye Qing and these monsters found that there were two more sealed shells inside the sealed shell.

They are oblate and cylindrical in shape, stacked on top of each other.

In a sealed shell above, the inside is covered with stout metal rods. These metal rods are fixed inside the sealed shell, a total of 480 rods. There are no metal rods inside the lower sealing shell, but there are numerous pipes that are connected to the sealing shell overhead above and below to the outside, eventually joining the steam turbine.

If you just look at the body drawings, it is not difficult for Ye Qing to guess that this reactor is divided into two core parts.

Fuel rods are on top and a circulating cooling system is below.

Circulating system, which continuously carries away the ultra-high pressure heat flow around the fuel rods. These heat flows rotate the steam turbine, which is gradually cooled and then rejoined into the circulation.

As it sounds, it seems simple.

The fuel rods generate a lot of heat, and this heat heats the liquid, which is, to put it bluntly, water.

Someone once joked that no matter how many generations the reactor develops and what high technology it uses, it still can't get rid of the problem of boiling hot water. When to get rid of this, it can be regarded as real scientific and technological progress.

This seems to make sense, even though it is claimed that there are still 25 years to go before success, and the controlled nuclear fusion, which breaks the laws of physics, still boils hot water to generate electricity.

However, it cannot be said that "boiling hot water" is very earthy, and among the heat energy conversion known to mankind, boiling water is always the most efficient.

The technical difficulty of boiling hot water in a nuclear reactor is simply not at all imaginable by ordinary people. It's easy to make it boil hot water, but how to make it boil hot water stably all the time, and run safely and stably, is the real difficulty. Otherwise, in the event of a nuclear accident, the only end for the entire giant ship is to sink to the bottom of the sea.

The reactor drawings on the screen were enlarged little by little, and soon, Ye Qing and the monsters discovered many extraordinary details from these seemingly ordinary core structures.

For example, not every reactor fuel pellet contained in the 480 fuel rods is identical.

If the outermost fuel rods are loaded with thousands of uranium-235 blocks, then the middle fuel rods are only loaded with 600 pieces, and their number is arranged regularly.

Doing this, Ye Qing guessed that it was to pursue the consistency of thermal energy.

If there are no drawings, if the giant beast industry wants to find the most perfect arrangement of fuel pellets, I am afraid that it will have to go through many experiments and verifications, consume massive resources, and accumulate a large amount of data before the supercomputer can finally be simulated. And now, it is only necessary to draw a scoop according to the gourd.

There is also the way the cooling circulation system below works, as the drawings zoom in. Ye Qing and the monsters, following the cyclic structure tracking and analysis, could easily deduce the power generation mode of this reactor from the structure of this system.

The primary circuit cooling water, which directs heat to the secondary circuit water for generating electricity to the steam turbine, is not supercritical.

Supercritical units are very different from ordinary steam turbine units. The Longxitan factory has produced supercritical units here, so it naturally knows this very well. It's not supercritical, which proves that the thermal efficiency of this reactor is not high.

If the supercritical unit can have a thermal efficiency ratio of 50%, the current thermal efficiency ratio is at most 30%.

Ye Qing was a little strange, although the supercritical unit manufacturing technology was only mastered by a few major countries, it was obvious that the United States was the largest country. Why is it so conservative to use ordinary units that are at least two generations behind the technology of such an advanced reactor?

There must be a reason for this.

Bringing circulating water to a supercritical state is as simple as increasing its residence time around the fuel rods.

The fuel rods generate heat during a chain reaction that heats the water in the pressure shell. Without cooling, the temperature of the fuel rods can rise to more than two thousand degrees. The critical temperature of water is 374.15 degrees, and the steam working temperature of the current unit is estimated by Ye Qing to be at most 300 degrees.

It is only a difference of more than 70 degrees, but the thermal efficiency ratio is very different. If you let yourself choose, you will definitely not talk about supercritical, or even ultra-supercritical units.

The Americans did not dare to get on it.

Is this due to the poor technology of the metallurgical industry, or is it due to the natural limitations of the fuel rods themselves?

If it is the former, then Ye Qing doesn't mind letting Americans see what the world's top industrial technology is. They can't do it, and the giant beast industry will show them what ultra-supercritical is, what infinite surging power is.

If it is because of the latter, then the giant beast industry will most likely have to adopt the same conservative plan as the United States.

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All night, the monsters were analyzing this hard-won three-dimensional drawing of the aircraft carrier reactor. All the details were meticulously memorized, and Electrocrystal transplanted this set of drawings into the supercomputer, using the complete drawings and the existing metallurgical technology of the Behemoth Industry to build a set of calculation models on the supercomputer.

For example, the drawings do not show which alloy technology the Americans used to build the outermost hermetically sealed pressure shell of the reactor.

But Behemoth Industries knew that it could build a shell that could withstand as much pressure as it could.

Similarly, the pressure of the cooling pipe in the primary circuit of the recirculating system, and the maximum working pressure of the second circuit, can be expressed in the model very specifically.

Of course, these data alone are not enough, the specific formula of the core inside the fuel rod is not clear, and what kind of catalyst or passivator is added to the cooling circulating water to stabilize the chain reaction process of the fuel rod?

However, these data are no longer an obstacle.

The core structure has been cracked, and the remaining unknown parameters are purely theoretical data. China is also a nuclear power, and its large-scale nuclear power plants have developed to the third generation of maturity, maintaining the same leading level as the world. Perhaps limited by industrial processing technology, it is not possible to produce reactors for surface ships.

But what kind of core to use, how to stabilize the core, or why the United States does not use supercritical units can all be answered from the mouths of nuclear system workers.

Zhongyun University does not have a nuclear energy department, but several polytechnic universities in Shanghai do.

Many of the professors have participated in the design and research and development of the Huaxia nuclear power plant, and they are people who have both theoretical and practical work experience. In the name of the company, it is not too easy to hire them to refine the parameters of the electrocrystalline model, the rod, and the cooling circulating water.

And it is not illegal to provide these internationally used data, and they do not know whether the Behemoth Industry wants to build a reactor or the world's most advanced marine reactor from the United States.

Early the next morning, Ye Qing called Professor Cai Chenning of Zhongyun University.

Professor Cai Chenning was Ye Qing's mentor at university, although he was in charge of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, but he was in the circle of professors, lived a lot of years, and had connections all over the country, so it was right to ask him to recommend a few professors in the field of nuclear energy.

After receiving Ye Qing's call, Professor Cai Chenning didn't think for too long, and let out a series of cannonball-like laughter.

"Mr. Ye, asking me is asking the right person. ”

"Listen to me, you don't have to go to a bunch of professors to study theoretical data. Studying nuclear energy is not playing mahjong, and it is useless to have more people. ”

"I would like to recommend you a super 'big guy', just him, he has the ready-made data you want. ”

Ye Qing asked with some apprehension who this 'big bull' is, wouldn't he be a national treasure-level academician? This kind of person seems to be busier than the president, so it's hard to move, right?

"Haha~ Mr. Ye, don't worry, if this 'big bull' wants to talk about other companies, please really don't move, but your giant beast industry can. ”