In the development directory of the Datang Navy, there is another thing that cannot be mentioned, and the name of this thing is the nuclear submarine!

Compared with Datang's electronics industry and power industry, the development speed of Datang's nuclear industry is actually relatively lagging behind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe reason for this is more complicated, Datang does not face the huge war pressure of the United States in World War II, and Datang occupies too much land and resources, in terms of energy, Datang does not even pay much attention to mining coal mines in Shanxi and the east of the United States, since the maturity of natural gas power generation technology, Datang's main energy source comes from oil and gas. In addition, the danger of nuclear bombs is really huge, and if something accidentally goes wrong, it will be a big deal, and it may even cause more damage than the enemy to itself.

Scientists in the Datang nuclear industry actually began to conduct research in this area in the 1790s, when some people proposed not to build nuclear bombs, but to build a nuclear power plant to meet the needs of some developed areas with huge electricity consumption, such as the Jiazhou area. However, at that time, Bai Nam directly rejected this proposal. The energy demand in Jiazhou is very large, but it is not in short supply, and Jiazhou itself is an oil and gas field, and the energy source is relatively simple. The main reason is that Jiazhou is located in the Pacific Rim volcanic seismic zone, basically every once in a while there will be a serious earthquake, the Tang Dynasty has been founded for decades, Jiazhou has had many earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more, causing some casualties and property losses.

If a nuclear power plant is built on a fault zone, the tragedy of Fukushima is another thing that is very likely to happen, so Datang has a relatively prudent and conservative attitude towards the development of nuclear energy, and all nuclear power plants cannot be built in areas with high earthquake occurrence. From this point of view, the northern and western regions of Datang China are not suitable for nuclear power plants, and the areas west of the Rocky Mountains in North America are not suitable for nuclear power plants. Therefore, the main areas for the construction of nuclear power plants in Datang's plan will be the southeast of China and the eastern part of the United States.

The first nuclear power plant was located in Jiangsu, which is actually in the same place as the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, the first nuclear power plant in New China. Prior to this nuclear power plant, Datang nuclear industry scientists had built a number of reactors, some of which had commercial value, but Datang's goal was to directly go to the second-generation pressurized water reactor in another plane to achieve standardization and low cost.

The Yangtze River Delta region is already an important industrial area and economic belt in Datang, and it has faced serious energy shortages almost since the formation of the economic belt, so power rationing has occurred from time to time. In addition to continuing to put new natural gas power plants into operation, Datang also hopes that the completion of nuclear power plants will alleviate the shortage of electricity.

A 100,000-kilowatt nuclear reactor generator set has been initially built at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, which will be expanded to six generating units after trial operation. This indicator is naturally quite far behind the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, which was put into operation in the 90s, but it is already quite advanced.

Depending on the operation of the Qinshan nuclear power plant, Datang will consider expanding the construction of more nuclear power plants, but Datang will still not consider increasing the proportion of nuclear power in energy to an important level, and will play a complementary role in the energy mix.

Not many nuclear power plants have been built, but the development of nuclear energy technology is not lagging behind. In 1806, Datang had successfully experimented with moving a light-water reactor to a 10,000-ton ship to propel it. After solving a series of technical problems, Datang Nuclear Industry Group, Datang Shenlong Power, and Datang Bohai Heavy Industry Shipyard cooperated with a number of Datang state-owned enterprises to design and build Datang's first nuclear-powered attack nuclear submarine, the Sailfish class.

The submersible displacement of the Sailfish class is even a little smaller than that of Datang's latest diesel-electric submarine Orca, only a little more than 4,000 tons. There was no particularly significant increase in speed and armament, the maximum speed of more than 20 knots and six 533-mm torpedo tubes, and the same weapons were used. But the most important thing is that the Sailfish-class attack nuclear submarines no longer have to float up every few dozen hours to recharge, and the Sailfish-class can continue to operate under the surface, and the hidden ability has become even better.

The nature of the tests of such an attack nuclear submarine was greater, so only one was built. Later, Datang also planned to build a new attack nuclear submarine with a displacement of 5,000 tons, and gradually use it to replace the conventionally powered submarines in the current fleet that are almost only at the level of World War II.

Naturally, there are attack nuclear submarines, and strategic nuclear submarines also need to be had. The most important combat capabilities of strategic nuclear submarines are concentrated in two areas, one is the ability to be silent, and the other is the performance of missiles. Datang has been engaged in ballistic missile research for some time, and although it has not yet developed an intercontinental ballistic missile, medium-range ballistic missiles have long been deployed to the active troops. The Datang military industry department quickly came up with the first-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile Julang-1, and the performance of this guy of the same name is a little better than the Julang-1 of the PLA Navy in another plane. Not only has the body of the projectile been reduced, but the firing range can also reach more than 2,000 kilometers.

The only thing that is dragging its feet is a nuclear warhead.

That's right, Datang doesn't have even a single nuclear warhead yet, although it has built so many controllable nuclear reactors. It's not that Datang doesn't have the ability to make nuclear warheads, but why do you want to build them now?

For some time after the Julang-1 entered service, it used conventional warheads, and it was not until 1808 that Bainan signed a series of documents authorizing Datang Nuclear Industry Group to produce a total of 28 nuclear warheads with yields ranging from 10,000 tons to 100,000 tons. These nuclear warheads are not quite the same as the first generation of nuclear warheads such as Little Boy and Fat Man, the technical standards are higher, and the volume is relatively smaller, such as the standard 20,000-ton nuclear warhead, the mass is only about 1.2 tons, which is roughly only a quarter of the little boy.

Of the 28 nuclear warheads, only 16 will be used for aerial bombs dropped by the Air Force's strategic bombers, and the rest will be deployed in the Dongfeng series of land-based ballistic missiles and the Julang series of sea-based ballistic missiles developed by Datang.

The first developed strategic nuclear submarine Rayfish-class will carry 16 Julang-1 missiles with a displacement of 7,000 tons, and two strategic nuclear submarines of this type will be built, but it will be necessary to wait for the Sailfish-class attack nuclear submarine to be almost mature, and the second type of attack nuclear submarine will be developed before it will be truly implemented, and the plan is to start construction in 1809.

With a weapon capable of completely destroying the enemy, Datang's decision-making choices have become a little thinner. No sane leader would throw dozens of nuclear bombs at every turn to completely destroy countries and nations with which he disagrees. But it is clear that possession of such weapons is an important bargaining chip to protect the existence and development of one's own country. (To be continued.) )