After 24 hours of stable operation, Duke confirmed that under the current design conditions, it is indeed the current output power, and the energy conversion efficiency of the experimental reactor is almost five times lower than expected.

Watching the indicators on the big screen enter a stable state, for some reason Duke suddenly felt a little dazed.

What Billem gave him has always been a god-like existence, and basically nothing has gone wrong, but this time there is such a huge deviation, which is unprecedented.

Duke had given everything to Kerry to review and was sure that everything was executed exactly as designed. This is a flaw in the design, and it is unbelievable that Billem would make such a serious problem.

Of course, these are not the point, more importantly, if the nuclear power plant cannot achieve the designed efficiency, Duke cannot conjure up new energy out of thin air to drive the seawater deuterium refining device designed by Billem, and now Duke has not tested the effect of this refining device, if it is still as unreliable as the nuclear power plant, Duke can only cry with Billem.

"What? Haven't gone to rest yet? A familiar voice suddenly rang in Duke's ears, shattering Duke's crankiness. Scientific research matters, if you are not in a hurry, we must be prepared to fight a protracted war, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest is the way to last. ”

"Thank you, Professor Zhu, I just want to see how stable this pile is" Duke turned his head, looked at Professor Zhu Yunqian who had just come over, smiled and thanked, "This pile is designed based on a new catalytic effect, although simulation experiments have shown that it can operate stably for a long time, but I am always a little uneasy if I don't stare at it with my own eyes." ”

Duke gently covered his thoughts, so that Professor Zhu Yunqian admired it very much, this is the attitude of a real researcher, no wonder this young man can achieve so many results at such a young age, it seems that behind the scenery in front of people, it is still composed of countless sweats.

Looking at the bloodshot in Duke's eyes, Professor Zhu Yunqian seemed to remember when he was young, when he was not as desperate as he was, from a young boy who had just left school to a qualified researcher, and it only took less than three years in the middle, and he was hungry and thirsty for learning at that time.

I was fortunate to see the rise of the mushroom cloud, the launch of the first generation of nuclear submarines, and the operation of the first independent reactor in China to absorb and digest the construction, and my generation suffered a lot, but it was true that it was not in vain, just thinking that when I was old, I still did not advance the domestic nuclear research to the forefront of the world, and the old man still had some regrets.

It wasn't until Duke appeared in the sky that a world-class high-level paper shocked the world, which made this old professor who had been fighting for nuclear weapons all his life very excited, and he never thought that Duke would be able to quickly build the world's most advanced fourth-generation reactor, just considering that this young talent was in his twenties, he could reach such a level, so it would not be difficult to support and cultivate it, and it would not be difficult to become a leader of the new generation over time.

Maybe what his generation didn't do, he could do in Duke's generation.

Duke's performance after returning to China did not disappoint Professor Zhu Yunqian, who had been secretly developed for more than ten years, and encountered a bottleneck and almost came to a standstill in Project No. 7, since Duke joined Qin Tairan, although he did not publicize Duke's role in this project, but what kind of person Zhu Yunqian is, as the technical person in charge of Project No. 7, how could Qin Tairan even hide it from him.

Therefore, the sudden breakthrough of Project 7 made Professor Zhu see that Duke, a young man, was not only a researcher in nuclear reactions, but also had a genius-like computer level, and this kind of extremely rare compound talent is very scarce in modern nuclear reaction research.

The development of simulation research applications is inseparable from extremely advanced computer skills, and the complex design of nuclear power plants is inseparable from computer intelligent control.

This alone is enough to make Professor Zhu look at Duke's experimental pile with admiration. What's more, although this reactor did not achieve the design goal proposed by Duke itself, the output power has strong commercial use value. If it can be finally verified in terms of safety, Professor Zhu feels that this heap type can be used as the main heap type in China in the future.

Because on the one hand, the efficiency is several times that of the existing reactor type, and more importantly, this reactor type is completely independent intellectual property rights. All the core components are processed domestically, and although there may be some large-size parts that may require further research for commercial high-power reactors, this is very close to practical use.

Professor Zhu looked at it from a completely different angle than Duke looked at it, so it was difficult for Professor Zhu to understand why Duke was so dissatisfied with his pile.

However, dissatisfaction is the driving force behind the researcher's eternal upward movement, so Professor Zhu has become more and more appreciative of Duke.

"Dr. Duke, to be honest, now the heap type you designed is very practical, if you can make the power to more than 300MW on this basis, I think it has great potential for commercial operation," Professor Zhu said with a smile, "In my opinion, this is a successful heap type, if Dr. Duke wants to apply for the domestic science and technology progress award, I am very happy to recommend it to the Ministry of Science and Technology." ”

According to his status in the domestic nuclear energy field, the recommended projects will basically not run out of the national first prize. For the average researcher, this is definitely a huge affirmation.

"Thank you, Professor Zhu," Duke said with a smile and shook his head, "I'm doing research, and it's imperative to figure out why it didn't meet its design goals. Duke really didn't pay attention to these false names.

"However, considering that many experts in the No. 10 project team have made great efforts for this, I think if I can apply for some awards for them, it can be regarded as an explanation of the hard work of these experts." Just because Duke doesn't care doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't care either.

There are hundreds of experts, researchers, and engineers involved in this experimental reactor, and they are not as famous and wealthy as Duke, so Duke does not block everyone from applying for some awards as benefits with the experimental reactor he designed.

Duke doesn't need these honors, but who doesn't want these people involved in the project? If Duke doesn't understand this little bit of human affection, he has been really blind in the past few years.

Hearing that Duke didn't care about his honor, but cared about the people below, Professor Zhu felt that Duke had the talent of a general, and that he wanted to lead a team, whether it was a scientific research team or an army, and a leader who could not bring victory and benefits to his team was destined to not last long.

Now it seems that Duke is not only very forward-looking in terms of technology, but also cares about the interests of the people below.

In today's materialistic society, such people are actually extinct, and even Professor Zhu is sometimes only recommended by some people, and some very reluctant achievements are praised to a height that is not worthy of the name.

"I'll take everyone to thank you in advance, although these awards are not much, but they are still very useful for everyone's title promotion or something." As the chief expert in the No. 10 project system, Professor Zhu of course knew the needs of his subordinates, so he was not polite and accepted the honor from Duke honestly.

This project was entirely designed by Duke, and if Duke refused to take the lead in doing these things, Professor Zhu himself would be embarrassed to come out and do it. So it was originally a favor that Professor Zhu was going to send, but in the blink of an eye, it became Duke's favor and sent it back.

"Professor Zhu, I'll leave it to you to preside over here, and after I go back to rest, I'll go back and call up all the data for research and research, maybe I will use the application of Project 7." Duke finally felt a little tired, and his eyelids began to heaviness like lead.

To further investigate what went wrong, Duke needed to conduct extensive simulations using the available data.

Although Kerry can do these things very well directly in his head, it is too rebellious to come up with the conclusions of these data analysis out of thin air. So Duke had to rely on Project 7 to do this, Duke could have done it through Qin Tairan, but since Professor Zhu, the technical person in charge of Project 7, Duke asked him to be useful.

"No problem, you rest first, and then we'll take a look together, we are also participants in this project, so we can't do nothing." Professor Zhu agreed with a hearty smile. Duke was already a major contributor to Project 7, and now it is still a question to use Professor Zhu, not to mention that these new data are also an extremely valuable resource for Project 7.

Duke collates the data and quietly enters it into Kerry's nuclear reaction simulation application for analysis, and after preparing Meimei to sleep, he gets up and prepares to connect with Billem and pass on the results of Kerry's analysis to see if Billem has any new improvements.