In any case, in this way, Duke is even busier, and Duke needs to check whether the operation of the miniaturized S1 and S2 experimental reactors is normal from time to time, and now in the final verification stage, Duke and Professor Zhu do not want to fall short.

In terms of the manufacturing and construction of 300MW and 600MW commercial reactors, Duke also needs to solve some on-site problems, after all, they are the first system, and Duke's design cannot be perfect, and it is inevitable that various on-site problems will arise in the middle.

Fortunately, all the problems so far have not involved systemic fundamental defects, and occasionally some ancillary facilities do not match, and Duke can directly propose solutions after reading them, so whether it is a 300MW commercial reactor or a 600MW commercial reactor, the overall progress is very smooth, if nothing else, the construction can be completed as soon as early 2017, compared with the general nuclear power plant, Duke's design is more modular, and the construction period is shorter.

The S1 and S2 small experimental reactors, due to their small structure, will be able to see results in a few months.

As for the rest of the time, Duke had to devote them to the research of the second-generation lotus pile, and Professor Zhu's application was approved by his superiors, and he continued to cooperate with Duke in the research of the second-generation lotus pile as he wished, and stationed in the distributed computing center composed of multiple super-small computer clusters that Duke had built every day.

In order to cooperate with Duke's relatively unfamiliar particle accelerator research, Professor Zhu and they also found a top research team from a domestic university to cooperate in this area to cooperate in the research of Duke to provide full financial support, and they can also engage in the most cutting-edge research work in today's most advanced nuclear reactor research base, which is too attractive for these university research teams, so Professor Zhu said that the team leader did not say a word, and soon led the entire research team in place.

From the perspective of appeal and connections, even though Duke is now somewhat famous, there is still a big gap compared with Professor Zhu, an old expert who has been operating in the industry for decades.

It's just that now the relationship between Duke and Professor Zhu is really like a fish in water, one is willing to pass on the torch of nuclear power, the other is also willing to respect the old comrades, and takes great care of the research group in all aspects.

Anyone who engages in research knows that the ranking of papers is very particular, and usually the top two places play an important role in the promotion of a person's title, and the probability of publishing a paper with Duke's countersignature in a first-class professional journal is much greater than that of their own signature, in fact, so far, there has not been a paper with Duke's signature that has been rejected for publication.

Therefore, Duke Ken countersigning to others is actually a good disguised benefit for these little-known research experts.

In Professor Zhu's eyes, this is Duke's initial demonstration of the role of a technology leader, although these experts and scholars are basically Duke's uncles in terms of grade, and some are even as old as their grandfathers.

However, in the research community, on the one hand, there is seniority, and on the other hand, there is a tradition of respecting those who have attained it. Therefore, some people who engage in research especially want to join the well-known experts, just to borrow the influence of well-known experts to achieve their own goals.

It's just that these well-known experts are not stupid, for these subordinates, do not complete a certain number of papers for him to choose first, and publish them as their own results, you don't want to borrow the name of the teacher to deceive. Speaking of which, this is also the sadness of the academic world, and the bookish spirit cannot hide the law of the law of the strong eating the weak.

In contrast, Duke has never been willing to sign the top two papers on papers that he did not write himself, and pretend to accept the work of others, which is a world of difference compared to these so-called well-known experts.

Therefore, the experts and scholars in Professor Zhu's project team will wholeheartedly participate in the research of the Duke project, on the one hand, because they have their own share of the research results, and on the other hand, the research conditions and atmosphere provided by Duke are difficult to provide in other places, and everyone is very comfortable to work.

As the days passed, Duke's research began to pay off, and the second-generation lotus pile gradually turned from a design framework into a real new solution.

In addition, there is more good news from the material research and machine tool research of Duke, they have developed better and stronger new alloy materials, and there are new breakthroughs in the research of radiation protection materials expected by Duke, if these new materials are applied to Duke's design, it means that there will be further performance breakthroughs in the design of the nuclear island, and Duke can achieve greater output power in a smaller space.

The breakthrough in the research of heavy-duty CNC machine tools for ultra-large workpiece processing will provide guarantee for the processing of workpieces of Duke's larger units, for the newly acquired Dongfang Power under Duke Heavy Industries, this is equivalent to plugging in the wings for their super-large steam turbine unit research and development, with this new machine tool, not to mention 600MW, it is 1000MW, 1200MW steam turbine machining is no longer a problem.

In terms of materials, Duch Heavy Industries can now provide them with special alloys that meet the requirements to support the needs of this ultra-large unit steam turbine.

This means that from now on, Ducht Heavy Industries is fully capable of producing large-scale critical equipment for 600MW nuclear power plants, and 1000MW and 1200MW equipment will soon be able to be finalized. The nuclear energy production chain that Duke has built is basically connected to this day, from the design of nuclear power plants, the production of raw materials and key components of equipment, to the back-end construction and operation, Duke Heavy Industries is deeply involved.

Although it is necessary to cooperate with the Lao Li family in terms of terminal operation, the nuclear power generation market space is so huge, and when the lotus pile is truly recognized by the international business, the future nuclear power generation supply of this piece, Dushi Heavy Industries will inevitably occupy an important place in the world with the lotus pile as a siege weapon.

Judging from the current Bangladesh project and the Pakistan project, Duke's future money from this is much stronger than any other industry he is now in, not only the net profit is very impressive, the key is that this business basically does not have much cyclical at all, it can be said that as long as the government relations are good, after the completion of the project, Duke is equivalent to sitting at home and waiting to collect the money This is a little exaggerated, but in fact, it is true, the highly automated lotus pile does not have much technical difficulty in operation and maintenance, Compared with the current mainstream nuclear reactors, the uranium utilization rate is several times higher, making the cost advantage of the Lotus reactor very obvious.

If just to make money, Duke can rest when he does this, because the technical advantages of the first generation of Lotus Pile have been very obvious, as long as the two projects in Bangladesh and Pakistan have been completed for a period of commercial operation without accidents, and all indicators are verified to meet expectations, then a large number of promotions in the future will be unstoppable.

Not to mention, there will be no reason to stop the use of lotus stacks in the domestic power generation market, the supply price of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, for thermal power even the cost of thermal coal may not be enough, such a high cost performance of the other party has no excuse to block the launch of lotus stacks?

It's just that making money in the nuclear power plant is not Duke's only purpose, but more importantly, to complete the things in Billem. It's just that from the current point of view, before the second generation of lotus piles comes out, Duke has no hope of solving the problem of Billem for the time being.

Without enough excess electricity to waste, Duke's equipment for refining nuclear fuel from seawater could not be activated.

Therefore, Duke can't slack off, and the second-generation lotus pile research has to be carried out intensively to accumulate new technical strength.