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, and now the first-generation lotus pile has nearly 40 percent uranium utilization rate, and if it is increased by 50 percent, it will be almost 60 percent.

That's not a small number. The same amount of uranium resources can now be used by half the time. It also means that the nuclear waste generated will be further greatly reduced, which greatly reduces the environmental pressure on nuclear reactors in waste disposal.

"There's no problem with this!" Professor Zhu Yunqian replied categorically, not to mention that he was ordered to assist Duke in research and development, even if Duke did not have the financial subsidy for the minicomputer, he would strongly apply to his superiors to join the Duke research project.

Although the first generation of lotus stacks has not yet contributed to the domestic power supply due to various reasons, Professor Zhu believes that it is only a matter of time, and even if someone obstructs it now, it will not be able to stop the tide of technological progress in the end.

Professor Zhu believes that in the future, not only naval ships, but also a large number of giant ships of more than 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 the case, perhaps a new era of nuclear power is on the horizon for ocean transportation.

"Duke, what are the main improvements in your second-generation Lotus Pile design?" Thinking of this, Professor Zhu Yunqian, an elder, couldn't help but be a little enthusiastic, and he asked curiously.

"The main thing is to add a particle bombardment auxiliary system, so that the uranium utilization rate can be used more fully under particle bombardment." Duke didn't mean to keep this principle secret, and his own nuclear research team was still too weak, and without Professor Zhu's participation, a lot of work would have to be guided by Duke in order to continue research.

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

Therefore, in the face of Professor Zhu's question, Duke explained his thoughts in detail one by one. Professor Zhu is a true expert in nuclear research, and he also has a certain understanding of the subcritical particle nuclear reaction research project in Switzerland, so he quickly understood Duke's thinking.

It's just that the principle is very simple to figure out, and to really realize this principle, I don't know how many design and manufacturing process problems need to be solved, and the subcritical particle nuclear reaction research project in Switzerland is not the first to study this aspect, but they are the most fruitful in this aspect of research in the world today.

After all, Europe's foundation for nuclear reaction research and industrial processing is there, they have Germany's best processing machine tools, world-class operators, and experts and scholars who attract and concentrate on driving and accounting for more than half of the world's research.

Hearing Duke's preliminary design idea, Professor Zhu felt that the spring of a nuclear reaction was about to begin, and there was no doubt that this was an exciting era for nuclear research practitioners, but if he did not catch the Duke Express, it would also be a sad era.

Professor Zhu is glad that he is getting old and can catch up with such a spring-like day at the sunset of his life. If you can help Duke make the second generation of lotus piles, you can really have no regrets in this life.

"Duke, this thing you said, I'll go back and report to the top, if it's not surprising, we can still fight side by side in this field again, although life is rare for seventy years, I, an old man, should have taken a back seat a long time ago, but when I encounter such a spring of nuclear research, I have to fight again." Professor Zhu said with some excitement.

With Professor Zhu's assurance, Duke felt that this matter was promising, and he made a preliminary plan, making a list of the super-small computer needs to be purchased, and then handed it over to the procurement department of SAL to make a procurement budget.

The results of the proposed scheme sent for verification were not long in coming, and sure enough, in the simulation calculations redone according to Duke's suggestion, the miniaturized S1 and S2 lotus reactors of the existing design perfectly reflected the various expected output characteristic parameters of the design, which meant that the design work could basically be finalized and the actual experimental reactor construction could begin.

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

Everyone was very excited to have such a perfect milestone ending point, and at the celebration party held by the base for this purpose, the experts, who usually don't drink alcohol, made an exception and drank up a few bottles of liquor prepared by the base.

For the construction of the finalized experimental reactor, except for a few customized components, most of the components common to the Lotus reactor have already been completed, and the infrastructure construction project part has been prepared in advance, so after the design is finalized, the construction period of the S1 and S2 miniaturized Lotus reactors is very short, which is simply rapid compared to the construction cycle of the general nuclear reactor experimental reactor.

Compared with the lotus stack for power generation, these two sets of S1 and S2 small marine lotus stacks have a higher degree of automation, in order to adapt to the small space on the ship, the two sets of nuclear power systems occupy a small area, and the installation and commissioning can be completed in any corner of the lotus stack base.

After the commissioning was completed and everything was normal, the first critical test of both systems was a one-time success, which made Professor Zhu, who was secretly sweating, very relieved, and it was basically impossible to build a new nuclear power system in such a short period of time.

Although it is said that with Project 7, a large number of computer simulation operations can be used to reduce the original actual tests, but for the Lianhuadui miniaturization project, without the correct guidance of Duke's god-like guidance, it will always be brought back when the project team's research has just gone astray, and Professor Zhu estimates that it will take at least two years or more to develop the research and development time to achieve today's effect.

It can be said that the project team has a genius-like figure, which can reduce at least half of the research and development time, why is talent important, in this kind of high-tech project, it fully reflects the huge difference between the leader and the general figure.

Because Professor Zhu asked himself if this project was led by him, it is estimated that it is still too early to even finalize the design, let alone enter the critical test.

This only solves the problem of power drive, and then the design considerations such as security precautions and defense against enemy attacks are the topics of another project team, and for Duke, this project has basically come to an end now.

It will take at least a year to complete the design tests of the perimeter and make the S1 and S2 nuclear power systems form real combat power, but today the critical test is successful, and those big people who have decided to pause the power system of the large ship under construction and wait for the miniaturization of the lotus pile can now finally put a heart back in their stomachs.