After exchanging research ideas with Professor Zhu on the second-generation Lotus reactor, Professor Zhu was busy writing a report and applying to participate in Duke's second-generation Lotus reactor research project.

It is believed that after another two or three years of research experience, the mastery of the catalytic nuclear reactor invented by Duke will be more mature, and basically the reactor type similar to the first generation of the Lotus reactor will be able to be independently designed.

It is equivalent to this world-leading new reactor type, Professor Zhu has brought out a new research team for domestic nuclear reactor research, and how can Professor Zhu give up such an opportunity.

I believe that the upper authorities will not let go of such an opportunity.

After Duke got Professor Zhu's promise, he also started the construction of the super-minicomputer computing network non-stop, and now he has the money, and after using Kerry to virtually construct a super-minicomputer distributed system, Duke came up with a purchase list according to this structure, and handed it over to the procurement department of SAL, and soon placed an order for these super-minicomputers that Duke needs and some parts that Duke needs to improve.

The newly developed server cluster version of the Nuwa operating system almost perfectly squeezes out the computing potential of these super minicomputers, although the whole system computing is still a little behind the general computing power compared with the real supercomputer system.

Even so, the general-purpose computing performance of the entire system is very close to the performance of the Titan II prototype supercomputer. It's just that in terms of cost, the Duke system is almost twice as much as the former, and it is extremely cost-effective in terms of cost performance.

However, for Duke's unique Lotus reactor nuclear reaction simulation application research, the distributed computing program optimized and debugged by Kerry, and some professional super workstations are inserted in the middle to be responsible for highly professional calculations, so that the performance of the whole system exceeds that of the Titan II prototype several times, which is worse than the improved Titan II of the Maldives Duke, but it is much stronger than the obviously outdated supercomputer system of Project 7.

Of course, this professional performance is very limited for those who want to carry out other aspects of massive data computing research, but Duke's current goal is only to support the development of Lotus Dui II simulation operations, and the disadvantage of not supporting other general massive data operations does not exist.

Cost is not a problem, as long as it can better support Duke's research, higher R&D costs can be supported by Duke, after all, now Dongfang New Energy has begun to enter the stage of making money, and these research and development costs are of course borne by this new company.

In this way, Duke is equivalent to the establishment of two supercomputing centers, one is a more powerful supercomputing center in the Maldives, which is completely done by Duke's research team, not only to support nuclear reactor research, but also to support some new material research simulation and machine tool research simulation mass computing can also be carried out there.

After all, the Titan II improved supercomputer modified by Duke has more computing power in these aspects than the super minicomputer cluster system cobbled together by the Lotus Stack Base.

For this kind of compromise, Duke is helpless, after all, the Titan II system is simply not available in China. And Professor Zhu, it is impossible for them to go to the Maldives to do this research.

Therefore, Duke can only settle down, and the main experimental research of the nuclear reactor is placed at the Lotus reactor base, and only the simulation test with a particularly large amount of data will be handed over to the Maldives research team to calculate. This means that Duke has two teams to assist him in his research work at the same time, which saves a lot of valuable development time compared to a single system.

In this way, although it is a bit wasteful in terms of R&D investment, Duke believes that this approach is completely worth it. Being able to exchange money for R&D time, no matter how Duke calculates, is an incomparably good thing.

Here Duke is preparing for its own new research infrastructure construction, and Dongfang New Energy has used the Li family to get the right to produce and operate nuclear power equipment in Hong Kong in Hong Kong, and now it has started the first commercial reactor production in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and the main components of the nuclear island equipment are produced by Duke Heavy Industries' enterprises, which are supplied to Dongfang New Energy in the form of accessories to complete the final assembly of complete sets of equipment, and finally installed on the base of Bangladesh nuclear island.

Dongfang New Energy is abundant, the estimated investment budget of the Chittagong project is about 400 million US dollars, and Dongfang New Energy invests half of its own funds and half of its bank loans for the investment in the construction of power plants, the proportion of its own investment is quite high, and the investment of its own funds will not exceed 30% under normal circumstances.

It's just that this project is still a bit experimental, the interest rate of financing loans is higher than usual, whether it is Lao Li's family or Cai Siqiang, they don't want to make the financing cost too high, anyway, now the company has registered the 5 billion US dollars promised by both parties have been in place, the company's own funds are still idle, if it is not for the long-term layout considerations, you can do without loans.

The funds are in place, the whole project can be carried out at the same time, the old Li family in the Jida port originally had a set of team running thermal power, for the nuclear power plant site selection, relocation, earthwork construction and so on is completely familiar, plus the Bangladeshi authorities also hope to see the benefits as soon as possible, all aspects of the extraordinary cooperation, so the whole project is progressing rapidly.

The Bangladesh project was in full swing, and some dignitaries on the Pakistani side soon noticed this matter, and from the perspective of relationship, Pakistan and Bangladesh are closer than Bangladesh and Bangladesh and Ah San, after all, the two families were originally a family, if it were not for Ah San's sideways foot to break up the family.

So the Pakistani side is very clear about how much the Bangladeshi authorities will get from this project, they are completely different from Bangladesh in nuclear research, and there are a lot of professionals who can evaluate the pros and cons of the lotus pile, and there is no need for any consulting firm.

After the arguments of the Pakistani experts, they gave a clear conclusion: they got the comments and analysis of the local nuclear physicists after Duke's speech in Switzerland, and other in-depth materials, the Lotus reactor is much stronger than the current mainstream commercial reactors in the world, both theoretically and in terms of the operation effect of the experimental reactor, and it is the safest and most advanced reactor type today, and it is not one of them.

Such a good thing, coupled with an even more eye-catching huge profit, the Pakistani side immediately blushed.