Xijiaotou is in the west of Hainan Island, surrounded by mountains and seas, facing a semi-enclosed bay in the shape of a half-moon, with calm waves, sparsely populated, and the crystal clear sea water exudes the surrounding turquoise, making this place seem to be picturesque. If you build a few villas in the mountains, it is really an excellent holiday destination.

Xijiaotou is only about 80 kilometers from Haikou, and a newly opened rural asphalt road with two-way traffic of more than 10 kilometers is hidden in the rolling hills and hills, and the Duke's nuclear reactor base is built at the end of this road.

Duke took the Buick business car on the experimental reactor base, at this moment the snow has begun to fall in the north, and here is still a green beauty, the mood is much better, with such a beautiful scenery, the location of this base seems to be very good, so that researchers can enjoy the beauty of vacation after hard work.

Duke's business car soon drove to the end of the road, the first thing that caught Duke's eye was 5 white chimneys, milky white 5 pillars of the same size stood in the air, which should be the designer's aesthetic needs, only to design the different power emission chimneys to be exactly the same, plus the whole base unified with white as the main color, it looks simple and generous.

If you can overlook it from the air at this moment, you can see that the whole base is in full bloom like a lotus flower, full of unique beauty, obviously the engineer who designed the overall architectural appearance is inspired by the lotus.

Such a beautiful base, Duke liked it almost at first sight. I feel that my investment has not been spent in vain, and this is an ideal place to research. Removing the core of a nuclear reactor that makes ordinary people feel like a vacation base.

Today, the most important part of the core of the experimental reactor was installed, and he came to the site to observe and supervise in the field.

The on-site installation work was carried out in an orderly manner under the command of the researchers in the Duke laboratory, and Duke couldn't help but feel a little excited when he watched the successful installation of the modules one by one.

These things on the electronic drawings provided by Billem, although they are now processed in the smallest miniature version, can be seamlessly assembled, indicating that the processing technology level of Shenda machine tools basically meets the requirements, and in the future, we only need to find a way to enlarge the size of these spare parts and process them, and we should be able to produce equipment for real commercial scale applications.

It's just that I don't know whether the existing material properties and mechanical properties can be supported for larger-scale application equipment, which need to be tested for real operation before we can obtain first-hand actual data from the current equipment use, and then calculate what the indicators need to be achieved under larger-scale application.

Since there are many materials in the design provided by Billem that cannot be produced on Earth, Duke is now unsure whether the materials he is using to replace will stand the test, so this micro-experimental reactor is the best opportunity to test theory with practice.

Duke came with a group of nuclear reaction research experts gathered by Project 10, who were now looking at the core designed by Duke and pointing, in terms of volume, Duke's core was at least one-third smaller than the current experimental reactor of the same power.

Although the newly developed special alloy materials used by Duke are much higher than those of commonly used materials.

However, because it has not been tested in practice, these experts are still worried about whether the core, which has been reduced by many sizes, can withstand the pressure, and in their opinion, Duke's core design is too economical in many places, greatly reducing the thickness of the casting, and the safety protection of the core is a little too simple.

Although this is only a pile type for experimental purposes, the number of simulated test materials can be adjusted to ensure that there is no problem with this size, but this thing is not trivial after all, what to do in case of accidents, the general design is to ensure a higher degree of redundancy as the priority.

What makes them even more curious is what technology Duke uses in this core to output high-temperature steam that can drive power generation equipment of different powers. It's a pity that now the core is basically fully equipped, and the experts are able to look at the external features, and from this external feature there is no information about this at all.

Experts don't even know what level Duke's pile type is, is it 3 and a half generations? Or is it a fourth-generation heap type?

After looking at the installation on this side of the nuclear island without getting anything, some disappointed experts came to the main control room and immediately decided to make a difference.

The huge curtain wall seamlessly spliced by SAL's new display screen gives people a strong visual impact, according to the introduction of construction, this kind of super-large curtain wall, in addition to the TV station, can be seen in the space base. It is said that the cost price is at least tens of millions or more, and this kind of large-scale expenditure cannot be seen in other experimental piles at all, which is really too expensive.

The rows of neat operation consoles, to the experts a feeling is that the automatic level of the entire experimental reactor is very high, from the current situation, the experts do not see that there is a need for manual fine adjustment of the operation in other places, basically all the operations are concentrated on this main control room, except for the extremely abnormal situation that needs to carry out disaster recovery operations in some places.

Duke's experimental reactor completely abandons the place of manual operation, if it were not for the fact that the performance of the computer on the earth is too different from that of the Lyme starry sky, Duke would not have used so many operating stations, this is an experimental reactor, Duke not only has to ensure the normal operation of the experimental reactor, but also to collect a lot of data that is not related to the operation for analysis.

Therefore, although the output power of this experimental reactor is very small, but in the use of sensors, it is several times more than a normal nuclear power plant, once the experimental reactor is operating normally, there will be a large amount of data transmitted, to analyze these massive data requires a large number of high-performance computers, in order to understand in real time whether the experimental reactor is operating normally, whether the capacity of each equipment exceeds the limit......

After the installation of the equipment, the equipment is debugged with power and no load, and the huge curtain wall concentrates all kinds of information on the experimental reactor, showing that the monitoring system is running normally, and the sensors distributed in various places are energized at one time, showing that the installation work is extremely successful.

After the commissioning of the monitoring system, an intense simulated feeding operation began, and the simulated nuclear fuel was successfully put into the core reactor of the experimental reactor through a fully automated nuclear fuel delivery system, and then smoothly taken out and transferred to the waste recovery system, the whole process was completed in one go......

"Congratulations, Dr. Duke, the one-time success of the simulation debugging proves that this is a very high-level experimental reactor, and we are all looking forward to its performance in actual operation," Zhu Yunqian, the white-haired chief expert of the No. 10 project, looked at the successful debugging and took the lead in applauding and congratulating.