Duke devoted almost all of his time to research, and Zhu Yunqian, the chief expert of Project No. 10, was engaged in research with Duke at close range for the first time, only to find that this young man was really hard at research, and in addition to eating and sleeping for about 8 hours a day, even the walking time seemed to be focused on research.

This is not only reflected in the time, from the massive data detected on the experimental reactor, Professor Zhu has so rich research experience, he can only focus on a few professional aspects to analyze, but Duke seems to be omnipotent, from different research subfields put forward suggestions and analysis ideas for data grouping, and then handed over to the research group to use the No. 7 project supercomputer to analyze and model.

The analysis ideas proposed by Duke alone are enough to keep the R&D personnel of more than 100 people below busy. This is what Professor Zhu admires and gratifies the most, the value of a core R&D leader is to ask questions and point out some possible directions for research, rather than dwelling on specific details.

After a few days of work, the entire No. 10 project team has achieved a number of research results, judging by Professor Zhu's vision, these results are enough to reach the world-class level, if the No. 10 project team is only researching on its own, even if it is lucky to find the right direction, Professor Zhu estimates that it will take at least more than a year to achieve.

Thanks to Duke's thinking and the supercomputing capabilities of Project 7, the project team of Project 10 has reached a new level in nuclear energy application research and has begun to enter a new stage of rapid progress towards the international advanced level.

Professor Zhu was amazed by the novelty and effectiveness of Duke's questions and ideas.

Having personally participated in the process of producing these results, Professor Zhu is fully convinced that his generation has not fulfilled its long-cherished wish, and it is very likely that it will be completed under the leadership of Duke, if this young man can concentrate on this industry.

It's just that Professor Zhu didn't know that in addition to nuclear energy research, Duke's research on new equipment has not stopped for a moment, and the massive material-related data has been handed over to Kerry for analysis and modeling, and the analysis models and results are quickly fed back to the R&D team of Xincheng Special Steel and Hillington for further improvement.

Duke's results from Kerry's simulation studies were not satisfied, and according to the current material properties and reaction efficiency, the maximum safe output power that a single unit of the nuclear power plant designed by Billem is about 600,000 to 800,000 kilowatts, which is far from the expected 1.2 million kilowatts to 1.5 million kilowatts.

Of course, this conclusion, the No. 10 project team is still trying to calculate, compared to the computing power, the No. 7 project supercomputer has been greatly optimized and improved by Duke, although it is much stronger than the MIT Titan II, but there is still a gap of several orders of magnitude with Kerry.

However, Duke still has not been able to find out why the current experimental reactor is so different from reality. The data collected so far is not enough to deduce the cause.

Perhaps, the monitoring provided by Bilem is not complete enough? In his mind, Duke watched Kerry's lack of progress in this area, and suddenly had doubts about Billem's design, he had been studying this thing for a long time now, and he had a super library of nuclear energy research in his mind at any time, and he had collected almost all the accumulation in MIT.

Kerry can also retrieve relevant knowledge completely intelligently at any time, so in terms of breadth and depth of knowledge, it is even better than that of an elderly person like Professor Zhu, who has studied nuclear energy for many years. With almost unlimited memory space and super computing power, Duke can quickly deduce any idea in his mind.

Therefore, once the Billem is no longer a myth, Duke begins to question the design of the Billem, comparing the design of the reactor on Earth, and gradually comparing and deliberating the design differences between the two, and at each point of difference Duke studies why this is the case, and which one is more efficient and safer.

In this way, Duke has more things to do.

The first monitoring system that was questioned, Bilem has more than 100 existing monitoring points on the earth that are not available, and after Duke's repeated scrutiny, although many of them are indeed redundant and useless, at least 30 of them are not useless, and these monitoring indicators can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the operating status of the reactor.

After repeatedly verifying the results, Duke made a modification to the design, shut down the reactor and added these new monitoring points to the reactor, which was the most exciting thing about Billem's design, which was able to shut down very quickly, reduce the catalyst input, and then add a new reverse catalyst, the reactor was able to stop the reaction very quickly, and then the nuclear fuel in the reactor was recovered through a fully automated nuclear fuel recovery system.

The entire process of shutting down the nuclear reaction on the experimental reactor takes no more than an hour, and for today's nuclear power plants, this property alone is incredible. This is possible thanks to the new reaction excitation method and the highly intelligent feeding and recycling system.

There is no doubt that because of this feature, the safety of nuclear power plants has been raised to a new level, because in the event of a serious abnormality, it is possible to avoid greater danger by quickly shutting down the reactor.

Because in addition to safety, Professor Zhu also found that the design life of the new reactor far exceeds the level of existing nuclear power plants, conservative designs are more than 70 years, and after replacing some key components that may be aging, the main reactor can even operate safely for more than 80 years, which is much higher than the so-called Generation 3 reactor that is currently being promoted.

The longer the design life, the better the economy, because the biggest investment in the nuclear power plant is the initial construction investment, as for the maintenance investment after completion, it is almost negligible compared with the huge output, Professor Zhu has been in this industry all his life, of course, he knows which are the most critical places for a nuclear power plant, so he is not very disappointed that the design output power of Duke's Lotus reactor is much lower than expected.

To be honest, Duke's original design specifications were a bit more shocking, and the output power was much lower than expected, which made people feel a little more normal, because even this reduced value was much higher than the existing one, not to mention such a long design life.

If this lotus reactor can operate stably for more than 6 months, after verifying the experimental results, the construction of a larger-power verification commercial reactor can be started to accelerate the industrialization process.

However, there are still huge obstacles in the promotion of property rights, and now the intellectual property rights of this reactor belong entirely to Duke, but private enterprises are now not qualified to produce the main equipment of nuclear power plants and build nuclear power plants.

In order for Duke to commercialize the lotus pile, the challenge was not only technical limitations.