Luzon.

Panay Island No. 1 Shipyard.

With the official completion of the third super-Luzon-class amphibious assault ship, the Ceylon.

All the technicians and engineers focused on a ship that was generating its hull.

Designer Mori Shangzhe read the test report in his hand and showed a satisfied smile on his face: "The test of the Longgrand cannon is complete, and everything is as expected." ”

Eno also read the freshly released test report: "After we strengthened the structure, the hull was enough to withstand the 800 mm 60x diameter gun. ”

The huge battleship that is being generated in front of him is the 75,000-ton battleship designed by Ino and Mori Shangzhe and others based on the Greater Luzon-class amphibious assault ship-Pacific battleship.

The carrier-based aircraft was completely abandoned, and a 60 times diameter 800 mm caliber cannon was used instead, retaining the design concept of submarine.

Although the speed of the cannon is only about 5.5 kilometers per second due to the different diameters and the reduction of recoil, it is still very easy to break through the Kármán line.

In fact, Mori is more concerned about the power system of the battleship than the giant cannon.

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

The Luzon Electric Company, which is responsible for developing the power system of the Pacific-class battleship, also sent a team to the First Shipyard today.

"Sen designer, I am Meng Xin, the chief engineer of Sun Engineering." A very young man greeted Mori Naozhe.

This kind of rejuvenation is actually a characteristic of the scientific research team of Homo sapiens.

For example, Meng Xin, who graduated from Jinling University in 16 years, went to France to study for a doctorate, and also interned for a period of time in Alstom, France, mainly engaged in nuclear reactor design.

Of course, he was not qualified to design the reactor himself, but only participated in part of the work with his mentor.

In March 20, Meng Xin chose to leave Alstom and apply for a job at General Electric because of his identity, but he was also rejected.

He was then recruited by the HR department of Homo sapiens and came to Luzon to work on the design of gas turbines.

It wasn't until May last year that Meng Xin successfully passed the test of new humanity and was transferred to Luzon Electric Company's Solar Engineering (known externally as the second design team of supercritical gas turbines).

During this half a year, Meng Xin experienced the super advantages of a new human being, and his abilities were improved to varying degrees.

And with the completion of the design of Dr. Levi's Firefly-type hydrogen bomb in Black Tiger Canyon, Meng Xin obtained very many nuclear fusion and nuclear fission test data.

These data have also played a huge role in the solar project.

Sen Shangzhe asked with some eagerness, "Dr. Meng, can your reactor be on board now?" ”

"Fission reactors are already OK, fusion reactors are not OK yet." Meng Xin shook his head helplessly.

Sen Shangzhe looked at Meng Xin speechlessly: "I don't have high requirements, fission reactors can also be, and I don't dare to think about nuclear fusion." ”

He learned a few days ago that the original nuclear fission reactor of the Sun Project had been completed, and now the miniaturization of the nuclear fusion reactor was underway.

He almost fell into doubt about this, after all, his super battleship only needed a nuclear fusion reactor, and there was no nuclear fusion reactor at all.

Meng Xin spread his hands: "It's a pity that the first phase of the solar project has only been completed, and I still want to design a miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor for you." ”

Hehe...... The corners of Mori Shangzhe and Ino twitched slightly.

The two of them know the difficulty of miniaturizing nuclear fusion reactors, and the current stage of nuclear fusion reactors is actually a small nuclear explosion.

A large pit is dug underground and then converted into a nuclear explosion furnace that can withstand fusion explosions of up to 10 tons.

The energy and thermal neutrons generated by the explosion heat the inner wall of the composite ceramic, and then the thermal energy passes through the outer hydrothermal circulation system, which is used to propel the gas turbine to generate electricity.

Due to the explosion of the firefly-type hydrogen bomb, the radioactive contamination is very small, and the yield can likewise be compressed to a very small level, so it can be used as a power generation reactor.

At present, the solar project has completed the first experimental 3-ton nuclear fusion reactor.

For internal scientific research journals in this area, Sen Shangzhe, Ino and others have only recently paid attention to it.

When the two saw this model of nuclear fusion reactor, they quickly thought of a nuclear fusion power station design scheme for Lao Maozi.

This kind of fusion is also the easiest fusion reactor to achieve at present, but its disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, the equipment is large and difficult to miniaturize.

Even a Pacific-class battleship can't fit this type of fusion reactor, so let's use a nuclear fusion reactor obediently!

Meng Xin took out his biological plate and called up several design plans: "This is the relatively mature nuclear fission reactor plan on my side, you can see which one is more suitable." ”

Mori Shangzhe took the tablet and looked at it carefully.

At present, there are three types of fourth-generation nuclear fission reactors designed by the Sun Project, namely: sodium-cooled reactors, high-temperature reactors, and thorium-based molten salt reactors.

Ino on the side spoke for the first time: "Don't think about the high-temperature reactor, this thing is not suitable for warships." ”

"Then a sodium-cooled reactor and a thorium-based molten salt reactor." Meng Xin introduced: "I personally recommend thorium-based molten salt reactors, although the company does not lack uranium-235, but this thing is mainly used as a raw material for atomic bombs, and thorium does not need to crowd out the raw materials for nuclear bombs." ”

Mori Shangzhe, who was still reading the data, looked down at the information on the tablet and asked, "Is the company's thorium ore reserves enough?" ”

Meng Xin explained: "Enough, we have found a huge reserve of rare earth ore on the bottom of the Sulu Sea, which contains about 190,000 tons of thorium resources, plus the reserves in other regions, the thorium resources controlled by the company are about 86~930,000 tons, which is enough for us to use for a long time." ”

After looking at the plans for sodium-cooled reactors and thorium-based molten salt reactors, Mori Shangzhe finally chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor with relatively small power.

He chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor because of its high safety, especially with the blessing of Homo sapiens' material advantages, the core component of the reactor, the molten salt heat exchanger, can have a service life of about 12 years.

This data is already the best molten salt heat exchanger available.

Moreover, thorium-based molten salt reactors do not require a large hot water circulation system, which can effectively reduce the internal space occupied by the reactor, and at the same time, it does not need to use seawater for cooling, reducing the probability of being detected by infrared.

"According to the data you gave, the Pacific class needs three thorium-based molten salt reactors with a power of 200 megawatts."

Meng Xin nodded: "No problem, three 200 MW thorium-based molten salt reactors, it will take about half a month to prepare all the parts and nuclear fuel." ”

Mori looked at the speed at which the hull was generated, and it was about two weeks before the hull was completed, and he asked:

"Reactor parts need to be installed in advance, right? Otherwise, I'm worried that I won't be able to get in. ”

Meng Xin shook his head: "No, it can be decomposed into small parts at that time, and you can also enter it from a small hatch, anyway, the thorium-based molten salt nuclear fuel itself is not radioactive, and it can be injected last." ”

"Then please, my side will strive to complete the first ship of the Pacific class around March." Mori is very much looking forward to the appearance of the Pacific-class battleship.

In the case of immature intercontinental missiles, large shells fired by giant artillery must be separated from fixed batteries in order to further strengthen deterrence.

This is also the meaning of the existence of the Pacific-class battleships.

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