Homo sapiens

Luzon.

Panay Island First Shipyard.

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

All technicians and engineers focused their efforts on a warship that was generating a hull.

Designer Sen Shangzhe read the test report in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face: "The test of the Longgrand Cannon is completed, and everything is in line with expectations."

Ino has also seen the fresh test report: "After we strengthened the structure, the hull is strong enough to withstand an 800 mm 60-caliber main gun."

The huge battleship being generated in front of me is the Pacific Battleship, a 75,000-ton battleship that was improved and designed based on the Grand Luzon-class amphibious assault ship by Ino, Mori Sangtetsu and others.

The carrier-based aircraft was completely abandoned and replaced with a 60-times-800-mm cannon, retaining the submarine design concept.

Although due to different magnifications and in order to reduce recoil, the projectile velocity is only about 5.5 kilometers per second, it is still very easy to break through the Karman line.

Compared with the giant cannon, Mori Shangzhe is actually more concerned about the power system of the battleship.

Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will arrive.

Luzon Electric Company, which is responsible for developing the power system of the Pacific-class battleship, also sent a team to the No. 1 Shipyard today.

"Designer Sen, I am Meng Xin, the chief engineer of Sun Engineering." A very young man greeted Sen Shangzhe.

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

For example, Meng Xin graduated from Jinling University in 2016 and went to France to study for a PhD. He also interned at Alstom in France for a period of time, mainly engaged in the design of nuclear reactors.

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

In March 2020, Meng Xin chose to leave Alstom and apply for a job at General Electric because of his status. However, he was also rejected.

Then he was absorbed by the personnel department of Homo sapiens and came to Luzon to work on gas turbine design.

Until last May, Meng Xin successfully passed the test of new human employees and was transferred to Luzon Electric Company's Sun Engineering (known to the outside world as the second supercritical gas turbine design team).

During this period of more than half a year, Meng Xin experienced the super advantages of the new humans, and various abilities were improved to varying degrees.

As Dr. Levis completed the design of the Firefly hydrogen bomb in Black Tiger Canyon, Meng Xin obtained a lot of test data on nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.

These data also play a huge role in solar engineering.

Sen Shangzhe asked anxiously: "Dr. Meng, can your reactor be put on the ship now?"

"The fission reactor is already available, but the fusion reactor is not available yet." Meng Xin shook his head helplessly.

Sen Shangzhe looked at Meng Xin speechlessly: "I don't have high requirements. A fission reactor is fine, but I don't dare to think about nuclear fusion."

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

He almost fell into doubt about this. After all, his super battleship only needed a nuclear fission reactor, not a nuclear fusion reactor at all.

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

Haha... The corners of Sen Shangzhe and Ino's mouths twitched slightly.

Do the two of them know how difficult it is to miniaturize a nuclear fusion reactor? The current nuclear fusion reactor is actually a small nuclear explosion.

Dig a large pit underground and transform it into a nuclear explosion furnace. This nuclear explosion furnace can withstand nuclear fusion explosions of less than 10 tons.

The energy and thermal neutrons generated by the explosion will heat the inner wall of the composite ceramic, and then the heat energy will pass through the hydrothermal circulation system in the outer layer and be used to drive the gas turbine to generate electricity.

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

At present, Sun Engineering has completed the first experimental 3-ton nuclear fusion reactor.

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

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

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

Even the Pacific-class battleship cannot accommodate this type of nuclear fusion reactor. For now, let's just use nuclear fission reactors!

Meng Xin took out his biological tablet and called up several design plans: "This is a relatively mature nuclear fission reactor plan here at present. You can take a look at which one is more suitable."

Sen Shangzhe took the tablet and looked through it carefully.

Currently, Sun Engineering has designed three types of fourth-generation nuclear fission reactors: sodium-cooled reactors, high-temperature reactors, and thorium-based molten salt reactors.

Ino on the side spoke immediately: "There is no need to consider the high-temperature reactor. This thing is not suitable for a battleship."

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

Sen Shangzhe, who was still reading the information, looked down at the information on the tablet and asked, "Does the company have enough thorium ore reserves?"

Meng Xin explained: "Enough. We have discovered a huge rare earth mine on the seabed of the Sulu Sea, which contains about 190,000 tons of thorium resources. Adding reserves in other areas, the thorium resources controlled by the company are about 86 ~930,000 tons, enough for us to use for a long time.”

After looking at the solutions for sodium-cooled reactors and thorium-based molten salt reactors, Senshangzhe finally chose the relatively small-power thorium-based molten salt reactor.

He chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor because its safety is high enough. Especially with the material advantages of Homo sapiens, 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 currently available.

Moreover, the thorium-based molten salt reactor does not require a bulky hot water circulation system, which can effectively reduce the internal space occupied by the reactor. It also does not need to use seawater for cooling, reducing the probability of being detected by infrared.

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

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

Sen Shangzhe looked at the production speed of the hull. It was about two weeks before the hull was completed. He asked:

"Don't the reactor parts need to be installed in advance? Otherwise, I'm worried that I won't be able to get in."

Meng Xin shook his head: "No need, it can be broken down into small parts when the time comes, and you can enter through the small hatch. Anyway, the thorium-based molten salt nuclear fuel itself is not radioactive and can be injected at the end."

"Then I'll leave it to you. I will try to complete the first Pacific-class battleship around March." Mori Sang-cheol is very much looking forward to the birth of the Pacific-class battleship.

When intercontinental missiles are immature, large artillery shells fired by giant cannons must be separated from fixed forts to further enhance deterrence.

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

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