Homo sapiens.

Chapter 252 The Strong Heart of the Giant Beast

Luzon.

First Panay Shipyard.

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

All technicians and engineers concentrated their energy on a battleship that was generating the hull.

Designer Sen Shangzhe finished reading the test report in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face: "The test of the Longerang cannon is completed, and everything is in line with expectations."

Eno also read the newly released test report: "After we strengthened the structure, the hull is enough to withstand the 800mm 60-caliber main gun."

The huge warship that is being formed in front of me is the 7.5-ton battleship-Pacific battleship designed by Ino, Mori Shangzhe and others based on the improved design of the Grand Luzon-class amphibious assault ship.

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

Although the ejection speed of the cannon is only about 5.5 kilometers per second due to the different diameters and in order to reduce the recoil, it is still very easy to break through the Karman line.

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

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

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

"Designer Mori, I am Meng Xin, Chief Engineer of Sun Engineering." A very young man greeted Mori Shangzhe.

This rejuvenation is actually a feature of Homo sapiens' scientific research team.

For example, Meng Xin, who graduated from Jinling University in 16, went to France to study for a Ph. D. At the same time, he also practiced in Alstom in France for a period of time, mainly engaged in the design of nuclear reactors.

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

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

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

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

During the past half a year, Meng Xin experienced the super advantages of a new human being, and all abilities have been improved to varying degrees.

As Dr. Levi's completed the design of the firefly-type hydrogen bomb in Black Tiger Canyon, Meng Xin obtained a lot of test data for nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.

These data also play a huge role in solar engineering.

Sen Shangzhe asked eagerly: "Dr. Meng, is your reactor ready to board the ship now?"

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

Sen Shangzhe looked at Meng Xin speechlessly: "I don't ask too much. Fission reactors are also fine. I don't dare to think about nuclear fusion."

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

For this, he almost fell into a life of doubt. After all, his super battleship only needs a nuclear fission reactor, not a nuclear fusion reactor at all.

Meng Xin said, "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."

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

The two of them know the difficulty of miniaturizing nuclear fusion reactors. The current nuclear fusion reactors are actually small nuclear explosions.

Dig a large pit underground, and then transform it into a nuclear explosion furnace, which can withstand a nuclear fusion explosion 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 of the outer layer to drive the gas turbine to generate electricity.

Due to the explosion of the firefly-type hydrogen bomb, the radioactive pollution is very small, and the equivalent can also be compressed very small, so it can be used as a power generating reactor.

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

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

When the two saw this type of nuclear fusion reactor, they quickly thought of a design plan for a nuclear fusion power station that Lao Maozi had back then.

This kind of nuclear fusion is currently the easiest nuclear fusion reactor to realize, but its disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, the equipment is bulky and it is difficult to miniaturize.

Even a Pacific-class battleship can't accommodate this type of nuclear fusion reactor, so let's obediently use nuclear fission reactors now!
Meng Xin took out his bio-tablet and pulled out several design plans: "This is a relatively mature nuclear fission reactor plan on my side. Let's see which one is more suitable."

Sen Shangzhe took the tablet and looked through it carefully.

At present, Sun Engineering has designed three fourth-generation nuclear fission reactors, namely: sodium-cooled reactor, high-temperature reactor, and thorium-based molten salt reactor.

Ino on the side spoke immediately: "There is no need to consider the high-temperature reactor, this thing is not suitable for battleships."

"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, these things are mainly used as raw materials for atomic bombs, and thorium is not used. Crowding the raw materials for nuclear bombs."

Sen Shangzhe, who was still reading the information, looked down at the information on the tablet and asked, "Is the company's thorium reserve enough?"

Meng Xin explained: "It is enough. We have discovered a rare earth mine with huge reserves on the seabed of the Sulu Sea, which contains about 19 tons of thorium resources. Including reserves in other areas, the company controls about 86 million tons of thorium resources. ~93 tons, enough for us to use for a long time.”

After looking at the sodium-cooled reactor and the thorium-based molten salt reactor, Sen Shangzhe finally chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor with a relatively small power.

He chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor because its safety is high enough. Especially with the material advantages of Sapiens, the core component of the reactor, the molten salt heat exchanger, has a service life of about 12 years.

This data is already the best molten salt heat exchanger at present.

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. 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 generating capacity of 200 megawatts."

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

Sen Shangzhe looked at the generation speed of the hull. There are still about two weeks before the completion of the hull. He asked:
"The parts of the reactor 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, it can be disassembled into small parts at that time, and can be entered through the small hatch. Anyway, the thorium-based molten salt nuclear fuel itself is not radioactive, so it can be injected last."

"Then I'll leave it to you. I'm trying to finish the first Pacific-class ship around March." Sen Shangzhe is very much looking forward to the birth of the Pacific-class battleship.

In the case of immature intercontinental missiles, the large shells fired by the cannon must be separated from the fixed fort to further strengthen the deterrence.

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

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