Chapter 251 The Strong Heart of the Giant Beast
Luzon.
Panay Island Shipyard No. 1.
With the official completion of the third Super Luzon-class amphibious assault ship, Ceylon.
All the technicians and engineers focused their attention on a warship whose hull was being formed.
Designer Mori Shangzhe finished reading the test report in his hand and showed a satisfied smile on his face: "The test of the Longram Cannon is completed, and everything is in line with expectations."
Ino had also read the freshly-released test report: "After we strengthened the structure, the hull is strong enough to withstand the 800mm 60-caliber main gun."
The huge battleship being built in front of us is the 75,000-ton battleship, the Pacific Battleship, which was improved and designed by Ino, Mori Naoto and others based on the Greater Luzon-class amphibious assault ship.
It completely abandoned carrier-based aircraft and replaced it with a 60-caliber 800mm cannon, while retaining the submarine design concept.
Although due to the difference in caliber and in order to reduce recoil, the shell's acceleration is only about 5.5 kilometers per second, it is still very easy to break through the Kármán line.
Compared to the giant cannon, Mori Shangzhe is actually more concerned about the battleship's power system.
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
The Luzon Electric Company, which is responsible for the development of the power system for the Pacific-class battleships, also sent a team to the First Shipyard today.
"Designer Mori, I am Meng Xin, the chief engineer of Sun Engineering." A very young man greeted Mori Naotoshi.
This youthfulness is actually a feature of the scientific research team of Sapiens.
For example, Meng Xin graduated from Jinling University in 2016 and went to France to study for a doctorate. He also interned at 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, he just followed his mentor and participated in part of the work.
In March 2020, Meng Xin chose to leave Alstom due to his status and applied for a job at General Electric, but was also rejected.
He was then recruited by the Human Resources Department of the Sapiens Company and came to Luzon to work on the design of gas turbines.
It was not until May last year that Meng Xin successfully passed the test of a new human being and was transferred to the Solar Project of Luzon Electric Company (externally known as the Supercritical Gas Turbine Second Design Team).
During this period of more than half a year, Meng Xin experienced the tremendous advantages of the new human being, and his various abilities were improved to varying degrees.
As Dr. Lewis 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 projects.
Mori Shangzhe asked anxiously: "Dr. Meng, can your reactor be put on board now?"
"The fission reactor is already available, but the fusion reactor is not available yet." Meng Xin shook his head helplessly.
Mori Shangzhe looked at Meng Xin speechlessly: "I don't have high requirements. Fission reactors are fine, but I dare not think about nuclear fusion."
He just found out a few days ago that the Sun Project's nuclear fission reactor had been completed and that they were now working on miniaturizing the nuclear fusion reactor.
He almost began to doubt his life because his super battleship only needed a nuclear fission reactor and did not need a nuclear fusion reactor at all.
Meng Xin spread his hands and said, "It's a pity that the first phase of the solar project has only been completed. I also wanted to design a miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor for you."
Hehe...Mori Naoshige and Ino's mouth corners twitched .
These two people know the difficulty of miniaturizing nuclear fusion reactors. The current nuclear fusion reactors are actually small nuclear explosions.
A large pit is dug underground and then transformed into a nuclear explosion furnace, which can withstand nuclear fusion explosions below 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 outer hydrothermal circulation system 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 to a very small size, so it can be used as a power reactor.
Currently, the Sun Project has completed its first experimental 3-ton nuclear fusion reactor.
Mori Naoto, Ino and others have only recently started paying attention to internal scientific research journals in this area.
When the two saw this type of nuclear fusion reactor, they quickly thought of a nuclear fusion power station design that the Russians had developed back then.
This type of nuclear fusion is also the easiest nuclear fusion reactor to achieve at present, but its disadvantages 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, so it is better to use nuclear fission reactors for now!
Meng Xin took out his biological tablet and pulled out several design plans: "This is the more mature nuclear fission reactor plan I have at the moment. Take a look and see which one is more suitable."
Mori Shangzhe took the tablet and looked through it carefully.
Currently, Sun Engineering has designed three types of fourth-generation nuclear fission reactors, namely: sodium-cooled reactor, high-temperature reactor, and thorium-based molten salt reactor.
Ino on the side spoke up immediately: "Don't consider the high-temperature reactor. This thing is not suitable for warships."
"Then we'll go with 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, it is mainly used as a raw material for atomic bombs. Thorium does not need to squeeze out the raw materials for nuclear bombs."
Mori Shangzhe, who was still looking at the information, lowered his head to look 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. Combined with the reserves in other areas, the thorium resources controlled by the company are about 860,000 to 930,000 tons, which is enough for us to use for a long time."
After looking at the options for sodium-cooled reactors and thorium-based molten salt reactors , Mori Naoto finally chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor with relatively small power.
He chose the thorium-based molten salt reactor because it is safe 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 currently available.
Moreover, thorium-based molten salt reactors do not require a bulky hot water circulation system, which can effectively reduce the internal space occupied by the reactor. At the same time, they do not require the use of seawater for cooling, reducing the probability of being detected by infrared.
"According to the data you gave, the Pacific class requires three thorium-based molten salt reactors with a power generation 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."
Mori Shangzhe looked at the speed of the hull's production. It would take about two weeks to complete the hull. He asked:
"The reactor parts need to be installed in advance, right? Otherwise I'm worried I won't be able to get in."
Meng Xin shook his head: "No need, it can be broken down into small parts and put in 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 ship of the Pacific class around March." Mori Naotoshi was very much looking forward to the emergence of the Pacific class battleship.
In the absence of mature intercontinental missiles, large artillery shells fired by giant cannons must be separated from fixed turrets in order to further enhance deterrence.
This is also the significance of the existence of the Pacific-class battleship.
