Reinforcement Panel: Tech Wars

Chapter 91 The Father of Thorium-Based Nuclear Energy at Dongda University
Pure black metal shell, looking at the metal battle suit armor in the mirror, Wei Jiang took a step back and tried various movements.

Punching, kicking, and jumping, without wearing a helmet, this pure black armor did not affect Wei Jiang's physical movements.

Bang!
Wei Jiang's feet landed on the ground from the air, and the sound of his metal boots hitting the ground was loud.

"hu~hu~"

After moving around for a while with the metal armor on, Wei Jiang was so tired that he was panting heavily, and the lack of exercise in his body was revealed.

"16.8kg, still a bit heavy."

Looking at his head still exposed in the mirror, he hadn't even put on his combat suit or helmet yet.

His body began to sweat, his Qi and blood were mobilized, and Wei Jiang's heart beat very fast.

In the mirror, the black metal armor was not bulky at all, and the streamlined design style made Wei Jiang's originally thin appearance look full of power.

The armor parts of the battle suit fit Wei Jiang's body shape. Wei Jiang chose a layered armor design for all the parts of the entire suit that need to support the turning of body joints and twisting of torso.

This design style ensures that the battle suit does not affect Wei Jiang's activities while ensuring body coverage and aesthetics.

Because of the stacking of armor plates, the whole set of armor highlights a strong hard science fiction style, and the pure black appearance exudes mystery and power.

Wei Jiang turned his head to look at his right arm. As Wei Jiang clenched his right fist, a sharp black dagger popped out from the back of his fist.

The dagger is 20cm long, with a double-sided blade. The black metal edge is very smooth compared to the armor of the battle suit, and has a faint reflection of light and shadow.

Of the currently completed parts of the entire set of armor, the one that Wei Jiang spent the most time thinking about is the dagger in front of him, which is made of DSS091 alloy.

Ever since he experienced the manta ray's extremely fast cutting attack power, cold weapons were not necessarily an outdated option in his opinion.

In some cases, cold weapons are more useful than hot weapons.

With a swing of his right arm, the black dagger retracted into the metal storage hole on the outside of his right forearm.

Wei Jiang designed the battle suit armor with two attack weapons.

The black dagger is used for close-range contact attacks, while the long-range attack weapon is a scaled-down version of the laser weapon.

The interface on the left forearm is reserved for laser weapons, and Wei Jiang is still making a micro laser generator.

He reached out and picked up a black helmet with a hollowed-out face from the test bench next to him.

He raised the helmet with both hands and slowly put it on his head, and the whole set of armor was finally put on.

Wei Jiang stretched out his index finger of the glove made of metal sheets and lightly touched the right temple of the helmet.

The sound of hinges turning was heard gently in Wei Jiang's ears, and the hollow part of the helmet's face changed. Metal baffles extended from the helmet in the upper, left, and right directions. The three baffles were not tightly fitted, leaving a T-shaped gap on the face. Wei Jiang could just use the gap to observe the front view.

“The view is good and does not affect breathing.”

Wei Jiang was very satisfied with the design of the helmet, especially the T-shaped gap in the middle. The two gaps at the eyes were not in a straight line. The gaps on both sides were raised upwards, and the width of the gap tail was narrowed.

The same is true for the gap between the mouth and nose below. The three gaps form a three-pointed star.

Wei Jiang admired himself in front of the laboratory mirror for a long time until he felt tired, then he took off the parts of his suit one by one.

The armor is very handsome, but the process of taking it off is not elegant at all.

After sitting on the floor and taking off all his equipment, Wei Jiang was sweating profusely.

Clang~

He casually threw the metal boot he had taken off his left foot aside without worrying about it getting damaged.

DSS091 alloy can handle this kind of collision force without any problem.

"Whoo~"

"I hope that after the panel is strengthened, this set of metal lumps can become smarter."

Wei Jiang certainly hopes that his battle suit can be as easy to wear as Iron Man’s Mark armor.

"Energy supply and movement assistance for the suit are the key. Otherwise, even though it looks cool, it will ruin itself before it can hurt the enemy."

The temperature in the laboratory was kept at 25 degrees, and Wei Jiang's wet clothes exuded a strong smell of sweat.

Wei Jiang frowned. In short, there were still many problems to be solved.

He can solve some of these problems, but some of them can only be solved by relying on the power of panel strengthening.

After sitting on the floor for a while, the sweat on his body was almost evaporated, and Wei Jiang stood up with one hand on the floor.

Pick up the armored parts of the suit and transfer them one by one in order to the specially configured safe in the laboratory.

These things are unlikely to see the light of day for a long time to come.

After the armor of the battle suit is strengthened, Wei Jiang is going to wear it out.

Now we must not let anyone else associate the battle suit and armor with Wei Jiang.

Minqin County, Wumin City, Gansu Province, is located in the east and northwest of the country, and drought and little rain have been the norm for the past few hundred years.

The population is smaller than that of the southeastern block of East China, agriculture is limited due to insufficient rainfall, and industrial development is also not as good as that of the southeastern region.

The small population has not affected the distribution of underground resources in the region, and metal mines have become the main source of income here.

As the University of Tokyo is undergoing energy transformation, this area was selected as a pioneer test site for a key energy facility.

The country's first thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactor was officially connected to the grid and put into commercial operation a year ago, providing clean and green electricity to local people and supplying electricity to 1000 local households.

Half a month ago, this 2MWt reactor was shut down for maintenance, and some local residents found that many outsiders had come to their place.

They guessed that something might have happened, but they didn't know the details.

Outside Hongshagang Town, Minqin County, Wu City, inside a thorium-based nuclear power plant.

Scientific research workers in white coats are walking around. Today is a big day for the nuclear power plant.

The reactor was shut down for maintenance half a month ago. Everyone worked overtime day and night, and the replacement and maintenance of the nuclear power plant's key facilities was finally completed yesterday.

Today is the day when the thorium-based molten salt reactor is restarted. In addition to all the scientific researchers of the thorium-based project team of the University of Science and Technology of China, some personnel of the Development and Reform Commission of the University of Science and Technology are also present.

Huang Zhengliang and his subordinates are conducting final inspections on various equipment in the reactor. The start-up of a nuclear reactor is a major event at any time, and any carelessness may lead to an irreversible disaster.

"The fuel salts are stable and the heat exchangers are functioning normally."

"The steam turbine and generator sets are operating normally, the reactor ignition conditions are in place, and it can be started at any time."

After hearing the feedback from his subordinates, Huang Zhengliang's serious face broke into a smile under the protective suit.

Although they did not fully refer to the technology described by Hongxing, their team borrowed some technical ideas to transform the 2MWt reactor in front of them. The expected performance improvement has made them all look forward to it.

"Everyone evacuate to a safe area and begin the reactor ignition procedure."

As the project leader, Huang Zhengliang supervised the other researchers to leave, and then he took a last look at the metal tank buried deep underground in front of him.

The arrival of a new era of energy will be witnessed today, and it will be witnessed in the hands of Huang Zhengliang.

Huang Zhengliang took a deep breath, turned around and left, his eyes full of confidence.

When we arrived at the control room, the scientific researchers from the project team were present, and people from the Development and Reform Commission were also waiting here quietly.

A key facility that is enough to change the energy supply of Dongda's load has been ignited and started up. As the core department of Dongda in charge of science and technology and industrial development, they must pay attention to it.

After taking off the heavy protective suit, Huang Zhengliang walked up to a square-faced man wearing a mask.

"All ready, the ignition procedure will begin immediately."

Qi Hengwu, the head of the Science and Technology Development Department of the Development and Reform Commission, had a smile on his face at this time. Nuclear energy is the ultimate solution for human energy development, and he, the director, was assigned to the East and Northwest to watch the ceremony.

"Director Huang, I can't wait to witness the miracle happen."

"You go about your business. I am here today to be a witness to your success."

Huang Zhengling nodded solemnly. This was not the first time that the reactor had been ignited. Today's ignition was completely different in nature. Drawing on Red Star's technology, the reactor's operating time, stability and performance had made a qualitative leap compared to before.

After the transformation, the operating temperature of the reactor increased by 300 degrees, from the previous 700 degrees to 1000 degrees.

The increase in temperature inside the reactor will directly expand the scenarios in which the reactor should be used.

In addition to being used for power generation, higher temperatures can be used in high-temperature hydrogen production, industrial production and other fields.

A reactor technology that can be applied to more industrial fields will affect the industrial development pattern of Dongda in a wider range.

"Okay, I'll get busy first."

After bidding farewell to the Development and Reform Commission staff, Huang Zhengliang came to the control room operating table.

Looking around at the researchers looking at him, Huang Zhengliang suppressed his excitement and gave orders loudly.

"Ignition procedure started!"

"Yes!"

Responses of varying tones were heard, and then all the technicians became busy.

"Cooler No. 1 is started and the operating conditions are stable."

"Chiller No. 2 started"

"Heat exchanger pre-start successful."

As Huang Zhengliang listened to the reports from the technicians around him, the indicator lights indicating the operating status of each device on the console in front of him lit up one after another.

The time for the reactor core to be officially ignited is getting closer!
As everyone watched, the three rows of indicator lights above the operating table all lit up, and everyone understood that there was only one step left before the reactor was officially put into operation.

Huang Zhengliang's eyes narrowed and his tone was serious, and the short sentence seemed to be choked out from his throat.

"The core of the thorium-based molten salt reactor at Hongshagang in Minqin County, Wushi City, has been ignited!"

Perhaps it was because he was too emotional, or perhaps it was because the muscles in his throat were tense, but the words he shouted out were hoarse from excessive effort.

Huang Zhengliang gave the order, and everyone in the control room looked at Huang Zhengliang's right hand.

The core ignition control button was right next to Huang Zhengliang, and his gloved right hand slowly raised up.

After removing the anti-touch cap of the button, Huang Zhengliang placed his right thumb on the button and pressed it gently.

With just a small movement, the data on the display above the console changes rapidly.

Filled with explosive atomic energy, it was wildly excited inside the metal tank that humans had prepared for it.

The numbers representing the temperature of the reactor's molten salt rose rapidly under the expectant gaze of everyone.

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The temperature rose faster and faster. In just a few seconds, the temperature number displayed on the monitor soared to 1018 degrees!
After the temperature soared to 1000 degrees, it gradually stabilized, indicating that the fission reaction in the reactor core entered a stable state.

clap clap ~
The first stage of ignition was successful!

The temperature increase is in line with expectations!

After the applause, the ignition test is not over yet.

The purpose of reactor ignition is to convert and utilize the huge amount of heat generated in the core, and the generator is waiting for the energy to arrive.

“How is the heat exchanger working?”

He raised his hand to signal everyone to control their emotions and calm down. As the project leader, Huang Zhengliang needed to ensure that there were no problems in all links.

"The heat exchanger has started working."

"After the high-temperature molten salt passes through four heat exchangers, the temperature is restored to a controllable temperature."

Feeling relieved, Huang Zhengliang turned his gaze to the other side.

Noticing Huang Zhengliang's gaze, the technician responsible for subsequent equipment maintenance and monitoring spoke loudly, his excitement evident in words.

"The generator set has started working, Director Huang!"

"The power generation capacity has reached full value!"

"The steam pressure is still there, it can fully power two more generator sets!"

When this person's voice was heard, applause and cheers rang out again in the control room.

The addition of two new generating units means that the nuclear power plant can produce more electricity per unit time.

To achieve the current effect, the nuclear power plant did not actually expand the size of the reactor.

These improvements come from changes in technical thinking and material replacement.

Huang Zhengliang lowered his head again to check all the data on the monitor. His strict character could not stop his instinctive joy. His flushed face and slightly trembling fingers showed that he was much more excited than he looked to outsiders.

Huang Zhengliang stood up straight suddenly, turned around and looked at everyone. His eyes swept over the familiar faces of the technicians. After looking at the people from the Development and Reform Commission, he announced loudly.

"I announce!"

"The improved version of the thorium-based molten salt reactor has been successfully ignited and is generating electricity!"

Finally, Huang Zhengliang’s announcement came, and the control room instantly boiled over.

The successful ignition this time is not only the success of this small reactor, but also represents a more important meaning.

Qi Hengwu, who was also wearing work clothes, walked behind Huang Zhengliang and congratulated him.

In his opinion, the significant improvement in the reactor temperature parameters is definitely the result of Huang Zhengliang's team's hard work in scientific research.

"Director Huang, congratulations."

Huang Zhengliang laughed a few times, and the emotions that had been suppressed before were completely released.

"Hahahaha, we are all happy together."

"Qi Chu, the nuclear energy era belonging to our country has officially arrived! Hahahaha."

Perhaps infected by Huang Zhengliang's emotions, Qi Hengwu also started laughing.

The nuclear energy era of the University of Tokyo?

What a beautiful term! Before coming here, he had read the thorium-based molten salt reactor development plan of Dongda Nuclear Energy.

Compared with uranium-fueled reactors, a modular thorium-based nuclear fission reactor that can be mass-produced has controllable fuel, controllable risks, and controllable waste. These three controllable features alone are enough to impress the top leaders of Tokyo University.

"Director Huang, you are a hero to the country!"

"It's you who brought Todai into the nuclear energy age!"

Looking at Huang Zhengliang who was excited and happy in front of him, Qi Hengwu gave what he thought was the most sincere compliment.

In the excitement, the two sentences of praise were spoken so loudly that everyone in the control room could hear them.

The words of praise resonated with others present, and there were more praises for Huang Zhengliang.

"Director Huang, thank you!"

"The father of thorium-based nuclear energy at the University of Tokyo!"

"Director Huang, the thorium base is on board!"

As the compliments reached his ears, the smile on Huang Zhengliang's face did not grow wider. Instead, it became somewhat abstract.

The name is too big, I can’t handle it!

Especially when Huang Zhengliang turned his head and looked at a young man standing at the door of the control room, who was under the command of Lieutenant General Zhang Gang of the Military Special Service Department, Huang Zhengliang's face turned red.

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