Although there are many potential shortcomings of all-nuclear super-aviation platforms, they are not feasible for long-term strategic reasons. If you don't develop and take the initiative to occupy this technological highland, there will always be people who talk about this kind of problem. After all, most of the foolish people in the world only look at the appearance and do not look at the connotation. Moreover, from a purely technical point of view, given the long-term lack of overseas bases, and with the general awakening of local consciousness around the world, it is almost impossible to obtain overseas autonomous bases similar to the model of permanent colonies. However, in the next 100 years, as an emerging world-class superpower, its comprehensive interests overseas will only become larger and will not be easily reduced. Therefore, the main battle aviation platform, which is more suitable for global deployment, as well as the all-round new ships supporting it, as well as the super supply ships, which can be called all-mobile integrated overseas supply centers, must be developed simultaneously. During this period, it is necessary to achieve a breakthrough in the development of unconventional power packages that are at the world's leading level.
For a certain large country, when ordinary people realize that a certain strategic need is imminent, they have already demonstrated it in the professional field more than 20 years in advance, and the land test device that has actually built and tested the corresponding system has probably been in operation for at least seven or eight or even 10 years. Therefore, when some of the world-shattering group 4 super platforms begin to actually start construction, the supporting power core is already in a state of being used out of the box! In addition to having greater propulsion and power generation power, higher safety performance, and stronger follow-up disposal capacity, the biggest breakthrough point visible to the outside world of the new power pack lies in the obvious decline in its full weight. The positive effects of this weight loss are widespread and long-term. Although inside different large aviation ship platforms, its power core can be called the furnace room. However, the inside of the conventional platform is indeed an organic furnace in the machine furnace cabin. Because it is a marine oil-fired boiler, a power steam turbine plus a power generation steam turbine, and a circulating condenser.
and other major parts form the power core of the big ship. And for unconventional power platforms. The two main reactors replace the oil-fired boilers, while the power steam turbines, power generation steam turbines, and circulation condensers have similar presences. However, as a theoretical steam generator, a conventional oil-fired boiler only needs one circulation circuit, while a nuclear power pack has at least two circuits, and even three circuits in the condensing part. Moreover, because of the need for radiation shielding, the outermost part of all nuclear power packs must also have a very heavy lead plate and cement shield. Just a complete set of shielding layers occupies more than 5,000 tons of dead weight. In the case of the Ford-class, for example, two nuclear-powered equipment and circuit pipes filled the entire furnace compartment. As a result, its total weight is as high as more than 11,000 tons. The total weight of the conventionally powered Kitty Hawk class furnace compartment is only more than 7,000 tons. The difference in weight and space between the two is very large. From airplanes to automobiles all the way to surface ships and even submarines. The core power pack is too large and too heavy,
The negative always outweighs the positive. The overweight and oversize of the furnace compartment will not only affect the draft and affect the passing efficiency, but also the speed will be slowed down across the board. So is there a configuration of the furnace compartment with unconventional power, and finally the weight is reduced to a similar to the conventional furnace compartment? It is very difficult to achieve. In addition to reducing the circulation loop and introducing the self-circulation mode in full, the whole system must be more integrated, so that the entire cabin does not need to be wrapped in lead plate and cement, but only the core part needs to be shielded. For the first time, the full weight of the furnace compartment of the 4th platform will not exceed 7,000 tons!