One week ago.
In Cyberspace, Lier was digging through his memories-
In his original world, in 2035, nuclear technology had made tremendous breakthroughs through a series of efforts.
The breakthrough wasn't in controlled nuclear fusion. Rather, after environmental agreements had become worthless pieces of paper and countries had tacitly agreed not to report or restrict illegal emissions, Lier and his research group had created a new nuclear fission technology.
The fission reactors created by this revolutionary multi-element nuclear fission technology were called Supercritical Fission Reactors, or SCFRs for short.
As the name suggested, Supercritical Fission Reactors used a mixed fuel of several heavy elements-Uranium-235, Plutonium-239, Uranium-233, and Thorium-232-as their core. Compared with traditional fission reactors, they had energy conversion efficiencies 50%-66% higher and energy densities more than three times that of traditional reactors.
The SCFR's outstanding figures had left all the researchers astonished!
Because of the complex and constantly changing reactions inside the reactor, the central control system had to possess calculation speeds on the level of a supercomputer, and it also needed to be equipped with a self-learning AI with basic intelligence.
[Lier: Good.]
The waste could also be fed back into the reaction cycle through the waste-conversion module installed in the SCFR.
A medium-sized SCFR power station occupied 10-20 hectares and could produce 500 megawatts of power-more than enough to supply some medium-sized cities and industrial zones!
Lier watched the screen with a tinge of emotion, waiting for the researchers to digest the information.
Traditional nuclear power plants used heat engines: thermal energy boiled water, the steam drove turbines to generate electricity, and nuclear energy was converted into thermal energy, then mechanical energy, and finally electrical energy.
Greater energy output, less nuclear waste, and more power-SCFRs should have become the most powerful power-generation technology before nuclear fusion breakthroughs,