Oh, My GOD! I think its about time we finally shoved these two into the damn rig. What was it, just over a year from it inside controlled testing, I'd think that people were holding it back because of its experimental design on a large scale. Anyway, its about time we cleared up all the loose wiring around the ship. Although the Direktor is now placing me and restricting my activities to this installation and testing, telling me that it needs to be done by the week or so. Christ, give me some time, I can try but no promises if things don't go smoothly. And they had to go through 9 developments of this engine before they thought it was okay to finally put it in the testing vessel, fantastic; Although i say, to go through 9 versions in around 2 years is quite phenomenal, must of been a large amount of progress made.
HTTB-9P (High-Temperature Thorium Breeder Generation 9 Prototype) The HTTB Gen IXp ("High-Temperature Thorium Breeder Generation 9 Prototype") is the next generation of nuclear reactors and belongs to the group of thermal breeders. Its special ability to withstand stress allows it to operate its fuel chambers with higher temperatures than usual and enables the possibility of SaF "Superactinoide Fission". Protection walls as well as other reactor components have been reinforced with high-temperature ceramics and are coated with noruthan, which reflects radiation and also forms an additional heat shield. However, the new concept has its disadvantages and is not without risks. Qualified personnel, advanced software, sophisticated cooling systems, new methods of fuel synthetisation and processing of its hazardous waste is therefore required, in order to ensure a safe operation of the HTTB. Although the power output of this reactor is scaled to meet more than the average Cruiser class war vessels due to the increased scale of the ship available to use and what equipment or possible prototypes might be used for testing. The usage of Thorium Mox has also increased to an exponential rate, consuming at least 10%-15% than the current biggest planned mass produced HTTB (The Mk4) with a full reactor having a full output time of ~1.2-TeraJoules (1,200,000,000 Joules). Almost reaching around ~3.8 Kilowatts/Hour. More than enough to power large scale equipment and any further installments without worry of a power shortage.
This heavily modified variation has been specifically made to run on a higher output level due to the larger amount of reactive fuel and expanded chambers, although this rose problems for the cooling of the system has come under the need to dedicate an entire Cryo-sector of the ship to withstand the extreme amount of heat out-put by the reactor. This Cryo-sector uses mixture of Liquid-Helium and Deuterium oxide as its main substance sitting in high density units connected to the cooling system to the entirety of the vessel, heat from the Power plant (Both Primary and Secondary) and the engine system of primary and twin secondary sectors. Heat dissipation should be enough to maintain the reactors operation levels at a maintainable 2200-2500 C° in the inner core, the outer reactor shouldn't reach more than 200 C° which is further insulated by several layers of Aero-gel which is then encased in a ceramic and graphite composite. This makes operations within hazard areas safer in the case of structural integrity damage, ensuring the reactors protective systems won't be compromised even from sustained direct fire until safety measures shutdown the reactor in the case of an unavoidable breach.
HNP-E3PS (Hybrid Nuclear Pulse - Engine Type 3 Prototype Scale variant) The ("Hybrid Nuclear Pulse Engine v3") short, HNP-E3. Known to be expensive in acquisition, but in long-term seen, a cheap concept; combining fuel efficiency, adaptability and reliability in an entirely new fashion. Based on the operating principle of the VP series, but redesigned, in order to guarantee compatibility of the HNP-E3 with the HTTB and ensuring a trouble-free use of DT-fuel (deuterium-tritium) as propulsion medium.
The HNP-E3PS has been developed to make use of same process as of other HNP series of engines, although the Prototype Scale has been configured to be cross platformed with 2 different scales of engines, using a larger primary thrust engine that has variable usage from low outputs and optimal transverse speeds, to which two secondary engines can be engaged as afterburners acting as Primary thrusters known as "Combat Speeds" giving the craft an added agility bonus, although this optional due to the higher consumption of DT-fuel and power draw. Smaller scale engines such as gunships and freighters may rely on standard afterburner thrusters while larger scale ships such as Cruisers and Battlecruisers implementing this engine type are able to implement the specialized afterburner technologies if desired.
The output on the HNP was so that long distance travel into other sectors was made possible without the usage of DT-Fuel, although at a reduced efficiency of between 10%-25% depending on the usage of MOX-fuel (10%) or H-fuel (25%), while maintaining the best degree of efficiency while in use to ensure that the simple case of "Running out of fuel" won't happen on long term deployments in the field.
Everything has at least gotten colder on this ship, by at least 10 Celsius lower.
Also we're doing mobile testing of this vessel for a few weeks, although orders are to state not to leave Buro controlled sites, apparently due to the experimental nature of the reactor, understandable, although i wouldn't mind driving this thing into a hydrogen gas field to test if any environmental changes damage the ship.
The HTTB Gen IXp ("High-Temperature Thorium Breeder Generation 9 Prototype") is the next generation of nuclear reactors and belongs to the group of thermal breeders. Its special ability to withstand stress allows it to operate its fuel chambers with higher temperatures than usual and enables the possibility of SaF "Superactinoide Fission". Protection walls as well as other reactor components have been reinforced with high-temperature ceramics and are coated with noruthan, which reflects radiation and also forms an additional heat shield. However, the new concept has its disadvantages and is not without risks. Qualified personnel, advanced software, sophisticated cooling systems, new methods of fuel synthetisation and processing of its hazardous waste is therefore required, in order to ensure a safe operation of the HTTB. Although the power output of this reactor is scaled to meet more than the average Cruiser class war vessels due to the increased scale of the ship available to use and what equipment or possible prototypes might be used for testing. The usage of Thorium Mox has also increased to an exponential rate, consuming at least 10%-15% than the current biggest planned mass produced HTTB (The Mk4) with a full reactor having a full output time of ~1.2-TeraJoules (1,200,000,000 Joules). Almost reaching around ~3.8 Kilowatts/Hour. More than enough to power large scale equipment and any further installments without worry of a power shortage. 
The ("Hybrid Nuclear Pulse Engine v3") short, HNP-E3. Known to be expensive in acquisition, but in long-term seen, a cheap concept; combining fuel efficiency, adaptability and reliability in an entirely new fashion. Based on the operating principle of the VP series, but redesigned, in order to guarantee compatibility of the HNP-E3 with the HTTB and ensuring a trouble-free use of DT-fuel (deuterium-tritium) as propulsion medium. ![[+]](/forums/images/collapse_collapsed.png "[+]")
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