Hello, lots of crew seem to be taking breaks now, I'm writing this report up while drinking that bottle of gin the Direktor gave me. Tastes as crisp and fresh as it normally would, we put on the music from Franz Hellers collection, seems nice. Meanwhile, i feel like the work on this vessel is coming to a brief hiatus, we don't have much planned yet, it seems we're pushing the limits to what we can do now on its internals.
Everyone has put everything on standby or minimum, its nice to sit down at the bar and serve yourself a nice cold glass of Gin & Tonic. Gave the crew a well deserved vacation, I'll be back out on the field shortly and probably without this vessel until its cleared.
HTTB-9P & HNP-E3PS | Testing results
Its with great pride, that... Its done! It works, its going well, the first up-scaled prototype of the HTTP and HNP-E series is ready built and purpose ready. Running through tests of the main reactor, both research teams came into the conference room aboard the ship and finally came to a presentable conclusion.
From what we can gather, the consumption or life of these Thorium-MOX pellets is estimated to be around 6 Years~ or so, we're unable to quickly or efficiently remove them but instead control the reaction of the pulse process, this showed a sharp increase of temperature as the neutron flux was also increasing. This was confirmed as we changed to a rapid pulse process that repeatedly caused reactor to go into critical, generating sufficient energy. We did this by removing all control rods from the main core, allowing the neutron flux to continue we soon reached maximum output of the reactor, hitting the estimated 1.2 Terajoules. We're hoping to see further development into pushing this thing further, but as our only prototype, we're not going to exceed recommended output unless preforming a "SaF" procedure when power demands are desperate such as combat operations that require either an immediate cloaking protocol or increased weapon draw. Tests on this will be reported below.
The engine on the other hand was preforming excellently, with the additional afterburner thrusters, this vessel managed to stay at peak agility when forcing DT-fuel to be ignited, but since the scale of this spacecraft wasn't designed to be used by this type of engine, the resulting efficiency isn't surprising. We found an increased 10% usage of DT-fuel compared to the MK-IV variant of the engine series, although the result was that the engine preformed 130% more efficiently than the H-Fuel counterpart, its agility performance is matching the latest of war vessels of the new "Tirpitz" series. Although, depending on the Quality of DT-Fuel, its shelf life is reasonable. For ship vessels of this size and its regular operational history, the storage worth of DT-Fuel equivalent to what we store H-Fuel that we can store on this vessel would last us at least 3-4 years without refueling or resupplying at peak engine output.
Breif Overview:
Fuel Source: Thorium-Mox
Output efficiency: 99.975%
Maximum power output: ~1.2 Terajoules (3,600,000 Standard Units)
SaF Process output: ~1.6 Terajoules (4,800,000 Standard Units)
Power Draw:
(Note, Current equipment is unable to reach peak energy generation, equipment defined "Insufficient". Excess energy was dumped
Minimum: 0.018 Terajoules (20,000 Standard Units)
Nominal: 0.09 Terajoules (100,000 Standard Units)
Maximum: 0.1 Terajoules (300,000 Standard Units)
Emergency: 0.2 Terajoules (600,000 Standard Units)
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