I doubt it, as mentioned by alot of people, the greatest advantage in removing the sail is acoustic performance at high speeds. The less drag is just a beneficial bonus, not the main reason. Also, the power required to propel a 10kt+ displacement boat even at a modest speed of 25kn is still going to require basically a fullsized reactor anyways.
'Scuse me, I must have missed it. What do we know of 041 reactor configuration?
We know it from the dude's powerpoint
Well, that presentation is from 2017, there's no way to tell how much that slide represents what's actually inside 041.
Going a little bit nuclear is like being a little bit pregnant. There's no such thing: you are or you aren't. There's no reason whatsoever to install a small nuclear reactor on a submarine with this kind of displacement. The value proposition for the 041 was that a much smaller, lower power reactor would be much cheaper to build, install, and maintain so that the submarine's costs, while higher than a diesel AIP's, aren't that much higher. That bet doesn't seem to have panned out, I suspect because of the high upfront costs of dealing with nuclear materials in any quantity.
This is pretty interesting, perhaps it is now possible or even realistic for PLAN to catch up to USN in SSN numbers by the early 2030s. AFAIK combined Chinese production capability of SSN could theoretically reach ~8 boats per year (6x in Bohai and 2x at JN). Though I doubt that this rate would be reached anytime soon, assuming JN keeps producing more SSNs from now on we could somewhat realistically expect ~5 boats (?) per year for this 5YP with production likely increasing a bit for the next 5YP when 09X/09V becomes more mature.
PLAN doesn't really need to reach parity is absolute numbers actually.