Chapter 441 The Horror of Rumors

Chinese people have this demand, and Fan Wubing has such intention, so it is natural to cooperate. Although the Americans expressed opposition, when the Gallic roosters are enthusiastic, they don't need to bother with the Americans at all.

Although Fan Wubing has made the worst plan, that is, to build nuclear power plants overseas once the matter is accomplished, the senior officials still expressed to Fan Wubing after emergency consultations that they welcome Fan Wubing to build nuclear power plants in China. Of course, the premise is that France's third-generation nuclear power technology can pass the most rigorous technical demonstration.

Fan Wubing welcomes the senior officials' statement, but he finds it difficult to understand this technical demonstration, and he doesn't know who will do the demonstration.

Soon a list came from China, on which many people are experts and scholars in nuclear technology, and many of them are extremely famous. The weight of the list made Fan Wubing feel a little dumbfounded. He thought that the domestic nuclear technology force is so strong, why is there not much progress in civilian nuclear power technology? Could it be that everyone's efforts are used in military products?

However, the French Nuclear Power Company said that it was difficult to accept this.

The reasons they put forward are also quite sufficient. Since your technology is not as good as ours, how can you judge whether our technology is safe? Or do you covet our technology and want to do something wrong?

The difference in nuclear power technology is actually just a fine line. The French are very worried that once Chinese nuclear energy experts review the technology of the French nuclear power company, some key technical problems will be exposed to the world. Then even if the Chinese no longer buy the technology of the French nuclear power company, the French will be helpless.

Therefore, before the two sides formally cooperate and before the money is put into the pockets of the French, the French nuclear power company will never agree to the Chinese government's nuclear power experts to review and verify its own technology.

The French also said that if there is a problem, we should bear the responsibility, but before there is a problem, we cannot question that there are problems with our technology. That is a contempt for the wisdom of our French people.

In this way, the two sides are not together.

Especially when the domestic media learned of the news. The response is very different. After all, there has always been a difference in the understanding of the safety of nuclear power technology. Most people have doubts about nuclear power technology. I think the risks involved are too great. It is easy to go wrong.

In fact, countries like France, where nuclear power accounts for nearly 80% of the national energy industry, have not had any dangerous accidents in all these years. The environment is much cleaner than that of China, which mainly burns coal.

Comparing the nuclear power industry chain with the main domestic coal power industry chain, not only the impact of the operation of the facilities themselves should be considered.

But also the impact on the environment when manufacturing and smelting the materials and equipment used to build these facilities should be considered. Taking nuclear power plants and coal-fired power plants as examples, the power chain refers to the mining, smelting, conversion, concentration, component manufacturing, electricity, post-processing to waste treatment and disposal. The coal-fired power chain refers to the mining, coal washing, transportation, electricity to the use and disposal of waste residues. When comparing environmental impacts, the entire chain is compared, not just the power plant itself.

It is well known to the public that nuclear power plants emit trace amounts of radioactive substances, which in turn cause extremely small amounts of radiation exposure to the public. But few people know that because coal contains trace amounts of natural radioactive substances. The radiation exposure to the public from natural radioactive substances discharged from coal-fired power plants is much higher than that from nuclear power plants.

The radiation dose to the public from the coal-fired power chain is fifty times higher than that from the nuclear power fuel chain. A coal-fired power plant in Zhejiang has an order of magnitude less power than the Qinshan Phase I Nuclear Power Plant. But the radiation dose from the radioactive substances discharged is one order of magnitude higher than that from the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant. As we all know, coal-fired power plants also emit a large amount of dust containing harmful substances. The health hazard assessment method is used to compare the coal-fired power chain and the nuclear power chain. The coal-fired power chain is one order of magnitude higher than the nuclear power chain.

For the coal-fired power chain, under normal circumstances, it can be observed that the emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides has a significant impact on forests, crops, etc.

For example, in 1993, acid rain and sulfur dioxide caused economic losses of 3.7 billion to crops in seven eastern provinces such as Jiangsu and 6 billion to forests. In 1995, the acid deposition effect of sulfur dioxide emissions caused economic losses of nearly 100 billion yuan to crops and forests nationwide, and the impact on human health was nearly 120 billion yuan. If we add the damage to water bodies, buildings, bridges and equipment, the damage will be even greater.

For the nuclear power chain, there is no perceptible impact except the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

Among the nuclear power plants in operation in the world, except for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, there has not been an accident that has a significant impact on the environment, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident cannot change the conclusion that nuclear energy is a safe energy source.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is a graphite-moderated pressure tube reactor. Its design itself has safety hazards, and the operating personnel seriously violated the operating regulations.

This led to the most serious accident in the history of nuclear power. But the impact of Chernobyl has been greatly exaggerated, causing a profound impact on the general public.

Of the 600 workers at the Chernobyl accident site, 134 received high doses of radiation and developed radiation sickness. Of these, 28 died within the first three months, and two died immediately from other causes during the accident. No increase in the incidence or mortality of any cancer attributable to ionizing radiation was observed, except for an increase in thyroid cancer after childhood exposure. The risk of leukemia, the disease of major concern, showed no increase, and there was no evidence of a link between some other non-malignant diseases and ionizing radiation.

However, the psychological impact of the accident on people is widespread, mainly due to fear of radiation rather than actual radiation doses received.

However, reports of 7,000 deaths in the Chernobyl accident frequently appear in the press and this figure is also a major cause of panic.

In 1991, several foreign publications claimed that 7,000 emergency personnel had died from radiation in the Chernobyl accident. However, according to the data of the Russian State Statistics Committee, in the 20-49 age group, more than 1,300 people die each year for every 300,000 people in Russia, and the total number in five or six years is between 7,000 and 8,000. This value is almost consistent with the number of people who have died from radiation among those who participated in eliminating the impact of the accident as reported by the media. In fact, this is the number of natural deaths in this age group. Moreover, the people who died of acute radiation caused by the Chernobyl accident were all staff members, and no acute injury cases have been found among residents so far.

After Chernobyl, there were no reports of local populations of a species becoming extinct due to radiation exposure. In all areas, populations survived under long-term chronic radiation conditions. In the following two or three years, the populations recovered, and no persistent serious impacts on animal populations or ecosystems were observed.

As the second largest accident in the history of nuclear power, the Chernobyl nuclear power accident occurred under specific reactor types and conditions. The inherent safety defects of this type of nuclear power plant, combined with the poor safety culture literacy of various personnel, caused the reactor to be completely destroyed within a few seconds. It is impossible to build a new nuclear power plant of this type, and those that are still in operation have also been given a deadline to carry out necessary modifications. The core was also severely damaged during the Three Mile Island accident in the United States, but due to the better safety system, only trace amounts of radioactive nuclides were released into the environment.

Since then, people have learned lessons from the accident and continuously improved the safety of nuclear power plants. The safety of the new generation of nuclear power plants will be better than that of the current nuclear power plants.

Before, Fan Wubing did not know about these situations, and thought that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident had a great impact and a large number of deaths, but when he carefully collected information on this aspect and made a detailed understanding, he found that it was not the case.

Judging from the situation today, it is very likely that the Western media deliberately exaggerated the facts and demonized the former Soviet Union. This is also their usual trick and is not something worth making a fuss about.

As for the fact that the masses in China do not understand some things, it is also very natural. After all, the relationship between the Chinese and the Russians is very awkward. For a long period of time, they were just targets for the Chinese to criticize. As for how their development is and what the domestic situation is like, ordinary people do not know anything.

Under political needs and under the guidance of the official propaganda machine, many things may not be truly reflected. This is also a common problem in all countries. It is just like the Americans have been attacking China's human rights issues, which has led many Americans to believe that the Chinese people live in a slave society. In fact, these are all nonsense.

Although Fan Wubing believes that the development of nuclear power is an urgent task, and although the domestic senior officials have expressed support for his plan, things are not so easy to solve. Domestic affairs are too complicated. First, it is a difficult problem to choose a location to build a nuclear power plant. Most provinces and cities have expressed rejection of the idea of ​​building a nuclear power plant in their own place.

Rumors are really fiercer than tigers. Fan Wubing can do nothing about it. Based on this reason, and the fact that the dispute between China and the French has not come to a conclusion, Fan Wubing finally decided to build a nuclear power plant abroad, such as Indonesia, a country with thousands of islands.

After learning that Fan Wubing was going to build a nuclear power plant in Indonesia, the senior officials felt very sorry, but Fan Wubing also said that there were not many technical personnel here, and it was necessary to introduce a large number of nuclear power technical talents from the mainland, which was also the basis for mutual cooperation.

The senior officials were optimistic about this and said that they could provide a group of experienced technical personnel to participate in the overseas station construction.

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