Chapter 1353 How to Boil Water?

How to build a nuclear power plant?

In fact, in essence, the nuclear power plant designed by Jiuzhou Technology is just a large water-boiling machine.

Ordinary liquid - water, when boiled, will produce a large amount of steam, and this steam will drive the rotation of the steam turbine, which in turn drives the generator, and then generates a steady stream of electricity.

The difference between boiling water and generating electricity is what energy stone is used to boil water.

Nuclear power plants use the nuclear fission reaction in a nuclear reactor to generate a large amount of heat energy to boil water.

The material required for nuclear fission is a substance called uranium 235. The energy released by the fission of 1 kilogram of this substance is equivalent to 2,798 tons of standard coal.

1KG=2798T

In addition, there is another reason why Gu Qing attaches so much importance to this industry. The substances used in mushroom bombs and nuclear reactors are actually the same, but the concentrations are different.

Mushroom bombs use weapons-grade highly enriched uranium with a concentration of more than 90%, while nuclear reactors that boil water use low-enriched uranium with a concentration of 2% to 4%.

[The train has arrived at the station, and a train will arrive at the station in three minutes]

Although it was possible for the train to arrive later, Gu Qing did not do so.

"Let's go. Today's temporary calculation plan is very good. It seems that Simon you have special training in this area."

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Facing this somewhat flattering AI, Gu Qing shook his head: "I don't know if any of the symbols in the logic program I added to you were entered incorrectly. It is obviously an excellent AI that will guide the future direction."

While sighing, Gu Qing stepped out of his seat.

An Hetang seemed to have not heard the conversation and followed Gu Qing away with a calm expression.

Under the illumination of the light, the senior person in charge of the security department looked a bit strong at this time, but there was no noise of heavy weight falling on the ground as he walked on the road.

There is even a feeling of King Kong swinging lightly on the city road.

Except for him, the other members of the security team no longer "followed" like before, and there were some small mimic robots beside Gu Qing.

Some of them are buttons, some are a pebble stuck in the sole of a shoe, and some even look like ordinary clothing decorations.

But whenever support is needed around Gu Qing, members of the nearby security team can rely on these positioning devices to activate maximum kinetic energy and jump over.

After swiping his face, swiping his card, and verifying his retina, Gu Qing entered the gate of the next research institute.

After entering the passage, cameras and other security inspection equipment were scanned from time to time, but they did not stop working because of his identity.

Hearing the slight sound of three doors being closed behind him, Gu Qing finally saw a living person.

"Please go to the men's locker room to my left to change protective clothing. Among the people participating in the meeting today, there are members with unstable radiation levels."

Gu Qing didn't say that they were all warriors and shouldn't be treated specially. Instead, he chose to put on protective clothing, and after checking the number of the protective clothing with An Hetang, he continued to move forward.

Because their perception is stronger than that of ordinary people, Gu Qing and An Hetang clearly felt that the corridor they were walking in was slowly moving.

In order to provide a healthy and safe environment for everyone participating in the meeting, these corridors will be purified accordingly every time someone passes by.

Twenty minutes later.

In a conference room similar to a university lecture hall, a professor wearing protective clothing was speaking on the podium of the conference room about his professional opinions.

"Uranium is a relatively abundant element on Blue Stars, but only a very small amount of it can be used for nuclear fuel, such as uranium 235, which only accounts for about 0.72% of uranium.

In order to ensure future sustainable development and energy security, our country and some developed countries are looking for alternative energy sources and improving energy efficiency, such as common solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, etc.

But as nuclear energy is the key to the future, no one has given up on continuing research and development.

As of Yin Li 1023, Blue Star had a total of 460 open nuclear reactors.

It is not difficult for us to build a nuclear reactor. To a certain extent, a team of Ph.D.s can lead the construction project of a small nuclear reactor.

But the point is that if we want to use nuclear energy to generate electricity, we must build a uranium enrichment plant to increase the concentration of uranium-235.

This technology is not considered a secret at present. After all, some underdeveloped areas can deploy tens of thousands of centrifuges and purify 300 kilograms of enriched uranium with an abundance of 3% in ten years.

However, this procedure is very difficult. It is almost impossible to complete the purification of qualified enriched uranium within two years. If we can do it, it means that we can use it for military purposes.

Therefore, we can only rely on Daxia officials to prepare this material for us at present.

Uranium-235 with sufficient concentration is sent to the nuclear fuel manufacturing plant. After processing, the uranium-235 will be converted into uranium dioxide powder, and these powders will be compressed into small fuel particles, and then heated to make hard uranium dioxide. Ceramic core block.

These ceramic pellets are stacked together and then put into a zirconium alloy casing about 4 meters long, which becomes the fuel rod required by the nuclear power plant.

According to the data I have compiled before, a 2000 MW pressurized water reactor requires about 54 tons of uranium per year, about 36 million fuel pellets, and more than 100,000 fuel rods.

Correspondingly, in order to achieve this power generation, a coal-fired power plant must burn more than 5 million tons of coal.

I have inspected the area approved by Neon Island for our branch. Although the address is stable and the water resources are abundant, the area is far away from the mainland of Daxia. In order to receive nuclear energy fuel shipped from Daxia, it must go through at least three inspections.

Under normal circumstances, these fuels may be able to enter the nuclear power plant stably. But as long as there is an abnormality, the nuclear power plant we built in Neon will become a boiler without fuel in an instant, and may even be forcibly taken over by the local management of Neon.

So I personally do not agree to build nuclear power plants and factories in this area. "

This leading professor dropped a bombshell on everyone right away.

No one expected that this person, who was hired by Jiuzhou Technology at a high salary, would actually vote against the key meeting of the nuclear power project.

Why did he talk about the industry knowledge that "everyone understands" before? Isn't it because the people participating in the meeting today include not only people working in the nuclear energy-related industry, but also senior management of Jiuzhou Technology?

Many people even felt resentful at this time.

You have achieved success and fame, but you still block the way for your descendants to make a fortune and become famous?!