The project team led by Academician Liu was working on the most important project in a commercial nuclear power plant. It was also the project that everyone was most unwilling to face.
— — The standardized rescue process after a major damage accident.
As everyone knew, the advantages of nuclear power plants were very powerful.
If it was compared to a thermal power station, a million-kilowatt thermal power station would consume about two million tons of thermal coal a year.
Then how much was a nuclear power plant?
A million-kilowatt nuclear power plant would only need to replace the fuel rods once a year, which was about 30 tons.
The fuel weight consumed by the latter was only 1/66,000th of the former. At the same time, a thermal power station burned two million tons of thermal coal a year, which would release about 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide, 17,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, and 15,000 tons of nitrogen oxides.
What about nuclear power plants?
Nuclear power plants would not emit these pollutants because they did not burn coal at all. They would only produce waste water, which was mostly produced by the primary cooling system. Under normal circumstances, this waste water would be collected and evaporated into waste solids, then piled up to wait for treatment.
The thermal power station also needed to be shut down for a long time for maintenance and could not be operated at full capacity for a long time. However, once a nuclear power plant generated electricity, it could be operated at full capacity for a long time.
Through comparison, not to mention the experts in the energy department. Even ordinary people knew how great the benefits of nuclear power plants were.
Hua Xia consumed nearly four billion tons of coal in energy last year, accounting for half of the world's coal. And the thermal power station burned half of Hua Xia's coal. These coal released hundreds of millions of tons of pollutants, which was the main hazard of air pollution. It was also one of the culprits of smog and respiratory diseases. If it were nuclear power, the air quality of Hua Xia's country would immediately rise by several levels.
The ideal was beautiful, but the reality was cruel …
On March 12, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was affected by an earthquake and a nuclear leak accident that shocked the world. This accident made all the countries in the world that had expectations for nuclear power plants break out in cold sweat.
This accident directly caused Switzerland to announce the suspension of the approval of three new reactors. Germany temporarily closed the seven nuclear power plants that were in operation before 1980, and at the same time, conducted safety checks on all nuclear power plants. Japan proposed the "nuclear elimination goal", intending to build a new society without nuclear power plants.
At the same time, Italy and the United Kingdom also announced the reduction of nuclear power plants and the suspension of nuclear power approval projects.
Hua Xia was also greatly affected and directly stopped all nuclear power plant construction plans in the past …
Only a handful of countries in the world dared to play with nuclear power plants. Almost all of these countries had made mistakes when playing with nuclear power. However, ever since the Chernobyl accident, everyone had been very careful. There had never been such a big mistake that completely lost control.
Time was the best amnesiac. As time passed, nuclear energy research experts from various countries believed that the advancement of technology could prevent a situation like Chernobyl from happening again. But the Fukushima disaster of 2011 completely shattered everyone's dreams.
Although this accident was caused by a tsunami and an earthquake.
But which country could guarantee that its nuclear power plant would not be threatened by an earthquake? Most nuclear power plants were built by the sea.
Once it happened, hundreds of thousands or even millions of residents would be displaced and their health would be seriously threatened. A large area of land was completely abandoned, and no one lived there for thousands of years.
Even if there were no natural disasters, there were still man-made disasters. If there was a war between the two countries, who could guarantee that they would not attack the nuclear power plant?
Unfortunately, while dreams were beautiful, reality was cruel …
After the Fukushima incident, countries found that they had stopped their nuclear power plant plans. They had to pinch their noses and use thermal power. Today, when environmental issues were getting more and more serious, to increase thermal power projects on a large scale was also irresponsible to the health of the people and the health of future generations. It was also not in line with the economic benefits.
There was no other way. Countries pinched their noses and continued to study nuclear power. However, after Fukushima, the world's cautiousness towards nuclear power projects reached an unimaginable level. Safety, safety, safety …
Under such circumstances, the project team led by Academician Liu took on the heavy responsibility of rescue standardization research after a major damage accident at a nuclear power plant. After this set of rescue standards came out, all nuclear power plants in Hua Xia would immediately follow the unified standard implementation plan when a major accident occurred. This was also another set of safety standards that was about to be implemented after the five sets of safety standards at Hua Xia Nuclear Power Plant.
It was also the last set of safety standards after all the other safety standards were ineffective.
Now they encountered a very difficult problem.
After the Fukushima accident, the disaster escalated step by step. In this process, there was actually a chance to save the situation. But because the rescue personnel were unable to accurately understand the situation inside the reactor, they missed many good opportunities.
At first, the rescue personnel were eager to observe the situation inside the reactor, but at that time, the radiation intensity inside the reactor had already broken through the peak. If people entered, they would die within a minute. They had no choice but to build various robots, but the powerful radiation was also fatal to the internal electronic equipment of the robots. When they tried to build a robot that could withstand 50 sieverts of radiation, the internal radiation had reached 100 sieverts. When they tried to build a robot that could withstand 80 sieverts, the internal radiation had exceeded 500 sieverts …
The robot died before it even got close to the target.
Now, Academician Liu and the others needed a special robot that could withstand 200 sieverts of radiation and work for two hours.
Assuming that this robot was available, then this plan, which was jokingly called "When you execute it, you can die" by the domestic nuclear power industry, would have a "divine weapon" to control the overall situation. It could increase the success rate of this plan by at least 15%.
Because of Fukushima, Japan had a unique technological advantage in this regard. Moreover, Japan itself was also the world's leader in the field of industrial robots.
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The next day, Ye Qing took two master artisans and a "test product" loaded in a special metal box on the Peregrine Falcon and flew to a small county in Long Province.
The test product was not big, only the size of a shoebox.
The small county was called Jinwan County, which was located at the border of the Hexi Corridor. It was a poor county with a large area and a small population. Academician Liu and his team were two hundred kilometers away from the county town, and they were working on the project. There was a small simulated nuclear power plant built there. This simulated nuclear power plant was about to usher in the end of its destiny. It would simulate the damage accident like the one in Fukushima, but Academician Liu and the others did not have a robot that could go inside the mini reactor and observe the changes in the nuclear core.
Today was also the day when the Japanese technical experts arrived. Academician Liu and several students were responsible for receiving them in Jinwan County.
Jinwan County naturally had no airport. The Peregrine Falcon first flew to Quanjiu City, then drove hundreds of kilometers to Jinwan County.
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