The nuclear power plant in the secret factory used a pressurized water reactor with the same technology as the Humpback Whale.
The reactor power was amplified, and the fuel rods used enriched uranium with a purity of 60%.
In industrial design, the scale of a product was not as difficult as the blueprint. It was enough to make the details of the various parts bigger. Huaxing Heavy Industry, the industrial representative of Zhongyun, had made such a mistake.
They had bought a full set of blueprints for a 190-ton mining truck from abroad and changed it to 240 tons. In the end, there were hundreds of problems.
These problems were put on the mining truck. It could be that the gear box leaked oil, the brake spacing was larger, or the power system was not in place, and the power consumption was higher.
Domestic cars or engineering vehicles were all like this step by step.
But in a nuclear power plant, these small problems could lead to serious and fatal nuclear leaks.
The blueprint of the reactor used by the Humpback Whale came from a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Its output power was 270,000 kilowatts. The nuclear power plant used in the factory now had a single output power twenty times that.
This was not a problem that could be solved by enlarging the size twenty times.
Just like a truck engine, the difference in size between a 50-horsepower engine and a 500-horsepower engine was usually only two or three times.
The nuclear reactor was the same, and the size of the factory did not change much. The biggest change was the size of the internal fuel rods. The total weight of the nuclear fuel on the Humpback Whale was only 300 kilograms, and it could operate continuously for 26 years.
The factory nuclear power plant had four reactors, and the total weight of the nuclear fuel was nearly ten tons, and its service life was only eight years.
On one hand, the purity of the fuel rods used in the factory was only 60%, which was 30% lower than the purity of the Humpback Whale. On the other hand, the factory nuclear power plant needed more cooling water to heat the first and second circuits.
Only in this way could it provide enough power for the super-supercritical engine of the factory nuclear power plant.
If other nuclear power companies dared to expand the marine reactor to the nuclear power plant, they would be waiting for a major nuclear accident. If Monster Industries did this, there was no risk at all.
The core principle of the nuclear power plant had been thoroughly understood by the monsters. When building the marine reactor, Academician Liu Xuetao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had also provided a large amount of technical information on commercial nuclear power plants. The rest was nothing more than the nuclear fuel rod shell material, pressure shell material, pipelines, and critical unit material.
The importance of metal materials did not need to be said, but these were the easiest to solve for Monster Industries.
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After the thirty monsters finished adjusting the gas centrifuge units in series in an orderly manner, they moved to the secret factory behind the Soto Rainforest without stopping to install the nuclear power plant reactor.
Inside the secret factory, an underground "containment shell" with a higher safety standard than the gas centrifuge factory opposite had already been built.
All the excavation work was done by the Angry Miners. Inside the enormous' containment 'that was thirty meters deep underground, there were four reactors and ten super-supercritical power generators. If Academician Liu Xuetao, one of the leaders of Hua Xia's commercial nuclear power plant, were to see this scene, he would definitely be shocked.
He would definitely fly into a rage and scold Monster Industries without hesitation for treating [Safety Production] as a joke.
Only one reactor could be placed in a pressure-resistant shell. The generator and the reactor were placed separately. This was the most basic industry rule. Otherwise, if any one of the reactors had an accident, the other three reactors would not be able to escape even if they wanted to. They could only be destroyed together.
However, the monsters did not care about this. All the accidents in nuclear power plants, other than the unavoidable causes of tsunamis and earthquakes, were all caused by the negligence of the personnel. They did not strictly follow the operating rules, which led to regrets.
This sort of thing would never happen to monsters.
In the Soto Rainforest, whether it was the managers of the factory or General Maups, who commanded the place.
They all knew that there was a secret factory behind the rainforest.
The management of the factory vaguely knew that the secret factory specialized in processing calcium-uranium mica ore.
After calcium-uranium mica was purified, it was uranium. This kind of ore was associated with monazite, which produced rare earth metals. There was a small amount of calcium-uranium mica in the mining area of the factory. Behind the rainforest with stronger radiation, the amount of calcium-uranium mica ore would only be more.
Of course, being able to guess that the secret factory was mining calcium-uranium mica did not affect the daily work of these managers.
Mining calcium-uranium mica was not illegal. Many foreign mining giants had such a business. Moreover, the primary purified product of calcium-uranium mica, [uranium ore powder], was an industrial product that could be supervised and circulated in the mineral market. The spot price was 500 yuan per kilogram.
This included many ore collectors in the country who liked to collect beautiful calcium-uranium mica ores.
Being able to mine calcium-uranium mica and purifying uranium ore into enriched uranium were two different concepts. It was like mining iron ore in an ore field, but there was no technology to turn these iron ore into cars.
The uranium mining field behind the rainforest might be mined and sold for money. In any case, several projects of Monster Industries had deep cooperation with the military system, and their relationship was very strong.
They just did not know that the monsters had already dared to refine a lot of enriched uranium.
Of course, even if they knew, it did not matter. This kind of thing should be managed by the country.
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The installation work lasted for two days. Ye Qing also stayed in the factory for two days.
Ye Qing stood in the operation room that had been treated to prevent radiation. Through the leaded glass observation window, he watched the monsters install the four reactors in place. Then, they connected the secondary cooling water and the ultra-supercritical unit in parallel.
Everything was ready. They only needed to put in the fuel rods.
For the past two days, Ye Qing had been flipping through the technical information that Academician Liu Xuetao had provided to Monster Industries.
According to the information, the most important step of a commercial nuclear power plant was the first placement of the fuel rods. Because once the fuel rods were placed in, the nuclear power plant would officially enter a working state. The reactor would not stop working until the fuel was completely released.
When it came to the first activation of all systems, the preparation work could not be too sufficient.
In the safety manual, there were more than three hundred safety inspection processes before activation and seventeen pipeline tests other than the reactor.
The overall process required the use of all the staff of the nuclear power plant for a month of inspection and testing.
Ye Qing was flipping through the information when a Master Craftsman knocked on the door and entered.
"Boss, the peons have brought in the fuel rods. We can put the fuel assembly into the reactor pressure shell. "
"Have all the procedures been checked?" Ye Qing flipped through the information and had a headache. He simply pushed the information in front of the Master Craftsman.
"I just looked at it again. There is no problem." The Master Craftsman casually flipped through two pages and hurriedly threw them aside. "Boss, there is no need to look at this information. If we believe in this, we might as well change to burning anthracite. "
"Then just directly release it?"
"Yes." The Master Craftsman was very considerate and helped Ye Qing close the thick safety manual on the table.
"Boss, it will definitely not explode."
"Well … Then release it. I will go out first. If there is no problem in two hours, I will come in again."
Dozens of minutes later, Ye Qing took off in the Lord's Battleship.
Next to the reactor, the Master Craftsman in protective clothing, like a screw, completely used his hands to screw the fuel rods into the fuel assembly.
The fuel rods were densely screwed into the assembly, like a compact pile of "firewood".
At the top of the reactor, the strong and strong peons were fixing one fuel assembly after another to the core drive rod under the pressure shell. After doing this, the pressure shell that was mechanically opened was covered and locked, and everything was fine.
Oh, there was still one last thing to inject the first loop of cooling water.
Looking at the first loop of cooling water, under the heating of the nuclear core, the temperature quickly rose.
The Master Craftsman clapped his hands, indicating that it was done.
It was just boiling water.
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