The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Beibu Gulf, on an island.

The completion ceremony for the first phase of the Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Plant is being held today.

The Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power station built on three islands in the Beibu Gulf. It is divided into three phases. Each phase plans to build six nuclear power units. It uses fourth-generation nuclear power technology. The installed capacity of a single nuclear power unit is 6 million kilowatts, and the total installed capacity is 200 million kilowatts. The entire Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Station is planned to build 1200 nuclear power units with a total installed capacity of an astonishing 18 million kilowatts.

The positioning of the Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Station is very clear, which is to provide electricity for the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration!

Although the Southwest has extremely rich hydropower resources and the State Grid Corporation of China is constantly building hydropower stations and developing hydropower resources, the hydropower in the Southwest is not entirely supplied to the Southwest.

Thermal power, wind power, tidal power, solar power, nuclear power, etc. have become important components.

The Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Plant will provide sufficient electricity for the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration.

As for why they chose to build on the islands, it is naturally because there were not many people living on these three islands, so land acquisition and demolition work were easy to carry out. In addition, the atmospheric diffusion conditions were good, there were no environmental protection constraints, basic farmland was not occupied, the address was well adjusted, and it was suitable for the construction of a fourth-generation nuclear power plant to meet the safety requirements of nuclear power.

If something happens, the loss can be minimized.

Of course the most important thing is that the Beibu Gulf is safe enough now!

Here, it is no exaggeration to say that it is impregnable, and it can ensure the national defense security of the nuclear power plant.

The waters where the Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Plant is located are absolutely inaccessible to any warships or aircraft.

Liu Tao and others attended the completion ceremony of the first phase of the Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Plant. Everyone had smiles on their faces and chatted with each other.

"Leader, after so many years of hard work, we have finally reached the world's leading level in nuclear power plant technology!" an old man said excitedly.

The world's nuclear power plant technology has developed to the fourth generation.

The first generation of nuclear power plants are the first batch of nuclear power plants with a single unit capacity of about 20MWe built by the Soviet Union, the United States and other countries from the 50s to the 60s, that is, a single nuclear power plant with an installed capacity of about 300 kilowatts, such as the Port Shiping Nuclear Power Plant and Cape Indienne 30 Nuclear Power Plant in the United States, the Schütz Nuclear Power Plant in France, the Oppelheim Nuclear Power Plant in Germany, and the Mihama 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

The first generation of nuclear power plants are prototype reactor nuclear power plants, whose main purpose is to verify the feasibility of nuclear power engineering implementation through experimental demonstration.

The second generation of nuclear power plants was built during the first oil crisis in the 70s. The energy crisis caused by the rise in oil prices promoted the rapid development of nuclear power. Most of the more than 400 units in commercial operation in the world were built during this period.

第二代核电厂主要是实现商业化、标准化、系列化、拟量化，以提高经济性。自60年代末至70年代世界上建造了大批单机容量在600~1400MWe的标准化和系列化核电站，以美国西屋公司为代表的Model 212、Model 312、Model 214、Model 412、Model 414、System80以及一大堆沸水堆（BWR）均为第二代核电站范畴，除此之外还有法国的CPY、P4等。

There are currently 439 auxiliary nuclear power plant units in operation around the world, with a total installed capacity of 3.72 million kilowatts. There are also 34 nuclear power units under construction, with a total installed capacity of 0.278 million kilowatts.

For example, the Fukushima nuclear power plant is a second-generation nuclear power plant.

After the accidents at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, various countries have made improvements to the operating nuclear power plants to varying degrees, achieving varying degrees of improvement in safety and economy.

However, now, nuclear power experts have reflected on the second-generation nuclear power plants. They believed that the possibility of serious accidents such as core melt and large-scale release of radioactive materials into the environment was very small, and there was no need to make facilities for preventing and mitigating serious accidents a necessary design requirement. This also led to the second-generation nuclear power plants having relatively weak measures to deal with serious accidents.

The safety of third-generation nuclear power plants is significantly better than that of second-generation nuclear power plants. Since safety is the prerequisite for the development of nuclear power, in addition to extending the life of second-generation units in operation and building some second-generation units, countries around the world are currently focusing on the use of safer and more advanced third-generation nuclear power units in the construction of a new batch of nuclear power plants. These include the United States' non-passive AP1000 nuclear power plant, France's EPR nuclear power plant, and China's independently developed CAP1400 nuclear power plant.

The fourth generation of nuclear power plants was first proposed by the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology of the U.S. Department of Energy at the American Nuclear Society's summer annual meeting in June 1999. At the society's winter annual meeting in November of the same year, the idea of ​​developing fourth generation nuclear power technology was further clarified. In January 6, the U.S. Department of Energy initiated and invited government representatives from nine countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and the United Kingdom, to hold a meeting to discuss international cooperation in developing a new generation of nuclear energy technology. A broad consensus was reached and a "Nine-Nation Joint Statement" was issued.

Subsequently, the 'Generation IV International Forum (GIF)' was established by nuclear power developed countries such as the United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and plans to set relevant goals and plans within 2 to 3 years. The overall goal of this plan is to launch the fourth-generation nuclear energy system (Gen-IV) to the market around 2030, which can solve the problems of nuclear energy economy, safety, waste disposal and non-proliferation.

The fourth-generation nuclear energy system will meet the basic requirements of safety, economy, sustainable development, minimal waste generation, low risk of fuel proliferation, and prevention of nuclear proliferation.

China was excluded from the 'Generation IV International Forum (GIF)', and the purpose is self-evident.

But while they were still formulating standards and discussing, China further upgraded its third-generation nuclear power technology and developed China's own fourth-generation nuclear power plant technology. Even now the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant has been built.

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This indicates that China has surpassed the fourth-generation nuclear power plant technology from the third-generation nuclear power plant technology and reached the world's leading level.

For the experts at China Nuclear Power, this was definitely something that made them cry with joy.

You should know that the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, which was independently designed and built by China, was the first nuclear power plant built by China. It directly skipped the first-generation nuclear power plant technology and the second-generation nuclear power plant technology and started with the third-generation nuclear power plant technology.

At that time, it was Liu Tao who solved the core technical problems of the third-generation nuclear power plant technology.

The completion of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant ended the history of China's lack of nuclear power and achieved a breakthrough. This is also considered the starting point of China's nuclear power and is hailed as the "glory of the country". The completion of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant marks a new stage in the development of China's nuclear industry, becoming a model for China's military-to-civilian conversion and peaceful use of nuclear energy, making China the seventh country in the world that can design and build nuclear power plants on its own.

The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant behind is also a third-generation nuclear power plant! (End of this chapter)