However, the ability to prepare high-purity thorium in China is still insufficient, and the previous preparation of nuclear pure thorium can only reach one 9, while the requirements of high-purity nuclear pure thorium should reach 3 9s, and this technology was monopolized by overseas companies before.

However, Huaxing Group Co., Ltd. mastered the preparation process and equipment manufacturing of this high-purity metal target processing by itself around 2000.

Moreover, the R&D team of Gaila Energy Technology Co., Ltd. has developed an environmentally friendly solvent extractant that can reach the limit of solvent extraction and separation of impurities, and has also found an expert in the preparation process of nuclear pure thorium, and has mastered the patent of the process of preparing nuclear pure thorium, which can achieve 99.999% batch preparation of thorium metal with low oxygen and high purity thorium, and prepare kilogram level nuclear pure metal thorium.

The cost of such high-purity nuclear pure thorium is around thousands of dollars, and the quotations on the market are tens of thousands of dollars.

Although nuclear pure thorium is worth tens of thousands of dollars, it is still much cheaper than about $200,000 a kilogram of enriched uranium.

"Hu Dong, I hope that the rare earth company under the Baotu Group Company will establish a production line for the smelting and separation of thorium resources and the processing of thorium metal, and we will have as much thorium metal as we want to refine, and it is best for all the thorium resources publicly mined by Baotu Group to be separated and processed to avoid the waste of thorium resources. ”

Yang Jie opened his mouth and said.

"There's no problem with building this line, but if you do that, you'll be producing hundreds of tons of thorium every year, can you digest it?"

"This is not a problem, Huaneng Technology Company will build a large thorium metal storage warehouse with a very high security level here, and all the thorium metal that cannot be used up will be stored. ”

Yang Jie said: "Thorium resources are very valuable resources, but also non-renewable resources, if it is mined and wasted, it would be a pity, save it for future generations to enjoy, enough for our country to use for thousands of years." ”

Hu Xurong's eyes flashed a few times, and said: "In this case, our Baotu Group Company will immediately establish this production line within two years, as for Yang Dong just said that there is no need to bear the loss of our group company, our Baotu Group Company is a state-owned enterprise, and it also has an unshirkable responsibility in reducing the waste of thorium resources." Since thorium resources play an important role in the development of the country's nuclear power industry, our Baotu group company has found a new industry while helping the country, which is a multi-pronged thing. ”

Now the price of thorium metal on the market is about the same as the price of rare earth metals, in fact, the establishment of such a set of production lines Baotou Steel Group is also profitable.

In the past, Baotou Steel Group Company could not sell such an experimental production line after establishing it, but now Huaneng Technology Company has acquired it in large quantities, and Hu Xurong naturally has nothing to worry about.

In fact, the preparation of thorium metal in China began in the fifties of the last century, and the thorium metal with high purity was obtained by calcalbothermal method in the seventies, and the processing and preparation technology has been done very well in the nineties.

Huaxing Group has brought the most advanced thorium-based molten salt reactor technology to China this time, which has opened up a large market for the utilization of thorium resources.

A 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant consumes 30 tons of low-enriched uranium fuel per year, a thorium-based molten salt reactor of about 1 ton is enough, and a six-unit power plant like the Castle Peak nuclear power plant needs only 6 tons per year.

Even if a two-unit thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant is added every year in the future, and there are dozens of nuclear thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plants in ten years, the annual consumption of nuclear pure thorium will be hundreds of tons, and the domestic production of nuclear pure thorium is completely sufficient.

The next day, Yang Jie, accompanied by Hu Xurong, went to the mining area of the Bo'e Yunbai Zhudong Mine for a field trip.

Obo Yunbai has proved that there are 221,000 tons of thorium resources, accounting for 77% of the country's reserves, mainly in the form of thorium dioxide.

At present, Baosteel Group basically does not use thorium resources, and after mining, rare earth ores are selected first, and these thorium resources are basically not utilized.

Through the understanding, now Baotou Iron and Steel Group Corporation mined about 15 million tons of rare earth stone every year, only 1.43 million tons after selection, the utilization rate is only 9.5%, about 75% of the rare earth in the form of tailings after beneficiation into the tailings dam, and about 15% of the rare earth in the form of flying, slag and other forms of loss.

And the thorium resources are also silent, or they enter the tailings dam, and these radioactive thorium resources also bring radioactive contamination, or they are "burned".

Then everyone also came to a large tailings dam near Futong Town, Jiuyuan District, Baotu City, this tailings dam was also built with Baotu Group, covering 11 square kilometers, surrounded by soil and concrete, more than 20 meters above the ground, which has been stacked with a large number of fine powdery tailings, and can also see rare earth companies and smelters directly discharge industrial wastewater into this tailings mine.

When Yang Jie came to this discharge outlet, he could smell the pungent smell of choking his nose from afar, and Hu Xurong and others who followed him also covered their noses.

They didn't expect the big boss of Huaxing Group to insist on coming to this tailings dam, and they had to follow him.

Li Zhigang, who was following on the side, also had a somewhat ugly face at this time, and frowned and said, "Dong Hu, how can your factory directly discharge this industrial wastewater here?"

Hu Xurong also said curtly: "Director Li, let them rectify the ...... after I go back."

He made it clear that he also wanted to fool Yang Jie, Li Zhigang and others in front of him, and there was naturally no follow-up to the rectification.

Yang Jie did not say anything, large state-owned enterprises like Baotou Iron and Steel Group Company have been developing for more than 50 years, and they have always paid little attention to environmental awareness, but are tied to the interests of the local government, even if the local residents are not satisfied with it, the local government has always liked to cover the lid.

"Mayor Liu, in recent years, there have been tailings dam failures in many places, Baotou Steel tailings pond is on the outskirts of Baotu City, this side is also next to the Peng River, once the dam bursts, the consequences are unimaginable, and this side is also an earthquake-prone area, you are not worried about the city?"

"Who's to say it's not, provincial and municipal officials also attach great importance to this, and in the event of an earthquake or severe flooding, we will hold meetings to deploy safety work. ”

This Mayor Liu also said with a sad face.

Yang Jie stood on the dam wall of the tailings pond and saw the lake that had been soaked in industrial wastewater in the vicinity with a strange color, and the dried slag mud in the distance looked like a black-gray tidal flat, and he also felt a little emotional.

In his eyes, this method of dealing with tailings is naturally very backward and seriously polluting the environment, but Baotou Iron and Steel Group was established in a difficult period in the past, and he has to sacrifice the environment and the health of local residents in order to develop the economy, for which he will not blame.

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