The nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, jointly built by the China National Nuclear Industry Corporation and the China Nuclear Energy and Environmental Protection Research Institute, is mainly funded by a fund company owned by Yang Jie, and is also the most technologically advanced nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in China.

After entering the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, Yang Jie also saw several reservoirs several meters deep, one of which was soaked in several sets of nuclear fuel assemblies.

The blue boric acid water seems to have a mysterious aura, although it looks calm and peaceful, and the huge reservoir is full of nuclear fuel rods.

The nuclear fuel assemblies dismantled from the reactors of domestic nuclear power plants are still highly radioactive, so most of the loading and unloading of these spent fuel assemblies is done by human-controlled robots.

This robotic arm that can resist radiation is independently developed by Huaxing Technology Group Company.

The spent fuel assemblies are soaked in the reservoirs of the nuclear power plant for several years before being cooled before being sent here for processing.

The spent fuel assemblies are soaked in boric acid water and then picked up by a robotic arm and taken to a nearby workshop protected by a radiation-resistant concrete wall for dismantling.

Of course, these dismantling processes are all completed by robotic arms, which have several production lines, and the staff completes them through remote monitoring.

Because there are several technical routes for domestic nuclear power plants, the structure of nuclear fuel assemblies is different, and the dismantling process is different, so it is necessary to design several production lines according to these different nuclear fuel assemblies.

Huaxing Technology Group Co., Ltd. itself is a top company in the manufacture of robot equipment, and after cooperating with two major domestic nuclear industry companies, it designs different dismantling robots according to different nuclear fuel assemblies, and does not require personnel to wear protective clothing to manually cut used nuclear fuel rods.

This dismantling plant is also the first advanced factory in the world to use such highly automated equipment, which Yang Jie specially requested.

Such a high-risk work can use machinery and equipment without personnel, which Yang Jie has repeatedly requested, and most of the development costs of these special equipment are Yang Jie's personal money, so all kinds of new technologies and equipment are used.

Huaxing Technology Group Co., Ltd. has developed various high-precision equipment and equipment production lines for so many years, and has very strong technical strength in this regard, and with the help of many domestic nuclear industry experts, it has quickly designed, manufactured and established several production lines.

Later, Yang Jie also saw a thorium-based molten salt reactor in an underground workshop next to it, this experimental reactor is a new reactor jointly designed by Gaila Energy Technology Company and Nuclear Industry Group Corporation, this experimental reactor is improved on the basis of the third thorium-based molten salt reactor of Gaila Energy Technology Company, which is mainly used to "burn" a large number of transuranic elements and other highly radioactive elements in the spent fuel.

The dismantled spent fuel is processed in a chemical plant to make fluoride, which is mixed with molten salt and placed in a reactor for "burning".

This technology has been studied by Gaila Energy Technology in this area, and thorium-based molten salt reactors are very safe, and these thorium-uranium mixtures have very few fission products after "burning", which is very suitable for processing this spent fuel.

The nuclear waste treatment plant of the Nuclear Industry Corporation was mainly used to extract raw materials for nuclear weapons, and it did not do very well in civilian commercialization, and it originally wanted to cooperate with Gaul chickens to solve the possibility of nuclear cycle technology.

Gallic Chicken is a pioneer in the back-end industry of the nuclear fuel cycle, with the world's largest, most mature and most technologically advanced commercial spent fuel reprocessing and recycling industry, with an annual processing capacity of 1,600 tons, which not only meets domestic demand, but also provides other countries with nuclear waste processing business and can make money.

In fact, the rabbit is greedy for the Gallic chicken, a technology that processes spent fuel and mixes it with fresh uranium fuel to make nuclear fuel assemblies and sells it to nuclear power plants, which is also the unique secret of the Gallic chicken, which of course will not take it out.

However, Geira Energy Technology Co., Ltd. also has its own unique nuclear waste treatment technology in this regard, that is, it is used to mix nuclear pure thorium with these spent fuels to prepare nuclear fuel, and "burn" these fission products, which is also the unique technology of Gayla Energy Technology Co., Ltd., and is now also used to process these spent fuels in China.

The spent fuel processing plant was commissioned only a few months ago, and several nuclear power plants in the country have begun to send these spent fuel assemblies here for processing.

Now the experimental reactor has been filled and put into operation, the reactor has been running in a critical state for almost a month, and the operation is still very stable, and the molten salt treatment system has also been running twice, and the operation is stable and effective.

The plant is designed to process 800 tons of spent fuel reprocessing capacity per year, and is also the first spent fuel processing plant in China that can be operated commercially.

Because this factory is now running smoothly and effectively, this is also a great increase in the confidence of high-level personnel, including Song Xinyang and Li Kaiyuan, the central leaders have inspected this factory before, Yang Jie this is the first time to come to inspect.

The design and construction of this factory actually did not cost much money, because all the equipment is manufactured by domestic manufacturers, most of the equipment is developed by Huaxing Technology Group Company itself, and these processes are also designed by themselves, and a large number of technical patents accumulated by these nuclear research institutes in China over the years have been used, saving a lot of costs.

It is precisely because of this that the factory was built at a cost of more than 7 billion yuan, which is much less than the more than 10 billion US dollars in technology transfer fees required to open the mouth of the Gallic chicken.

Because of the success of this thorium-based molten salt reactor spent fuel processing technology, the kind of accelerator-driven transmutation reactor technology that Yang Jie proposed to Li Kaiyuan has now adjusted the research and development plan to develop fusion and fission hybrid reactor technology.

The stellarumer built by Huaxing Science and Technology Group is under construction, and the Atomic Energy Research Institute has also started the technical program of the hybrid reactor.

Yang Jie also agrees with this, after all, many technical routes invested in research and development by Huaxing Technology Group Company will also encounter adjustments, and such things will often be encountered in technology research and development, which is very normal.

Now that the new spent fuel plant is completed, it will fully meet the needs of these nuclear power plants in China, and the military is also preparing to hand over the nuclear waste left over from decades of military production to this plant for disposal.

The former plant of the nuclear industry group was mainly used to extract weapons-grade uranium and plutonium from spent fuel, which also produced a large amount of nuclear waste, which was stored there and not recycled.

Now that the new plant is built, the waste is now finally ready for use.