Chapter 378: Molten Salt Heap
Thinking of the harvest in the past year, Mo Xie didn't wait for others to continue to ask, and said: "Also, I still have a large piece of land in Australia, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, by the way, the hundreds of thousands of pieces of porcelain I mentioned just now are not bragging, they were accidentally found by me from a shipwreck!" ”
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"You still have a batch of treasures in your hand, right?" At this time, Zhang Lingfeng said leisurely.
Mo Xie was stunned for a moment, and said: "Baby, don't you old man say that I still forgot, there are some treasures of Zhang Xianzhong, such as his jade seal, and some gold ingots or something, the mess is also worth a little money, by the way, I also have a fleet under my banner, there are many fishing boats, and the seafood I have eaten at home recently is provided by the ocean-going fleet!" ”
"What's going on with this underground base?" Zhang Fenglin looked at the lights not far away and asked, he had wanted to ask about this for a long time, but he never found the opportunity.
Mo Ye was a little speechless, he seemed to have forgotten a lot of things: "I studied some biotechnology in school last semester, so I asked people to buy some biopharmaceutical companies, and this is one of the research bases!" ”
"Bought some companies? That's a big deal! Zhang Fenglin said with a smile.
"This is Chiguoguo's show off of wealth!" Zhang Fenglan also spoke.
"Don't make trouble, this is the ability of the little evil!" is still the most generous in Zhang Fengfu.
Mo Ye directly sent out a series of white eyes, he didn't brag, now to be honest, no one believes it!
"Do biopharma companies still have modified vehicles?" At this time, Mo Tianming said with disdain.
Mo Ye was really speechless this time, it turned out that they were all looking at it, this was seizing the opportunity to study and understand?
"I also bought some mining companies, this is a drill truck, which is very convenient for underground prospecting!" Mo Xie wiped the sweat from his head, thinking about what he had forgotten.
"Didn't you hear you have an agency?" At this time, Zhang Lingfeng spoke.
"Yes, there is also an agency company, I want to think about what other company, I must explain it all!" At this time, even Mo Ye himself was surprised, he actually unknowingly made such a big stall.
"Since you have got so many companies, you can run them well, don't get that big furnace, it's too dangerous!" At this time, Mo Tianming began to sing with his husband.
Mo Ye was directly speechless, he really forgot about this stubble, but the high-temperature and high-pressure furnace is an indispensable thing!
There is also a nuclear power plant, this must also be done, and now it has reached a critical moment, if it is not for the discovery of the Zhangjia secret warehouse, now Mo Ye should be building a safe nuclear power plant.
Bring all the people out safely, and send Zhang Xiushui to sleep, Mo Xie returned to the laboratory, as for the Zhang family's secret vault, he didn't care anymore, anyway, even if someone touched it, he wouldn't find anything.
Mo Ye looked at the things inside the space, which were miscellaneous, and accumulated a lot, and the most in it were seafood and ores.
Recently, Mo Xie has been drilling underground, not only harvesting a secret vault, but also various ores along the way, the ores are not crushed, and Mo Xie's super biological detector cannot directly extract pure minerals, so a high-temperature and high-pressure furnace is essential.
If you want to build a high-temperature and high-pressure furnace, you must have enough energy, and as for a safe and stable nuclear power plant, it is not difficult to build, and it is not a black technology, or even high-tech.
This type of nuclear power plant is a molten salt reactor, which is a super reactor that is not afraid of core meltdown, does not leak nuclear, and has a very high fuel utilization rate.
Mo Xie knew that this kind of reactor was naturally an accident, because the research of unmanned helicopters and modified diving motorcycles, Mo Ye needed enough energy, so he posted a post asking for help on the campus network at that time, asking what safe and reliable energy source there was.
There were a variety of answers, but the most interesting one was the topic of molten salt piles.
At that time, a senior sister studying abroad left a message, saying that several young students in the United States had made a reactor like black technology, which was short and concise, extremely safe, and not afraid of core meltdown, and what was even more terrifying was the amazing fuel utilization rate of this reactor.
It is said that one kilogram of fuel from such a reactor produces the same amount of energy as 135 kilograms of uranium, or 1.6 million kilograms of standard coal.
And that's not all, this reactor has the advantage that the fuel reserves of such reactors are more abundant than uranium and are easier to mine.
Sky! The Americans are too powerful, and it's a few young students!
Then, if there really is such a powerful reactor, then there is no need to build the third generation of nuclear power that is being debated endlessly, and there is no need to study nuclear fusion, and the whole world will use this kind of reactor.
Later, Mo Xie searched for relevant information on the Internet and found that the news was about Transatomic Power, an energy company headquartered in Cambridge, whose founders were two PhDs from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
The company was founded in 2010 and is currently raising about $6.73 million and is a very small energy company.
And that so-called very powerful reactor is a kind of molten salt reactor.
At this time, Mo Xie knew that the senior sister was studying music, learning music! So she doesn't understand physics, or even science.
So what exactly is a molten salt heap? Is it really black technology?
In fact, the molten salt reactor is not a black technology made by some genius, nor is it a mature nuclear power reactor type, but one of the fourth-generation advanced reactors that has been proposed in the 60s in the world and has been studied by nuclear scientists for many years.
The most representative type of molten salt pile is the "mound of earth" that many people have heard of. The correct name should be "thorium-based molten salt pile", or "thorium pile" for short.
However, the advantages of molten salt piles are indeed true in theory, so the advantages of thorium piles are also true.
A molten salt reactor is a reactor that uses molten (liquid) salt as a coolant.
The so-called salt here does not refer to the sodium chloride we eat, but mainly fluoride, and the nuclear fuel used is thorium.
Why is the fuel thorium? There are two main reasons for this.
First, thorium is a silvery-white metal, the radioactivity is very weak, basically there is no harm to human health, and thorium is rich in reserves in nature, easy to mine, and the cost is very low.
In other words, the fuel is safe and easy to obtain, and the fuel cost is low, which makes the thorium reactor a type of reactor that many nuclear scientists dream of.
Second, thorium can be well dissolved into the fluoride salt solution, otherwise the molten salt pile cannot be made.
Next, it's up to you to see how the heap works.
There are no fuel rods in the molten salt reactor as we usually understand it, and its fuel is thorium dissolved in the coolant.
The so-called reactor core is a neutron moderator composed of graphite blocks.
The liquid fluoride salt, which dissolves the nuclear fuel, enters the core from the bottom through a pipe, where a fission reaction takes place to produce fission energy, and then the molten salt flows out of the upper part of the core and enters the steam generator, which takes away the heat, and the molten salt continues to enter the core after cooling, and the fission reaction occurs again.
This process is similar to the process by which our body consumes energy, where nutrients (fuel) are dissolved in the blood, and the blood carries the nutrients to specific tissues (cores) for consumption, releasing energy, and taking away waste products.
Speaking of waste, someone here might have an idea.
Nuclear reactions will also produce a lot of waste, some of which are strong radiation and neutron absorbers, and the accumulation will lead to the shutdown of the reactor.
The idea was excellent, and the engineers had thought of it for a long time.
Since both the core fuel and fission products of the molten salt reactor are dissolved in the molten salt, the molten salt reactor has a special "dialysis" device that can extract the fissile waste and add new nuclear fuel during normal operation.
In this way, theoretically, the molten salt reactor does not need to be stopped for refueling and can operate continuously for decades.
Speaking of the safety of molten salt reactors, the flow in the core of this reactor is not water, but molten salt, which is a liquid at high temperature and low pressure, similar to molten steel, since there is no high pressure, it also eliminates the possibility of explosion.
Will there be a nuclear leak? Nor will it! Because nuclear fuel is dissolved in molten salt, even if there is a breach in the core, the molten salt that dissolves the nuclear fuel will spill out of the core and only flow into the safety tank at the bottom of the core.
In the safety tank, due to the cessation of the fission reactor and the heat dissipation effect of the safety tank, the molten salt mixed with nuclear fuel will quickly become solid and will not spread to the environment.
Isn't it tricky to deal with the spilled molten salt? It's not tricky, and it's very simple.
The molten salt that spills out is left in the tank to cool down and become solid, so as long as the tank is reheated to heat the molten salt, the molten salt melts again, flows to the collection tank at the bottom of the reactor, passes through the main pump, and can be re-entered into the system.
Therefore, the unique design of the molten salt reactor completely avoids the risk of core meltdown (the core is originally molten) and nuclear leakage, and once there is a problem, the molten salt leaks, the reactor will be automatically shut down, and there is no need for human intervention at all.
And that's not all, the molten salt reactor also has a safer design, at the bottom of the core, there is a safety plug, during normal operation, this safety plug separates the connecting pipe between the core and the bottom safety tank.
But once the core overheats, the plug melts automatically and all the molten salt flows down the pipe into the safety tank.
In other words, even if you deliberately try to break the reactor, it is impossible, the safety plug is like a fuse, ensuring that as long as the core overheats slightly, it will melt automatically, together with the core and safety troughs, so that the molten salt of the core can be set out, hollowing out the core, terminating the nuclear reaction, and no one can stop it.