It's not that Chen Xu can't calculate the price, he has already calculated it when he listens to the other party's price. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The construction cost of a 1.3 million kilowatt nuclear power unit is 850 million!

Six nuclear power plants started construction at the same time, and two large-capacity units were put into operation in the first phase of each power station, with an investment of $10 billion, and a total investment of more than $50 billion after all were completed.

Is it expensive? A nuclear power plant can be used for at least 60 years, and it is no problem to extend its life for 80 years, and the annual cost is evenly shared, even if the cost of maintenance and repair is only tens of millions, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the profit obtained from selling electricity every year, and even the bonuses paid to employees are higher than this amount.

As William Bashir said, the construction cycle and safety standards of nuclear power plants are now stricter than before, and the cost of construction is skyrocketing, and the more it is delayed, the more expensive it will become. In the future, the cost of a nuclear power unit with a capacity of one million kilowatts will be 12 billion, which is not only the cost of equipment procurement, construction cost and safety costs.

After all, if you put power generation 30 years ahead of schedule, you can make an extra 30 years of money, not to mention that China's nuclear industry starts 30 years ahead of schedule, and the trained professionals, safety standards, and accumulated deep nuclear industry technology are all very worthwhile.

In later generations, due to the late start of the domestic nuclear industry and the very backward design and construction experience, the core technology of nuclear power units has not been fully digested, and sometimes a small procedural problem can be difficult for a large number of researchers.

The process of building nuclear power plants in China is long and complicated, and even the approval process sometimes takes several years, and the work efficiency is very low, the process is extremely protracted, and all kinds of quarrels are made.

The nuclear industry itself is an extremely complex system, especially the construction of safety is the top priority, the country is big and don't care about it, if the small country is a little careless and destroys half of the home, so the safety precautions of nuclear power plants must always be put in the first place, especially in China, the safety requirements have reached the point of perversion.

For example, in a newly built nuclear power plant, if a newly installed equipment is suspected of having a problem, the audit agency will refuse to pass the inspection, and this hidden danger will not be allowed to start power generation until this hidden danger is eliminated. Of course, it is impossible for a nuclear power plant to dismantle hundreds of millions of equipment because of a spurious problem, and it was not possible to do it in a hurry at that time, but the audit agency refused to stamp it on the neck of the knife holder, and they did not carry the black pot, and the accident at the nuclear power plant must be a big basket, and those who approved the construction were jointly and severally liable and shot lightly, so no one dared to be careless.

In the end, the case went to the Prime Minister's Office, and after several experts were invited to confirm that there was no danger, the Prime Minister personally signed off to assume the responsibility, and the matter was settled.

Chen Xu's working capital in the next ten years will be used to invest in education, and there is not much money left to engage in nuclear power projects!

This is also the reason why the eldest brother opposes the construction of nuclear power plants, there is no money in the pocket to build such an expensive power station, although the future will be very profitable, but the construction cycle is so long and slow to return to blood, it will suck all the company's funds dry, which will seriously affect the company's future development.

"Where are you going to get all this money from?" The eldest brother glanced at Chen Xu, revealing a look of 'see what you do'.

"Million-capacity nuclear power units are a bit expensive, is there any cheaper? For example, 800,000 kilowatt units. Chen Xu scratched his scalp, the country is too poor and has too many historical debts, many high-tech industries have to start from scratch, there is a lack of talents, and the technology is zero.

"The power generation of the 800,000 kilowatt unit is much smaller, and the profit earned by generating less electricity will definitely be reduced, so the construction cost per unit of power is much higher, at 820 US dollars per kilowatt. In short, the larger the unit, the lower the cost! William Bashir's eyebrows jumped unconsciously, and he wanted to do everything possible to persuade the Chinese side to build large-capacity units, so that the United States could export more labor and capital and release the pressure of domestic capital surplus.

As soon as he heard that the cost of small-capacity nuclear power units was more expensive, Chen Xu had no choice. If it is other industrial projects, he can still bargain, but the price of nuclear power is a safe price, and it is impossible for the US imperialists to do business at a loss.

Seeing that Chen Xu was already hesitating, William Bashir hurriedly increased his bargaining chips and said: "Nuclear power is not only clean but also has a high fuel utilization rate, with the current coal price, the cost of producing one kilowatt-hour of electricity in thermal power plants is about 3 cents, and buying it to the power grid will make two or three cents, and the profit is very thin." The fuel of nuclear power can be reused, and the cost of one kilowatt-hour of electricity is less than 5 cents, and it is also 4 cents when sold to the power grid, and the profit is extremely high, and the cost can be recovered in three or five years. ”

"Big brother, how much is the electricity per kilowatt-hour in our family now? What is the price of industrial electricity? Chen Xu turned his head sideways and asked his eldest brother.

"Seven cents a time, industrial electricity costs one piece." When the eldest brother heard the Americans on the other side talk about the production cost of nuclear power, the idea of resisting nuclear power was suddenly loosened, and the profit of one kilowatt-hour of nuclear power was ten times higher than that of thermal power, and such a huge profit was enough for the capitalist to sell the rope to the enemy to hang himself.

For example, the eldest brother thinks carefully, and Chen Xu thinks about more questions, for example, he knows that the price of electricity in Hong Kong in later generations will cost nine cents per kilowatt-hour, and the price of electricity supplied to Hong Kong by the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant is twice as expensive as that sold to China. If Chen Xu builds a new large-scale nuclear power plant in Daya Bay, it can not only ensure the power supply of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, but also sell it to Hong Kong and Macao at a high price, which will be even more profitable.

"Can the price be lowered any longer? The group can't come up with $50 billion! Now that the world is in the midst of an energy crisis, the U.S. economy has been hit hard, not only has the stock market plummeted, but even your GDP growth rate has dropped from 5.6% in 1978 to 3.2% now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a Great Depression. I believe that Westinghouse's current financial situation will not be very good, and coupled with the Three Mile Island accident, the United States has restricted the development of nuclear power, and if you can't do this kind of business in China, your nuclear power department may have to be reduced to a research project, and it will be a fool's dream to make money. "Although you know that bargaining may not make much sense for you, it's always right to give it a try, and you can make money if you can cut a little.

The economic crisis that US imperialism encountered in the early 80s was an energy crisis, but unlike before World War II, when Roosevelt had New Deal, US imperialism came out of the Great Depression.

The Reagan administration of US imperialism chose to implement neoliberalism and vigorously promoted privatization, resulting in the monopoly big conglomerates becoming richer and richer, while the common people became poorer and poorer, and the gap between the rich and the poor increased. The essence of this neoliberalism is to borrow money to get by, and pass on the economic crisis to other countries, such as signing the Hiroshima Agreement with Japan to force the yen to appreciate, and then the collapse of Japan's bubble economy was sheared. Later, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the US imperialists gained a lot of wealth from the Soviet Union, and the economic crisis seemed to be solved.

However, this economic policy of US imperialism did not fundamentally solve the economic crisis of the eighties, but only covered up the problems of the present by overdrawing a larger crisis in the future. Sure enough, in 08, this problem broke out again, and at that time, even China was affected and had to launch four trillion to maintain the situation.

But the root cause of the crisis is in the United States, especially in the dollar, and if the US imperialists themselves do not find a way to solve it, it is only a matter of time before the global economic crisis becomes larger.

In fact, many people think that the third world war has broken out, and it is nothing more than an economic war, with the Sino-Russian alliance against Europe and the United States. Economically, China confronts the United States, militarily Russia rushes to the front, and China is responsible for being a wet nurse.

The full-scale outbreak of the economic crisis is the end of the war, and the result is nothing more than the shearing of China's sheep and the alleviation of the economic crisis of US imperialism. Either China wins, the dollar hegemony disintegrates, and US imperialism retreats to its hometown in North America to live its own little life.

William Bashir knew that China could not agree to such a huge nuclear power construction plan, his left hand stroked back and forth under his lips, his eyes wandered, and finally he shook his head and said: "Even if I promise to reduce the price now, it is meaningless, the cost of nuclear power plants is rising every year, and the cost increase rate is about 10% a year, which means that by next year, your six nuclear power plants will be a total of 5 billion US dollars." The cost we provide to China is the same as that of a nuclear power plant in the United States, and there is absolutely no price increase due to different countries. ”

"Will the United States transfer all of its core technologies while building nuclear power plants?" Chen Xu asked rhetorically.

"Of course, if this deal is successful, we will transfer all the nuclear power business to the Chinese side, which is equivalent to copying the original US nuclear power industry in China, and how much China can learn depends on your own capabilities." William Barshall nodded, after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the US nuclear power industry was full of mourning, and they all believed that the US nuclear industry was going to be finished, and the nuclear power capitalists all hoped to take advantage of the US nuclear industry's technological advantages to sell it at a good price, and China was willing to take over at this time, and Westinghouse was naturally happy to transfer the nuclear power business in its entirety.

As for restricting the transfer of high-end nuclear technology like China, it is not a problem in the face of $50 billion. If any member of the US Congress dares to stop this transaction, he will die in his bathtub the next day, and politicians in the United States are just dogs raised by capitalists, and when the dog prevents the owner from getting rich, of course he can only die.

As soon as he heard this, Chen Xu was not calm, 50 billion US dollars can not only build six large-scale nuclear power plants, but also take over all the nuclear power business of Westinghouse.

In later generations, this price will not even be able to buy a nuclear power plant, for example, the large nuclear power order between China and the United Kingdom, just the first phase of the project two pressurized water reactors, the cost reached 28 billion US dollars, if there is a second and third phase of the project, it will be more than 100 billion US dollars.

If you don't have money, you can use technology to exchange it, it's nothing more than a matter of exchanging your left hand for your right hand, Chen Xu put the ten fingers of his hands together on the table, looked at the blonde American opposite seriously, and said solemnly: "May I ask if the representative of IBM is in this negotiation team?" (To be continued.) )