067 - The essence of technology is to boil water

In the evening, when Hikuyele from the Namibian Investment Department visited again, Chen Chen informed the other party of the location.

Although Hikuyele was a little embarrassed after listening to it, he still smiled and said that he would report Chen Chen's proposal to the Congress.

As for whether the Ministry of Investment and the Ministry of Environmental Protection will have a disagreement in the future, or even decide the outcome by beating each other at the national venue, it has nothing to do with Chen Chen.

In the next few days, Chen Chen refused to be accompanied by Namibian officials, and only took Qian Wenhuan and a few people to go around Namibia's tourist attractions one by one.

Namibia is one of the most developed countries in terms of tourism, with tourist attractions and wildlife sanctuaries everywhere in Africa.

Spitzkop Mountain, known as the Sacred Mountain, has a world-famous rock arch bridge, which is exceptionally magnificent under the starry sky at night;

In the vast desert, there are quiver trees unique to Africa, and their branches rise to the sky, as if they are asking for the palm of their hand to the sky;

There is also the magnificent scene of the yellow sand entering the sea in Hanhai, with the endless desert on one side and the vast ocean on the other, the two that were originally unrelated are perfectly integrated in Hanhai, like a symphony of sand and seas......

The sparse population represents a large number of unexplored natural landscapes, combined with spring-like temperatures and a more stable political situation than its neighbors, making it one of the most popular countries for tourism in Africa.

Of course, Chen Chen was not only playing, he also visited Hushan and Luoxin, the two major uranium mines controlled by Zhongzhou District.

Both uranium mines are located in the Namib Desert region of western Namibia, with the Hushan uranium mine 60 kilometres from the coastal city of Swakopmund and the Rosing uranium mine 10 kilometres south of the city of Arandis.

Among the two uranium mines, Hushan uranium mine ranks third in the world in terms of uranium resource reserves, with a total resource of 286,000 tons and an annual output of 6,500 tons of uranium octaoxide, ranking second in the world.

The Rosing uranium mine has an annual output of 2,500 tons, ranking fifth in the world in terms of annual output.

And after the visit, Chen Chen's heart was a lot heavier on the way back.

After preliminary contacts and negotiations, the quotations of China General Nuclear Power Group and China National Nuclear Corporation are almost the same, and if Chen Chen wants to build a nuclear power plant with a power generation capacity of 1 million kilowatts in the southern part of Walvis Bay Harbor, it will roughly need 14 billion yuan.

That's $2 billion in dollars.

The reason why it is much higher than the market price is actually the reason for the transportation of materials.

The building materials needed for nuclear power plants are basically impossible to find in African industry, and they must be transported by sea from Zhongzhou District, a distance of 15,000 kilometers back and forth several times, and the cost will naturally increase.

Of course, this is talking about the price of the CAP1400 of the third generation of nuclear power plants, which is an improved version of the AP1000 technology imported from North America.

Generally speaking, the reactors of nuclear power plants are divided into two types: "light water reactors" and "heavy water reactors".

The "light water reactor" is divided into "pressurized water reactor" and "boiling water reactor".

The CAP1400 is a kind of "passive pressurized water reactor", which first produces a large amount of heat energy by fission of nuclear fuel, and then uses water under high pressure to bring out the heat energy, and uses the generator to generate steam to drive the steam turbine to rotate, and electricity is continuously generated.

Different from the second-generation reactor, the most important feature of the third-generation CAP1400 technology is that the design is simple and easy to operate, which is simpler and more effective than the traditional nuclear reactor, and further improves the safety of the nuclear power plant.

As for another "boiling water reactor" nuclear reactor, just look at the fate of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Tokaizhou.

In addition to higher safety, another reason why Chen Chen chose CAP1400 is that the third-generation nuclear power plant can use modular technology during the construction process, which can greatly shorten the construction period of the nuclear power unit, and it can be officially operated in only 18 months at the earliest.

However, after understanding the working principle of these nuclear power plants, Chen Chen couldn't help but sigh, no wonder there are always people on the Internet who complain that "the essence of human technology is to boil water and research how to boil water more effectively".

And the only thing that dissatisfied Chen Chen was the power of the reactor.

A 1 million kilowatt nuclear power plant sounds very scary, but in fact it is only 10MVA, according to the average electricity demand of 8KW per household, each household of three people, half of the demand factor, can probably supply 750,000 people of daily electricity.

Besides, Chen Chen is not generating electricity for love, the real purpose of his construction of the nuclear power plant is to charge the USB flash drive, so even after the nuclear power plant is completed, Chen Chen will definitely have to deduct something, and even most of the deductions are normal operations.

Therefore, one million kilowatts of nuclear reactors is simply not enough, and Chen Chen hopes to expand the capacity to 2 million!

It seems that the plan to take out loans and launch new products is urgent.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen, who was sitting in a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle, subconsciously looked out the window.

The empty wind on the plain swept Chen Chen's face, bringing a hint of coolness, and at this time, the sunset had already set in the sky, and only a trace of afterglow reflected most of the sky.

As the sky darkened, fires rose in the occasional villages along the road.

"Electricity", which has long been a part of human daily life in the 21st century, is still a luxury in this wild and backward country......

Who would have thought that Namibia, which is full of uranium deposits and is incomparably rich in rare earth resources, depends on imports for 70% of its electricity.

Namibia's annual GDP is only $14 billion, 20 percent of the rich white population accounts for 80 percent of the country's total income, 60 percent of the banks are controlled by foreign capital, and the general population generally lives below the poverty line.

The Namibian government simply does not have the financial resources to invest in the capital and technology needed to develop a nuclear power plant.

Because of the country's backward economy and lack of funds, the lack of relevant technology for nuclear energy development, and the serious shortage of electricity throughout the country, we can only guard the treasure mountain of uranium mines, but there is no way.

Due to the perennial shortage of electricity, Namibian officials have even been forced to introduce a policy called "adjusting the single-buyer model", which encourages qualified independent power manufacturers to sell electricity resources directly to their own people, rather than through Namibia's power companies, as is the case now.

From here, you can see how miserable this official is.

However, this is already a very wise and powerful official in the African region, and there is not even a rebel army in the territory, unlike other countries that are at war all day long, warlords are fighting each other, not to mention development, peace and stability are a luxury.

But because of this, Chen Chen's intention to build a nuclear power plant immediately caused a shock in the entire Congress.

After all, the investment in a nuclear power plant alone is more than the total foreign trade of Namiya in a whole year.