Chapter 613: Hidden Spent Fuel
After visiting the main building of the Saint Le Nuclear Power Plant, Lin Lan took the initiative to book a hotel for 2,000 Philippine dollars.
The tour guide approached enthusiastically and happily introduced him to the local cuisine.
Although Lin Lan's identity is Filipino, he has been doing business abroad for a long time, so it is reasonable to have such a move.
Filipino's fried chicken and beer, as well as fried noodles, spring rolls, and hairy eggs......
Lin Lan listened and nodded repeatedly, he ordered it all, and ordered another Fei's roast suckling pig.
Seeing the heartfelt smile on the tour guide's face, he thought that there might be a commission on the sales revenue, and he didn't care.
He sighed casually: "I have been wandering for a long time, and I don't have much impression of my hometown, so it's rare to have time to come back." ”
The old man among the tourists sighed: "Now there are wars everywhere, and there are many people who run out and few who come back." ”
"Peace and stability are important. ”
"So the Saint-Le nuclear power plant did not dare to restart, for fear of being sabotaged by militants. ”
Visitors speak one by one.
Croft had completed his task and left in silence.
At the end of the tour, the group stayed in the hotel alone.
When they parted, the tour guide gave her a business card and said that she could be contacted if necessary.
There was extraordinary enthusiasm and hints in her eyes, now that the Philippines was in turmoil, she heard that there was a missile attack on the other side of the Philores Islands.
If she could, she would also like to leave the country temporarily.
The businessman in his thirties in front of him has a calm personality and is generous, and he is a worthy candidate.
Lin Lan had no idea about the enthusiastic smile of the tour guide, and was secretly disappointed in his heart.
The nuclear fuel at the Saint-Leux nuclear power plant is an empty shell, and there are no real nuclear fuel rods in it.
This is also common sense, and even the maintenance fee of the nuclear power plant has been cut by the Philippine government, and it has to rely on its own sideline business to support it.
Lin Chao confirmed that there was no harvest and followed the instructions to the hotel.
The decoration of the hotel can only be described as simple, not as warm as other hotels, and the business atmosphere is not strong.
The smile on the face of the service staff was not enthusiastic enough, but he didn't care.
What Lin Chao cared about was that there were already two people in the room, both foreigners, one from the Izumo Kingdom and the other from the Chu Kingdom of the Great Zhou Alliance.
The two are communicating through a translation app on their phones.
Lin Lan didn't plan to communicate with them, so he said a polite hello and came to the window to look at the scenery.
Under the blue sky and white clouds, the gray main building of the nuclear power plant looks quiet and solemn.
In the distance, unknown dark red flowers are blooming all over the mountains.
Like a real tourist, Lin Chao raised his mobile phone with emotion and put the blue sky, gray buildings, and dark red flowers into the camera together.
"You are Filipino, do you feel pity?"
Hearing the lame Filipino language behind him, Lin Chao turned around and smiled at the Chu countryman: "It's not good, maybe it's not a bad thing." ”
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After dinner, Lin ran for a walk in the hotel's garden.
Like other tourists, his gaze is more focused on the beautiful scenery.
This is, of course, just an illusion.
Lin Ran's small talk over dinner learned more about the nuclear power plant, including the spent fuel he was interested in.
Spent fuel, also known as irradiated nuclear fuel, is used nuclear fuel that has been exposed to radiation, usually produced by the nuclear reactor of a nuclear power plant. The fastest network update Mobile::/m.. com/
Nuclear fuel undergoes a nuclear reaction by neutron bombardment in the reactor and is discharged from the reactor after a certain period of time.
It contains large quantities of unused breedable material uranium-238 or thorium-232, unburned and newly formed fissile material plutonium-239, uranium-235 or uranium-233.
As well as transuranic elements such as neptunium, americium, and curium produced during the irradiation process of nuclear fuel, as well as fissile elements such as strontium-90, cesium-137, and technetium-99.
The reduced uranium content of this fuel makes it impossible to continue the nuclear reaction, so it is called spent fuel.
Spent nuclear fuel contains a large amount of radioactive elements and is therefore radioactive.
If left right, it can seriously affect the environment and the health of those who come into contact with them. New Bayi Chinese Network Launch www.. com m.. com
The meter pointer at the Saint Le nuclear power plant is always zero, indicating that no electricity has been generated, but it does not mean that the reactor has not been operated.
Before generating electricity, the plant is put into small-scale commissioning, which is the final step of delivery.
A nuclear power plant can only be said to be functional.
The storage of spent fuel after a test run is a very professional and cumbersome thing.
Spent nuclear fuel is usually stored in pools filled with water and needs to be kept for a year or more to cool it down while shielding it from radioactivity.
The spent nuclear fuel pool designs used in practice usually do not rely on passive cooling, but instead require the use of heat exchangers in which water circulates and thus carries away the heat generated by decay.
Spent nuclear fuel that has cooled to a certain extent is removed from the spent nuclear fuel pool and placed in special dry storage barrels or wet intermediate storage equipment for long-term storage.
to free up space in the spent nuclear fuel pool and as an alternative before final disposal.
How the Saint-Leux nuclear power plant handles spent fuel is of course a secret that no one knows, and Lin Ran searched for this secret place when he didn't find nuclear fuel at the nuclear power plant.
The nuclear power plant is built by the sea, and it is assumed that it will be stored wet.
It could be a storage tank built above ground, a concrete structure lined with stainless steel, or an underground cavern.
Decades have passed, and those spent fuels are definitely in the final disposal stage.
The final disposal of spent fuel refers to the storage of radioactive nuclear waste excavated in a stable geological formation, generally below 300 meters underground.
The basic requirement for deep geological disposal is to isolate nuclear waste from the environment for a long period of time, with little or no maintenance.
The time scale of deep geological disposal is large, usually from tens of thousands of years to a million years.
In deep geological disposal, nuclear waste in containers is somehow sealed and stored in tunnels.
The outermost layer of protection is the geological structure itself, such as the rock formation.
In the understanding of forest disorder, many countries will place spent fuel in mines, karst caves or seabed thousands of meters away, so that even if something happens, it will not cause much harm to surface activities.
Through prior investigation, careful observation during the daytime visit, and side knocks, Lin Ran did not hear of the existence of a mine or anything like that nearby.
It may be hidden, but Lin has a clear sense from the attitude of the nuclear power plant staff that the Philippine government does not want to continue to spend money on this project.
Lin Ran's guess is that he won't put much effort into dealing with spent fuel, either as a ready-made underground cavern or sinking into the deep sea.
The key is to find the location, which is arguably the most accessible and open compared to other countries' nuclear power plants.
Lin Ran began to take the initiative to communicate with other guests and hotel waiters, chatting about some rumors.
For example, if there is spent fuel buried in a nuclear power plant, it will cause radiation and cause harm to people.
Of course, the hotel staff denied it sternly, and they used themselves as an example to say that they were all rumors.
The other guests were also very concerned about this issue, and everyone discussed it for a long time, and Lin Chao faintly caught something.
Early the next morning, Lin Chao rushed to Nila and went to the National Library to search for relevant materials.
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