The picture shows the thorium reactor
In order to solve the power supply problem, countries have also begun a series of attempts, such as the development of more advanced fourth-generation nuclear reactors, and now a small city in Gansu is about to catch fire, and the world's first waste-free test has been officially established in China! The test site, located in the Wuwei region of Gansu Province, it is reported that this reactor abandoned the original uranium element as fuel, but chose thorium element, so what does it mean for China to open a non-nuclear waste reactor test?
The picture shows a nuclear reactor
Nowadays, the mainstream nuclear power plants use uranium as fuel, although nuclear power plants can solve the problem of human demand for electricity, but nuclear reactions will produce a large amount of waste, which is not simple waste residue, but with strong radioactive material, so it can not be disposed of casually, the United States is one of the countries with the largest number of nuclear power plants in the world, so it will also produce a huge amount of nuclear waste every year, just processing these wastes, it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, even the superpower United States can not afford.
Although China has now mastered the Daystar II device, which can react to nuclear waste twice, thereby minimizing the pollution of nuclear waste, but as a top national secret, the Venus II device prohibits exports to the outside world, so other countries can not enjoy this technology, so if you want to solve the problem of nuclear pollution, you can only start from the raw materials of the nuclear reaction, and this technology, which is once again solved by China, it is a thorium reactor, thorium is an element with rich reserves on the earth, which is larger than the reserves of uranium.
For a long time, foreign countries generally believe that China is a depleted uranium country, so the uranium ore that can be used to supply nuclear power plants is very limited, in this context, if China wants to solve the problem of nuclear power plant raw materials, it can only purchase a large amount of uranium ore from abroad, but the countries that can supply this ore are very limited, after all, the United States is worried about other countries using uranium ore to develop nuclear weapons, so it strictly restricts the international trade in uranium ore, but thorium is different, even in China, there is also a large amount of thorium. Completely enough for the consumption of domestic nuclear power plants.
The picture shows the Chinese thorium mine
Compared with uranium fuel, thorium radioactivity is very low, so it will not produce serious pollution, not only that, the waste residue generated after the thorium reaction, because the pollution is relatively small, so it is naturally more convenient to deal with, and there is no need to worry about nuclear leakage, after all, the Chernobyl nuclear accident and Japan's Fukushima nuclear power have a very big blow to the global nuclear power plant industry, a nuclear power plant has a problem, and even make nearby cities become dead cities, in this context, more secure thorium reactors can naturally play an advantage, The most critical thing is that after the use of thorium reactors, the volume of the reactor can even be made very small, because the previous equipment, due to the need to prevent pollution and radioactive materials, had to design a thick shielding layer, but the thorium reactor does not need such a thick shielding layer, and it is entirely possible to cram into a car in the future.
And thorium reactor flow inside is molten salt, not water, so the treatment is naturally more convenient, do not worry about nuclear wastewater treatment problems, the current human use of thorium is still very limited, and even foreign countries do not use thorium technology at all, China in the first thorium reactor, naturally can directly walk in the forefront of the world, and for domestic energy security, undoubtedly can play an immeasurable role.