In 2022, China's "Hualong One" nuclear power unit passed the British GDA certification and reached a cooperation with Argentina, which marks the beginning of China's independent nuclear power technology to the world. Are nuclear power plants safe? Why are Western countries dismantling nuclear power plants, but China is vigorously expanding? Today, we are going to talk about the mystery of the rise of nuclear power plants and "Hualong One".
Why does China build nuclear power plants? Well, a million-kilowatt nuclear power plant needs only 30 tons of nuclear fuel per year, while a thermal power plant of the same size needs to consume more than 3 million tons of coal, a full 100,000-fold difference. For a populous country like China, nuclear energy is definitely one of the most worthy forms of energy to develop.
Therefore, although some Western countries are currently opposed to nuclear power, China has not blindly followed suit, but will continue to develop nuclear industrial technologies such as "Hualong One".
When the "Hualong One" first appeared in the public eye, many people said that it was a technology imported by China from abroad, but it’s not true. The design basis of "Hualong One" is the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, and the technology of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Unit originated from the hard years of China's development of nuclear submarine power reactors. Therefore, to know where the "Hualong One" came from, we must know how the nuclear submarine came.
