The picture shows Hualong No. 1
In order to create a low-carbon environmental protection and safe energy system in the country, instead of the current relatively dependent coal, China has made a series of technological breakthroughs in the field of new energy, and now China's nuclear power has ushered in new achievements, the second Hualong No. 1 grid-connected power generation, which is China's independent research and development and has independent intellectual property rights of the 3rd generation of nuclear power units, so it has important significance, it marks that China is no longer a country that only relies on foreign imports of nuclear power technology for power generation, but is about to become a nuclear power power country. The world's first Hualong No. 1 nuclear power unit was put into operation on January 30, 2021, and the first overseas unit was put into operation on May 20.
The picture shows Hualong No. 1 under construction
As China's latest research and development of one million kilowatts of pressurized water reactor, Hualong I fully absorbed the experience of the accident in Chernobyl and Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, and combined with the latest international safety standards in the field of nuclear power designed products, so its safety performance is very high, from the external defense power of its design contains an extremely effective core protective shell, even if the aircraft or other equipment impact, it is difficult to hurt the core inside.
In order to prevent the occurrence of internal failures leading to failure of the accident, its internal safety and security measures are also very perfect, even if a variety of unexpected situations lead to internal and external loss of contact, the automatic system can also ensure that it continues to run for 72 hours, waiting for the engineering personnel to come to the rescue, and in the case of more urgent situations, a large amount of cooling water stored inside it will be directly automatically poured into the reactor for cooling, to avoid bad events such as core explosion.
The picture shows Hualong Unit 1
Now the significance of the successful grid connection of the second Hualong Unit 1 is even more significant, the power generation capacity of the unit is very powerful, the annual power generation reaches nearly 10 billion kWh, for developing countries, such electricity is enough to meet the production and living electricity needs of 1 million people throughout the year, and the process will hardly emit any harmful gases, while not producing a greenhouse effect at the same time replacing the work of the thermal power station, so that the overall carbon dioxide and other harmful substance emissions further declined, It can effectively help China achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.
In addition to the latest unit put into operation, before this Hualong 1 unit has been in the country and Pakistan for a long time of stable operation, so now after the second unit is put into operation, it will have a good driving effect on other countries trying to develop nuclear power, so that more countries that do not have nuclear power technology are willing to pay for the purchase of China's nuclear power technology, and finally reach a similar cooperation between China and Pakistan, one side can use nuclear power technology for power generation, the other side can earn enough capital income. Through this virtuous cycle, Hualong 1 may play an important role in the future world's carbon neutrality field.
The picture shows the nuclear power plant
For China, the second Hualong Unit 1 was put into operation and successfully connected to the grid to generate electricity, which means that China's self-developed nuclear reactor technology has withstood the test in performance and safety, which not only marks that China's nuclear power technology has far surpassed developed countries such as the United States and Europe, but even surpassed Japan, which is also located in Asia. This also represents China's transformation from a nuclear power country that has introduced foreign nuclear power technology to a nuclear power power country that can independently develop reactors for its own and the needs of its customers.