How the development of nuclear power promotes national scientific and technological progress
Source: China Electric Power News Date: 2015-07-06
The nuclear power industry is a modern high-tech intensive national strategic industry. The technological developments in the industrial field basically represent the most complex and cutting-edge technologies in many industries such as nuclear energy, metallurgy, materials, machinery, and electronic instruments. The development and design, smelting, and casting , Heat treatment, precision manufacturing and other production processes have extremely high requirements.
The development of nuclear power has not only achieved a significant increase in independent innovation capabilities, expanded China's industrial scale in high-tech fields such as nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear power equipment, and nuclear technology applications, but also effectively promoted the overall development of China's high-tech industry and realized the transformation of traditional industries. upgrade.
In recent years, China has made important achievements in the field of nuclear fuel scientific research and production: the planned completion of domestic uranium mine geological drilling workload indicators has significantly increased, the deposit exploration results have been significant, and overseas uranium resource development has accelerated; multiple uranium conversion, purification, and enrichment engineering projects have begun Construction, the enhancement of nuclear fuel production capacity to ensure the safety of fuel supply; the initial design, construction, and operation capabilities of post-processing power reactor spent fuel post-processing have been initially mastered.
At present, the introduction of advanced nuclear power technologies has accelerated the pace of digestion, absorption, and re-innovation; high-temperature gas-cooled reactor demonstration projects with independent intellectual property rights have begun construction; independent advanced pressurized water reactor nuclear power units (CAP1400, Hualong No. 1, ACP1000, ACPR1000 +, etc.) design Important progress has been made; China Experimental Fast Reactor has achieved independent research, independent design, independent construction, independent operation, and independent management. In addition, it has continuously expanded in the fields of fast reactors, advanced research reactors, nuclear military industry, nuclear technology applications, controlled nuclear fusion and other fields, and has high scientific and technological research and development capabilities.
Relying on nuclear power projects, the localization and autonomy of nuclear power equipment manufacturing continue to advance, which is of great significance to promote the upgrading of industrial structure, cultivate and enhance independent innovation capabilities, and change the mode of industrial development.