"As one of the largest power producers in the world, EDF achieved a turnover of $36,543,800 million in 65,438+0,997. The installed capacity exceeds 65,438+000,000 MW, and the production capacity in France is 458 billion kWh, supplying power to more than 30 million users. In recent years, the international business development of the French power company has obviously accelerated, which plays a great role in today's power market, especially in Europe, Latin America and Asia. "
Since 1986, EDF has become a long-term partner of China's nuclear industry and a leading company in nuclear technology in the world. There are almost 30 nuclear power plants and more than 45 reactors in the world, most of which are in France. New nuclear power plants are being built in cooperation with Britain, China and some countries.
Since 20 10, EDF has encountered some big problems:
For the second time, the government discovered plutonium from the French electric power plant in the Loire River (the most important river in France), which caused EDF and Areva (a company dealing with nuclear waste) to suffer huge fines and a series of problems caused by poor management of the group. Therefore, the income in 20 15 years is more than 60% lower than that in 20 14 years.
Now EDF wants to rebuild a new safe nuclear power plant, it must first start to get credit and make money again (because if the French government stopped helping them, it would have gone bankrupt long ago and they were all close to losing money)
Now let's talk about Areva:
"Areva Group is one of the top 500 enterprises in the world. Its production facilities are located in more than 40 countries and its sales network is located in more than 65,438+000 countries, providing customers with reliable power generation and transmission and distribution solutions without carbon dioxide emissions. As a world leader in the nuclear energy industry, Areva Group is the only company in this field that can engage in all related industrial production processes. "
"Areva t&; D) The company took over all products and services of the original Alstom transmission and distribution. Areva transmission and distribution is one of the three largest transmission and distribution companies in the world. "
Areva's largest factory is in France, and there are only two or three such factories in the world:
It is responsible for processing the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants into MOX (mixed oxide nuclear fuel) and a nuclear substance used to hold nuclear warheads. Because this factory is used to produce French nuclear warheads, you can't find many things online, and there are soldiers guarding it for several kilometers near the factory.
Nuclear waste discharged by Areva and EDF has been continuously discovered in Greenpeace. With the help of the President, many other organizations found some nuclear waste in France. Even mushrooms in the French forest have nuclear radiation, so the French are simply playing with nuclear energy.
With the continuous emergence of nuclear energy problems, the European Union, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States are experimenting with a new nuclear power plant using nuclear fusion. This project is called http://www.iter.org/ International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
Iter aims to use nuclear fusion and plasma hydrogen to produce the same nuclear reaction as in the sun. The advantage is that this power generation method is very cheap (there is a lot of fuel in seawater), the input and output of 50MW can be almost ten times more, and nuclear radiation can be generated in a few seconds to several months at most (much better than ordinary nuclear power plants for billions of years). The current nuclear fusion reactor can only produce nuclear fusion above 0.0 1 second, and Iter aims to produce nuclear fusion reaction of almost > 400 seconds. Iter is located in the south of France, near Nice. Strangely, there was a strong earthquake next to Nice. Why did you build such an important project there?
Therefore, I hope that one day mankind will successfully acquire the technology of nuclear fusion, and there will be no more nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima!