One of the largest water conservancy buildings in the world today, a miracle in the history of human architecture, and an important national **...This is the Three Gorges Dam. This project with many names is undoubtedly a source of pride for each of us.
However, it is precisely because of the popularity and importance of the Three Gorges Dam that it will inevitably become a thorn in the side of many "careful people".
If war breaks out, will the Three Gorges Dam, which was built with countless manpower and material resources, withstand the enemy's attack? Once the Three Gorges Dam is destroyed, what impact will it have on our country?
The importance of the Three Gorges.
The Yangtze River, the mother river, is the blood of the Chinese nation.
And just above the Yangtze River, a building spans like a giant dragon. This is the Three Gorges Dam.
In 1994, the construction of this huge project, which had been demonstrated for 40 years, officially began, and it was completed in 2006, costing hundreds of billions of yuan.
What is the purpose of the Three Gorges Dam with so many resources, and why is our country building the Three Gorges Dam?
One of the main reasons is flood control. The horrors of the Flood have long been etched in the heritage of mankind. Despite regional cultures, you can still find ancient stories about floods in any country in the world.
Our people's struggle against floods has not stopped since ancient times. In 1998, the heroic feat of millions of officers and soldiers who used their own flesh and blood to fight against the flood is still vividly remembered. We won, but at the cost of thousands of deaths and astronomical economic losses.
One of the original intentions of the Three Gorges Dam was to reduce flooding and prevent such tragedies from happening again.
The total storage capacity of the Three Gorges Dam is 39.3 billion cubic meters, of which the flood control storage capacity is 221500 million cubic meters, a total of 77 dam holes. By blocking floods, reducing outflows, and staggering upstream and downstream flood peaks, the flood control pressure in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River can be alleviated. In the past five years alone, the Three Gorges Dam has withstood eight floods, making a major contribution to ensuring the safety of people's lives and property.
In addition, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam power station has also provided great convenience for the Chinese people.
Electricity has long been an indispensable thing in our lives. A single power outage can scare us for a day or even hours.
Over the past 20 years, the Three Gorges Power Station has generated more than 16 trillion kilowatt hours, almost 3% of the country's total electricity generation. It has even set a world record for the annual power generation of a single hydropower plant.
The Three Gorges Dam has too many roles to ......Its completion has also successfully changed the shipping conditions of the Yangtze River, alleviated the original turbulent water flow of the Yangtze River, and promoted China's economic development.
But the more we understand the importance of the Three Gorges Dam, the more we understand that if the Three Gorges Dam is attacked, the consequences will be unimaginable.
So, is our Three Gorges Dam strong? Will it survive if war breaks out?
Will the Three Gorges Dam Withstand Attacks?
As an important country **, it is natural that there will be a lot of malicious eyes staring at it all the time. Some people have even threatened on many occasions that blowing up the Three Gorges Dam will paralyze China's Yangtze River basin. In the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station** incident has sounded the alarm bell for us.
However, an important building that was built with countless resources could not be as fragile as a vase. That is, our country was prepared and planned before construction. That's why the Three Gorges Dam chose a concrete gravity dam.
What is a concrete gravity dam? What role can it play?
There are many types of dams, and concrete gravity dams are one of them. It has the advantages of simple structure, good durability and easy installation of drainage buildings. But it also has the disadvantage that the consumables are huge and too large to give full play to the strength of each material.
Unlike many other types of dams, concrete gravity dams do not rely on elaborate geometries to distribute pressure, but rather on their own weight to maintain stability.
Just look at the appearance of the Three Gorges Dam. The total length of the Three Gorges Dam is 2,335 meters, and the elevation of the dam crest is 185 meters. It consists of nearly 17 million cubic meters of concrete and nearly 460,000 tons of steel bar, with a total weight of 41 million tons.
What does such a dam remind you of? Does anyone think that the Three Gorges Dam is just a retaining wall? As long as the yield is sufficient, the missile will blow up the entire surface as soon as it arrives, and then the flood will flow down?
No, not so much. The Three Gorges Dam is not so much a city wall as a low mountain across the Yangtze River. This is why many people use this phrase to describe the Three Gorges Dam.
You can never make something that has already collapsed fall again, just as you can never kill someone who is already dead. ”
With such a building, even if the nuclear bomb really comes, it is nonsense to want the Three Gorges to collapse completely. The only way is to make a bigger hole in the Three Gorges Dam.
This is just a hypothetical extreme. For such an important facility, it is naturally impossible for our country not to be prepared.
There are military protection and patrols around the Three Gorges Dam all year round. During the special period, there were even fighter planes and missiles directly stationed at the Three Gorges Dam just to guard against people with bad intentions.
Moreover, the location of the Three Gorges Dam is in the inland area of our country. The attack on the Three Gorges Dam is not just talk.
Even if there are really bad people who do such crazy things, it shows that they have an undying hatred for our country. Who in this world would dare to do this?
Since the probability of man-made disasters is almost zero, what about natural disasters?
When the site of the Three Gorges Dam was initially selected, the relevant departments of China conducted a special investigation. The basic intensity of the location of the Three Gorges Dam is Class VI, which is not a problem for the seismic resistance of the Three Gorges Dam.
Even international geologists and professors lament that the Three Gorges Dam site is simply a gift from God to China.
If an accident does happen.
But don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case. Even if the probability is extremely small, it does not prevent us from being mentally prepared in advance. After all, it's always right to plan ahead.
Once the Three Gorges Dam is truly destroyed, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin will be the first to face natural disasters such as flooding, and severe areas may even be flooded.
There will be no mercy for the terrible flood. Farmland will disappear and buildings will collapse. It would be a scene of extreme despair, and people's lives and property would be lost countless times.
To destroy the Three Gorges Dam, there is no hope of conventional, and the most powerful nuclear in human history will naturally appear.
In this case, ** even ensues, and what is even more terrifying is that the radiation spreads with the flood. Radiation will change the environment around the Three Gorges Dam so that it is no longer habitable for humans, so we have to stay away from it.
Like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or even worse. For a long time, it will become a no-man's land.
In addition to these, damage to the Three Gorges Dam also means that the Three Gorges Hydropower Station's electricity** will disappear. The impact of energy conservation and emission reduction on a country is self-evident, and the economic losses caused are naturally incalculable.
In the face of such a disaster, we must try to calm down after the panic, organize rescue and evacuation, and wait for the arrangement of the state. Only by following orders can as many people and property as possible be saved in a disaster.
Of course, the enemy's counterattack and the protection of other important engineering facilities are also indispensable.
The ending is reconstructed, and it also symbolizes the shadow being pierced by the sun.
Conclusion. Although destroying the Three Gorges Dam is only an extreme idea, there are enemies in the outside world.
However, while we remain vigilant, there is no need to be overly concerned. China's strength is now visible to the whole world. No matter how dissatisfied some people are, rashly using ** is a foolish act that will only lead to a tragic end.