Single Mother of a Werewolf Baby novel Chapter 153

Chapter 153: The Kola Peninsula Industrial Campus

While Anastasiya was reflecting on her recent life choices and absentmindedly fiddling with a folder, Eleanor entered the dining room and took a seat across from her.

"When did you come?" she asked, adjusting her chair.

"Not long ago. Here... I came to give you this," Anastasiya said, immediately sliding the folder across the table toward Eleanor.

"This is the final plan for the Kola Peninsula Industrial Campus. Miss Kournikova said this will serve as our base blueprint moving forward. Some minor components may still need adjustment, and the actual costs could exceed twenty billion during implementation, but overall, the project will remain more or less the same," Anastasiya explained.

Eleanor picked up the folder and took out a stack of papers bound together. She glanced over the summary page first, then asked, "Did Teresa and Lily approve this project plan?"

Anastasiya replied, "Yes. They were both present at today’s project team meeting."

Eleanor nodded. "Can you give me a brief overview of the project? I don’t want to go through all the details right now."

Anastasiya nodded and said, "Okay, I can do that."

Inwardly, she knew Eleanor was testing her... gauging how much she had learned in the meantime.

With that thought in mind, she began.

"The industrial campus will be built to produce AI surveillance GPU cards, full telemetry and guidance logic boards for satellites, flight control computer modules for both LEO and GEO orbits, edge-processing boards for drone swarms and autonomous surveillance towers, and cryptographic authentication chips for secure military infrastructure. We’ll sell them to the Russian government and also use them in our other production bases. The campus will be fully autonomous... we won’t rely on external sources for any part of the production process."

She looked at Eleanor carefully. Seeing that she was listening intently, she continued, "The industrial campus will be built on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk, because the deep-water harbour there remains ice-free year-round thanks to the North Atlantic Current. This will ensure uninterrupted arrival of chemicals and the smooth departure of finished crates along the Northern Sea Route and through the Barents gateway to the Atlantic."

She paused, then said, "The campus will be fully autonomous. Its independence is anchored by a private, heavy-fuel-oil thermal power plant with a capacity of 180 megawatts. The plant will be outfitted with three high-efficiency, low-emission combustion turbines and a closed-loop steam recovery system to maximize thermal output and ensure year-round energy stability. It will operate with full redundancy, incorporating dual fuel feed systems and maintaining a 90-day on-site reserve of low-sulphur fuel oil, stored in Arctic-hardened containment tanks to withstand extreme conditions. To stabilize demand and reduce peak-load strain, lithium-iron-phosphate battery farms will be deployed across the grid, enabling fast-response load levelling and critical power buffering."

She paused, then added, "We’ll also have high-voltage links to the 1.76-gigawatt Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which will remain available but serve strictly as a tertiary fallback."

Glancing at Eleanor, she continued, "Utility self-sufficiency will be reinforced by in-house generators for liquid nitrogen, argon, and hydrogen to supply essential process gases. A seawater desalination and de-ionization train will provide ultrapure water for fabrication use. To complete the system, a full-cycle waste-gas scrubber facility will ensure emissions remain within environmental regulations and safeguard the surrounding Arctic ecosystem—completing the factory’s enclosed and self-reliant utility profile."

Eleanor said, "Okay, I understand the autonomous process. Tell me about the operation."

Anastasiya replied, "The operation will begin at the raw materials terminal, where Karelia quartzite, Norilsk matte containing nickel, cobalt, and copper, as well as concentrates bearing platinum-group and rare-earth elements are received and siloed. Russia’s position as the world’s second-largest ferrosilicon producer will allow continuous rail delivery of metallurgical silicon, which will be chlorinated and distilled into eleven-nines polysilicon. This will then be processed through Czochralski and float-zone pullers to produce two-hundred- and three-hundred-millimeter boules, destined for wafer slicing, lapping, and epitaxy."

She paused, then added, "By synthesizing these gases on-site, the campus reduces its dependence on imported specialty gases... resources that are costly, difficult to transport, and vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. This approach not only lowers operational costs but also guarantees a steady, uninterrupted supply necessary for continuous fab operations."

Eleanor showed a rare smile upon seeing how diligently Anastasiya was presenting her knowledge. Noticing that slight smile, Anastasiya felt a quiet surge of happiness.

She continued, "Complementing these utilities, a zero-liquid-discharge chemical recovery plant has been constructed to manage and recycle the hazardous acids used extensively in wafer cleaning and etching. Hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid... both vital to the fabrication process... are recovered and purified within this system, allowing for the reuse of a significant portion of these chemicals."

She paused, then added, "This approach drastically reduces the need for fresh acid imports, minimizes hazardous waste discharge to near zero, and ensures compliance with the stringent environmental regulations necessary to protect the fragile Arctic ecosystem surrounding the facility. Such chemical recycling not only reinforces the campus’s operational autonomy and environmental stewardship but also safeguards continuous manufacturing amid potential supply constraints."

She took a deep breath, then continued, "Security around the campus is maintained by a network of radar towers and passive sensors, strategically positioned along the perimeter. These installations monitor for unauthorized access by air or land, detect environmental hazards such as wildfires or adverse weather, and identify anomalous equipment vibrations or electromagnetic interference."

She paused for a moment, then said, "All sensor data is processed locally by advanced AI systems, running on purpose-built inference hardware developed within the facility itself. This edge AI operates entirely independent of external networks, delivering real-time anomaly detection and alerts with zero latency. By eliminating reliance on outside communication channels or cloud infrastructure, the campus ensures robust, tamper-resistant security... vital for protecting the highly sensitive and proprietary semiconductor technologies housed within."

She looked at Eleanor and added, "Together, these integrated systems form a self-sufficient, intelligent backbone for the industrial campus. They enable comprehensive oversight of design, production, chemical supply, environmental impact, and security... all managed internally, without external dependencies. This autonomy is essential for a manufacturing environment dedicated to producing advanced AI and satellite-grade semiconductors, where reliability, confidentiality, and continuous operation are paramount."

When she finished, Eleanor asked, "What about the budget allocation?"