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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... | cto 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. Sminor 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 givea brief overview of the project? | don’t want to go through all the details right

now."

Anastasiya nodded and said, "Okay, | 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 Al 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 extrconditions. 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, | understand the autonomous process. Tellabout 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."

After a slight pause, she added, "A companion metallurgy hall will refine cobalt to battery grade and

electrolytically plate high-purity copper and nickel interconnect stock. This process will depend on how much

cobalt we can secure from Kola MMC’s annual capacity of three thousand tons, following its recent

reconstruction.”

She paused, adjusted her posture, then continued, "The crystal warehouse will feed three front-end fabs. The

first is a rad-hard CMOS line, qualified at 180 to 90 nanometers, for satellite control ASICs and radiation-tolerant

microcontrollers. The second dedicates its clean bays to silicon carbide power devices and gallium-nitride RF

amplifiers for phased-array payloads. The third fab, designed for future immersion lithography, opens at 130

nanometers, with a locked-in tool path to 65 nanometers once domestic deep-ultraviolet steppers complete

qualification later in the decade."

After taking a deep breath, she added, "All three share a central chemical-mechanical-polish loop, copper

damascene plating, atomic-layer deposition ovens using titanium and hafnium precursors synthesized in the

adjoining high-k chemistry lab, and an in-house resist plant... cutting dependency on foreign suppliers down to

specialty photo-initiators alone."

She paused and glanced at Eleanor, who gave a subtle nod to continue. Anastasiya resumed, "Wafers will be

transported by automated shuttle to a back-end village that handles copper-pillar redistribution, through-silicon-

via drilling, and flip-chip attachment onto aluminium-nitride ceramic interposers. Finished die stacks will then

proceed to a board-assembly hall, where surface-mount robots install memory modules, secure boot managers,

and radiation-hardened regulators onto carbon-fiber PCB panels. This produces complete graphics cards capable

of sixteen tera-operations per second inference at 120 watts, designed for low-Earth-orbit edge processing. Each

board will undergo approximately a forty-hour thermal-vacuum and total-ionizing-dose regimen before

automated crates roll to the quayside for direct loading."

After she finished, Eleanor asked, "Tellabout the design and simulation tower."

Anastasiya cleared her throat, then answered.

"The design and simulation tower will be a critical component of the industrial campus. It houses a state-of-the-

art data center equipped with electronic design automation (EDA) servers and an Al-accelerated digital twin

system. This digital twin creates a real-tvirtual replica of the entire manufacturing process, tracking every

batch... from raw quartz feedstock to the final packaged semiconductor module."

She paused, then continued, "By mirroring all production parameters... such as temperature, humidity, ion

dosage, and etching precision... the system enables predictive maintenance, capable of anticipating and

preventing equipment failures, thereby minimizing downtime. It also facilitates yield optimization by allowing

real-tadjustments to manufacturing variables, improving the number of functional chips produced per

wafer."

After a pause, she added, "Importantly, this entire infrastructure operates entirely on-site, without reliance on

external cloud services... ensuring data sovereignty, enhanced security, and resilience against potential

geopolitical disruptions."

She looked at Eleanor and continued,

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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,

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