{"id":2145,"date":"2021-06-14T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:41:08","slug":"french-operator-of-chinese-nuclear-plant-flags-performance-issues-after-reports-of-imminent-radiological-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2145","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH OPERATOR OF CHINESE NUCLEAR PLANT FLAGS \u2018PERFORMANCE ISSUES\u2019 AFTER REPORTS OF \u2018IMMINENT RADIOLOGICAL THREAT\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source: EPOCH TIMES<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

A French nuclear firm said it is working to resolve a \u201cperformance issue\u201d at a plant it part-owns in China\u2019s Guangdong province, following reports that U.S. authorities were assessing a report of a possible leak at the facility amid warnings of an \u201cimminent radiological threat,\u201d according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Framatome, a division of French power group EDF,\u00a0told France24 in a statement on Monday\u00a0that it is \u201csupporting a resolution of a performance issue\u201d at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, which is a joint venture between EDF and China General Nuclear Power Group (GCN), located around 84 miles west of Hong Kong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters,\u201d the company told France24, adding,\u00a0\u201cOur team is working with relevant experts to assess the situation and propose solutions to address any potential issue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It follows an earlier\u00a0CNN report\u00a0on Monday, which said that the U.S. government has been assessing a report of a leak at the plant. The outlet reported that Framatome, which is the EDF unit that designed the reactor at the plant and is involved in its operations, had warned of an \u201cimminent radiological threat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Citing a letter from Framatome to U.S. authorities, CNN reported that the warning included an allegation that Chinese authorities had raised the acceptable limits of radiation outside the plant to avoid having to shut down the facility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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State-owned GCN\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0on Sunday that \u201cthe environmental indicators of Taishan Nuclear Power Plant and its surroundings are normal.\u201d It did not reference any leaks or incidents at the facility but said it meets both safety regulations and technical requirements for nuclear plant operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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EDF\u00a0told Reuters\u00a0it had called a meeting with GCN and that the build-up of inert gases like argon, helium, or neon was a \u201cknown phenomenon, studied and provided for in the reactor operating procedures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Taishan reactor is the first French-designed so-called third-generation \u201cEvolutionary Power Reactor\u201d (EPR) of its type to become operational.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The technology is also being deployed in France, Finland, and at the China-invested Hinkley Point C project in Britain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The power from the plant serves the Guangzhou and Shenzhen areas, Guangdong province\u2019s major manufacturing hubs, which have faced power shortages in recent weeks due to hot weather and lower than normal hydropower supplies from neighboring Yunnan province.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Then British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (L) chats with Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co. Ltd. General Manager Guo Liming, as they inspect a nuclear reactor under construction at the nuclear power plant in Taishan, China, on Oct. 17, 2013. (Bobby Yip, Pool, File\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-distress-of-nations","category-perilous-times","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}