November 28, 2021
Sunday, November 28th, 2021
Whistleblower gives clues
Incident in nuclear power plant in China clarified
With the help of a whistleblower, French researchers reconstruct an incident at a nuclear power plant in southern China: Apparently a reactor installed there has a design flaw. In China it was only said that the nuclear power plant had been shut down for maintenance work.
After an incident at a nuclear power plant in southern China in the summer, the cause has now been clarified. The gas leak is said to be due to a design flaw in the reactor pressure vessel, as the French association CRIIRAD announced. The French energy company Electricité de France (EDF) was involved in the construction of the Akw in Taishan in southern China.
The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD) relied on information from a whistleblower as reported to the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). “This is a French man who works in the nuclear industry and has access to very precise technical information about the state of the Taishan 1 reactor core,” said Bruno Chareyron, head of the CRIIRAD laboratory.
The Chinese main operator CGN announced on July 1 that it would shut down reactor 1 at the EPR nuclear power plant Taishan near Hong Kong “for maintenance work”. It had previously been reported that gas had leaked from the reactor. Two new type of pressurized water reactors (European Pressurized Water Reactor, EPR) are in service in the...
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