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French nuclear firm trying to fix 'performance issue' at China plant
A French nuclear company has said it is working to resolve a "performance issue" at a plant it part-owns in China's southern Guangdong province after an earlier report of a potential leak there.
Framatome, a subsidiary of the energy giant EDF, told Agence France-Presse news agency that it was "supporting resolution of a performance issue" at the plant. "According to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters," it said, adding that an extraordinary meeting of the power plant's board had been called "to present all the data and the necessary decisions".
The statement came shortly after the US TV network CNN reported that Framatome had previously warned the US energy department of an "imminent radiological threat" in a letter.
According to CNN, the letter included an accusation that the Chinese safety authority was "raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the Taishan nuclear power plant in Guangdong province in order to avoid having to shut it down".
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Tuesday June 15 2021, @10:26AM (4 children)
Funny that your car analogy totally ignores the fact that the tire is leaking more than normal. All you options are basicly 'lets continue with the leaking tire, what is the worst that could happen'.
(Score: 3, Touché) by turgid on Tuesday June 15 2021, @10:28AM (2 children)
A blow-out leading to a serious accident, potentially with loss of life.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 15 2021, @11:44PM (1 child)
(Yes, I'm almost certainly doing the thing that I hate, namely explaining the joke. So upmod parent funny, not me. If that sounds strange to you and you thought this post was funny but parent post wasn't, then (a) evolve a more sophisticated sense of humour, you idiot; and (b) upmod parent anyway, you bleedin' idiot. Unless parent post wasn't subtle humour after all, in which case I expect turgid to chip in with a "what the buggery-bollocks are you blathering about, man?" comment hereafter. In which case upmod me.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @01:37PM
I don't think GP was trying to be funny. I think he was stating a fact and you gave it a humorous spin (which I liked).
You know, it's interesting that over the past couple of years, a lot of people have very outspokenly said how safe the nuclear industry is (because all those accidents were either so long ago or the nuke plants that had problems were really old). We need to use nuke energy to save the planet, blah blah blah. Now, in this list of comments, it seems to swing the other way.
IMHO, nuclear energy can be safe to use in the short term, but we'll never get rid of the human element (and human greed) and to me, that's what makes it so frightening to use in the long term.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15 2021, @11:11AM
That's not a correct analogy. A leaking tire gets more dangerous as there is less and less air. This, on the other hand, is not necessarily progressing problem but sub-optimal state. Like they said, it's a performance issue. Basically, it's like you had perfect tire pressure and then temperature dropped by 40 degrees and your tires are running low on pressure. No leak, just needs more air to account for low temperature. And yes, this phenomenon happens all the time in places where temperature drops a lot in winter.