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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15 2021, @01:51PM (2 children)
the main problem with chinese philosophy might be that it has problem with our western axiom of "learn from failure".
if you can't admit failure, duh, you cannot learn, thus there remains only "copy tried and working".
i think it's a real problem.
copying technology kindda requires to at least try to emulate the philosophy that birthed it?
being opaque about results didn't get us to where we are?
" failure" seems to be "absolute" thus very shameful, thus has to be hidden?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:38PM
It leads to the state where everyone is supposed to pretend the boss is competent. Sound familiar? Even in "the west" it's the default state. And we almost always reward that behavior. There's the gap - that "almost". That's what you've got to work with in "the west".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday June 15 2021, @03:30PM
Unfortunately, that axiom is far from being widely practiced in the west, also. The suppression of "learn from failure" is almost universal when those running a study/technology/science are not skilled practitioners of that particular study/technology/science. If they can't understand what they're managing, they need to use some other crude metric, like, say, lines of code.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.