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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 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.