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China has moved swiftly to deny it has become the latest nation to experience a nuclear accident, after claims that it was forced to shut down its newest nuclear reactor last year.



report from Japan's Atomic Energy Agency said the China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) stopped generating electricity in October following an accident. With Japan already reeling from the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March last year, the incident sparked alarm there and in South Korea over the prospect of radiation leaking from the CEFR. Those fears were intensified by Beijing's failure to report the accident or release details of what happened, according to a Tokyo newspaper which cited the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency's investigation.


The same report highlighted worrying safety lapses at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) outside Beijing, which houses the CEFR. Safety standards were said to be "very low", with a lack of devices to measure potential radiation leaks, while the main control room of the reactor was equipped with beds which workers rested on when they were on duty.


Wan Gang, the director of the CIAE, denied there had been an accident or any cover-up.


"CEFR hasn't been operating since July last year so reports that an accident occurred in the autumn are extremely inconsistent with the facts," he told Chinese media.


Mr Wan also refuted the allegations of poor safety, saying five teams were monitoring the reactor around the clock and that there were multiple measures in place to prevent radiation leaks. He denied there were beds in the main control room for staff to sleep on.


China has never experienced a major nuclear accident, although there have been small leaks of radiation from some of its nuclear power stations. The last occurred in May 2010 in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong Province at the Daya Bay plant, the oldest of China's 13 operational nuclear reactors. Managers at the plant failed to inform the public of the leak until three weeks later. Subsequently, Beijing denied that radiation had escaped but it was confirmed by a Hong Kong power company with a share in Daya Bay.

CEFR is a fourth-generation reactor and China's first fast reactor. Until now, China has largely been dependent on French and Russian technology for its nuclear power programme. As the world's largest energy consumer, China has ambitious plans for its nuclear plants to provide six per centof all its electricity needs by 2020. There are currently 27 new plants under construction, but work on them has been halted since the Fukushima disaster while safety checks are carried out.



China denies nuclear accident - Telegraph
 
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LOL....... Japan suffered a total nuclear meltdown but points fingers at China because an experimental reactor stopped running for some reason last year.
 
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Fast Breeder type is prone to accidents and even Japanese struggled with the design for 20 years, definitely something not for China.
 
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Very typical of china denying facts and suppressing information. :tdown:

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China has moved swiftly to deny it has become the latest nation to experience a nuclear accident, after claims that it was forced to shut down its newest nuclear reactor last year.



report from Japan's Atomic Energy Agency said the China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) stopped generating electricity in October following an accident. With Japan already reeling from the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March last year, the incident sparked alarm there and in South Korea over the prospect of radiation leaking from the CEFR. Those fears were intensified by Beijing's failure to report the accident or release details of what happened, according to a Tokyo newspaper which cited the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency's investigation.


The same report highlighted worrying safety lapses at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) outside Beijing, which houses the CEFR. Safety standards were said to be "very low", with a lack of devices to measure potential radiation leaks, while the main control room of the reactor was equipped with beds which workers rested on when they were on duty.


Wan Gang, the director of the CIAE, denied there had been an accident or any cover-up.


"CEFR hasn't been operating since July last year so reports that an accident occurred in the autumn are extremely inconsistent with the facts," he told Chinese media.


Mr Wan also refuted the allegations of poor safety, saying five teams were monitoring the reactor around the clock and that there were multiple measures in place to prevent radiation leaks. He denied there were beds in the main control room for staff to sleep on.


China has never experienced a major nuclear accident, although there have been small leaks of radiation from some of its nuclear power stations. The last occurred in May 2010 in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong Province at the Daya Bay plant, the oldest of China's 13 operational nuclear reactors. Managers at the plant failed to inform the public of the leak until three weeks later. Subsequently, Beijing denied that radiation had escaped but it was confirmed by a Hong Kong power company with a share in Daya Bay.

CEFR is a fourth-generation reactor and China's first fast reactor. Until now, China has largely been dependent on French and Russian technology for its nuclear power programme. As the world's largest energy consumer, China has ambitious plans for its nuclear plants to provide six per centof all its electricity needs by 2020. There are currently 27 new plants under construction, but work on them has been halted since the Fukushima disaster while safety checks are carried out.



China denies nuclear accident - Telegraph

A reality.
 
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LOL....... Japan suffered a total nuclear meltdown but points fingers at China because an experimental reactor stopped running for some reason last year.

Yeah, because a huge natural disaster was totally Japan's fault...

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China always hides bad things that happens in its country thats the whole aim for the state propaganda machine
 
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If JAEA is not confirmed about it then, why don't some chinese official sources confirm it...
Why don't they publish some thing about that failed reactor..???
It will good and transparent to the world and its people..

There is no failed reactor because JAEA lied about it, admitted to lying, and the Chinese government already denied it. What more do you want lmao.
 
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looks like jealous butthurt indians busted again. they seemed desperate for negative china news. suffering some kind of an inferiority complex :rolleyes:..always looked stupid in threads they started. :lol:
you are one heck of a stu@@@ guy the source is Japanese paper not an indian
and if discussing some thing is called but hurt and jealousy then it makes no sense for you to stay here
 
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you are one heck of a stu@@@ guy the source is Japanese paper not an indian
and if discussing some thing is called but hurt and jealousy then it makes no sense for you to stay here

so I guess it's japanese members posting this lie and japanese people thanking him for what? oh a disaster in China?

oh wait, it's indians
 
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This reactor is in Beijing and if incident happens, I'd imagine government officials moving somewhere else.

As to fast breeder, India also has PFBR under contruction.
 
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Yeah, because a huge natural disaster was totally Japan's fault...

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There were multiple warning to the Japanese governments years back that the design of the Fukushima reactor is seriously flawed, and a tsunami was specifically mentioned as a major risk to a melt down.

Also, the content of this article is ridiculous and the source of Japanese article come from South Korea for no apparent reason.

It is in fact the Japanese government who are hiding the extent of the damages caused by the Fukushima melt down.
 
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There were multiple warning to the Japanese governments years back that the design of the Fukushima reactor is seriously flawed, and a tsunami was specifically mentioned as a major risk to a melt down.

Also, the content of this article is ridiculous and the source of Japanese article come from South Korea for no apparent reason.

It is in fact the Japanese government who are hiding the extent of the damages caused by the Fukushima melt down.
The Jewverine thinks this is the first time Japan was ever hit by an earthquake or tsunami. :lol:
 
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