China Says Nuclear Plant Operating Safely After Radiation Report - BNN Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- China General Nuclear Power Corp. said environmental indicators at and around its Taishan plant are normal, after CNN reported that a French company warned of an “imminent radiological threat” there.
Unit 1 at the plant in Guangdong is operating normally and Unit 2 was reconnected to the grid last week after an overhaul, CGN said in a statement on the plant’s website. The units have a combined capacity of 3.3 gigawatts and came online in 2018 and 2019.
French company Framatome warned the U.S. government of an “imminent radiological threat” at the plant, CNN reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials and documents the news network says it has reviewed.
Those documents include a letter seeking assistance sent to the U.S. Department of Energy by Framatome, CNN said. Framatome helped build and provides technical assistance to the plant about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Hong Kong.
The letter has prompted several high-level meetings in Washington, as well as discussions between the U.S. and French governments and contact between the U.S. and Chinese governments, CNN said. U.S. officials do not believe the situation poses a severe safety threat to the public or workers at the plant, CNN said.
