Radiation levels at nuclear plants ‘normal’
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FOLLOWING the announcement that construction approval had been given to two new reactors, a nuclear safety official said yesterday that radiation from existing nuclear facilities is at a “normal level.”
Tang Bo, from the National Nuclear Safety Administration, said earlier that “all of China’s nuclear reactors under construction are well managed.”
A monitoring and emergency system is in place, he said.
China has 23 nuclear power generating units in operation and 27 under construction, about a third of the world’s unfinished nuclear units.
The commissioned units are achieving “very good safety performance, and no incidents ranked at INES II (International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale II) or above have been reported,” Tang said.
The government on Wednesday approved the construction of two nuclear power units in southeast China’s Fujian Province, using the domestically developed the Hualong One technology.
The move marked a restart of the nuclear program following a four-year suspension in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Nuclear projects “undergo assessment and examination ... in accordance with safety laws and international rules,” Tang said.
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