【09.12.17 印度时报】China’s nuclear power expansion stirs concerns

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SHENZHEN: China is preparing to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world combined, a breakneck pace with the potential to help slow global warming.

China’s civilian nuclear power industry — with 11 reactors operating and construction starting on as many as 10 each year — is not known to have had a serious accident in 15 years of large-scale electricity production. Yet inside and outside the country, the speed of the construction program has raised safety concerns. China has asked for international help in training a force of nuclear inspectors.

The last country to carry out such a rapid nuclear expansion was the US in the 1970s, in a binge of reactor construction that ended with the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. And China is placing many of its nuclear plants near large cities, exposing millions of people to radiation in the event of an accident.

In addition, China must maintain nuclear safeguards in a national business culture where quality and safety sometimes take a back seat to cost-cutting, profits and outright corruption — as shown by scandals in the food, pharmaceutical and toy industries.

“At the current stage, if we are not fully aware of the sector’s over-rapid expansions, it will threaten construction quality and operation safety of nuclear power plants,” Li Ganjie, the director of China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration, said this year.
A top-level scandal is already unfolding in the nuclear industry. In August, the government dismissed and detained the powerful president of the China National Nuclear Corporation, Kang Rixin, in a $260 million corruption case involving allegations of bid-rigging in nuclear power plant construction.

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