[Crantag]

This is just great, huh.

More background on the plant itself (5 year old video.)

[Igor Antunov]

I figured this 'three gorges dam is about to collapse' levels of made up story would make it here eventually.

What's happened is a routine maintenance check by a french company directed at a Us company regarding an issue comparable to 68+ similar such issues last year (a number of which occurred in france - because these reactors china uses are owned and built by france). The US company has been blocked from offering its services in china due to US sanctions on western companies doing business with china's energy sector.

The rest is made up, the headline would be outright malicious, if it weren't so comical. It has been extrapolated from the basis that the US can't help the French staff in China make a French reactor perform better. This design is good and works well for France and is a popular export but it comes with a great deal of maintenance headaches. Quite the rag media leap.

"At this stage, the agency has no indication that a radiological incident occurred," the IAEA said. Framatome informed the U.S. Department of Energy of an "imminent radiological threat" at the plant, but U.S. officials believed no dire threat to safety was present, CNN said Monday.

Following the report, Framatome said a "performance issue" was being dealt with.

https://www.newsweek.com/uns-nuclear-wa ... ng-1600465

[JohnRawls]

I figured this 'three gorges dam is about to collapse' levels of made up story would make it here eventually.

What's happened is a routine maintenance check by a french company directed at a Us company regarding an issue comparable to 68+ similar such issues last year (a number of which occurred in france - because these reactors china uses are owned and built by france). The US company has been blocked from offering its services in china due to US sanctions on western companies doing business with china's energy sector.

The rest is made up, the headline would be outright malicious, if it weren't so comical. It has been extrapolated from the basis that the US can't help the French staff in China make a French reactor perform better. This design is good and works well for France and is a popular export but it comes with a great deal of maintenance headaches. Quite the rag media leap.


https://www.newsweek.com/uns-nuclear-wa ... ng-1600465

China said that the rods are damaged but there hasn't been a leak. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57496831

[Istanbuller]

I can already see fingerprints of Western sabotage.

[Igor Antunov]

Yes a common issue, happened in France twice last year, many in the US are operating with damaged fuel rods currently. Only a single nuclear reactor in America has 'never' had a fuel rod failure, most do-regularly. That's why France was asking a US company on the most efficient way to operate the reactor with a damaged fuel rod.

[Fasces]

A rod was damaged, and there was a slight uptick in measurable radiation, but it was within safe levels for operation and has been contained effectively. A small blip and non-story.