[New post] Whistleblower explained the tank design problem that caused the shutdown at Taishan nuclear power station

Christina Macpherson posted: " Last July, in China, the Taishan nuclear power plant was shut down. A few weeks earlier, an incident had taken place in the only EPR plant in service in the world, designed jointly by the Chinese CGN and the French EDF. At the end of November, perhap" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on nuclear-news Whistleblower explained the tank design problem that caused the shutdown at Taishan nuclear power station by Christina Macpherson Last July, in China, the Taishan nuclear power plant was shut down. A few weeks earlier, an incident had taken place in the only EPR plant in service in the world, designed jointly by the Chinese CGN and the French EDF. At the end of November, perhaps finally an explanation: the incident was due to a fault in the design of the vessel, according to a major French association specializing in nuclear safety. The incident which led in July to the shutdown of a reactor at the EPR nuclear power plant in Taishan, in southern China, is believed to be due to a design flaw in the vessel, the French association CRIIRAD said on Saturday. The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD) would get its information from a "whistleblower". "This is a Frenchman who works in the nuclear industry, having access to very precise technical information on the situation of the Taishan 1 reactor core," a CRIIRAD official told AFP. Taishan is the only pressurized water reactor (EPR) plant in the world, with two reactors. Four other EPR reactors are under construction, all in Europe: one in Finland, one in France in Flamandville and two in England. It is a tank design problem that would be the cause of the incident in Taishan reported on June 14, 2021. This is a first explanation.  TV5Monde 28th Nov 2021 https://information.tv5monde.com/info/nucleaire-l-accident-la-centrale-epr-de-taishan-serait-du-un-defaut-de-conception-434319 This free site is ad-supported. Learn more ​ Christina Macpherson | December 2, 2021 at 4:10 am | Categories: China, incidents | URL: https://wp.me/phgse-Mwl Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from nuclear-news. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nuclear-news.net/2021/12/02/whistleblower-explained-the-tank-design-problem-that-caused-the-shutdown-at-taishan-nuclear-power-station/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com