China nuclear coverup

[matte]

How much more of this lack of transparency from the Chinese Communist Party can the world deal with?

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US assessing reported leak at nuclear power facility in China

14 JUNE 2021

CNN

The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part owns and helps operate it warned of an "imminent radiological threat," according to US officials and documents reviewed by CNN.

The warning included an accusation that the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from the French company to the US Department of Energy obtained by CNN.

Despite the alarming notification from Framatome, the French company, the Biden administration believes the facility is not yet at a "crisis level," one of the sources said.

FULL STORY: www.9news.com.au/world/us-assessing-reported-leak-at-nuclear-power-facility-in-china/78baae80-d2eb-4382-bfaf-3e89e04e549a

[pim]

We’ll remind you of your concern and hysteria over “lack of transparency” every time you grandstand about how wonderful the government of Scotty from Marketing is. They refine “lack of transparency” to an art form.

[pim]

Speaking of China ..

[ponto]

And in the next breath Matte will saying Australia should go nukes for energy...leaks only happen in China.

[pim]

What strikes me about the Jeremy Clarkson video is the ruthless speed with which the Chinese do infrastructure. Now I agree that comes with a price tag and I’m not talking money. There have been enough disasters with rail and building codes to persuade me that speed can be and often is at the cost of quality. China is a nation in a hurry that has lifted half a billion of its people out of poverty in a little over a generation. It’s what Stalin tried to do in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. The result was a human tragedy on a colossal scale as millions died either from starvation or violently at the hand of a totalitarian dictatorship. China’s transition from rural poverty to industrial/technological superpower has different characteristics from the Stalinist model of the 1930s but nevertheless it contains enough top down “command economy” features with attendant human rights abuses to make it a model that we wouldn’t like to follow. Still, the West had all of the 19th century Industrial Revolution to transition from rural/agrarian with its village culture to urban industrial, and throughout that process it had its “dark satanic mills” with all its social dislocation, suffering and misery. Australia is a by product of the English Industrial Revolution since the convicts that ended up here tended to be the sweepings of the urban proletariat displaced from their former villages by the enclosures that drove the old peasantry off the land to become industrial cannon fodder for the dark satanic mills. By contrast countries like China have set out to leapfrog the transition century of the older industrial countries and go straight to modern industrial powerhouse. It seems to be working in China even if at a hideous cost.

Matt grandstands about the need for Australia to go nuclear and says it could happen in a decade. He’s right in a way. We could do it if we become like China.

Tell him he’s dreaming ...

Does he really want us to become like China? I bet he doesn’t!

[Stellar]

The Financial Times reported over the weekend that US intelligence officials had been left stunned by a Chinese rocket launch in August carrying a “nuclear-capable hypersonic missile”.

This game-changing new “space nuke” that can evade missile defence systems and strike anywhere on the globe.




China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile



And yet .... China’s President Xi Jinping will not be attending the COP26 climate summit because they are a ‘developing country’!  
They will be able to continue to pollute increased amounts until 2030 effectively because they've been “let off the hook” according to Sky News.

[Gort]

Speaking of nuclear coverup ...

The containment structure on Chernobyl is something to behold!





Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) is a design and construction project unprecedented in the history of engineering. Never before has such a huge structure been constructed at a heavily contaminated site.

Overcoming the risks and difficulties inherent in the project required years of groundwork and preparation, as laid down in the Shelter Implementation Plan (SIP). Work on the New Safe Confinement at the site started in late 2010 and the structure was moved into position in November 2016.

Following systems installation, testing and commissioning the New Safe Confinement has now been handed over to the Ukrainian authorities and the Chernobyl Shelter Fund was closed in late 2020.

The New Safe Confinement prevents the release of contaminated material from the present shelter and at the same time protects the structure from external impacts such as extreme weather.

The new structure is an extraordinary landmark, tall enough to house London’s St Paul’s or Paris’ Notre Dame cathedrals. To minimise the risk of workers’ exposure to radiation, it was assembled in the vicinity of the site in two halves, which were later joined and eventually slid into position.

The New Safe Confinement is 108 metres high and 162 metres long, and has a span of 257 metres and a lifetime of a minimum of 100 years.

The arch-shaped structure weighs some 36,000 tonnes. Its frame is a huge lattice construction of tubular steel members, supported by two longitudinal concrete beams.

It provides a safe working environment equipped with a heavy duty crane system for the future dismantling of the shelter and waste management.

It is strong enough to withstand a tornado and its sophisticated ventilation system eliminates the risk of corrosion, ensuring that there is no need to replace the coating and expose workers to radiation during the structure’s lifetime.

The contract for this unprecedented design and construction project was awarded to the Novarka consortium led by the French construction companies Bouygues and Vinci in 2007.

The consortium worked with local sub-contractors and others from across the world. For instance, the arch was made of structural elements designed and built in Italy. The crane system was manufactured in the US. The arch cladding contractor was from Turkey, and lifting and sliding operations were carried out by a Dutch company.

Contracts were awarded in accordance with the EBRD’s procurement policies and rules and implemented in line with the Bank’s Environmental and Social Policy.

The New Safe Confinement is a key part of the Shelter Implementation Plan. Its construction was financed via the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, managed by the EBRD on behalf of the contributors to the Fund.

www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/sectors/nuclear-safety/chernobyl-new-safe-confinement.html