Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1627-W1186

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1627-W1186

Release Date: January 4, 2024

发布日：2024年1月4日

Topic: [Banned News] Experts Are Worried About the Operation of Nuclear Power Plants in Densely Populated Areas of Shandong, China – NTD report

标题：【禁聞】山東人口密集區運行核電站專家擔憂 -- 新唐人報道

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[Banned News] Experts Are Worried About the Operation of Nuclear Power Plants in Densely Populated Areas of Shandong, China

[New Tang Dynasty News, Beijing time, December 18, 2023] The nuclear power plant built by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, known as the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, has been officially put into commercial operation. Experts said that this nuclear power plant is located in a densely populated area, and the Chinese Communist Party's nuclear operations have no regard for safety and lack of information transparency, which is worrying.

Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant by Huaneng etc. was connected to the electric grid for the first time in December 2021 and was officially put into commercial operation in Rongcheng, Shandong on December 6 this year.

The CCP claims that it marks China's reaching the world's leading level in the research, development, and application of fourth-generation nuclear power technology. Because it uses a "high-temperature gas-cooled reactor", it has "inherent safety", that is, even if all cooling capabilities are lost, the reactor can remain in a safe state without taking any intervention measures, and there will be no core meltdown or radioactive material leaked.

But experts say these claims are hardly reassuring.

Huang Ciping, a former nuclear physicist at the Ministry of Nuclear Industry of China: "Is it really as good as they say? I'm a little worried that the CCP is so obsessed with success that in order to compete for the first place, it will ignore safety issues. There are some methods in so-called 4th generation reactors, some including the use of sodium, where the materials themselves are even not very safe. For example, when sodium explodes, it could have a chain reaction, which could lead to an uncontrollable situation. So I am skeptical about this type of statement."

Rongcheng, with a permanent population of more than 700,000, is located at the easternmost end of Weihai City, Shandong Province. It is also the closest city in mainland China to South Korea, with the two separated by only slightly more than 100 kilometers. Rongcheng is also very close to North Korea and Japan.

The former nuclear physicist at the Ministry of Nuclear Industry of China Huang Ciping said that the location selections of nuclear power plants in China are very unscientific.

Huang Ciping: "When other countries build nuclear power plants, they keep them far away from densely populated areas. If something goes wrong, the people and their property and health will not be greatly affected. But China is just the opposite, as it is easy to supply power when it’s close to the population. Now the situation is even worse. The Shidao Bay nuclear power plant is in Rongcheng, which is the closest point to North and South Korea. Once an accident occurs, it could really affect a lot of people.”

Currently, China ranks third in the world in terms of the number of nuclear power plants. Among the top countries in nuclear power generation, China is expanding its scale at an overwhelming rate. As of May this year, China has 23 nuclear power plants under construction, which is close to 40% of the total number of 59 nuclear power plants under construction in the world.

Even experts from the CCP openly talk about the "Great Leap Forward" in nuclear power, "surpassing France and catching up with the United States", and eventually becoming the first in the world.

But Huang Ciping said that when the CCP disregards nuclear safety in an effort to launch a nuclear power Great Leap Forward, it could be extremely dangerous.

Huang Ciping: "The CCP always wants speed and economy. When its revolutionary order comes, everyone must follow it. I know that it has had nuclear accidents. I used to work at the Institute of Atomic Energy of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, and there were actually quite a few accidents there. During the Cultural Revolution, young Red Guards took radioactive materials and placed them on an open place on the lawn. Now China is actually going back to the Cultural Revolution again. If it gets out of control in the end, I think it is really unimaginable."

Huang Ciping said that when nuclear power, which could originally benefit mankind, falls into the hands of a crazy government, not only will it fail to bring benefits to the people, but also it will cause devastating disasters.

Huang Ciping: "The most terrifying thing among all this is that the CCP's information is opaque. It won't tell you if an accident occurs, so one may just go and eat what the reactor could bring slowly, until one feels something is wrong, or even gets cancer. Then the CCP may say that such a thing had happened. Such as during the earthquake in May 2008, you saw that the CCP central government did not respond for a long time because it actually knew that there were many nuclear-related factories in that area in Sichuan that it had to deal with. Then they covered it up at that time. In fact, some accidents happened and people died."

In 2010, a nuclear leak occurred at Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, China's first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant. The CCP once completely blocked the news.

In June 2021, the US media broke the news that there was an "immediate radiation threat" at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong. Taishan Nuclear Power Plant initially responded that the indicators were normal. It was not until under pressure from public opinion that the CCP authorities admitted that fuel rod damages had indeed occurred at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. The incident not only aroused tension among local, Hong Kong and Macao residents, but also caused Framatome, the French joint venture of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, to seek help from the U.S. Department of Energy immediately. It also made the public more worried: whether China's nuclear power technology is not yet mature enough to be used, thus was unable to deal with the nuclear leakage crisis alone?

Editor: Wang Ziqi; Interview: Yi Ru; Post-production: Chen Jianming

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1627-W1186

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1627-W1186

Release Date: January 4, 2024

发布日：2024年1月4日

Topic: [Banned News] Experts Are Worried About the Operation of Nuclear Power Plants in Densely Populated Areas of Shandong, China – NTD report

标题：【禁聞】山東人口密集區運行核電站專家擔憂 -- 新唐人報道

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【禁聞】山東人口密集區運行核電站專家擔憂

【新唐人北京時間2023年12月18日訊】中共在山東榮成興建的核電站，號稱全球第一座第四代核電站，日前正式投入商業運行。專家表示，該核電站位處人口密集地區，而中共的核操作不顧安全且信息不透明，因此令人擔憂。

華能石島灣核電站，2021年12月首次並網發電，今年12月6日在山東榮成正式投入商業運行。

中共宣稱，它標誌著中國在第四代核電技術研發和應用領域，達到世界領先水平。因為它採用「高溫氣冷堆」，具有「固有安全性」，也就是在喪失所有冷卻能力的情況下，不採取任何干預措施，反應爐都能保持安全狀態，不會出現堆芯熔毀和放射性物質外泄。

不過專家表示，這些說法難以令人真正安心。

前中國核工業部核物理學家黃慈萍：「到底真的是不是像他們吹的那麼好？我有一些擔心它是好大喜功，為了爭這個第一，它就會忽略安全這些問題。因為第四代的反應堆，它裡頭有一些做法，包括使用一些鈉，這些東西材料本身都是不太安全的。那麼如果它，比方說鈉爆炸了，它會有一個連鎖反應，這個是會出現不可控的情況的。所以我對這個說法，我是表示懷疑。」

有70多萬常住人口的榮成，位於山東威海市最東端，也是中國大陸距離韓國最近的城市，二者相隔僅100多公里。而且榮成距離朝鮮和日本也很靠近。

前中國核工業部核物理學家黃慈萍表示，核電站的選址非常不科學。

黃慈萍：「其它國家它建核電站的時候，都離人口密集區要遠一點。萬一出什麼問題，人民和人民的財產啊，健康啊，不會受到太大的影響。但中國剛好反其道而行之。離人口近的地方，你供電容易。那麼現在更糟糕了，石島灣的核電站是在榮成，離韓國、朝鮮最近，一旦發生事故，那真的能影響到很多的人。」

目前，中國核電站的數量在全球排名第三。而在核能發電排名靠前的國家中，中國正以壓倒性的速度擴大規模。截止今年5月，中國在建核電站數為23座，接近全球在建核電站總數（59座）的40%。

連中共的專家們都公開講要搞核電「大躍進」，「超法趕美」，最終成為世界首位。

但黃慈萍說，不顧核安全的中共要搞核電大躍進，這就異常危險。

黃慈萍：「它經常就是多快好省，一個革命的命令下來，大家就要跟著走。它的核事故，光我知道，我原先在核工業部的原子能研究所，在那裡事實上出過很多起事故。甚至在文革的時候，紅衛兵小將把放射性物質拿到草地上公開的地方。現在中國事實上又往文革時期走了，到最後一旦失控的話，我覺得真是不堪想像。」

黃慈萍表示，原本可以造福人類的核電，落到瘋狂的政府手上，不僅不能帶給人民福祉，反而會造成毀滅性的災難。

黃慈萍：「這中間最最可怕的，就是中共它的信息是不透明的。它發生了事故它也不告訴你，你就慢慢去吃那個反應堆吧。覺得不對了，開始得癌症了，然後人家才說，有過這麼一件事情。你包括在2008年5月地震的時候，你就看到中央好久沒反應，因為他們其實知道在那一帶，在四川它那裡有很多的跟核有關的工廠，這些東西它都要做處理。然後他們當時就掩蓋掩蓋。其實他們是出事了，而且是死人了。」

2010年，中國首座大型商用核電站—廣東大亞灣核電站，發生核洩漏事故。中共一度全面封鎖消息。

2021年6月，美國媒體爆料，廣東台山核電站有「即時輻射威脅」。台山核電起初回應稱：指標正常。直到在輿論壓力下，中共當局才承認，台山核電站的確出現了燃料棒破損。事件不僅引起當地及港、澳居民的緊張，而且台山核電站的法國合資方法瑪通（Framatome）在第一時間向美國能源部求救，也更加讓公眾擔心：是否中國的核電技術未臻純熟，不能獨自應對核泄漏危機？

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