{"id":421010,"date":"2021-06-17T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421010"},"modified":"2021-06-17T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:59:18","slug":"china-blames-minor-fuel-rod-damage-for-nuclear-plant-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-blames-minor-fuel-rod-damage-for-nuclear-plant-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"China blames minor fuel rod damage for nuclear plant issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: A handful of damaged fuel rods is behind a build-up of radioactive gases at a nuclear power station in southern China, authorities said Wednesday, describing the problem as &#8220;common&#8221; with no need for concern. <\/p>\n<p>CNN reported earlier this week that the US government was assessing a report of a leak at the Taishan plant in China&#8217;s southern Guangdong province, and French nuclear firm Framatome which helps operate the plant reported a &#8220;performance issue&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase in radioactivity in one of the plant&#8217;s two nuclear power units due to five damaged fuel rods, said a joint statement by China&#8217;s environment ministry and the National Nuclear Safety Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: A handful of damaged fuel rods is behind a build-up of radioactive gases at a nuclear power station in southern China, authorities said Wednesday, describing the problem as &#8220;common&#8221; with no need for concern. CNN reported earlier this week that the US government was assessing a report of a leak at the Taishan plant in China&#8217;s southern Guangdong province, and French nuclear firm Framatome which helps operate the plant reported a &#8220;performance issue&#8221;. There has been an increase in radioactivity in one of the plant&#8217;s two nuclear power units due to five damaged fuel rods, said a joint statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}