{"id":428332,"date":"2021-07-31T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428332"},"modified":"2021-07-31T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T05:44:08","slug":"nuclear-reactor-shut-down-in-southern-china-over-fuel-rod-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nuclear-reactor-shut-down-in-southern-china-over-fuel-rod-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear reactor shut down in southern China over fuel rod damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has shut down a reactor at a nuclear plant in the southern Guangdong province to repair fuel rod damage, the state-run operator said on Friday weeks after a reported increase in radioactivity levels had sparked fears of a leak. <\/p>\n<p>The plant operator China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said in a statement published on its website that it had shut Unit 1 at the Taishan nuclear plant in Guangdong province after \u201clengthy\u201d talks with technicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter lengthy conversations between French and Chinese technical personnel, Taishan Nuclear Power Plant &#8230; decided to shut down Unit 1 for maintenance,\u201d CGN said on Friday, adding that \u201ca small amount of fuel damage\u201d occurred during the operation of the reactor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has shut down a reactor at a nuclear plant in the southern Guangdong province to repair fuel rod damage, the state-run operator said on Friday weeks after a reported increase in radioactivity levels had sparked fears of a leak. The plant operator China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said in a statement published on its website that it had shut Unit 1 at the Taishan nuclear plant in Guangdong province after \u201clengthy\u201d talks with technicians. \u201cAfter lengthy conversations between French and Chinese technical personnel, Taishan Nuclear Power Plant &#8230; decided to shut down Unit 1 for maintenance,\u201d CGN said [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428332","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=428332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}