Information related to Taishan’s reactor number 1

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Is this a statement related to:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-re...

Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility

Which speculates some sort of leak that is being covered up. So I guess if it is a cover-up then it is being covered up by the French company's official statements as well.

Yes that's the same event.

China is definitely trying to cover up something, though it could be small or more concerning, it is hard to judge.

The whole setup is quite complex overall, France (/French company) has been looking for partners for those reactors since a while, as they couldn't finance those on their own. So there are many actors involved, and even more chances for any worrying event to be hidden.

Or maybe not:

https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat/status/14043304268234424...

I'm not sure what you refer to? On Twitter I'm seeing the same information that on CNN, maybe with a more explicit phrasing.

That there is nothing there. The reason the French company contacts the US state department is that they have to because of the US sanctions. The state department leaks and CNN spins something into the general anti-China narrative.

I am not sure we can trust information coming from both France and China. France is trying to sell these EPR reactors to several countries and so far the one they are building in France jumped from a 3.5B budget to 12B and it is still not finished. Then maybe the US try to make it look worst than it is for their own agenda. So I guess I will buy a Geiger counter since I am not far from it.

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