Nuclear Plant in Jiangsu Province Near Korea's West Sea Temporarily Halted Due to October Incident... "Minor Accident"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] It has been confirmed that a minor accident occurred last month at a nuclear power plant located on the eastern coast of Jiangsu Province, China, relatively close to South Korea's West Sea, resulting in a temporary shutdown of the reactor.

According to the website of the China National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) on the 6th, the NNSA posted on the 3rd that "an abnormal power outage briefly occurred at 8:16 PM on the 19th of last month in the manual shutdown control circuit of Unit 1 of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Jiangsu Province, causing the reactor operation to be automatically halted."

The power plant conducted its own analysis, replaced the faulty component in the manual shutdown control circuit of the reactor, and performed a test operation. The NNSA explained that subsequently, Unit 1 of Tianwan reached criticality again at 12:36 AM on the 21st of last month, approximately 28 hours after the accident.

However, the NNSA stated that the nuclear power plant remained in a safe condition during this process, and the radiation levels on site were normal. It also added that there was no radiation exposure or contamination among the personnel on site. The NNSA further reported that this accident was classified as "Level 0," the least severe level according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).

This is the fourth accident at this nuclear power plant this year alone. The Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao reported that Level 0 accidents occurred at Unit 6 of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant on May 12 and August 27, and at Unit 2 on March 9 of this year.

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