{"id":420,"date":"2011-04-30T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-04-30T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T08:14:43","slug":"new-nuclear-power-plants-in-china-set-to-be-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/new-nuclear-power-plants-in-china-set-to-be-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"New nuclear power plants in China &#8216;set to be approved&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110422\/ST_19869480.jpg\" alt=\"China\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo shows the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant Phase II under construction at Tangxing village in Changjiang county in southern China&#8217;s Hainan province.<\/p>\n<p>NEW nuclear power projects may be approved, following suspension of the procedure on March 16 by the State Council after the Japanese tsunami, when the nuclear safety plan is issued, probably in August, a senior nuclear expert said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Operating plants and plants under construction will soon be inspected and reviewed by a group of experts,&#8217; Lin Chengge, a senior expert at the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp Ltd (SNPTC) and former deputy director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), told China Daily.<\/p>\n<p>The review group completed an inspection of the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Guangdong province, last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Results of the inspection will be provided to the government so it can decide if safety improvements are needed,&#8217; Mr Lin said.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after the government said on March 16 that it would suspend approval for new nuclear projects, following Japan&#8217;s nuclear crisis, until a safety plan is issued.<\/p>\n<p>The NNSA also ordered existing facilities to launch safety checks following the Japan crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo shows the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant Phase II under construction at Tangxing village in Changjiang county in southern China&#8217;s Hainan province. NEW nuclear power projects may be approved, following suspension of the procedure on March 16 by the State Council after the Japanese tsunami, when the nuclear safety plan is issued, probably in August, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}