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A nuclear industry wake-up call [China]
...Beijing's decision to suspend new approvals of nuclear power plants and conduct a...review of the industry is...welcome…But it is troubling that...China...doesn't have a permanent [nuclear waste] facility...[A]t Guangdong's Daya Bay plant and the neighbouring Ling Ao complex, one of the country's most important commercial nuclear power sites, most of the waste is still being stored on site…[which] can...[lead to] disaster...Only after the containment vessel was built did workers discover that many of the bars in fact had not been used...opening the way for a catastrophic failure. It was only at the insistence of the Hong Kong partner, CLP Holdings...that the problem was publicized…CLP has a culture of transparency and safety that starts with its chairman, Michael Kadoorie...There's no reason that China cannot develop a similar culture of transparency and operational integrity…[also refers to TEPCO, China National Nuclear Corporation]