COVID 19 wasn't China's Chernobyl - Chernobyl is China's Chernobyl -

[Super-Chevy454]

Nooo that nuclear plant is too close to Shenzhen, which is a very pretty place and I do not want it nuclear-ified!

And close to Macao and Hong Kong. Speaking of Hong Kong, I couldn't resist to play that clip again.

 

[Dr. Hannibal Buress]

There are 2 EPR reactors at Taishan, the first was mainly built in Japan and france by those countries respectively then shipped in, the second was built in China, by Chinese contractors. I wonder which one is failing, China will never say but I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm betting on.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

So Covid, a Giant Flood..and now a Nuclear accident.

Maybe God is trying to tell China something.

 

[HumanHive]

More jumping at shadows.
How is that Three Gorges Dam thread working out for you?

 

[draggs]

More jumping at shadows.
How is that Three Gorges Dam thread working out for you?

That thread will work out great in 2029 when the Dam is hit by multiple cruise missiles

 

[Super-Chevy454]

So Covid, a Giant Flood..and now a Nuclear accident.

Maybe God is trying to tell China something.

Knowing Xi the Pooh, he's too stubborn to see the signs.

 

[Joe Swanson]

So Covid, a Giant Flood..and now a Nuclear accident.

Maybe God is trying to tell China something.

Seems like the CCP has lost the Mandate of Heaven

 

[tehpope]

More jumping at shadows.
How is that Three Gorges Dam thread working out for you?

They did re-write the bible to add pro China shit into it.

18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.

 

[Drain Todger]

LOL at CNN's reporting. Those are not just "inert gases". It's radioactive isotopes of xenon and krypton. Those are fission byproducts.


Xenon poisoning was actually a contributing factor in the Chernobyl disaster. Xenon-135 absorbs neutrons and reduces the rate of the reaction. The operators saw that, and they raised the power, and when it started rising out of control due to the positive void coefficient, they attempted to SCRAM it and because of the design of the RBMK's control rods, the reactor blew the fuck up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/business/china-nuclear-power-problem.html

The problem with that isotope is that its presence may prompt reactor operators to remove limits on how fast the reactor runs. That can make the reactor more vulnerable to overheating, Mr. Regan said.
“It’s almost pressing the accelerator” in a car, he said.
This is not a new problem in nuclear reactors, sometimes occurring if a fuel rod has a crack. It is typically handled by removing the fuel rods from the reactor and letting the xenon isotope gradually dissipate over a couple of days through radioactive decay.

The other option is to keep running the reactor and vent traces of the xenon gas from the reactor into the atmosphere. Regulators around the world give each reactor a small annual allowance of radioactive releases. Venting can allow the reactor to continue operating, but may trigger regulatory reviews.
Several details from the CNN report, which cited unnamed sources, could not be verified. CNN also reported that Framatome had said that Chinese authorities had raised the acceptable limits for radiation releases around the plant to avoid having to shut it down. The province is already suffering from electricity shortages.
Michael Friedlander, a former operator at three nuclear power plants in the U.S., said that many nuclear utilities around the world used to keep operating with leaking fuel rods and occasional venting of xenon gases. But that ended in the West in the 1990s as utilities sought to minimize even trace releases of radiation, partly to protect their own workers.

“The global best practice is to shut down and change out the leaking fuel rods as soon as practical,” he said. “This normally would occur way, way, way before you approach a regulatory limit.”

Instead, they're just venting xenon, and because they're cheap fucks, they probably won't do fuck-all to replace the fuel. Shutting down and refueling a reactor is a very lengthy process.

 

[tehpope]

If the news is reporting on it, its probably too late. And we'll never know how fucked shit is since the Media is in the pocket of China.

 

[Maxxicus Callahan]

Chernobyl caused ripple effects that ultimately crashed the Soviet Union.

Not saying that means anything. Just thought I'd put that out there. I'm getting real tired of Pooh Bear.

Definitely it bled the USSR dry in the clean up costs. In some ways the sarcophogaus was the last great building project of socialism. I think China would also need to be in some kind of military quagmire like the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan. An armed military conflict would rock one of the great pillars of Chinese society which are the sons who are expected to provide for their parents. Given the one child policy families losing their sons would be too devastating to hold the country together. I imagine they must study very carefully the fall of the Soviet Union and how to avoid the same pitfalls. It seems their repression is more brutal than the late USSR and communism is more of a front for autocracy than any true idealism of empowering workers.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Some commenters about that plant on ZeroHedge mentionned the prevailing winds going in direction of Hong Kong and Taiwan. It's so tempting to said "How convenient".

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Before we can do that we need to answer an important question...

How old is the reactor?

Not very old. Unit 1 went online in 2018 and Unit 2 in 2019.

It's worth noting that the Chinese didn't admit that they had a reactor leak. Instead, they just tried to raise the radiation detection limits so that -guess what?- there's no problem!

I'm glad that the French snitched on them, but you can multiply this scenario hundreds and thousands of times, in pretty much every aspect of Chinese life: the little lie that hides a big problem, but saves face.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Not very old. Unit 1 went online in 2018 and Unit 2 in 2019.

Ok. Send Hunter in.

 

[Stoneheart]

There are 2 EPR reactors at Taishan, the first was mainly built in Japan and france by those countries respectively then shipped in, the second was built in China, by Chinese contractors. I wonder which one is failing, China will never say but I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm betting on.

Ohh i bet they will just change some papers to make it looks like its frances fault...

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Ohh i bet they will just change some papers to make it looks like its frances fault...

That's if until some wise guys said they used pieces made in China.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

hoh great another nation fucking up nuclear so the rest of the world can remain afraid of it and force us into stupid "renewable energies" like fucking windmill and solar.

C*mmunists should never have been trusted with nuclear power. Or political power or any kind of power really.

 

[General Tug Boat]

I wonder when one of the bugmen will try eating the radiated bats in the death zone in a few years. Then we can have the glowie flu!!!

 

[teriyakiburns]

The PRC is, for the most part, made up of a single country, with a handful of comparatively small annexations.

That's not strictly true. China is made up of multiple ethnicities with similar levels of distinction between them as between Europeans, but with the Han dominant over all of them. There is more internal division within China that is officially recognised.

 

[The Un-Clit]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/

Totally fine, nothing to see here. The results are normal and within normal parameters.

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2021061...ics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/

Sounds to me like they are in a xenon pit. Too much xenon (the noble gas in question) poisons the reaction and it needs to either try to burn it up, which is destabilizing and was part of the sequence of errors that caused Chernobyl, or much safer is to shut the whole shebang down until the xenon isotopes decay in a day or two and the reactor can be restarted again.

This is all assuming the story being told IS the actual story.

*edit* oops! @Drain Todger was already all over this. Welp, so now TWO autists from the farm have validated the science, so it must be right!