INTERNATIONAL NEWS - The issue concerned equipment used in one of two new European Pressurised Reactors (EPR), large units designed to offer improved power and safety.
With EPRs in Finland and France facing setbacks, the Chinese Taishan 1 and 2 are on track to become the first working reactors of their kind in the world.
But “local defects” were recently found in Taishan 1’s deaerator, a device used to remove oxygen from water circuits, CGN — which manages the project alongside French state utility EDF — told AFP in an email.
Problems were “discovered in the non-bearing welding line of the internal support of (Taishan 1’s) deaerator”, CGN said.
The deaerator is located “outside the nuclear zone”, it added, noting that “replacement measures” are being taken.
