Sunday, October 30, 2016

Nuclear safety should be made public "visible"

National nuclear security administration's website on recent behavior of nuclear power plant personnel was released on 25th lead to running the event bulletin, the report analyzed a total of 16 events, a number of nuclear power plants to be publicly named. Fujian Ningde Nuclear power plants including 5.
National Nuclear Security Administration informed that, recently, a number of nuclear power plants occur at run time due to staff touch operation or performance resulting in abnormal operation or run events and even trigger a shutdown of the reactor.
In the public mind that nuclear safety has always been a mystery, including the nuclear power plant, radiation sources, such as the operation of nuclear facilities, information is invisible to the public. This time, national nuclear security administration focused on public informed the Group of nuclear power plant operation, significant, it indicates that China is moving toward transparency on nuclear-related information.
This attitude certainly worthy of recognition. Information on nuclear and radiation safety, but environmental information category. Protecting the public environment right, promoting access to environmental information, which has already written into law, nuclear safety information public, nature is no exception.
In nuclear safety information on the public and Government departments in the past thinking can be called conservative. Some government departments will be considered sensitive areas of nuclear safety, they always emphasized various guaranteed safety of nuclear facilities, but did not let the public see where such security guarantees from, when a security event occurs when some nuclear facilities, information tends to be diluted or concealing some nuclear project planning and discussion, the public is excluded.
These practices in the Government sector, allegedly to prevent a panic. In practice, however, it not only failed to stem panic, it is fear mongering. Nuclear safety was mystified, people don't know the relevant information, the result is that people talk about nuclear color change. For some nuclear-related rumors, government departments do not publish the truth, the result is a lot of rumors, panic spread, public trust in Government to sweep the floor.
Lessons can be said in this regard abound, last August uproar both near the Lianyungang nuclear waste facility siting controversy far Henan, Qi 2009 "cobalt 60 explosions" rumors leading to public outing "refuge", Daya Bay, in 2010 and the "nuclear" a false alarm, and so on. None of the various learning lessons is not warning us, breaking information, let the nuclear safety "nuclear mystical" is imperative.
Over the years, the power of atomic energy development around the globe, will be openness and transparency as a consistent standard of nuclear safety information. In France, for example, as early as 1974, France set up the "Union of concerned scientists nuclear information", which is an independent nuclear energy information agency of the Government to ensure that France's nuclear industry providing truthful and transparent information to the public.
Since the late 70, for all types of nuclear installations, France around the region information Committee was set up, responsible for local information tracking and advice on nuclear safety, Committee members from the local community, such as local politicians, representatives of professional associations and environmental protection associations, and so on. France Congress the nuclear transparency and Security Act was introduced in 2006, mandatory requirements related to transparency of nuclear information, and any individual is entitled to nuclear power plant operators to provide nuclear safety and radiation information.
Should see, in recent years to, especially Daya Bay "nuclear leak" false alarm zhihou, China in nuclear security information public construction has accelerated of potential, environmental Department zhiqian two times issued a requirements promoted nuclear and radiation security of information public, some nuclear security information began to public opened mystery veil, but these information public regardless of in depth also is breadth Shang, are and world advanced national has is big gap.
The future, "nuclear safety" legislation on the disclosure of break and continue to soil, nuclear security has really become "visible security," worth continued attention.

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