The coastal city of Weihai in East China's Shandong Province has started building a nuclear plant to address a shortage of power in the region.
Power production in Shandong has been largely based on coal-burning, which pollutes the environment but doesn't create enough output to meet local demand. Each year a huge amount of electricity is transmitted from West China to fill the gap.
Despite the need for a nuclear power plant, there are also concerns about safety issues, as the world still remembers the catastrophic meltdown of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant 2011. He Yunsheng, CEO of the Huaneng Shandong Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Weihai, describes the precautions his firm has taken.
"We have very strict standards regarding the location. The power plant could not be built in regions with frequent earthquakes or with a history of major earthquakes or tsunamis. The region had to be sparsely populated and easily accessible."
Even in perfect locations, low quality nuclear power plants can become a source of radiation pollution. Zhang Zuoyi from the Tsinghua University Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, says this will not be the case with the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant, because it is backed by more than 30 years of research at Tsinghua University.
The core of the plant is made up of small spheres, each containing 12,000 tiny uranium dioxide particles wrapped in four layers of high-tech ceramic coatings. It is within safety standards to hold even one of the spheres in one's hand, according to Liu Bing, another researcher at the institute.
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