SHENZHEN plans to select elite personnel from the reserve forces to establish a nuclear and biochemical emergency rescue team, the Liberation Daily reported yesterday.
The nuclear and chemical industry in Shenzhen is rapidly developing, and Shenzhen has two large nuclear power plants, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station and Ling ao Nuclear Power Station, as well as more than 2,000 chemical companies.
Because Shenzhen is in a coastal region, it urgently needs to establish a rescue team ready to handle nuclear and biochemical emergencies.
Tang Jie, vice mayor of Shenzhen, said it was necessary for Shenzhen to establish a nuclear biochemical emergency rescue team because it was conducive to improving the nuclear and biochemical emergency rescue mechanism in Shenzhen. The team should be able to assemble and implement rescue operations within half an hour of an emergency.
The announcement comes in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan.
The management of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station has sought to allay fears, saying the problems plaguing the Fukushima nuclear power plant were highly unlikely to be repeated in Shenzhen.
Following the crisis in Japan, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station s safety expert, Chen Tai, made it clear that the chances of a nuclear explosion in Daya Bay were remote.
From a physics point of view, it is impossible to have a nuclear explosion [at the plant], Chen said. A nuclear explosion occurred when the concentration of uranium-235 reached more than 90 percent, he said. The concentration [of uranium] in Daya Bay is below 4 percent, Chen said.
The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co. last month opened the 17-year-old, two-reactor plant to Hong Kong media.
(SD-Agencies)
