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Ex-officials battle China nuclear plant plan
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ex-officials-battle-china-nuclear-plant-plan-2012-03-11?dist=beforebell
March 11, 2012, 10:54 p.m. EDT
Ex-officials battle China nuclear plant plan
Retired officials vigorously battle China nuclear power plant plan
By Cui Zheng
BEIJING ( Caixin Online ) — Work on China’s nuclear power plants has begun to pick up again a year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. But the meltdown on March 11, 2011, is still fresh on the minds of four retired cadres in Wangjiang County.
They petitioned against the Pengze nuclear power project in neighboring Jiangxi Province and ultimately convinced their local government to oppose the plan. This kind of official opposition to a nuclear undertaking is almost unheard of in China.
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Two months after the Fukushima mess, former Wangjiang County Party Committee deputy secretary Wang Jinzhou, former county people’s court chief justice Fang Guangwen, former county people’s congress deputy director Tao Guoxiang, and former urban-rural construction bureau director Wang Jize began collecting public materials on the Pengze plant. They then checked this information against national construction standards and regulations.
In July 2011, they completed an 11-page petition that called for the project to be halted and sent it to the State Council, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Anhui provincial government and the county government. The petition said the population data in application materials related to the Pengze facility was falsified, seismic data was unreliable and gifts were used to bribe villagers during a survey of public opinion.
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March 11, 2012, 10:54 p.m. EDT
Ex-officials battle China nuclear plant plan
Retired officials vigorously battle China nuclear power plant plan
By Cui Zheng
BEIJING ( Caixin Online ) — Work on China’s nuclear power plants has begun to pick up again a year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. But the meltdown on March 11, 2011, is still fresh on the minds of four retired cadres in Wangjiang County.
They petitioned against the Pengze nuclear power project in neighboring Jiangxi Province and ultimately convinced their local government to oppose the plan. This kind of official opposition to a nuclear undertaking is almost unheard of in China.
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Two months after the Fukushima mess, former Wangjiang County Party Committee deputy secretary Wang Jinzhou, former county people’s court chief justice Fang Guangwen, former county people’s congress deputy director Tao Guoxiang, and former urban-rural construction bureau director Wang Jize began collecting public materials on the Pengze plant. They then checked this information against national construction standards and regulations.
In July 2011, they completed an 11-page petition that called for the project to be halted and sent it to the State Council, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Anhui provincial government and the county government. The petition said the population data in application materials related to the Pengze facility was falsified, seismic data was unreliable and gifts were used to bribe villagers during a survey of public opinion.
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You just can't trust the nuclear industry.
