Hong Kong Officials Displeased at Nuclear Leak 'Cover-Up' in China

Hong Kong officials are worried and incensed over what they see as the cover-up after a radiation leak at a nuclear power plant in mainland China.

The troubled Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant is on the Dapeng Peninsula in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 28 miles northeast of Kowloon, Hong Kong; it has had numerous problems over the past eight years.

The latest and so far most serious damage occurred on Oct. 23 when a cooling water pipe on the No. 1 reactor was found to have cracked and was leaking nuclear radiation. The public was not told about the leak for three weeks.

It was the third time in the past six months the Daya Bay power plant has had problems

Officials said the incident was a Level 1 Event “anomaly,” which is the lowest of seven levels, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46211/