BEIJING - China must increase the monitoring of its nuclear plants after the disaster of the Japan, a senior Chinese official said Friday, as the country advance an ambitious program to build more reactors.
The crisis caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the bare Japan "a multitude of problems" with how nuclear energy is managed, Vice Minister of the environment Li Ganjie said.
"Some of them are technical, some are at a hierarchical level, some are inevitable caused by natural disasters, while some are caused by anthropogenic factors and can be prevented," Li said at a press conference.
China must raise industry security standards, to make information more accessible and to establish a strong team of independent regulators to oversee nuclear safety, he said.
Department of Environmental Protection of IA oversees the nuclear industry of China with the most powerful National Development Reform Commission, which promotes nuclear power as important to the energy security of the country.
Even before the Japanese crisis, Li Department had urged the Government to more funds to monitor the growing nuclear industry.
China has 13 reactors in commercial operation, 26 in construction and another 52 expected, according to the World Nuclear Association, an industry group. While the Government ordered audits of security quickly after the start of the Japanese factory leaking radiation, China did not significantly alter its plans for nuclear energy growth.
China argues that the expansion of nuclear power plants is necessary to feed a hungry energy economy that is essentially dependent on coal.
In the vast press conference, Li touched on to other environmental issues, including pollution, heavy metals, which has affected thousands of Chinese children living near the metal smelters or battery plants in ces in recent years.
China grand challenges in the prevention of pollution of heavy metals, but would "investigate all industries lead battery and try to stop this trend of frequent accidents, Li has."
Combined with the scandals on milk and contaminated food, heavy-metal pollution has taken on urgency for heads of Government which promised to deliver a more sustainable economic growth, focusing on people.
Li also spoke about the recent protests in the region rich in resources of the internal Mongolia, which were triggered in part by anger on the destruction of the Prairies by mining companies.
Protests erupted last month after two Mongolian herdsmen were killed in an attempt to block the transport of coal and mining operations.
Li said: "if it is confirmed that the undertakings concerned have broken laws and regulations that led to these incidents, I think that Governments of and protection of the environment agencies hold these responsible companies".
Also Friday, authorities in Inner Mongolia ordered the restructuring of the industry of rare earth in the region to make it more sustainable, State media, said.
Belonging to the State of Baogang group will become the sole producer of rare earth in the region after four rare earth producers are merged into it and 31 others are closed, the regional economy and the Office of information technology said, according to Xinhua News Agency.
China has been limiting exports of rare earth, ostensibly to clean up the environment. But business partners are speculating that it is to favor domestic industries and the drive to the increase in world prices.
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