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Hong Kong monitors radiation levels.

Leader Carrie Lam says the government is monitoring radiation levels in the city and that "everything is normal", following a US media report of a potential leak at China's Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in populous Guangdong province

China's Taishan nuclear power plant.

Operators are fixing a "performance issue" at the plant and the gas emissions carried out to do that are within acceptable limits, its French part-owner says, after reportedly previously warning of an "imminent radiological threat"

AFP Graphic on nuclear power in China, location of power stations and the growth of operable power capacity

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#BREAKING China says 'no abnormality' in the radiation levels around Taishan nuclear power plant

#UPDATE Beijing says there has been no change in radiation levels at the Taishan nuclear power station in southern China, after its French operator said it was working to resolve an issue linked to gas build-up

#UPDATE "There is no abnormality in the radiation levels around the nuclear power plant, and safety is guaranteed!"
China says radiation levels remained normal at one of its nuclear power plants and there were no safety concerns
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