Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, Guangdong Province, China (Photo: SCMP) Late on June 14, the US media reported that authorities in Washington spent a whole week assessing a report on a possible radioactive leak at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant (Taishan). ) in Guangdong province, China, after a French company warned of an “imminent radiation threat”. Responding to the news, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian confirmed that radiation levels at the Taishan power plant were normal and there were no safety concerns to report. “There is nothing abnormal in the radiation levels around this nuclear power plant, and safety is still guaranteed,” Trieu said at a press conference on June 15. concerned, the current situation at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant meets the technical requirements.” He also emphasized that Beijing pays close attention to nuclear safety issues and has a nuclear safety control/management system that fully meets international and domestic standards. Zhao made the statement after the US channel CNN reported earlier this week that the UN Security Council had spent a week assessing the report on the risk of radioactive “leakage” at Taishan. and held “many” meetings on this issue. Framatome – a French nuclear reactor manufacturer that holds a stake in the Taishan plant – is said to have alerted authorities at the US Department of Energy through a letter about the “threat of leakage”. impending radioactive leak” and accused the Chinese government of raising the allowable radiation level to avoid shutting down the power plant. According to a memo cited by CNN, Framatome has sent a letter of petition to Washington to get the US to remove sanctions., It is known that China’s atomic energy industry has been subject to many restrictions imposed by the US. since 2019, due to concerns about the industry’s relationship with the Chinese military. Beijing has criticized the US decision, while some observers say the sanctions are politically motivated. On Sunday, the Dai Son plant also released a statement indicating that radiation levels in and around the plant were “normal” and that its reactors were in good working order. “All performance indicators of the two units meet nuclear safety regulations and plant technical regulations,” the statement said. Last Friday, Framatome released a statement saying that “according to production data, the plant is operating below safety indicators”. However, despite these claims, several US media outlets continued to report on the situation in Taishan, with Newsweek magazine publishing an article titled “Leakage at the Chinese nuclear power plant”. Quoc is reminiscent of Chernobyl, while Taishan insists it is safe.” This article also claims that there are many reports indicating that Taishan brings back “the memories of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, when the Soviet Union mitigated the problem of radiation levels at one of the nuclear power plants. their nuclear power”. Several other agencies, including Bloomberg, also recalled the Chernobyl incident when reporting on Taishan. France’s Electricite de France (EDF) – the parent company of Framatome – owns a 30% stake in the Taishan plant, along with China Atomic Energy Corporation. The plant consists of two reactors located in southern China, about 75 km from Macao, 140 km west of Hong Kong. This plant started operating between 2018 – 2019 and is said to be the “new generation” of nuclear reactor technology.

On June 13, the media reported an interesting moment at the recent G7 summit. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accidentally “attacked” on the beach while attending the summit. A seagull flew near the British Prime Minister Johnson, and then dropped the excrement accurately, which happened to fall on Johnson’s shoulder. Johnson panicked, and quickly looked down at his clothes. This detail was forwarded by the international media one after another, and the picture was full of sense. It became a big anecdote at the G7 summit.

After Johnson was hit by seagull guano, in order to make things more interesting, many foreign netizens used P-picture technology to put a lot of white guano on Prime Minister Johnson’s suit, plus his flowing hairstyle. People laugh and cry. Although the P pictures of foreign netizens are not true, they describe the matter very vividly. At the G7 summit, Johnson became the focus of media from all over the world. On the one hand, because the United Kingdom is the host, on the other hand, there were serious differences between the United Kingdom and the European Union over the trade issue of Northern Ireland.

Since the UK has initiated the Brexit procedure in the past few years, the UK and the EU have been negotiating for several years around the specific implementation of Brexit, and most of the controversial issues have been resolved. But on the issue of the Brexit trade agreement in Northern Ireland, serious differences have occurred between the UK and the EU. German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron held one-on-one talks with Johnson in order to persuade Britain to agree to the EU’s plan, but the conversation between the two parties was not pleasant.

Merkel and Macron suggested that Johnson implement the relevant provisions on Northern Ireland in accordance with the provisions of the Brexit agreement. But Johnson insisted that these clauses violated British principles and harmed Britain’s economic interests. European Union countries such as Germany and France immediately proposed that if the United Kingdom refuses to implement the Brexit trade terms for Northern Ireland, the European Union will consider launching a trade war against the United Kingdom, imposing economic sanctions on London, and imposing high tariffs on British exports to the EU , And canceled part of the economic cooperation agreement reached between the EU and the UK last year.

The EU’s statement obviously has a somewhat threatening taste to the United Kingdom, which is unacceptable to President Johnson, who has always had a strong personality. He said that the EU must make concessions, otherwise, the UK will overturn important parts of the terms of the previous negotiations between the two parties and bring the entire Brexit agreement into a new deadlock. Johnson went to meet with Biden as soon as he had finished fighting with Merkel Macron. During the two talks, Johnson said that it was inappropriate for Britain to take an excessively burdensome approach to trade issues in Northern Ireland after Brexit.

At the same time, British Foreign Secretary Raab also stated that the EU should be more flexible and pragmatic when implementing the Brexit agreement. The implication is that the EU’s ideas are too subjective and have fallen outside the scope of feasible. Obviously, a big problem has arisen between the UK and the EU around the detailed rules of Brexit. If coupled with the previous disputes between Britain and France over island fishing rights, the French side threatened to cut off the electricity supply to the British islands and countered Britain’s deportation of French fishermen. Britain hopes to revitalize the British economy and reshape Britain’s status through Brexit. It now appears that Johnson was not only smashed by bird droppings, but also in great trouble.

The switch to electric vehicles will affect at least 178,000 jobs in the German auto industry. Photo: VNA Ifo’s research presents a number of potential challenges in the future as governments work to phase out diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles in favor of low-emissions, even zero-emission vehicles. waste. In a statement released alongside the report, Ifo said an estimated 75,000 workers in Germany’s car manufacturing sector will retire by the middle of the decade. But if by 2025, the production of cars powered by internal combustion engines falls to levels previously predicted under current emissions regulations, the switch to electric vehicles will affect little. 178,000 jobs in the German auto industry. This group, Ifo explained, would include workers manufacturing product groups directly or indirectly dependent on internal combustion engines, with 137,000 of these working directly in the auto industry. Ifo President Clemens Fuest described the transition to electric vehicles as a major challenge, especially for auto parts suppliers as midsize companies dominate the sector. . He assessed that it is important to maintain skilled jobs in the production of vehicles using internal combustion engines and electric vehicles without changing the industry structure. The report comes after the German federal government announced its ambition to have 7-10 million new registered electric vehicles in the country by the end of the decade. In January 2021, Germany’s road traffic regulator said sales of electric vehicles in Germany will be more than 194,000 units in 2020, a threefold increase from the previous year. Internationally, the European Commission has also expressed its desire to have at least 30 million zero-emissions cars on the road by 2030, as part of its “Smart and Sustainable Transport Strategy.” . According to the International Energy Agency, about 3 million new electric cars were registered last year, a record number and up 41% from 2019.

In the latest published report by the publisher Shueisha, the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen Author Gege Akutami has more than 45 million copies in circulation, both printed and digital, as well as unsold copies. Specifically, the number of releases of Jujutsu Kaisen hit milestones of 8.5 million (early October), 10 million (October 29), 15 million (December 16), 20 million (January 13), 25 million (January 26), 30 million ( February 9), 35 million (March 4), and most recently, 40 million on March 31. Jujutsu Kaisen cover volume 15 and prequel. Photo: Mantan-web.jp. According to the report above by Shueisha, volume 15 of this manga has reached 1.5 million copies in its first release. This is considered a record milestone for the extremely popular young comic at the present time. Jujutsu Kaisen by author Gege Akutami first launched in March 2018 in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump by Shueisha and is published in English by Viz Media . Up to now, Jujutsu Kaisen has published 15 volumes and all are well received by the public. It is known that the anime adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen premiered on October 2, 2020 and has 24 episodes. Still Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie , a new animated film in the form of a franchise, scheduled to open in winter 2022. The film is based on the prequel part, Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School by Gege Akutami.

The findings are largely as expected but still have many unanswered questions. This report has provided more in-depth details on the explanation behind the team’s conclusions. The report’s authors also propose further research on this except for the laboratory leak theory. The publication of the WHO report on the origin of the COVID-19 epidemic has been repeatedly delayed and raises questions about whether the Chinese side is falsifying the conclusion, to avoid accepting accusations that China is the place the origin of the pandemic. An official from the World Health Organization said over the weekend that the report is expected to be released “within the next few days”. The AP news agency said it had received what appeared to be the final version on March 29 from a WHO diplomat. It is not clear if the report will still be changed prior to publication. The diplomat does not want to be identified because they are not allowed to release the report before the final release is made public. The publication of a joint report between WHO and China on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly delayed. Photo: Reuters Researchers have listed four possible scenarios for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Topping the list is transmission by an animal, which is most likely to occur. Researchers believe that the possibility of transmission through “frozen” food is also possible, but not high. The closest animal found to carry the corona virus, believed to be the source of COVID-19, is the bat. However, the report said, “the evolutionary gap between bat viruses and SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be several decades, which suggests an uncertain association.” Viruses are also found in pangolins, the report says, and animals like weasels and cats are also susceptible to COVID-19. This shows that all of the above animals can be carriers. This report is based on the visit of an international team of WHO experts to the city of Wuhan, China where COVID-19 was first discovered. The group has worked from late mid-January to mid-February. Mr. Peter Ben Embarek, WHO expert who led the investigation team in Wuhan, said the report has been finalized and is being checked and translated. “I hope that in the next few days, the whole process will be completed and we can make this report publicly available,” said Peter Ben Embarek. The draft of the report does not conclude that the outbreak began at a seafood market in Wuhan – where the first outbreak was discovered in December 2019. Previous discovery of other infections has suggested that epidemics could have started elsewhere. The report notes that there can be milder cases that go undetected. As the pandemic spread globally, China found virus samples on frozen food packages introduced into the country, and it tracked the link between single outbreaks and these products. Frozen foods can be the cause of cross-border spread of viruses, the report confirms, but are unlikely to cause an outbreak, much less contagious than through transmission. Human-to-human respiration. “Although there is some evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be revived through contaminated frozen products imported into China since the beginning of the pandemic, this would be very unreasonable. usually in 2019 because then the virus is not widely circulated, ”the study said. sea ​​oats ( According to AP )