FUZHOU - A containment dome has been installed on a reactor at China's nuclear power project using Hualong One technology, a domestically-developed third generation reactor design.The dome, weighing 342 tonnes and measuring 46.8 meters in diameter, was installed using a crane on the No. 6 nuclear power unit in Fuqing, Southeast China's Fujian province at Wednesday, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).The installation was finished ten days ahead of schedule, marking the completion of civil works and the beginning of the assembly stage, the CNNC said.The dome ensures the nuclear reactor is well sealed, preventing radioactivity and other nuclear accidents."Considering its weight and volume, the installation was very demanding," said Liu Bin, an official with the nuclear project.The dome was the second of its kind using Hualong One design installed on a reactor. The first, on the No. 5 unit, was completed last May.Hualong One reactors were jointly designed by two nuclear power giants, China General Nuclear Power Group and CNNC, and passed inspection by a national panel in August 2014.China has since approved the use of Hualong One technology to build two reactors in Fujian, the No. 5 and No. 6 units.Hualong One reactors are among six units at the Fuqing nuclear project, of which four units have already been put into commercial operation.It is estimated that the four operating units have generated more than 55 billion kwhs of electricity, cutting about 22 million tonnes of standard coal consumption and over 71.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. custom printed wristbands for eventsevent wristbands torontorubber band braceletspink breast cancer silicone wristbands24 hour wristband
[Photo/IC] WASHINGTON -- Scientists have found that Chinese population with cardiovascular disease increased by nearly 15 percent from 1990 to 2016, but the overall death rate dropped by nearly 29 percent. The study published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Cardiology showed that the annual number of deaths among Chinese population owing to cardiovascular disease, the top cause of death in the country, increased from 2.51 million to 3.97 million. However, the age-standardized mortality rate fell by 28.7 percent, from 431.6 per 100,000 persons in 1990 to 307.9 per 100,000 in 2016. A group of scientists led by Liu Shiwei with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention examined China's national and province-level burden based on data from the Global Burden of Disease Study. They identified a substantial reduction (33.3 percent) in the cardiovascular disease burden, as measured by age-standardized Disability Adjusted of Life Years (DALY) rate, a WHO measure of overall disease burden expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. There were an estimated 93.8 million prevalent cases of cardiovascular disease during 2016 in China, more than twice that of 1990, while ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke are the top three causes of cardiovascular disease deaths in 2016, according to the study. The highest estimated prevalence rates are in Tibet, Qinghai, Hebei and Henan while the lowest rates in coastal areas like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangdong, according to the study. The researchers cited controlling lifestyle, reducing geographical inequity and increasing the quality of cardiovascular care the critical methods to further relieve the cardiovascular disease burden.
