Chinese nuclear fuel engineer Li Guangchang caught in anti-corruption net targeting ‘high-risk’ areas
- Li, former nuclear fuel director at China National Nuclear Corporation, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, CCDI says
- Communist Party’s top corruption watchdog says he is undergoing disciplinary inspection and supervision, but website post offers no details
Li Guangchang, a member of the science and technology committee of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), is suspected of committing serious violations of discipline and law, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement on its website.
Li is a former director of the nuclear fuel division of CNNC, a state-owned enterprise that oversees China’s civilian and military nuclear programmes.
He also played a key role in the innovation and development of China’s hi-performance “CF series” fuel assemblies, according to publicly available information.
Domestic development of nuclear fuel assemblies is essential for “realising the dream of a strong nuclear power country” and exporting China-made nuclear power, Li said in a report in 2017, when he was chief of key science and technology projects under the CF programme.
The following year, as a deputy director of CNCC’s science and technology committee, Li took part in drafting the “China Nuclear Energy Development Report”. Last April, he participated in an atomic energy research conference as a senior consultant to the committee, according to Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper.
