Nato leaders on Monday expanded the use of their all for one, one for all, mutual defence clause to include a collective response to attacks in space. Article 5 of Nato's founding treaty states that an attack on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all. Until, now it's only applied to more traditional military attacks on land, sea, or in the air, and more recently in Cyberspace. Unusual activity at a nuclear power reactor in China has drawn international attention, as two French companies involved in the plant acknowledged problems on Monday but said they could be handled safely. The companies were responding to a report by CNN on Monday that Framatome, one of the companies, had sought help from the US, citing an "imminent radiological threat" at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province. EDF, France's main power utility and part owneer of the power plant, said in a statement that certain gases had accumulated in the water and steam surrounding the uranium fuel rods at the heat of the reactor. But it said that the reactor had procedures for dealing with such a buildup of gases, which is described as a "known phenomenon". Framatome, an EDF affiliate and the builder of the reactors, said that there had been a "performance issue" but that the plant was operating within its safety parameters. In China, the power plant said in a statement on Sunday night that no leak into the environment had been detected. The staterun China General Nuclear Power Group, better known as CGN, owns 70% of the Taishan plant, and EDF owns the rest. CNN also reported that framatome had said that Chinese authorities has raised the acceptable limits for radiation releases around the plant to avoid having to shut it down. The province is already suffering from electricity shortages.
