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Post by jeffolie on May 17, 2008 9:57:51 GMT -6
Nuke sites in the China earthquake disaster area. China has a research reactor, two nuclear fuel production sites and two atomic weapons sites in Sichuan province, where the quake struck, the French agency said. All were 40 to 90 miles from the epicenter. Mianyang, an industrial city of 700,000 people that is the headquarters of China's nuclear weapons design industry, was in the disaster area. China's largest plutonium production reactor is also in the quake zone at Guangyuan. Hans Kristensen, a nuclear arms expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said the Guangyuan reactor is "at the center of China's fissile material production" and damage "would disrupt China's warhead maintenance capabilities. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051700390_pf.html
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Post by jeffolie on May 17, 2008 10:13:26 GMT -6
China is on precautionary alert against possible radiation leaks, a government Web site said. The country's chief nuclear weapons research lab is in Mianyang, along with several secret atomic sites, but there are no nuclear power stations. The Lianhehua dam, built in the late 1950s northwest of Dujiangyan, showed cracks big enough to put a fist in. news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080517/ts_nm/quake1_dc
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Post by jeffolie on May 17, 2008 17:09:51 GMT -6
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