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Posted on 05/24/2008 2:58:51 PM PDT by kingattax
Chinese environment authorities say they have found fifty hazardous sources of radiation since this month’s earthquake.
Senior environment official, Wu Xiaoqing has said the situation is returning to normal after the discovery of thirty five of the radiation sources. The other fifteen had been also been pinpointed but not yet dealt with.
He said none of the radiation was accidentally released from nuclear facilities.
He said the fifteen unrecovered sources were mostly buried in rubble or in dangerously unstable buildings.
The disaster area is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuclear power stations.
The known death toll from the quake already exceeds 55,000, but more bodies are expected to be found as the debris from the dozens of flattened cities, towns and villages is cleared.
Also makes one wonder about “The Truth”. Did WE detect it?? ...forcing China to issue a statement??
depends on what it is. If it’s from hospital equipment and so forth, not that big a deal. Presumably if it was from their weapons labs, they wouldn’t be talking about it at all, so my assumption is this is relatively minor stuff.
That area is the heart of their nuke weapon research...
I know, but if there’s damage to their weapons facilities, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be releasing it to the public. I’m guessing these are medical/industrial sources.
When India exploded five nukes in '98, the CIA and the rest came to know of it after the Indian prime minister announced it, on public television.
Chinese environment authorities say they have found fifty hazardous sources of radiation since this month’s earthquake.
Senior environment official, Wu Xiaoqing has said the situation is returning to normal after the discovery of thirty five of the radiation sources. The other fifteen had been also been pinpointed but not yet dealt with.
He said none of the radiation was accidentally released from nuclear facilities.
It is actually more frightening if the radiation came from sources they did NOT know about.
What about naturally occurring radiation? Radon gas, etc.
They are now talking about the radioactive nature of granite countertops.
***Nah. Just a massive release of radon. Yeh. That sounds good. Go with that spin.***
You beat me to it! We must be thinking alike. Meanwhile, I have to work tomorrow and Monday. Come on over anyway.
take it easy... they are all not nuke reactors,but hospital&industrial equipment....that is not a big deal....
The government has located a total 50 radioactive sources in the disaster area, which is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuclear power stations."Thirty-five of the radiation sources have been recovered, and the location of another 15 has been confirmed, but they have not yet been recovered," Wu told a news conference in Beijing.
"Three are buried in rubble and another 12 are in dangerous buildings, which staff cannot go into," he added. "At present, tests from the scene show that there has yet to be an accidental release of radiation."
Per the NY Times:
North in an even more rugged and inaccessible region, nuclear experts said, China maintains a hidden complex of large tunnels in the side of a mountain where it stores nuclear arms.Hmmm. Epicenter of the quake is very close to their nuke weapons storage facility, weapons manufacture and R&D site“It’s very close to the epicenter,” said one specialist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because, to the best of his knowledge, the exact location of the secret complex had never been publicly disclosed.
So the big question is: was it really a quake, or was it a "work accident"?
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