Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Visits to China, "Atomic City": 211 nuclear weapons production base

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China's first nuclear weapons development, testing and production base, "Atomic City" has now become a national tourist destination.




West Town, this is located in the Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Plateau town, built in China to produce the first atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb on the site of nuclear weapons development base, and now has become a population of 12,000, covering 4 square kilometers of tourist town.




"The former state-owned two hundred twenty-one plant retirement, had contaminated hot spots on equipment and building (structure) to conduct a comprehensive clean-up material handling, site restoration of the local prairie style, retaining only a slight contamination of radioactive landfill pit , the former state-owned two hundred twenty-one plant radiation monitoring data show that the radiation levels in unrestricted open access to the national requirements. "radiation environment in Qinghai, said Wang Xinming management station owners.




Former state-owned two hundred twenty-one plant was first built in 1958, 1987, the State ordered the retired, and began evacuating workers in 1993, confirmed by the state in 1995, formally agreed and Miao Autonomous Prefecture People's Government of the resident plant site two hundred twenty-one plant base, andchanged its name to West Town.




1999 of the original two hundred twenty-one factory workers evacuated after all, was officially handed over the management of Qinghai Province, local government, state governments will move to this location, so thrown off her veil of mystery, a town of people to live in peace, the place also because her glorious past known home and abroad.




Today, there are 8 kilometers from a town called "Asia's first pit" slightly radioactive pollutants in Asia's largest landfill pit.





Wang Xinming said, when two hundred twenty-one relatively high level of plant radioactive contaminants, including the processing plant scraped the thick plaster, after all the plugging and sealing treatment has been delivered to the national disposal site for disposal, the remaining minor contaminants landfill here, including masks, gloves and other protective supplies category, becoming Asia's largest landfill pit.




The area has been incorporated into national focus radiation early warning facility monitoring system, each country allocated 20 million special fund for long-term care.Currently set to seven specific monitoring wells to monitor the groundwater for radionuclides key changes, while the surrounding air, soil, grass, milk and animal samples to monitor.




Haibei EPA monitoring stations are specially set up for this, each regular quarterly report to the Provincial Environmental Protection Department, the monitoring data into a national state-controlled radiation environment monitoring network.




Wang Xinming, in 2003, which is the base for years after retirement radiation environment has made a comprehensive assessment of status monitoring and review, two hundred twenty-one plant decommissioning is to meet the requirements of national legislation and retirement limits, and retired after ten years the overall plantradiation environment and retired at the end of the situation did not change significantly, the level of radiation in the region far below the public dose limit individuals - 1 mSv per year of national standards.




He said, Qinghai Province is not only confined to the radiation monitoring of two hundred twenty-one plant site, as part of the national environmental monitoring of radiation, from 2007 to 2010, expansion of the Chinese government invested 11.25 million yuan in Xining City, Qinghai Province Huangzhong County city of radioactive waste repository All abandoned radioactive sources, after the initial treatment, the temporary library in the waste, when a certain amount, transferred to the State for the final disposal of radioactive waste disposal.




Currently, Qinghai province has set up five automatic monitoring stations and 24 monitoring points, this number will be in the "five-second" period to gradually increase coverage. Monitoring objects, including major rivers, major water bodies, soil, representative of cities and towns.





"I moved in in 1999, where has lived for many years. I feel very healthy." Rinchen, a Tibetan named old man told Xinhua. Living in the local residents, the town every morning in the West Sea of ​​national small square opposite the Cenotaph morning exercises. The 59-year-old uncle, said his family seven are now living here.




This was a closed military area of ​​the town now have access to a number of honorary titles: national 4A level scenic spots, tourism town in the country, the National Health and towns, national patriotism education bases, the national key cultural relics protection units.




"In the past the restricted area here is very strict, not to mention people, even the birds only come to know. Now the West Town, received 80 million visitors each year," Tourism Bureau Haibei Hu Yong, "In the past the nuclear base has now become a living area, government buildings, museums and tourist attractions. Not only that, there are many scenic spots around the town, such as Qinghai Lake, the Qilian Mountains and Gold Silver Beach Prairie. "




18 year work again after the relocation area is divided into seven branches, and now he has become, one branch into a Don Lake power plant, two plants into a shooting range, the three plants as aluminum plants, four plants are still the role of actor power plant.




Branch is the sixth year of detonation test site, has now become a tourist attraction, from the Qinghai Lake is only 20 kilometers. Less than one hundred meters away from where the detonation site, near the herdsmen grazing cattle and sheep are easy to enjoy the time.




"Our family have lived here for generations." East, a herdsman, 46, Paul told reporters. He had been two hundred twenty-one factory employment as logistical support member of staff responsible for supply of beef and mutton, dairy products and leather.





"My wages have been good 70 years I have 38 dollars a month, rose 80 twenty-three hundred dollars. Now I grazing annual income of four or five million. My family and cattle drink the water here, something to eat here, my life has been good. "East Paul said.

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