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1 day ago · The first two units of China National Nuclear Corporation's version of the Hualong One design at the Fuqing plant in Fujian province have both already started up. Unit 5 entered commercial operation on 30 January 2021, with unit 6 following on 25 March 2022. Researched and written by World Nuclear News
2 days ago · From 1951 to 1962, the NTS was the site of more than 100 atmospheric nuclear tests, with yields ranging from a few kilotons to over a megaton. These tests were conducted as part of a broader effort to develop and refine nuclear weapons technology, as well as to study the effects of nuclear explosions on structures, equipment, and living organisms.
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1 day ago · Mushroom cloud from China's first nuclear test, Project 596. China tested its first nuclear weapon device ("596") in 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. The weapon was developed as a deterrent against both the United States and the Soviet Union. Two years later, China had a fission bomb capable of being put onto a nuclear missile.
3 days ago · In March 1985, the construction work of the first Chinese nuclear power plant – the so-called Phase I of the Qinshan nuclear power project, began in Qinshan of Zhejiang province. Phase II of the Qinshan nuclear power project was commissioned in 1987. In December 1991, the power plant operation was officially handed over and merged into the ...
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4 days ago · The first major nuclear accidents were the Kyshtym disaster in the Soviet Union and the Windscale fire in the United Kingdom, both in 1957. The first major accident at a nuclear reactor in the USA occurred in 1961 at the SL-1, a U.S. Army experimental nuclear power reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory.
2 days ago · The conflict showed that both superpowers were wary of using their nuclear weapons against each other for fear of mutual atomic annihilation. The signing of the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty followed in 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing. Still, after the crisis, the Soviets were determined not to be humiliated by their military ...
1 day ago · The French nuclear testing site was moved to the unpopulated French atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The first test conducted at these new sites was the "Canopus" test in the Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia on 24 August 1968, the country's first multistage thermonuclear weapon test. The bomb was detonated from a balloon at a height of 520 ...
