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3 days ago · The Trinity test was the first detonation of a nuclear device. In the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the work at Los Alamos culminated in the test of the world's first nuclear weapon.
4 days 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.
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3 days ago · The People's Republic of China detonated its first hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb on 17 June 1967, 32 months after detonating its first fission weapon, with a yield of 3.31 Mt. It took place in the Lop Nor Test Site, in northwest China.
5 days ago · Deng spent 28 years in the forefront of China's nuclear weapons' development and performed outstanding exploits for the successful tests of China's first atom bomb and hydrogen bomb to be used as weapons.
5 days ago · The first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s. Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world's electricity from about 440 power reactors. Nuclear provides about one-quarter of the world’s low-carbon electricity. Nuclear is the world's second largest source of low-carbon power (26% of the total in 2020).
5 days ago · Wang Ganchang (1907-1999) is an outstanding nuclear physical scientist and one of the initiators of China's researches in the nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang Ganchang graduated from the physics department of Tsinghua University in 1929 and later made further study in Germany. In the period after the 1920s, Wang Ganchang ...
5 days ago · In December 2021, the first nuclear heating demonstration project in southern China was put into operation. Nuclear energy has also been used in the country to supply steam for the petrochemical industry. In May 2022, the Tianwan nuclear power plant in east China's Jiangsu province kicked off clean steam supply via a pipe system for a ...
