Chinese nuclear

Clam, Rangia cuneata, Neuse River, North Carolina, 1965-67, soft parts before Chinese nuclear tests in May and December 1966 vs. posttest ... 

In 1966, levels in trout from Colorado alpine lakes were 8 to 18 times higher than mean levels in muscle of deer from Colorado during the same period, and 20 to 300 times higher than domestic meat products (Nelson and Whicker 1969). Radionuclides in livers of tunas from southern California during the period 1964 to 1970 originated mainly from weapons tests in 1961/62, although Zn may have reached southern California waters from nuclear reactors in Hanford (Washington) and from French or Chinese nuclear tests (Folsom et al. 1971). 

Figure 1 shows some of the single fallout particles collected after the Chinese nuclear explosion on May 14, 1965 (14). Figure 2 shows the mass-yield distribution of the fission products in some of the single fallout particles (5). The values of H calculated in this manner range from 30-50 sec., as shown in Table 1(4). 

Figure 1. Autoradiograph of single fallout particles collected after the Chinese nuclear explosion, May 14, 1965 (14)...

Figure 2. Mass-yield distribution of the fission products in single fallout particles collected at Osaka, Japan and Fayetteville, Ark. after the May 9, 1966 Chinese nuclear explosion (4)...

Just as earlier we were able to observe mass-yield distributions of the fission products from the fissionable nuclide used in the Chinese nuclear device, it is possible to see part of the mass-yield curve from the fission of 244Pu, which was synthesized originally in a supernova. Figure 6 shows the mass-yield distribution of the excess fissiogenic xenon observed in the meteorite Pasamonte (15). 

During the winters of 1966-1967 and 1967-1968, cyclonic storms occurred over the California coast on three occasions shortly after the detonation of a nuclear weapon on the China mainland such that measurable concentrations of 12.8-day 140Ba were present in 6-hour rainfall samples. The deposition radioactivity ratios of 140Ba, 89Sr, and 90Sr were examined in the rainfall along the California coast for each of these three storms and used to examine the fractional contribution of the longer lived strontium radionuclides from the various known Chinese nuclear explosions. 

During each winter rainy season, meteorological alert was established after each of the Chinese nuclear weapons tests October 1966, December 1966, and December 1967. The criteria used to alert the collection network of a forecasted storm system included the presence of a well-defined jet stream and a forecast for precipitation in excess of 3 mm. over a majority of the sampling sites. 

IL R D plan of Chinese nuclear hydrogen production plan in the following five years... 

William Burr and Jeffrey Richelson, Whether to Strangle the Baby in the Cradle The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64, International Security 25(3) (Winter 2000/1), pp. 54-99. This is discussed in Chapter 2. 

JCSM-986-63, 31 July 1963, PRUS 1961-3, VII, p. 24K NSC paper, Destruction of Chinese Nuclear Weapons Capabilities, 14 December 1964, China Folder, Box 5, NSF, LBJL. 

The Chinese nuclear test also galvanized a change in American public opinion toward China. While polls still showed that Americans believed by three-to-one margins that China would turn out to be a greater threat to the U.S. than the Soviet Union, they also revealed that the public was now more favorably disposed toward UN membership for the PRC than ever before. This led the State Department s opinion analyst to note a growing feeling that reality dictated greater Sino-American contacts. 

Chinese capabilities. After he took office, Nixon reiterated his distrust of the less rational Chinese Communist leaders, presenting his decision to press forward with developing Johnson s initiative of a limited antibal-listic missile system as primarily a safeguard against a possible Chinese nuclear attack. ... 

Rogers to RN, The Possibility of a Soviet Strike against Chinese Nuclear Facilities, 10 September 1969, DEF iz CFIICOM folder, Box 152,9, CFPF(i967-9), RG59, NA INR, Implications of Sino-Soviet Developments. n Bundy, Tangled Web, p. 104. 

On this point, Patrick Tyler has suggested, on the contrary, that Nixon considered a deal with Moscow by which the United States would have acquiesced to a Soviet attack on Chinese nuclear facilities in return... 

In the Chinese nuclear power programme, PWR has been selected for the first generation of reactor types. Based on it the lack of Uranium resources will be occurring if the total nuclear capacity in large scale is needed. So the FBRs will play a very important role for meeting the nuclear ... 

Wang Dazhong etc, "Chinese Nuclear Heating Test Reactor and Demonstration Plant", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 136 (1992) 91-98... 

CENDL is the Chinese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library Project, compiled at the Chinese Nuclear Data Centre, Beijing. The cturent version is CENDL-2.1R. 

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