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Chinese Military Sent Special Nuclear Cleanup Unit into a Quake-damaged Sichuan Area
Sankei Shimbun ^
| 06/28/08
Posted on 06/28/2008 3:09:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
See my translation below
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; earthquake; environment; nuclear; radioactivematerial; sichuan
/begin my translation
Chinese Military Sent Special Nuclear Cleanup Unit into Sichuan Earthquake Area
2008.6.28 13:02
China's People's Liberation Army sent a special unit of 2,746 soldiers into an area in Sichuan devastated by major earthquakes, where they are cleaning up nuclear and chemical materials. It was reported by China Press, an overseas Chinese wire services.
The unit are cleaning up harmful radioactive materials such as Cobalt 60 from a cement factory which was destroyed. They are also dealing with ammonia and hydrochloric acid leaking out of a chemical plant. "The threat to disaster victims was (being?) removed," (according to the military authorities.)
The unit says that soldiers with special skills of nuclear and chemical cleanup were selected from all over the military.
/end my translation
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:10:06 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
That would be the cleanup team of Stumpy, Bright Eyes, GlowBoy, and ol’ three arms. :^)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Where is Sichuan relative to Beijing? A little nuclear radiation could ruin your whole Olympics.
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:14:44 AM PDT
by
Judges Gone Wild
(Judges are not above the Constitution. Remove them when they violate it.)
To: Judges Gone Wild
Thousands of miles away.
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:19:10 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Judges Gone Wild
Sorry. It is about 940 miles from Beijing.
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:25:18 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Do they call it “The America Syndrome” ?
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:29:36 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Why does a cement factory use Cobalt 60?
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:35:11 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Some suspect that the cement factory is in fact a nuclear waste disposal facility. Or there is another kind of nuclear facility on or below the ground at the site.
This area is full of underground nuclear weapon's facilities.
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:40:10 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Nuclear waste mixed into liquid cement, pumped to below ground storage.
But that’s just a theory. Nothing concrete on that.
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posted on
06/28/2008 3:50:14 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Tainan
Nuclear waste mixed into liquid cement, pumped to below ground storage.
But thats just a theory. Nothing concrete on that.
Your theory sounds rock solid to me...
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posted on
06/28/2008 4:04:16 AM PDT
by
aviator
(Armored Pest Control)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Boy! That’s one way to control population. It isn’t beyond belief that it’s been done by governments and will be done by the One World Government, because those highly-placed imbeciles still believe the defunct Malthusian theory.
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posted on
06/28/2008 4:20:05 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Cobalt 60 has a use in measuring concrete densities. So, given a cement factory and the possibility they're making pre-cast forms at the same site, you could have some cobalt-60 testing devices around and they'd probably need to be "cleaned up".
Just guessing these are portable devices, not like the linear accelerators used in hospitals.
BTW, there are numerous (by the gazillion) references on the net to cobalt 60 so I just looked for non-medical uses, and there it was.
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posted on
06/28/2008 5:33:14 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
(We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Chinese Military Special Nuclear Cleanup Unit in the area will feed rumors that a underground nuclear test triggered the Sichuan Earthquake.
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