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China General Nuclear Power Group was founded in 1994 as the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and changed to its current name in 2013. [36]: 202 It is also supervised by SASAC. [36]: 202 Its headquarters are in Shenzhen. [36]: 202 As of 2017, China General Nuclear Power Group manages 20 reactors. [36]: 202
Historically, China has been implicated in the development of the Pakistani nuclear program before China ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1992. In the early 1980s, China is believed to have given Pakistan a "package" including uranium enrichment technology, high-enriched uranium, and the design for a compact ...
2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, estimated total 340x10 15 to 780x10 15 Bq, with 80% falling into the Pacific Ocean. [7] Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant cooling water dumped (leaked) to the sea – TEPCO estimate 4.7x10 15 Bq, Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission estimate 15x10 15 Bq, [8] French Nuclear Safety Committee estimate 27x10 15 ...
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Various forms of pollution have increased as China has further industrialized, which has caused widespread environmental and health problems. [36] China has responded with increasing environmental regulations and a build-up of pollutant treatment infrastructure which have caused improvements on some variables.
The immense population growth in the People's Republic of China since the 1980s has resulted in increased soil pollution. [citation needed] The State Environmental Protection Administration believes it to be a threat to the environment, food safety and sustainable agriculture. 38,610 square miles (100,000 km 2) of China's cultivated land have been polluted, with contaminated water being used ...
A nuclear-powered carrier would be a major step toward China's "blue-water" navy ambitions. Researchers say they found evidence that China has built a prototype nuclear reactor to power a large ...
Nuclear power plants in normal operation emit less radioactivity than coal power plants. [69] [70] Unlike coal-fired or oil-fired power generation, nuclear power generation does not directly produce any sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, or mercury (pollution from fossil fuels is blamed for 24,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. alone [71 ...