Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex
Monday, 8th May 2006 by James Turnbull
Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex is purportedly used for the manufacture of China's Nuclear weapons. The plant is centred in a small patch of high-resolution satellite photography, but I'm sure those readers who understand Nuclear power plants can tell all sorts from the various buildings and reactors.
I'm sadly not one of those people, but it does seem to me that there's Hanzi writing in these unused cooling towers? I suppose it could be a safety warning if you happen to be in the tower or maybe it's a message to the US, who have been monitoring the area via satellite since 1962.
More info and historical satellite photos on GlobalSecurity.org.
Thanks: Tim
I don’t think that’s large type inside the cooling towers, just the sunlight and silhouette of the small supports that go all around the base of the tower.
Score, a WMD facility? I hit the jackpot! All I did was submit this and ask what it is.
oh-oh! Don’t let Bush read this. He could try to “free” China 😉
By the way: Here
View Placemark
is a former nuclear power plant which was transformed into some kind of theme park. Crazy.
mash: This is the nuclear power plant in Kalkar, Germany. It was never in use and the project was abandoned in 1991. The site did cost 3.5 Billion Euro to build but was later sold for merely 2.5 Million Euro and then transformed to a hotel and theme park.
[url=http://www.kernies-familienpark.de/seiten/allgemein.cfm?artikelblockNr=80&spracheschluessel=de]Link to the theme park with some images ( requires Java )[/url]. Page is in german though.
Hopefully this works better?
http://www.kernies-familienpark.de/seiten/allgemein.cfm?artikelblockNr=80&spracheschluessel=de