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China on alert against radiation leaks [1]

China is on precautionary alert against possible radiation leaks from the deadliest earthquake to hit the country in three decades, according to a government website. The disaster area is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuclear power stations. Minister of environmental protection Zhou Shengxian convened an emergency meeting late on Monday, hours after the 7.9 magnitude tremor rocked the southwestern province of

Publication Date: 
17/05/2008
Tribune (New Delhi) [2]
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Natural Disasters [3], Earthquakes [4], Radiation [5], Nuclear Wastes [6], China [7]

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