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China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE)
中国原子能研究所
DIRECTOR: Sun Zhuxun
ACTING PRESIDENT: Zhao Zhixiang
VICE PRESIDENT: Yang Tianlu
PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT and DIRECTOR OF FAST REACTOR DEPARTMENT: Qian Shunfa
FAST REACTOR DEPARTMENT CHIEF ENGINEER: Xu Mi
STAFF: 3,400 personnel including 9 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 43 Supervisors for doctoral students and 660 senior scientists and engineers.
OTHER NAMES: Institute 401; Chinese Research Institute of Atomic Energy Sciences; Chinese Academy of Nuclear Energy
PREVIOUS NAMES: Institute of Atomic Energy; Code name 601; Nuclear Energy Research Institute
LOCATION: Tuoli, 35 km south of Beijing in "China Nuclear Town." Established in 1984.
CIAE is the main research organization of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). It conducts research and development in nuclear physics, reactor engineering, nuclear technology, plutonium extraction, and uranium isotope separation and is involved in the research, development, and application of nuclear and radiation science and technology. It has ten accelerators, two electromagnetic isotope separators, hot cells, and other facilities for reactor engineering, radiochemistry, and isotope research and production and conducted early research on the hydrogen bomb and uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production. CIAE succeeded the Institute for Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Location of research reactors.
Before the establishment of the Lanzhou plant, it was also the location of the gaseous diffusion laboratory where China developed its uranium enrichment technique. It is responsible for eight research institutes and more than 50 research offices, and is currently designing and constructing a 60 MWth (25 MWe) sodium-cooled experimental fast breeder reactor (FBR) with Russian cooperation.
[Sources: Guide to Enterprises, p. 6; Yan Kong, "China's Nuclear Bureaucracy," Jane's Intelligence Review, July 1993, p. 326; Chen Zhaobo, "Development Of Nuclear Power In China," Nuclear Europe Worldscan, November-December 1995, p. 49; Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume 5, p. 340; Risk Report, November 1995, p. 6; Qian Shunfa, Yang Tianlu and Xu Mi, "Fast Reactor Technology Development," Nuclear Europe Worldscan, November/December, 1999, pP. 53, 58; Guo Nei, "PRC Official Stresses Role of Nuclear Technology for Defense, Energy," Beijing China Daily, 28 September 2000, in FBIS CPP20000928000026.]
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