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中国科学院
PRESIDENT: Huang-fu Min
VICE PRESIDENT: Liu Xinrong
OTHER NAMES: Chinese Academy of Atomic Energy Science; 2nd Academy; No. 2 Research and Design Institute of the Nuclear Industry
FORMER NAMES: Beijing Institute of Nuclear Energy (Engineering) (BINE), Beijing Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, Institute of Atomic Energy, code name 601 (later 401)
Located at Tuoli, 35 km south of Beijing (116/03E/39.48N). Established in 1958. Successor to the Institute for Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). Soviet-supplied nuclear reactor and a cyclotron, which began operating in June 1958, located at the site.
Produces uranium hexafluoride (UF6). Produced over 10 tons of UF6 during research and development of UF6 production under the code name "Project 161" after July 1960.
Other activities include work on engineering design, reactor physics, reactor protection systems, and waste disposal technologies. Previously involved in the development of atomic and hydrogen bombs and nuclear submarines.
Responsible for Qinshan-2 and 3 (Qinshan Phase 2) with the Southwest Reactor Engineering Research and Design Academy.
[Sources: Yan Kong, "China's Nuclear Bureaucracy," Jane's Intelligence Review, July 1993, pp. 323, 326; ;"World Nuclear Industry Handbook 1996," Nuclear Engineering International, p. 126; Guide to Enterprises, p. 15; Ann Maclachlan, "Framatome Wins CNNC Deal For Qinshan Vessels, In-core Systems," Nucleonics Week, 4 January 1996, p. 11; Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume 5, pp. 341, 345.]
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