China has built the first prototype of a nuclear reactor for an aircraft carrier

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China has produced a prototype of a land-based nuclear reactor for a surface military ship. The Associated Press reports on satellite images and documents from the Chinese government.

Experts from the Middlebury Institute for International Studies sp;Montereys cultivated a Georgian farmstead between the Leshan town near the rainy day of the Chinese in the province of Sichuan, through suspicions that China will have a reactor there for the production of plutonium and tritium for weapons.

Instead, the investigators revealed, in their words, the prototype of a reactor for a great military ship. Such a summary was compiled on the basis of satellite images, project tenders, special inquiries to personnel and monitoring of the influx of Dovkill. Yak write AP, the new reactor was installed on Base 999 — about the project, controlled by the Institute of Nuclear Power of China.

The successors also stated that the Chinese Institute 701, responsible for the development aircraft carriers, having purchased a reactor not equipped for installation on a large surface military ship. within the framework of the defense project.

AP calls the prototype the clearest sign that Beijing is collapsing before the construction of the country's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

China has long been the world's largest the military and naval fleet, which is rapidly being modernized. The appearance of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the Chinese fleet is significant that Chinese forces are carrying out activities around the world, which will be a big boost for the United States. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will only be present in the United States and France.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will last longer, less urgently, but after being put into operation they may be lost at sea longer, the fragments will not require refueling, and on its side there will be more space and armor for the pilots.

For example, 11 aircraft carriers allow the United States to steadily train a number of strike groups deployed around the world.

It may be three in China aircraft carrier, new ship type 003 Fujian is on display. Beijing stated that work on the fourth is already exciting, but it is unknown whether it will be major or nuclear.

Prepared by: Serhiy Daga