Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 05:37:25 -0400
 
  22 may 1996 (UPI) -- Officials in northwest China said
Wednesday 16 tons of scrap metals imported primarily from
Karzakhstan were contaminated with radioactivity. "All the
contamination detected was surface radiation, and no radiation
source has been found within the metals," Zhang Yuechun, head
of the Environmental Monitoring Department in the  Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region, said.  
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  22 may 1996 (UPI) -- China and the United States are teaming
up to build an experimental thermonuclear facility that will
be the largest in the world, the official Xinhua news agency
reported Wednesday. The project, an HT-7U Super Conductive
Tokamak Control Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Facility, is
expected to be completed in China by 2000.