This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon, I'm John Bachelors.

Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host. We're very pleased to welcome Bill Gertz National Security

Correspondent for the Washington Times author most recently of deceiving the

sky inside the Communist China's Drive for global supremacy including of course nuclear arsenal.

Bill a very good evening to you thank you for this the headline in your esteemed paper The Washington Times, with an assist from Russia,

China's plutonium reactors fuel strategic arms buildup.

Is this something fresh that we didn't anticipate or was this always logic in the proliferation of nuclear reactors?

Good evening to you, Bill.

Good evening, John, thanks for having me.

Yeah, this is a relatively new development. It involves two advanced

nuclear reactors that China is building south of Shanghai and they're called

fast neutron reactors and it's an advanced technology

that the Russians perfected and are assisting China in developing.

And they began developing these in 2017-18 at exactly the same time that China stopped sending

its voluntary information on its plutonium stocks to the International Atomic

Energy Agency.

So that kind of set off alarm bells in the intelligence community.

One of the two reactors is going online, was scheduled to go online late last year, last month or so, the last couple of months.

And the key element here is that these are producing plutonium.

Now you can say that they're for electricity, but as Henry Sikalsky of the Nonproliferation

policy education center told me.

He said they're lousy at doing electricity.

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