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PREVIEW: #RUSSIA: #PRC: #PLUTONIUM: Excerpt from a conversation with Bill Gertz of the Washington Times re the Putin-directed and Russia-assisted buiding of fast breeder reactors in China near Shanghai that can produce for Xi the plutonium needed for mis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

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PREVIEW: #RUSSIA: #PRC: #PLUTONIUM: Excerpt from a conversation with Bill Gertz of the Washington Times re the Putin-directed and Russia-assisted buiding of fast breeder reactors in China near Shanghai that can produce for Xi the plutonium needed for missile launched nuclear weapons. More of this tomorrow.

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What follows is an excerpt from a conversation with Bill Gertz of the Washington Times

0:34.7

about the Russian-assisted buildup of nuclear weapons in the hands of the People's Republic of China

0:42.0

building silosites in the northwest of China.

0:45.2

What's important here is that Russia is aiding by advancing the technology associated with

0:51.4

fast breeder reactors that can create plutonium.

0:55.1

Plutonium is the fuel of the nuclear weapon.

0:59.2

This is Bill Gerts describing the fast-paced buildup and that Russia is assisting.

1:07.0

Vladimir Putin threatening tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, building strategic nuclear weapons in Asia?

1:16.0

Well, yes, the Chinese are engaged in a massive nuclear weapons buildup, and this was discovered around the same time that these

1:25.6

reactors started back in 2018, 2019, 2010, 2020 time frame and they're

1:32.3

building a massive missile field in Western China where

1:36.6

they're going to have up to 360 DF-41 solid-fueled nuclear missiles.

1:43.7

So they're ramping up production of plutonium to fuel the warheads for those missiles that are

1:50.1

in Western China.

1:51.5

So you have two reactors in eastern China near Shanghai

1:56.4

that are cranking out large amounts of plutonium and they also have what the

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