NOR Lop

The NOR Lop ( Lake Mongolian Lop in ), emerged of the river Tarim in the east of the Deserted of Taklamakan, is an immense salted marsh whose surface decreases with the wire of the centuries. It is located at the south of Tourfan and the north of the old town of Miran, in the Mongolian autonomous Préfecture of Bayin' gholin of the Chinese autonomous region of the Xinjiang.

The vastest site of nuclear tests in the world

Lop Nor is the site of the nuclear tests Chinese: 45 atomic explosions were carried out there between 1964 and 1996, including 23 in the atmosphere, the last having taken place in 1980.

The choice of the test area was established in October 1959, on the Russian councils of experts. The general headquarter of the operations is based in the scientific city of Malan, also residence of the scientific and technical personnel, which was built to a hundred kilometers in the north of the test area, close to the Lac Bosten.

At the beginning of the activities, the inhabitants of the close localities were not evacuated and it is only in the Années 1970 that they started to be moved for a few days at the time them tests before being authorized to return on the spot. An increase in cancers and malformations with the birth were noted among the local population, the figure of: 200000 deaths related to the nuclear tests having even been advanced by opponents Ouïghours.

The presence of the center involved demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the populations local ouïghoures, in particular in March 1993, where the popular Armée with release to drawn on a thousand from demonstrators ouïghours who had met in front of the site, involving a violent riot, important property damages inside the site, as well as many victims.

One estimated in the Années 1990 at approximately: 85000 the number of people who still lived in the vicinity immediate of the old test areas, consequently subjected to a level of radioactive pollution dangerously high.

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