Was Chinas earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident?
Episode 1 on May 21 has provoked a quiet, growing buzz around the web, with several sites suggesting that there is more here than simply my speculation about this possibility. My crack research team drilled down and couldn’t find much beyond obviously politically charged, not-very-well hidden anti-China agendas. So I asked the team to spend some time last evening chasing down the graphic and map that accompanied the dead tree edition of the May 16, 2008 New York Times, whose page 12 story by William J. Broad discussed the location of China’s nuclear weapons plants and facilities, noting that they are close to the quake’s epicenter. Broad wrote, “China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province. The vast site holds China’s largest production reactor and factories that mine its spent fuel for plutonium — the main ingredient for moder
