NOAA

M.1976.10

Les installations de centrales électriques géantes de l’avenir pourraient générer aussi bien de l’électricité que du brouillard, des précipitations accrues et des tourbillons parmi les effets secondaires possibles, estiment deux chercheurs.

Plant 221

P.1958-5

Among the yak herds and Tibetan Buddhism prayer flags dotting the windswept highlands of northwestern China stand the ruins of a remote, hidden city that vanished from the maps in 1958.

The decaying clusters of workshops, bunkers and dormitories are remnants of Plant 221, also known as China’s Los Alamos. Here, on a mountain-high grassland called Jinyintan in Qinghai Province, thousands of Tibetan and Mongolian herders were expelled to create a secret town where a nuclear arsenal was built to defend Mao Zedong’s revolution.