8 16 Construction History of Underground Nuclear Engineering

In the 1960s, the state decided to build a nuclear power plant in the southwest of the rear area. After many investigations and demonstrations, the relevant departments set the site in Baitao Town, Fuling, Chongqing. For the sake of secrecy, the place names of Bai Tao disappeared from the map.

1966, Zhou Enlai approved the construction of China's second nuclear raw material industrial base-the "third-line construction" nuclear reactor and chemical reprocessing project, that is, providing underground nuclear plants for manufacturing nuclear raw materials for atomic bombs. The Central Military Commission specially assigned 8342 troops to undertake the main construction tasks. This is classified as top secret military secret. At the beginning of the factory, the 8 16 project was regarded as a highly confidential military unit of the country. At that time, 8 16 was called "State-owned New Chemical Machinery Factory". There is a regiment in the factory responsible for safety, and no leakage is allowed on the construction site. The mailing address can only be written in Chongqing 45 13 mailbox, and employees' families can't enter the factory, so they can only go home to visit relatives.

Project 8 16 is located in Baitao Town, Fuling, a small town with only a few thousand people on the Wujiang River. For the sake of confidentiality, all people with "problems" will move out, and the geographical names of Bai Tao will disappear from the map. 1In February, 1967, three regiments belonging to the 54th Division of the Corps of Engineers ("Cultural Revolution" code name "8342 troops") entered Sichuan to undertake the construction task of the Southwest Third Line 8 16 project. 1970 A regiment of the 54th Division that participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam and a regiment that stayed at Jiuquan Base were built. The Ministry of Nuclear Energy Industry has also sent three construction companies, whose main tasks are to bridge and pave the way, build factories and residential areas. There are about 654.38+00000 migrant workers in Fuling district and county, and nearly 654.38+00000 are recruited from all over the country and transferred from old factories. In this little-known ravine, nearly 60 thousand people gathered at once.

1975,54th division completed the tunnel construction task and was ordered to leave Bai Tao. 1984 In February, due to the changes in the international situation, the "8 16 Project" was closed and never put into production again. Later, a small number of caves in the "8 16 Project" were used as material warehouses by China Nuclear Industry Construction Peak Chemical General Factory.

When the construction stopped, most of the works had been completed. 1982 When receiving the instruction to postpone the commencement, 85438+06 Factory had completed 85% of the construction project and 60% of the installation project, with a total investment of 740 million yuan. On April 8, 2002, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense agreed to decrypt the 8 16 project with the document (2002) 14.

After several years of preparation, at the end of April, 20 10, as the largest artificial cave in the world and the only nuclear reactor in China, part of the 8 16 cave project began to become a tourist project.