RECONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY THERMAL ELECTRIC POWERPLANTS NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01074R000100490001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 8, 1969
• Content Type: PHOTO

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Attachment to N?1775
8 September 1869
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RECONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT THERMAL ELECTRIC
POWERPLANTS,
NORTH VIETNAM
1. SIGNIFICANCE:
THIS BOARD DEPICTS THE REPAIR OF THE ONE
REMAINING THERMAL ELECTRIC POWERPLANT (TPP)
CAPABLE OF BEING RESTORED IN NORTH VIETNAM, AND
THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF MAJOR EX'T'ERNAL REPAIR AT ANY
TPP.
NAM DINH, NORTH VIETNAM. BEN THUY, NORTH VIETNAM,
SINCE THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM WAS HALTED, ALL
OF THE PREVIOUSLY DAMAGED TPP HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN
RESTORED TO AT LEAST PART OF THEIR ORIGINAL PRO-
DUCT ION CAPABILITY. OF A TOTAL OF 17 PLANTS, FOUR
WERE UNTOUCHED AND 13 WERE STRUCK. CURRENTLY, 10
OF THE STRUCK PLANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED TO
OPERATION WITH THE REMAINING THREE PLANTS ALMOST
TOTALLY DESTROYED AND NO RECONSTRUCTION ATTEMPTS
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work. Their use
should be restricted to the particular briefing boards (s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid only for the re-
porting period as indicated by the date of issue. For information concerning these notes contact Chief, Imagery Exploitation
Group NPIC.
G ROUPI E%C WOED FROM
AViOMAiIC DOWNGRADING
AND DECLASSIFICATION
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4. MISSION READOUT:
OPERATIONS AT THE BEN THT3Y TPP. ANEW COAL PROCESSIlVG SHED, COAL PILES, REPAIRS TO THE
FLUE, AND THE ADDITION OF A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED WATER~WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM ARE EVIDENT.
SMOKE IS OBSERVED EMANATIlVG FROM THE TERMINUS OF THE FUZE, CONFIRMING THAT THE PLANT
IS IN OPERATION. THE EVIDENCE THAT ONLY TWO OF THE THREE FUZES ARE CONNECTED SUGGESTS
THAT THE PLANT IS OPERATIlVG AT APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS CAPACITY.
REVEALS MAJOR EXTERIOR REPAIR TO THE NAM DIlVH TPP. 25X1
PREVIOUSLY, ONLY MINOR ROOF REPAIR OR SHED CONSTRUCTION HAD BEEN OBSERVED AT ANY TPP.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY REVEALS TWO OF THE FOUR HEAVILY DAMAGED COOLING TOWERS BEING REPAIRED
(AND SMOKE EVIDENCES THEIR USE ALTHOUGH STILL IN A STAGE OF REPAIR), CONSTRUCTION OF
ANEW COAL STORA('rE AND PROCESSING BUILDING, CLEARING ACTIVITY, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A
U~I STRUCTURE, REPAIRS TO THE BOILER HOUSE ROOF CONTINUE AND THE FT,UE SYSTEM APPEARS
INACTIVE, SMOKE IS OBSERVED EMANATING FROM BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEWER BOILER HOUSE,,
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work. Their use
should be restricted to the particular briefing boards (s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid only for the re?
porting period az indicated by the date of issue. For information concerning these notes contact Chief, Imagery Exploitation
Group NPIC.
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