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LDK Solar, GT Solar Make Nice

They're actually building three poly plants right now, not two.

The first one is 1000 MT. The second one is 5000 MT. The third one is 10,000 MT.

They're also building their own trichlorosilane (TCS) plant to supply silicon feedstock for the poly plants. TCS is dangerous stuff, where even the current world leader in poly production, MEMC, had an industrial accident at one of its TCS plants in Texas recently that may have killed a few workers.

Not many people realize the importance of LDK making their own TCS, which is risky to make as well as to transport. But LDK will be transporting it to their poly plants by pipeline on a highly secure site.

Still, no matter how careful they are, when humans are involved accidents are inevitable. But it's impossible to put a dollar value on that risk. LDK just has to cross their fingers and pray, which has worked by and largefor U.S. nuclear power since 1979 (with some spectacular near-misses only nuke insiders bother to read about).

Hey, anyone know a good source of seismic risk maps for China? China might keep them state secrets.