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Some areas of the region are so devastated, or have been deemed so unstable, that officials have given up hope of rebuilding. Officials plan to relocate the city of Beichuan, where more than 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed, and designate the current site as a memorial.
About 10,000 survivors from nearby Qingchuan county will be resettled in other provinces because the "tough natural environment" makes it impossible to find a safe place to rebuild those homes, the New China News Agency reported.
In the past week, Sichuan's vice governor, Li Chengyun, said it will take three years to rebuild cities and roads in the province.
Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister of environmental protection, said at a news conference Friday in Beijing that there had been four chemical leaks but that quick action to contain them prevented damage to the surrounding environment. He said teams had recovered 35 of 50 known radioactive sources in the quake region. Experts said the devices are probably small, the type used in hospitals, for example.
Wu said there had been no radiation leaks as a result of the 15 missing devices .
Drew reported from Beijing. Researchers Zhang Jie and Liu Songjie and washingtonpost.com staff writer Travis Fox contributed to this report.
