Thursday, November 29, 2012
IAEA: North Korea pushing ahead with new nuclear reactor
North Korea has made further progress in the construction of a new atomic reactor, the UN nuclear chief reported today, a facility that may extend the country's capacity to produce material for nuclear bombs.
Pyongyang "has continued construction of the light water reactor and largely completed work on the exterior of the main buildings," Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said.
But, he told the IAEA's 35-nation governing board that the UN agency "remains unable to determine the reactor's design features or the likely date for its commissioning."
The light-water reactor is being built at the North's main Yongbyon nuclear facility, which consists of a five-megawatt reactor, a fuel fabrication facility and a plutonium reprocessing plant where weapons-grade material has been extracted from spent fuel rods.
Pyongyang "has continued construction of the light water reactor and largely completed work on the exterior of the main buildings," Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said.
But, he told the IAEA's 35-nation governing board that the UN agency "remains unable to determine the reactor's design features or the likely date for its commissioning."
The light-water reactor is being built at the North's main Yongbyon nuclear facility, which consists of a five-megawatt reactor, a fuel fabrication facility and a plutonium reprocessing plant where weapons-grade material has been extracted from spent fuel rods.
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