North Korea’s reactor produced plutonium, not power

Seoul, July 15: North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor was ostensibly built to generate electricity but is reportedly not connected to any power lines.

Instead, experts say, it has produced enough plutonium from its fuel rods for possibly up to a dozen nuclear weapons over its 20-year history.


The US State Department said yesterday it had been told that the reactor and other facilities at Yongbyon had been shut down, as part of a six-nation nuclear disarmament deal agreed in February.

UN nuclear inspectors and a first shipment of fuel oil, promised in return for the shutdown, arrived in the communist state earlier in the day.

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