A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea is to restart the mothballed Yongbyon nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007 in a move that could produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons as well as for domestic electricity production, its KCNA news agency said on April 2, 2013. As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation, a move that could give it a second path to the bomb. Picture taken June 27, 2008.
New satellite images indicate North Korea has restarted a reactor at a site used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, a think tank has said.
US-based 38 North, which monitors the secretive communist state, said images taken on 22 January suggested operations at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre had resumed and could be running at a “considerable” level.
In a report, it said the pictures show “a water plume (most probably warm) originating from the cooling water outlet of the reactor, an indication that the reactor is very likely operating.”
Last week, 38 North said satellite images taken on 18 January showed signs that Pyongyang was preparing to restart the reactor with the unloading of spent fuel rods.
It added the implications of activity at the site “remain unclear except to reaffirm that the Yongbyon facility remains the centre of North Korea’s nuclear programme”.New satellite images indicate North Korea has restarted a reactor at a site used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, a think tank has said.
US-based 38 North, which monitors the secretive communist state, said images taken on 22 January suggested operations at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre had resumed and could be running at a “considerable” level.
In a report, it said the pictures show “a water plume (most probably warm) originating from the cooling water outlet of the reactor, an indication that the reactor is very likely operating.”
Last week, 38 North said satellite images taken on 18 January showed signs that Pyongyang was preparing to restart the reactor with the unloading of spent fuel rods.
It added the implications of activity at the site “remain unclear except to reaffirm that the Yongbyon facility remains the centre of North Korea’s nuclear programme”.
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