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| North Korea restarts plutonium reactor | |
| 2016-02-10 | |
| North Korea has expanded a uranium enrichment facility and restarted a plutonium reactor that could start recovering spent fuel in weeks or months, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday in delivering the annual assessment by intelligence agencies of the top dangers facing the country. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that Pyongyang announced in 2013 its intention to refurbish and restart nuclear facilities, to include the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon and its graphite-moderated plutonium production reactor, which was shut down in 2007. "We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor," Clapper said in an opening statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor's spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 "What a nightmare it must be to be an engineer in norkland" refurbish and restart nuclear facilities Oh, it doesn't last very long. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-02-10 13:55 |
| #4 What a nightmare it must be to be an engineer in norkland. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-02-10 11:50 |
| #3 What're the bets juche maintenance while it was mothballed was - somewhat lacking? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-02-10 11:24 |
| #2 We need the dems and obama out of office yesterday. Sigh... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-02-10 06:48 |
| #1 Lest we fergit, CHINA = has scores of tens of 000's of security forces in NOKOR whose main mission is to protect the Kim regime from North Koreans. * YOMIURI SHIMBUN > SEOUL: [NOKOR] ROCKET MORE POWERFUL, i.e. longer-ranged than the 10,000-km one launched back in 2012. The new one is 12,000-km ranged, + can reach MOST OF CONUS. FYI other MSM-Net Artics claim 13,000-km range. * TOPIX > US RESPONSES TO NORTH KOREA NUKE, ROCKET LAUNCH WILL UPSET CHINA. More than China already is vee the so-called US "Return to Asia" + the USDOD returning to former Cold War or post-USSR, 9-11 Milbases - CHINA FEELING THE CONTAINMENT??? * SAME > [Washington Times] MR. OBAMA'S "STRATEGIC PATIENCE" ON NORTH KOREA HAS FAILED. Ditto IRAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-10 02:02 |