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N. Korea completes reprocessing of 8,000 spent fuel rods: KCNA
Kyodo News ^
| 11/3/2009
Posted on 11/03/2009 12:15:42 AM PST by james500
North Korea has completed reprocessing of some 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyong nuclear facility and weaponized the plutonium extracted from the material, the country's official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; northkorea; plutonium; spentfuelrods; uranium; weaponizedplutonium; yongbyong
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:15:43 AM PST
by
james500
To: james500
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:18:11 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: james500; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; endthematrix; ...
So this is what they mean by 'going their own way' if U.S. does not play ball. At least the opening act.
So is N. Korea working on another nuke test if Zero does not come along?
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:33:26 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: james500
The Norkies’ fibs about their achievements put Baghdad Bob to shame. Though it’s certainly very clear what they are trying to do.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:33:54 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America.)
To: james500
Where do they get the money from to do all this???
Oh yeah I forgot
Us.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:35:27 AM PST
by
DontTreadOnMe2009
(So stop treading on me already!)
To: james500
North Korea has completed reprocessing of some 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyong nuclear facility Oh the irony... A Carter EO continues to prohibit the United States from nuclear fuel reprocessing on the argument that it might lead to nuclear proliferation.
It was the single most significant factor in creating the "nuclear waste problem" that killed any future growth in the nuclear power industry. Needless to say, it pleased his buddy David Rockefeller to no end.
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posted on
11/03/2009 1:03:29 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
To: james500
Thats enough for several uranium "gun type" weapon used in Hiroshima
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posted on
11/03/2009 1:14:15 AM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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posted on
11/03/2009 1:26:57 AM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
To: sonofstrangelove
What is this map detailing?
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posted on
11/03/2009 4:37:58 AM PST
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: sonofstrangelove
But, this is plutonium, tho, and I think the advantage of that is that it works for IMPLOSION designs, whereas unranium does not, as I understand it, and thus, it is better suited for thermonuclear weapons...H-Bombs.
To: myknowledge
All of their nuclear reactors,missile bases,chemical weapon bases,biological weapons labs and airbases.
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posted on
11/03/2009 3:50:40 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
To: 2harddrive
Its easier to build a “gun weapon” than a implosion weapon.
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posted on
11/03/2009 3:51:39 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
To: sonofstrangelove
YES, and so simple, that there is NO NEED to test them! They tested the implosion one, exploded over the NM desert in July 1945, but they did not HAVE to tast the Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima! (A gun barral style U-235 bomb)
To: 2harddrive
You are correct. But the North Koreans would test one anyhow.
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posted on
11/04/2009 3:49:23 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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