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N. Korea re-activates 5 megawatt nuke reactor (to small to provide electricity)
Fox News Channel | February 26, 2003

Posted on 02/26/2003 2:03:08 PM PST by Tree of Liberty

John Gibson just broke in with a news alert stating that North Korea has just re-activated a 5 megawatt nuclear reactor. The only purpose of such a small reactor is to enrich uranium, since it cannot provide electricity to be useful in that regard.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atomic; dprk; northkorea; nuclear; reactor
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1 posted on 02/26/2003 2:03:09 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
Thanks again Bill Clinton, Madeline Allbright.
2 posted on 02/26/2003 2:04:36 PM PST by theDentist (So..... This is Virginia..... where are all the virgins?)
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To: Tree of Liberty; Poohbah
The 509th Strategic Bombardment Wing may be getting a phone call soon.
3 posted on 02/26/2003 2:04:44 PM PST by hchutch ("Last suckers crossed, Syndicate shot'em up" - Ice-T, "I'm Your Pusher")
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To: Tree of Liberty
Saw that on MSNBC too.....
4 posted on 02/26/2003 2:04:55 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: Tree of Liberty
Kim ....will continue to turn up the heat...until the ballon goes up in Iraq. Then Kimmy crawls back into his hole..
5 posted on 02/26/2003 2:06:10 PM PST by Dog (Life , Liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it...)
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To: Tree of Liberty
Seems like there's plenty of NK b.s. going around today.

North Korea has decided against restarting reactor, Powell says.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852491/posts

6 posted on 02/26/2003 2:08:19 PM PST by Rain-maker
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To: Tree of Liberty
Slowly he turned....step by step...inch by inch...
7 posted on 02/26/2003 2:08:52 PM PST by mhking (As we entered Kuwait, the visitors' side of the scoreboard lit up...)
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To: Dog
I'm way past the point of caring that bombing the plant will spread radiation around the area. That's better than having atoms split above (or below, for that matter) our troops.
8 posted on 02/26/2003 2:09:01 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
Do You Know The Way To Pyongyang..........


9 posted on 02/26/2003 2:09:24 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: Rain-maker
That article was from the Scotsman, which is a very leftist publication. I haven't seen it printed anywhere else.
10 posted on 02/26/2003 2:10:12 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
I thought I just read something that said that they werent going to start up the reactor, or was that a different reactor.
12 posted on 02/26/2003 2:15:23 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Husker24
That was the scotsman article referred to above. I believe we're all talking about the same reactor.
13 posted on 02/26/2003 2:17:33 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: hchutch
��5{�������� Strategic Bombardment Wing may be getting a phone call soon.

Might want to give the Navy a call too, so they can bring in some Tomahawk armed subs. Hell, they can bring a few boomers too since we might have to level the whole country.

14 posted on 02/26/2003 2:19:27 PM PST by Norman Arbuthnot
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To: Tree of Liberty
I'd bet that the NK's heard Powell's statement that they had not yet restarted the reactor...and that this was seen by the US as a positive sign of their intentions. So they decided to make sure their (negative) intentions are known.
15 posted on 02/26/2003 2:19:35 PM PST by jerseygirl
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To: Tree of Liberty
I would believe they were going to start it up to provide electricity if they had electric power lines hooked up to the facility.

If you look at satellite imagery of the facility, there isnt a power line to be found in the area, much less one hooked to the plant.

Its only job is to be a high speed processing facility. (Yongbin)
16 posted on 02/26/2003 2:21:15 PM PST by judicial meanz (If you sacrfice your freedom and liberty for a feeling of security, you dont deserve to be free)
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To: Tree of Liberty
A small correction.
Its for creating Pu239, not enriching U235.
17 posted on 02/26/2003 2:24:34 PM PST by Zathras
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To: theDentist
***UPDATE***

U.S. Officials state that the facility is operational, but Reuters reports that the nuclear fuel reprocessing center is still off-line

18 posted on 02/26/2003 2:27:42 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: judicial meanz
Reference post 16

Here is a link to aerial photos:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/yongbyon-imagery.htm


Notice the lack of electric power lines, generators, or other electric power generating quipment.
19 posted on 02/26/2003 2:28:21 PM PST by judicial meanz (If you sacrfice your freedom and liberty for a feeling of security, you dont deserve to be free)
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To: Zathras
Only reporting what I'm hearing on Fox
20 posted on 02/26/2003 2:28:37 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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