North Korean nuclear facility Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center

Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
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North Korea makes it uranium in Pyongyang plant, what is placed near the uranium mining area. The purpose of that platform is to enrich the natural uranium for reactor use, and then the nuclear waste can be used to produce nuclear weapons. In this process, the plutonium would be separated from other waste, and then it will be enriched by using the centrifuges, what are similar, what is used in the uranium-enriching process. But is this the real story of the nuclear capacity of North Korea?

Another way to make nuclear bombs is to use the nuclear material, what was stored in the Soviet-built test reactors in Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, in the reactors, what was produced in 1960's and late 1970's. There is claimed that those reactors produce the only iodide for cancer medication, but if that state doesn't have uranium mines anywhere, the storage of the nuclear material will be ended soon. If there would not be new nuclear material, that means that somebody must sell the uranium ore for North Korea or it must dig from the ground.

But uranium is the very heavy element, and that mining must be very deep, and there is not much uranium in that ore. So the enriching enough uranium for nuclear reactor needs very large chemical platforms and centrifuges. After that, the material would be sent to the reactor for giving neutron radiation for uranium 238, what should transfer to plutonium, and return it to the centrifuges.

The material what would be brought from the nuclear reactor is very high radioactive, and the special protection is needed. So does the North Korean government technology, what must have for transporting that material to the handling platform? If that state used the plutonium, what was based the material, what is stored in Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, there are limits how many nuclear tests that country can make.

Sources

https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/satellite-imagery-north-korea-expanding-uranium-production/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongbyon_Nuclear_Scientific_Research_Center

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http://www.dw.com/image/17014809_303.jpg

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