North Korea nuclear reactor site threatened by recent flooding, says US think-tank

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SEOUL: Satellite imagery suggests recent flooding in North Korea may have damaged pump houses connected to the country's main nuclear facility, a ...

SEOUL: Satellite imagery suggests recent flooding in North Korea may have damaged pump houses connected to the country's main nuclear facility, a US-based think-tank said on Thursday .

The five-megawatt reactor - believed to be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium - does not appear to have been operating for some time, and an Experimental Light Water Reactor has not yet come online, but such flooding in the future would likely force a shutdown, the 38 North report said."Damage to the pumps and piping within the pump houses presents the biggest vulnerability to the reactors," the report said.

 

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