01-20-2003, 10:53 AM
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Originally posted by Ar-Cunin:
One small point Magic
The nuclear reactors that the Clinton Administration agreed to help North Korea build were two light-water reactors. These do not produce plutonium as a 'waste'-product - Unlike the reactor that NK recently reactivated, which the two former was supposed to replace.
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The "THEORY" is that the light water reactors do not produce plutonium as waste, but through some scinece I am not too up on (nuclear physics not my main interest) they can be used to accumulate something like 17000grams of plutonium per year, which would allow them to build 60 or so bombs (my info was a bit off when I said 70+). Anyway you look at it, those reactors can be used to produce weapons grade plutonium, and enough of it to be really meaningful.
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