By ETHAN Markoff
NORTH KOREA NEWS – The North Korea “stunned” an American nuclear scientist, showing him vast, new plant for enriching uranium with hundreds of centrifuges already installed and running.
The US nuclear scientist Dr. Seigfried Hecker said he had been shown a nuclear plant where North Korea started building a light water nuclear reactor. He was shocked by the hundreds of centrifuges of enriching uranium, which could be handy in making nuclear warheads.
Former director of the United States' Los Alamos National Laboratory said to a private news daily that he saw modern new plant light-water reactor (in Yongbyon), eventually of the size of about 25 to 30 megawatts. He also informed his findings to White House a few days ago.
The North Korea had said before that they were operating a nuclear power plant with some 2,000 centrifuges. Mr. Hecker is a private visitor to North Korea and the nation allows him to visit the nuclear site.
North Korea and the US have been struggling to reach a peaceful consensus for long, however, in 1994 the United States agreed with North Korea by which several countries were to build two light-water reactors for the nation in return. North Korea also agreed to close down its plutonium producing reactor in Yongbyon.
Nevertheless, the agreement shattered in the year 2002, the US promised to light-water reactors had not materialized, and the North restarted its plutonium project.
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