JABAR EKSPRES — Satellite images show “high levels of activity” at North Korea’s main nuclear facility, a US organization says.
This took place when leader Kim Jong Un had ordered the expansion of the country’s weapons-grade nuclear material production.
The image taken in March shows that the completion of the light water reactor (light water reactor) experiments at the nuclear complex in Yongbyon were imminent, the website of 38 North, a Washington-based monitoring organization for North Korean activity, said Saturday (1/4).
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Light water reactor uses water as a cooling method and a neutron moderator which reduces the speed of fast moving neutrons.
This reactor produces heat by controlled nuclear fission. There are several different vital parts of this reactor that make nuclear energy generation possible.
A release of water had also been “detected which could be linked to testing” of the reactor’s cooling system, said the organization 38 North which also noted that the step of the release of water indicated the device was “approaching transition to operational status.”
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In late March, North Korea’s KCNA News Agency reported that Kim Jong Un said his country “should continue to make efforts to steadily strengthen its nuclear force.”
Pyongyang has launched a series of ballistic missiles recently, and there are growing fears that North Korea may be preparing to carry out its seventh nuclear test, its first since September 2017.
