Yongbyon2 5 MW
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39.7975, 125.755
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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Institute for Science and International Security: the 5 MWe reactor; 38 North: new construction at the plutonium production reactor, 2013.
The 5 MWe reactor at Yongbyon is a small gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor of the Magnox type, the first of North Korea's plutonium production reactors and the source of most of its plutonium. Construction began in 1980 and the reactor first went critical in 1985.
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It was shut down in 1994 under the US-North Korea Agreed Framework, ran again after that agreement collapsed, and was shut down and disabled in 2007 under the Six-Party Talks; its cooling tower was demolished in June 2008. Satellite imagery showed work to restart it in 2013.