Yongbyon2 50 MW
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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: GlobalSecurity.org: Yongbyon 50 MWe reactor; Arms Control Association: the Agreed Framework at a glance.
The 50 MWe reactor at Yongbyon is a gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor that North Korea began building in the 1980s beside its 5 MWe plutonium production reactor.
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Construction was frozen in 1994, before the reactor was finished, under the US-North Korea Agreed Framework, which required the frozen facilities to be dismantled. US visitors later found the building badly deteriorated. North Korea said in 2005 that it had resumed construction.
Never completed: construction frozen in 1994