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Satellite pictures of North Korea’s nuclear plants

Satellite Snaps Show North Korea’s Nuclear Progress, Wired.com By  January 13, 2012  Kim Jong Il may be dead, but his legacy in North Korea lives on through the nuclear program he left behind. New satellite images now offer a more detailed view of the work that went into North Korea’s nuclear facilities in Kim’s final years.

The satellite pictures and the simulated models based on them show that North Korea has made notable progress building out its uranium enrichment facilities and accompanying experimental light water reactor since 2009. That progress is noted in a new article by Siegfried Hecker, Robert Carlin and Niko Milonopoulos in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists…….   http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/sat-snaps-north-koreas-nukes/

January 14, 2012 - Posted by | Resources -audiovicual

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