Anti-nuclear activists on Friday filed a criminal complaint against the operators of a plutonium reactor that overheated in December, accusing them of lying in official reports of the accident.
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In return, North Korea agreed to freeze nuclear weapons production, shut down a plutonium reactor and halt construction on two other nuclear reactors c # pable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.
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The plutonium reactor project is already badly behind schedule following a series of other setbacks, including problems with a system that handles fuel pellets within the reactor . ( km-sjs)
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Under the framework, North Korea agreed to shut down the plutonium reactors and to allow inspectors into the country in exchange for fuel supplies and the promised construction of replacement reactors.
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The accident and the cover-up have renewed the controversy over Japan's use of plutonium reactors, whose dangers and high cost have convinced most countries to shun large breeder reactors like Monju.
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Japan's plutonium reactor project took a serious blow Thursday when the government, angered by a partial cover-up of an accident there, decided to beef up its own investigation into the incident.
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Over Christmas, North Korea began to deliver fuel rods to the plutonium reactor at Yongbyon, and deactivated the cameras and electronic monitors U . N . inspectors have kept there since 1994.
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Even after the " framework " agreement was struck, where North Korean would replace its reactors low-yielding plutonium reactors, North Korea reneged when it discovered the new reactors were coming from South Korea.
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North Korea had a 5-megawatt plutonium reactor at Yongbyon and two bigger reactors, with capacities of 50 megawatts and 200 megawatts respectively, under construction when it signed the 1994 agreement with the United States.
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A coolant leak that forced operators to shut down a controversial plutonium reactor last month was traced Monday to a cracked heat sensor that allowed the caustic sodium coolant to escape from its pipe.
