| 41. | One, for a pair of new, 440-megawatt light water reactors, got little attention when it was signed in May 1993.
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| 42. | In contrast to its current nuclear facilities, the North would have great difficulty converting the light water reactors for weapons production.
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| 43. | Its VVER-1000 pressurized light water reactor is considered to be safer than the RBMK-1000 graphite reactor used at the Chernobyl plant.
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| 44. | The most important component was construction of two light water reactors to replace the plutonium-producing reactors the North had been using.
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| 45. | It promised light water reactors in exchange for the availability of North Korea for inspection of its facilities and other concessions.
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| 46. | Under the deal in 1994, North Korea froze its atomic weapons program in return for energy aid and two light water reactors.
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| 47. | The plan called for the United States, Japan and South Korea to build two light water reactors in North Korea by 2003.
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| 48. | This means GFR designs have breeding properties they can use fuel that is unsuitable in light water reactor designs and breed fuel.
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| 49. | In exchange it is to get light water reactors supplied by South Korea that produced very little plutonium and some other benefits.
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| 50. | Choe rejected a proposal that North Korea accept South Korean light water reactors that go through a third country and are relabeled.
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