A Brief Assessment of North Korea's Capacities for Building an Experimental LWR
Creators
- 1. Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Description
On November 2010, North Korea revealed the construction site of 100 MWt (thermal) experimental LWR in the early stage with a target operation date of 2012. And they claimed that their first LWR construction project is proceeding with strictly domestic talent and resources. Introduction of LWR imposes various technical challenges, even though North Korea has experiences in the construction and management of graphite-moderated and gas-cooled reactor. So, there are doubts about whether they can successfully complete the project in time without any external support. In this paper, to estimate the fate of the LWR construction, we focused on the North Korea's capability to deal with the technical challenges which differ from those of gas-graphite reactor
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- KNS
- Imprint Place
- Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the KNS autumn meeting
- Imprint Pagination
- [1 CD-ROM]
- Journal Page Range
- [2 p.]
Conference
- Title
- 2011 autumn meeting of the KNS
- Dates
- 26-28 Oct 2011
- Place
- Kyoungju (Korea, Republic of)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Korea, Republic of
- Country of Input or Organization
- Korea, Republic of
- INIS RN
- 43045704
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- BUILDINGS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; NORTH KOREA; WATER COOLED REACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- ASIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 7 refs, 1 fig, 1 tab