NKorea builds light-water reactor

Building a light-water reactor would give the country a reason to enrich uranium, which at low levels can be used in power reactors, and at higher levels in nuclear bombs.

NORTH Korea has begun building an experimental light-water reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a news report said on Saturday.

Experimental?
How is it Experimental, if they build it, will it not be functional?



The Straits Times
SEOUL - NORTH Korea has begun building an experimental light-water reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a news report said on Saturday.

The reactor will be able to generate about 25 to 30 megawatts of electricity, Siegfried Hecker, former director of the US Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, told reporters in Beijing after a trip to North Korea, according to Japan's Kyodo News agency.

Mr Hecker said construction of the reactor has just begun and it is likely to take several years to complete, according to Kyodo.