North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor pictured in 2008. Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters
North Korea To Restart Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor -- The Guardian
Tensions raised as Pyongyang says it will restart mothballed facilities shut down in 2007 after disarmament talks
North Korea has vowed to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near-daily warlike threats against the US and South Korea.
The reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament talks that have since stalled.
A spokesman for the department of atomic energy said the facilities to be restarted are a graphite-moderated five-megawatt reactor, which generates spent fuel rods laced with plutonium and is the core of the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
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