Taechon
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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: GlobalSecurity.org: Taechon; Arms Control Association: the Agreed Framework at a glance.
Taechon was the site of North Korea's largest planned plutonium production reactor, a 200 MWe gas-cooled, graphite-moderated design.
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When construction was frozen in 1994 under the US-North Korea Agreed Framework, the reactor had been expected to be finished in 1996, and much of its equipment, including graphite blocks and fuel-handling machines, was already on hand. North Korea said in 2005 that it had resumed work on it.
Never completed: construction frozen in 1994