South Korea Admits Testing Plutonium in 1980s
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Description: South Korea reveals it extracted small amounts of plutonium in a 1982 test and performed a uranium-enrichment experiment in 2000.
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SEOUL/VIENNA  - South Korea has admitted that  government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to a  level that several Vienna diplomats said was almost pure enough  for an atomic bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Thursday.
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South Korea's top nuclear energy official on Tuesday  denied claims that scientists in his country had produced near-bomb-grade uranium, seeking to ease concern that the previously undisclosed experiments were in apparent violation of international law.
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South Korean nuclear experiments revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Thursday.
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South Korea acknowledged today that it conducted a plutonium-based nuclear experiment more than 20 years ago, shortly after it admitted to scientific tests involving uranium.
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North Korea plans to seal its nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium, in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source.
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SEOUL A week after admitting that government scientists enriched tiny amounts of uranium four years ago, the South Korean government revealed on Thursday that scientists in 1982 conducted an experiment in plutonium extraction at a state-run research
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North Korea has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium and appears to have exported nuclear material to Libya, U.S. officials informed Asian allies this week.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan denied that the island&#39;s nuclear weapons programme - abandoned in the 1980s - involved experimenting with separating plutonium.
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The UN nuclear watchdog rebuked South Korea on Friday for secret experiments that could have helped it develop an atom bomb, but spared it the humiliation of being hauled in front of the Security Council.
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VIENNA, Austria  - South Korean nuclear experiments revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of plutonium and near-weapons grade uranium but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make nuclear arms, the UN atomic watchdog agency said Thursday.
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Taiwan did have plutonium-related experiments several decades ago for the development of nuclear power, but none was about extracting plutonium as an ingredient for nuclear weapons, and the
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South Korean government scientists  extracted a small amount of plutonium in a one-off experiment  in 1982, the Science and Technology Ministry said on Thursday  in the second such disclosure in a week.
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The UN nuclear watchdog says South Korea's illegal nuclear tests were on a bigger scale than declared.
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Taiwan appears to have conducted experiments with plutonium &#151; a key component of nuclear weapons &#151; up to the mid-1980s, diplomats said Wednesday, citing environmental tests taken by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency.
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The world's longest continually running experiment has revealed traces of plutonium in British soil from nuclear tests in the Nevada desert 50 years ago, scientists said on Monday.
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SEOUL/VIENNA  - South Korea has no nuclear weapons  program or capability and an unsanctioned uranium enrichment  experiment four years ago was a by-product of tests to separate  materials using a laser, the government said on Friday.