S.Korea Enriched Uranium Close to Atom Bomb Fuel
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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 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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VIENNA South Korean nuclear experiments that were 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 monitoring agency said
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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.
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SEOUL: South Korea said Friday it was satisfied with a UN atomic energy agency report which showed that unauthorised nuclear experiments by government scientists went further than previously thought.
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SEOUL -- A delegation from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency arrived in South Korea yesterday for a follow-up probe into the country's secret nuclear experiments. The visit follows South Korea's recent admission that its scientists once dabbled in extracting plutonium and enriching uranium, both of which can be used to make nuclear arms. South Korea says the experiments were ...
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South Korea has conducted secret nuclear experiments that violated international nuclear safeguards on a scale wider than what Seoul had declared previously.
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Energy-poor South Korea is expected to raise its energy independency as the government has agreed to join oil field and uranium development projects in Kazakhstan.
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SEOUL The South Korean government insisted Friday that what it called an experiment to enrich uranium at the Korea Atomic Energy Institute in 2000 was an unauthorized experiment by unsupervised scientists.
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South Korea said on Friday it did not expect a shock declaration that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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The BBC is told that South  Korean scientists engaged in secret, illegal experiments to enrich nuclear fuel.
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South Korea says the North attempted to develop a second, secret uranium enrichment programme.
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Iran says it has converted several tons of raw uranium - also known as &quot;yellowcake&quot; - into a gas that can be used in making enriched uranium.
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South Korea admitted it had conducted plutonium-based nuclear research in the early 1980s just one week after startling revelations emerged concerning enriched uranium.
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South Korea will invest 5.73 trillion won ($6.14 billion) to build two nuclear plants of 1.4 million kilowatts each by 2013-2014, Seoul's energy ministry said on Wednesday.
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South Korean government scientists  enriched a small amount of plutonium in a one-off experiment in  1982, the Science and Technology Ministry said on Thursday.