Seoul Admits to Plutonium Test in Early 1980s
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South Korea admitted Thursday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in addition to the recently revealed uranium enrichment test in 2000, has also been looking into a plutonium-based
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Traces of plutonium from nuclear tests in Nevada 50 years ago can be traced in British soil, scientists are to reveal.
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TOKYO - Japan on Thursday described the plutonium extraction experiment conducted by South Korea in the early 1980s as &quot;inappropriate&quot; and called for strict inspections by the International Atomic Energy 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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A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency travels to South Korea to investigate secret nuclear experiments.
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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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South Korea carried out an experiment using plutonium in the early 1980s and the UN nuclear watchdog is investigating, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, quoting a Foreign Ministry official.
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North Korea says it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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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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When the South Korean government admitted last month that scientists at its state-run research centers conducted experiments in plutonium extraction in the early 1980s and uranium enrichment tests in 2000, the international community decried the incidents
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A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
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South Korea admitted that a group of its nuclear scientists secretly produced a small amount of near-weapons grade uranium.
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BEIJING - South Korea and the US yesterday sought to play down fears that North Korea might have conducted a nuclear test after reports of a large explosion in the northern part of the communist country.
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A supervisor of the South Korean nuclear experiment in 2000 said Sunday the enrichment level of the questioned uranium amounts to just 10 percent, far below than the bomb-grade level of 90 percent.
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Description: The South Korean government denies having any plans to develop nuclear weapons, despite the government&#39;s admission Thursday that its scientists developed a small amount of weapons-grade uranium four years ago.
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The International Atomic Energy Committee (IAEA) has judged that South Korea&#39;s past experiments with nuclear materials didn&#39;t constitute a failure to execute nuclear safeguards, but the failure to report the experiments was a mistake.
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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.