IAEA Team to Visit Two South Korean Research Sites

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are expected to visit two South Korean nuclear research facilities as part of a six-day visit that began yesterday, according to the Korea Times (see GSN, Nov. 2).

The IAEA team is in South Korea for a third round of inspections as part of the agency’s investigation into nuclear experiments recently disclosed by Seoul. Their work is expected to focus on the two sites where scientists performed tests on plutonium and uranium.

This is to be the last IAEA visit before inspectors present their findings to the agency’s Board of Governors later this month, said Cho Chung-won, director general of the South Korean Science and Technology Ministry’s atomic energy bureau (Korea Times, Nov. 3).

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