Other Names: New Waste Storage Facility, newly constructed waste storage site, Declared Solid Waste Storage Site
Location: Located between the 50MW(e) Nuclear Power Plant and the Radiochemistry Laboratory, in Pungang-chigu (分江地區), Yŏngbyŏn-kun (寧邊郡), North P’yŏng’an Province (平安北道), North Korea
Subordinate to: Probably the Yŏngbyŏn Nuclear Research Center (寧邊原子力硏究센터), General Department of Atomic Energy (原子力總局), Cabinet (內閣)
Primary Function: Storage of solid nuclear waste
Description: North Korea completed construction of this facility, the only declared waste storage site in the country, during the late summer of 1992. This site was built in a very short period of time and was finished just before the arrival of IAEA inspectors in the fall of 1992. This has led many to believe this facility was built to deceive inspectors. According to David Albright, this facility “has provisions for storage of only solid wastes, and probably is used as a repository of containerized low-level and intermediate-level solid wastes from the entire Yŏngbyŏn Nuclear Center.”
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Key Sources:
ROK Ministry of National Defense, Taeryangsalsangmugi (WMD) Mundappaekkwa: Hwa Saeng Pang Missile Ŏlmana Algo Kyeshimnikka? (Seoul: Ministry of National Defense, 2001), p. 96; Chang Chun Ik, Pukhan Haek-Missile Chŏnjaeng (Seoul: Sŏmundang, 1999), p. 129; David Albright and Kevin O’Neill, eds., Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle (Washington, D.C.: Institute For Science And International Security, 2000), pp. 106-109, 153-154; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., “Exposing North Korea’s Secret Nuclear Infrastructure—Part Two,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, August 1999, p. 44; R. Jeffrey Smith, “N. Korea and the Bomb: High-Tech Hide-and-Seek; U.S. Intelligence Key in Detecting Deception,” Washington Post, 27 April 1993, in Lexis-Nexis, <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/>; Lee Ryŏng Hyŏn, “Pukhan, Sae Taehyŏng’wŏnjaro Wansŏngdan’gye/Haekp’okt’an Yŏn 6 Kae Saengsan’ganŭng,” Taehan Maeil, 28 April 1993, p. 1, in KINDS, <http://www.kinds.or.kr/>; Chŏng Hae Yŏng, “Mi, Pukhaekchŏngbo IAEA’e Chŏnggi Briefing/WP Chi T’ŭkchipkisa Naeyong,” Chosun Ilbo, 28 April 1993, p. 7, in KINDS, <http://www.kinds.or.kr/>.
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