Others Names: Camouflaged Park (僞裝公園), Old Waste Storage Facility, Original Waste Storage Site, Solid and Liquid Waste Storage Site, Outdoor Waste Facility

Location: Located between the 50MW(e) Nuclear Power Plant and the Radiochemistry Laboratory, northeast of the Declared Waste Site, in Pun’gang-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)

Size: Two liquid waste tanks (about 170,000 liters each), and several compartments for solid waste containers

Primary Function: Storage of liquid and solid nuclear waste

Description: Construction of this waste storage facility, North Koreas oldest nuclear waste site, was completed in 1976, and is reportedly modeled after Soviet waste facilities. This site is suspected of storing both liquid and solid nuclear waste, but North Korea did not include this facility in its initial declaration submitted to the IAEA in May 1992. In August 1992, only days before IAEA inspectors arrived at Yŏngbyŏn the following month, North Korea partially buried the facility and landscaped the area, possibly in an effort to disguise its function. During the September 1992 IAEA visit, IAEA inspectors were denied access to the facility because North Korea claimed it was a military installation. In February 1993, the IAEA passed a resolution calling for a special inspection of this facility and another suspected waste storage site known as Building 500 within one month. Following the IAEA’s resolution, North Korea deployed tanks around both facilities to emphasize the appearance of military sites. North Korea then turned down the IAEAs request for the inspections, and subsequently declared its intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on 12 March 1993. North Korea suspended its withdrawal from the NPT in June 1993, but has consistently refused IAEA requests to inspect this waste site. Under the terms of the Agreed Framework, North Korea is required to accept IAEA inspections of this facility when a significant portion of the light water reactor project is completed, but before delivery of key nuclear components.

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	Updated April 2003

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