Adobe Web Photo Gallery 3/10/2008

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IMGP0107.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. The 5 Megawatt (electric) nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and cooling tower. "The winch room of the reactor showing the winch for moving the fuel baskets and an electronics cabinet containing U.S. and IAEA electronic	IMGP0114.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. The 5 Megawatt (electric) nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and cooling tower. Cooling tower for 5 MW reactor.	IMGP0115.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. The 5 Megawatt (electric) nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and cooling tower. A view of the ground level of the cooling tower showing all structures having been removed.	IMGP0116.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. The 5 Megawatt (electric) nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and cooling tower. A view up at the empty interior of the cooling tower. All of the cooling and evaporative mechanisms have been disassembled and removed.	IMGP0122.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Reprocessing Plant. Location where a motor mechanism was formerly located that operated a trolley that transferred the spent fuel basket from the receipts building into the reprocessing plant. (Spent Fuel Receivi
IMGP0128.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Reprocessing Plant. Stored equipment removed from reprocessing plant.	IMGP0131.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Reprocessing Plant. Location where two cranes (up-down, left-right) were formerly located.  These cranes transferred the spent fuel basket into the receiving hot cell and positioned the basket at the shearing sta	IMGP0133.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Reprocessing Plant. Location where the receiving cell isolation door actuator mechanism was formerly located.  The isolation door separates the receiving hot cell from the transfer tunnel from the spent fuel rece	IMGP0134.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Reprocessing Plant. Right. Location where the shearing machine was formerly located. The shearing machine removed the fuel rod end caps and split the MAGNOX cladding from the fuel rod core prior to fuel dissoluti	IMGP0139.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Fuel fabrication facility. Disabled equipment in storage at the fuel rod fabrication facility.  This photo shows four spare fuel rod casting vessels in storage and dissolver tanks.
IMGP0140.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Fuel fabrication facility. DPRK official in front of refractory bricks and mortar dust removed from the seven uranium metal production furnaces awaiting disposal as radioactive waste. (Metal ingot production buil	IMGP0158.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Fuel fabrication facility. Location of one of the removed vacuum induction casting furnaces that shaped uranium metal ingots into fuel rod cores in preparation for machining and cladding the cores into fresh fuel	IMGP0163.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Fuel fabrication facility. Empty pits which contained three uranium ore concentrate dissolver tanks, now removed and stored.	IMGP0168.jpg Nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. Fuel fabrication facility. Nearly five tons of UO3 (an intermediate product in the fabrication of uranium metal) collected from fuel fabrication facility and stored in plastic bags monitored by IAEA cameras.	IMG_2009.jpg 5 Megawatt (electric) Nuclear Reactor. Photo by Keith Luse.