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<P>I remember, as a student in an American high school in Korea, taking a school field trip to visit the brand new experimental small reactor in Seoul in winter of 1968/9. KIST was the sponsor if I remember correctly. I believe a larger one was still under construction.</P>
<P>Bill Brown<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Lucas Hüsgen <lhusgen@kirogi.demon.nl>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws>
<DIV></DIV>>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [KS] experimental nuclear reactor in South Korea
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:11:32 +0200
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<DIV></DIV>>Dear Balazs,
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<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>the answer to your query may be found (I don't have it myself) in
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<DIV></DIV>>Oxford Research Group, Current Decisions No13, October 1993
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>which is supposed to be a background paper on South Korea's nuclear
<DIV></DIV>>weapons program and attempts to obtain plutonium.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Best regards,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Lucas Hüsgen
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<DIV></DIV>>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:27:32 +0200, Balazs Szalontai
<DIV></DIV>><HPHSZB01@phd.ceu.hu> wrote:
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<DIV></DIV>>>Dear All,
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>may I have a question about the South Korean nuclear program? In
<DIV></DIV>>>Michael L. Siler's article, "U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
<DIV></DIV>>>in the
<DIV></DIV>>>Northeast Asian Region during the Cold War: The South Korean Case"
<DIV></DIV>>>("East Asia: An International Quarterly," Autumn/Winter 1998),
<DIV></DIV>>>there is
<DIV></DIV>>>a reference to that
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<DIV></DIV>>>"Having received substantial U.S. and Western nuclear reactor
<DIV></DIV>>>technology and enriched uranium since the early 1960s, South Korea
<DIV></DIV>>>willingly ratified the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1964)."
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>When exactly did the U.S. start assisting South Korea in the field
<DIV></DIV>>>of
<DIV></DIV>>>nuclear research and when did the construction of an experimental
<DIV></DIV>>>nuclear reactor begin in the ROK? I know that in 1959 the U.S.
<DIV></DIV>>>signed an
<DIV></DIV>>>agreement to assist South Vietnam in the field of nuclear research.
<DIV></DIV>>>In
<DIV></DIV>>>1958 Saigon established an Atomic Energy Office, in 1961 a nuclear
<DIV></DIV>>>research center was established in Da Lat, and in 1963, just before
<DIV></DIV>>>the
<DIV></DIV>>>fall of Ngo Dinh Diem, the construction of an experimental nuclear
<DIV></DIV>>>reactor was completed in the RVN.
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Thanks in advance,
<DIV></DIV>>>Balazs Szalontai
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>
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