[KS] experimental nuclear reactor in South Korea

[Lucas Hüsgen]

Dear Balazs,


the answer to your query may be found (I don't have it myself) in

Oxford Research Group, Current Decisions No13, October 1993

which is supposed to be a background paper on South Korea's nuclear  
weapons program and attempts to obtain plutonium.


Best regards,

Lucas Hüsgen



On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:27:32 +0200, Balazs Szalontai <HPHSZB01 at phd.ceu.hu>  
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> may I have a question about the South Korean nuclear program? In
> Michael L. Siler's article, "U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy in the
> Northeast Asian Region during the Cold War: The South Korean Case"
> ("East Asia: An International Quarterly," Autumn/Winter 1998), there is
> a reference to that
>
> "Having received substantial U.S. and Western nuclear reactor
> technology and enriched uranium since the early 1960s, South Korea
> willingly ratified the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1964)."
>
> When exactly did the U.S. start assisting South Korea in the field of
> nuclear research and when did the construction of an experimental
> nuclear reactor begin in the ROK? I know that in 1959 the U.S. signed an
> agreement to assist South Vietnam in the field of nuclear research. In
> 1958 Saigon established an Atomic Energy Office, in 1961 a nuclear
> research center was established in Da Lat, and in 1963, just before the
> fall of Ngo Dinh Diem, the construction of an experimental nuclear
> reactor was completed in the RVN.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Balazs Szalontai
>
>



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