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"washington post." 1994-2002, north korea agrees to halt construction of two reactors the united states thinks could be used as part of a nuclear weapons program. instead according to the agreement, international consortium is supposed to replace the plutonium reactors with water reactors and the u.s. agrees to supply half a million tons of heavy fuel oil every year during the construction period. u.s., japan, european agency form an organization task with implementing the accord but when george w. bush becomes president in 2001, the united states walks away from the talks with north korea ove...

Lot of work to be done but i am very encouraged by this fredricka. i judge it two ways. i look at the provisions of the agreement itself and compare it to other things that we have knowledge and success with. looking at it itself i think it's unprecedented. it would represent a commitment by a country to a level of inspection that no country has really done before. i think it's unpress departmented in negotiated agreements and there are lots of parts here. the water reactors you suggested they'll scratch what they have and start over, they'll ship out their spent fuel. there will be more inspe...

>> this was partially a commercial move on our part in the early 1950s. we were concerned that the soviet union that kept pace with us in the development of nuclear reactors for power would steal a march on us and get the commercial business in europe. so president eisenhower decided to share the benefits of nuclear energy with other countries. it was called a ed atoms for pe >> we have 50 years of water reactors, 400 roughly around the world and produced a heck of a lot of waste we didn't anticipate. you know, you mention 100,000 years of stuff you keep isolated from the rest of the world. th...

The light water reactor is much simpler but produces more waste. it was chosen by rick over to be the reactor for the submarine. there are many things to be said for light water reactors and there is something to be said against them. but with rick over's influence, the light water reactor became a principle reactor around the world. >> we developed water reactors but we looked at that as a near term short raised stepping stone to real new clear power, the breeder reactor. that's what we consider to be the most likely real long range for nuclear power. but the water reactor that is

Concern about the way this one is made? the structure? >> no. there is no concern about the way this is made. this is how boiling water reactors are mayfield let me add to your description a little bit. the green part are the fuel rods. the yellow part is a very thick stainless steel pressure vessel. >> the green part at the bottom. >> from the top. from the top. the whole cylindrical shape is the reactor core. that's also the pressure vessel. the core is relatively small compared to that pressure vessel which is very big. all the reactors are built this way. these are boiling water reactors. ...