Pakchon Uranium Concentrate Facility

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– Initially, it was a factory built by the former Soviet Union to produce graphite used as decelerator material in a nuclear reactor. After the former Soviet Union withdrew, it began to operate as a plant producing refined uranium ore. The majority of the equipment was made in the Soviet Union.
via beyondparallel.csis.org August 21, 2019, by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Victor Cha
– image via : Uranium concentrate plant at Pakchon, North Korea. Image taken in May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA. isis-online.org