CIAO DATE: 03/2011
November 2010
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Excerpt: "On November 12, during my most recent visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Complex with Stanford University colleagues John W. Lewis and Robert Carlin, we were shown a 25 to 30 megawatt-electric (MWe) experimental light-water reactor (LWR) in the early stages of construction. It is North Korea's first attempt at LWR technology and we were told it is proceeding with strictly indigenous resources and talent. The target date for operation was said to be 2012, which appears much too optimistic."
Resource link: North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A Report by Siegfried S. Hecker [PDF] - 141K