China begins work on 6th nuclear power plant

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China begins work on 6th nuclear power plant

IAEA inspectors to visit North Korea nuclear facilities

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China begins work on 6th nuclear power plant

  

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Kyodo) - China has begun building its sixth nuclear power plant in 

eastern Zhejiang Province, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday. 



Initial preparations for the construction of the plant, comprising four 1 million-kilowatt 

generators, involved leveling three hills and building a 3.14 kilometer road, the report 

said. 



Anticipated cost of the plant in Sanmen county is 25 billion yuan ($3.02 billion), said 

the report, which did not indicate when the plant is expected to be completed. 



China presently has two operating nuclear power plants -- the Qinshan plant also 

located in Zhejiang and the Dayawan plant in southern Guangdong Province. 



China's other nuclear power plants, still under construction, are in Guangdong and 

Jiangsu provinces. 

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IAEA inspectors to visit North Korea nuclear facilities

  

VIENNA, Jan. 7 (Kyodo) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send 

a three-member inspector team to North Korea later this month to visit nuclear 

facilities in Nyongbyon, Pyongan-Bukto Province, the IAEA press office said Monday. 



The IAEA inspectors will make the North Korea trip Jan. 15-19. Mmong the nuclear 

facilities on the itinerary include an isotope processing research institute in 

Nyongbyon. 



IAEA officials stressed that the inspectors will simply be touring the nuclear facilities 

and the mission does not involve inspection. 



North Korea, which has pulled out of the IAEA in 1994 over the inspection of its 

suspected nuclear weapons program, is opening the isotope research facility to IAEA 

representatives for the first time under an agreement reached with the IAEA in 

November. 



North Korea says the institute is involved in the production of radioactive materials 

for medical and industrial use. 



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