Comments on: North Korea HEU…What About the UF6? https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/02/19/north-korea-heuwhat-about-the-uf6/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Josh https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/02/19/north-korea-heuwhat-about-the-uf6/#comment-687 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:52:30 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/north-korea-heuwhat-about-the-uf6/#comment-687 Paul wrote in ACT, “North Korea does have a facility for producing uranium tetrafluoride, a uranium compound that is then converted to uranium hexafluoride.”

But in North Korea’s case, the UF4 is not converted to UF6. It’s used to produce Magnox fuel rods. Or at least that’s been the case in the past.

All of this is at Yongbyon. If there is a secret enrichment facility somewhere, one presumes that a second conversion facility would go along with it, perhaps in the next cavern over.

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