DPRK leads the world in nuclear fusion
Wednesday 12 May 2010
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EmailPyongyang has announced that it has succeeded in carrying out a nuclear fusion reaction, describing it as a step to develop a new source of clean energy.
The official Korean Central News Agency released a statement asserting that the reaction took place last month and was achieved using domestically developed technology.
"The success in nuclear fusion demonstrates rapid development of cutting-edge science and technology by the Democtratic Peoples Republic of Korea," the Rodong Sinmun newspaper declared.
DPRK scientists "solved a great many scientific and technological problems entirely by their own efforts," the report emphasised.
A consortium of scientists from China, the European Union, Japan, Russia, India and the US are currently working to create a nuclear fusion power plant, which would produce little radioactive waste.
South Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute researcher Song Ki Chang said: "The technology North Korea claims to have developed seems to be in very early stages."
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