Talk:Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center

message: According to the Wikipedia naming conventions for Korean, the title for this article should probably not be spelled "Yongbyon Reactors". Unfortunately, that's the form almost universally used in western mass media. — Babelfisch 06:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have little knowledge of Korean romanization and defer to your expertise, but I earlier added "(sometimes called Nyongbyong or Nyongbyon)" for the practical reason that google searches on these revealed useful sources to an English-language researcher.  The IAEA use both Nyongbyong or Nyongbyon, and the KCNA uses Nyongbyon. Googling "Nyŏngbyŏn" and "Nyeongbyeon" as given now in the article reveal none of these useful sources. I think there is a strong case to still mentioning Nyongbyong and Nyongbyon to assist the researcher; but I'll leave you to decide if and how this should be done. - Rwendland 11:01, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's important that the Wikipedia article can be found, but it's no less important that it's accurate. The spelling Nyongbyong is simply wrong - this spelling just demonstrates complacency of western media towards Asian names. The IAEA seems to be undecided or particularely ignorant - it doesn't seem they are really concerned with that place! - and uses three different spellings. (They also write Nyonbyong.) We could also see this as a test for the reliability of Google to come up with correct information. Google of course wouldn't find Nyŏngbyŏn, because the Internet is not a suitable habitat for diacritics - you won't find any English-language resources by googling "Hồ Chí Minh" either. The transcription Nyeongbyeon follows a south Korean standard ("Revised Romanization") that has been largely ignored on an international level. In this case, not even the media in south Korea seem to use it. — Babelfisch 01:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Done. Wikipeditor 19:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Wouldn't the first section of this article now need to be in past tense, since the reactors have been shut down?
:Lots of reactors in the world are shut down.  When it gets decommissioned, then we'll change the tense. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 05:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If Nyŏngbyŏn remains in operational state, then it's still a nuclear reactor, regardless of whether it's in use or not. So the present tense could stay. (Stefan2 21:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: This PBS NewsHour article mentions a quote from Larry Niksch, stating that the reactor was not connected to the power grid in 2003. The same claim has been repeated in more recent articles. I would have expected North Kora to connect the reactor to the power grid by now, if for no other reason than appearances. Given the controversy surrounding the operation of the reactor, should the article not have in-line citations for the claims of heating and power generation?
:You have to remember the running reactor is a titchy 5MWe experimental technology proving reactor, smaller than many a research reactor. The two follow-on reactors (prototype 50MWe and production 200MWe) were intended as serious power reactors. That said, Siegfried Hecker visited the 5MWe reactor early 2004 reporting that "They are producing electricity and heat from the reactor now for their town". NB The writing of this article predates the current style of many inline citations, just listing refs/extlinks at the end; but I can assure you it is all derived from the listed extlinks.  Rwendland 17:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to a DOE visitor the 5 MWe reactor definitely was powering the local town, albeit the power would frequently go out.  Since the disablement of the reactor, it obviously is no longer providing any electricity. 128.12.77.43 (talk) 23:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations? 

message: Today, AFP reported 
:This week, the North warned it would reopen its mothballed Yongbyon reactor -- its source of weapons-grade plutonium... Experts said it would take at least six months to get the reactor back up and running, after which it will be able to produce one bomb's worth of weapons-grade plutonium per year. 
I'm trying to think about this critically:  in order to reopen the reactor, would they not have to rebuild the cooling tower that was destroyed in 2008?  Is it really feasible to do that in just six months? Novel compound (talk) 04:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do reports of reopening the reactor make sense? 

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