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DPRK boasts success in nuclear fusion
Posted on: Thu May 13, 2010
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SEOUL: North Korea announced on Wednesday it has successfully carried out a nuclear fusion reaction in what it called a breakthrough towards developing new energy sources.
The report in Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, made no mention of using the claimed new technology for the North s atomic weapons programme.
Nuclear fusion reactions can be employed to make hydrogen bombs.
The successful nuclear fusion marks a great event that demonstrated the rapidly developing cutting-edge science and technology of the DPRK (North Korea), the paper said.
It said scientists worldwide were studying nuclear fusion as a way of obtaining safe and environment-friendly new energy but the North s experts had worked hard to develop the technology their own way.
As part of the process, Korean style thermonuclear reaction devices were designed and manufactured, basic researches into nuclear fusion reaction completed and strong scientific and technological forces built to perfect the thermonuclear technology by their own efforts .
Scientists worldwide are striving to develop a nuclear fusion power plant that would produce little radioactive waste.
Courtesy : The News