A nuclear facility in North Korea faces the dangers of the Japanese "Fukushima" disaster
Satellite images showed that a mysterious nuclear site in North Korea suffered a major blow, and it was previously warned that the poor safety reality in it could cause a disaster that affects one hundred million people.
It appears that the Yongbyon Center for Nuclear Scientific Research suffered damage as a result of the breakage of a dam that regulates the water used for the cooling systems of the nuclear facility.
Fortunately, the two facilities at the site were canceled during the talks between the United States and North Korea.
One of the reactors is built on the Soviet model, and has been operating intermittently since 1986. The other is an experimental reactor that has not been fully operational since its construction began in 2009.
Scientists say the damage from typhoons that struck western North Korea showed how fragile the site is.
They compared the threat posed to the site to the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011.
Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo, professor of international relations at King's College London, said that the site was "prone to accidents similar to what happened in Fukushima," as the accident made the area completely uninhabitable and uninhabitable.
North Korea's "38 North" monitoring group, backed by the West, revealed satellite images of the damage and expressed "grave concern" that the two facilities are not safe.
The group had previously warned that one of the two facilities poses a fatal threat to one hundred million people, in addition to the two Koreas, eastern China, southeast Russia and western Japan all will be exposed to nuclear radiation.
Tom Blunt, director of nuclear policy at the Royal United Service Institute in Britain, told the Sun newspaper that the site was dilapidated and did not meet modern safety standards.
Edward Howell, a researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford, warned that the site is in a fragile state, and said, "There is a risk of nuclear accidents at these sites, and we do not rule out the occurrence of radiation leaks."
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