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...1970s, South Korea ran a program to develop technology to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. By 1976, it was in the final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says...
...crude-oil prices soared to record levels in July, South Korea's flagship airline, Korean Air, established a nine-member fuel-management team charged with a single purpose: contain escalating fuel costs by wringing every last bit of mileage out of their aircraft. One idea the team floated during early brainstorming sessions was to ask crew members to lose 4.5 kilograms each, thus lightening in-flight loads. Another was to install rest rooms next to airport gates, using the power of suggestion to encourage passengers to shed a few grams by relieving themselves prior to boarding. Someone even proposed limiting...
...Because fuel now accounts for more than a quarter of operating costs, airlines are particularly vulnerable to rising oil prices. But with crude rising to more than $49 per barrel on Aug. 20?compared with an average of $20 per barrel over the past 15 years?few businesses in Asia are unaffected. Although there was a sigh of relief as the price fell back to about $43 last week, oil is still more expensive than it has been in the past 20 years?and the realization is sinking in that Asia may have to learn to live with higher energy...
...South Korean nuclear research institute were experimenting with a gun that blasts laser beams at elements like gadolinium. The experiments weren't successful and the scientists decided to dismantle the equipment. But before they did, somebody suggested using the laser to enrich uranium?a process that produces the fuel for one type of nuclear bomb. "Scientists are full of curiosity," explains Chang In Soon, president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, where the experiment took place. "They're interested in this kind of thing...
...Thursday, a Science and Technology Ministry spokesman admitted that scientists there produced 0.2 grams of enriched uranium in 2000. (At least 10 kilos are needed to fuel a weapon.) Late last week, the government said it wasn't sure whether it had violated its nonproliferation commitments...