General Bureau of Atomic Energy
General Bureau of Atomic Energy is a PRK company active in the nuclear fuel chain as enrichment.
North Korea's nuclear authority. Its enrichment at Yongbyon was shown to visiting American scientists in 2010 and a second site at Kangson was identified from satellite imagery and never declared. No inspector has been in the country since 2009, so everything recorded about either is inference.
| Headquarters | Pyongyang, North Korea |
|---|---|
| Founded | not recorded |
| Ownership | state |
| Roles in the chain | enrichment |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Enriched uranium from this company feeds fuel fabrication, and from there 373 operating reactors across these types. Heavy water reactors are absent because they run on natural uranium and skip enrichment entirely.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yongbyon enrichment plant | enrichment | PRK | not disclosed | operating |
| Kangson | enrichment | PRK | not disclosed | operating |
General Bureau of Atomic Energy in context
General Bureau of Atomic Energy has 2 facilities on record in 1 country (North Korea): 2 operating.
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
Sources
- General Bureau of Atomic Energy, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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