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Yongbyon nuclear complex

The heart of the nuclear program: reactors that make plutonium, a reprocessing plant and a uranium enrichment hall.

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Yongbyon nuclear complex
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Captured 11 Oct 2026

Our own images of this 7.7 km square from the European Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites: the newest clear picture, and the clearest one from each of the last 24 months. One pixel is 10 m, enough to see roads, fields, ponds and large buildings, not people.

Sentinel-2 satellite image of Yongbyon nuclear complex, 7.7 km across, captured 11 Oct 2026
Sentinel-2 satellite image of Yongbyon nuclear complex, 7.7 km across, captured 16 Oct 2025
16 Oct 202511 Oct 2026
Before: 16 Oct 2025Cloud in this square: 0%Scene S2B_51TYE_20251016_1_L2AOpen this day in Copernicus Browser ↗After: 11 Oct 2026Cloud in this square: 0%Scene S2B_51TYE_20261011_0_L2AOpen this day in Copernicus Browser ↗

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We pick each image by measuring cloud inside this square from the satellite’s own scene classification. Months with no clear image are left out. We do not mark or interpret anything in the pictures. The ring marks the point on our map.

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024-2026 · Copernicus Data Space · Sentinel-2 L2A COGs (AWS)

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