A framed block of twenty stamps issued to commemorate the Hanaro reactor in South Korea. The nominal 30 MW MAPLE-style reactor is located at Daejeon, Republic of Korea. It was designed and commissioned with the assistance of AECL and achieved first criticality at 16:09 on 1995-02-08. The framed assembly, measuring 25 cm by 33 cm, displays twenty, 130 Won stamps, each 27 mm by 33 mm in size. The back of the framed artifact carries an explanation of the design by its designer, Kim Kyo-man, a Professor Emeritus at the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. The reactor core and fuel have a hexagonal shape which inspired a stamp design featuring six spheres representing six continents and six areas of major applications for the reactor.
