Two storage ponds were built, and the water from one passed from one to the other turning the wheel.
Paddy is not produced as there is no big storage pond available which is necessary for the flood irrigation of paddy crop.
Throughout January, intelligence analysts have seen extensive activity at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, with some trucks pulling up to the building housing the storage pond.
The incoming water was contained in large storage ponds, and as the tide went out, it turned waterwheels that used the mechanical power it produced to mill grain.
The 143 reservoirs or storage ponds, known as Teiche (singular: Teich), were impounded using earth-fill dams.
The spent fuel rods were so radioactive that, as the Washington Post reported, they cannot be reprocessed anyway for awhile while [they are] cooled in a storage pond.
They estimate that about 300 dry landfills and wet storage ponds are used around the country to store ash from coal-fired power plants.
Water flowed from the upper storage pond over the water wheel to drive the mill.
The steam engine recycled the water up from the lower storage pond to the upper storage pond.
It was driven by a 9.1 m diameter waterwheel driven from the upper storage pond.