 KEDO's first director, Stephen W. Bosworth, later commented "The Agreed Framework was a political orphan within two weeks after its signature".In January 1995, as called for in the Agreed Framework, the United States and North Korea negotiated a method to safely store the spent fuel from the five-megawatt reactor.According to this method, U.S. and North Korean operators would work together to can the spent fuel and store the canisters in the spent fuel pond.