SEJONG, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand its generation of nuclear power to more than 30 percent of its total energy creation by 2030 as part of efforts to boost energy security and better meet carbon neutrality goals, the industry ministry said Tuesday. The Yoon Suk-yeol government has pledged to reverse the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will seek to export more its endogenously designed nuclear reactors, the country’s state-run nuclear plant operator said Friday, as it has successfully completed the construction of two new nuclear reactors in the southern port city of Ulsan. The Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) held a [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean experts on nuclear technology are teaming up to strengthen Vietnam’s radiation control capabilities. The Global Institute for Nuclear Initiative Strategy (GINIS) announced on Wednesday that it had established a new Nuclear Safety Technology Center at Vietnam’s Dalat University. The center will serve as a platform to transfer [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans voted in favor of using atomic power, a survey showed Wednesday, amid the Moon Jae-in government’s nuclear phase-out policy. The survey was conducted on 1,000 people aged over 19 to study public opinion on the government’s nuclear policy, the Korea Nuclear Society (KNS) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will lift a cap previously placed on the maximum amount of liability coverage for nuclear power plant accidents. The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission announced plans to hold nuclear power reactor operators to a stricter standard during a meeting on Wednesday, which will see a previous cap of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans support phasing out nuclear energy, a survey showed Monday, as President Moon Jae-in reiterated his commitment to shifting out of nuclear power into safer renewable energy. The Realmeter survey, conducted on 501 adults Friday, found that 60.5 percent back a nuclear phase-out policy while [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean government’s efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on nuclear energy and initiate a shift towards renewable alternatives, a surprising number of soon-to-be high school graduates have applied to study nuclear engineering at university this year. According to sources in the education sector on Thursday, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has spent over 82 billion won to promote the use of nuclear energy over the last decade, nearly 300 times more than the money spent for the promotion of renewable energy, government data has revealed. According to data disclosed by lawmaker Kwon Chil-Seung, who is [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it will hold working-level talks with France this week on promoting a partnership in the nuclear energy field. The two-day bilateral “joint coordinating committee” meeting is due to open in Seoul later in the day, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The international environmental activist group Greenpeace staged an anti-nuclear protest Thursday, demanding that Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission reject the proposed construction of two additional nuclear reactors at the Kori Nuclear Power Plant. The Kori Power Plant is located in Kori, a suburb of Busan. The group claimed [...]