SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s coal-fired power generation increased this year as the country’s new government vows to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear power, industry data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by the Korea Power Exchange, coal-fired power generation reached 95,550 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in the first five [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Moon administration’s efforts to mothball nuclear power plants and focus on renewable energy are being met with significant challenges. On Monday, President Moon attended an event held at Kori Nuclear Power Plant in Busan in celebration of the permanent closure of the very first nuclear power reactor in the [...]
DAEJEON, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bid to better prepare for unforeseen accidents at nuclear power plants in South Korea, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Wednesday that it is developing a Nuclear Blackbox to monitor in real time nuclear reactors from a safer distance, and a vehicle-based remote control system to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court ordered the government Tuesday to cancel its decision to extend the operation of a nuclear reactor that was supposed to go offline in 2012. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of an injunction sought by a group of local residents to annul the Nuclear Safety [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has the world’s second-fastest construction time of nuclear reactors after Japan, a report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog showed Tuesday, but Seoul’s atomic energy provider said the short period doesn’t affect their safety. According to the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, South Korea has built [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s nuclear security watchdog approved a plan to build two more nuclear reactors on Thursday, with their construction to begin immediately following the approval. The decision by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission allows the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to add Shin Kori No. 5 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China will hold high-level talks this week on nuclear energy cooperation, the government said Wednesday. The bilateral Nuclear Power Joint Committee meeting, the 13th of its kind, is scheduled to open in Beijing on Thursday. In the two-day session, South Korea will be represented by Hong [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corp. responsible for operation of nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, has insisted that the internal documents it was stolen by hackers were nothing important. But it is still unable to find out how the documents were leaked out [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Of late, Seoul seems to have become a city more frequently “talked-about” among the international media. According to a recent report, the media from around the world including the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East have covered “Seoul” an average of 2.04 times a day and 747 [...]