SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear watchdog voted early Friday to extend the operation of a 32-year-old nuclear reactor to 2022 despite strong opposition from residents and environmental groups over its safety. The approval cleared the way for the 678-megawatt Wolsong-1 reactor on South Korea’s southeast coast to go back on line [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Three workers died Friday apparently after inhaling toxic gas at the construction site of a power-generating nuclear reactor, the state power operator said Friday. Bae Kyong-min, an official at the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., said nitrogen gas leaked from an underground cable is believed to have caused [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean nuclear technology successfully set its foot in EU market, home of nuclear power R&D, securing a contract to export a nuclear reactor for research purposes to the Netherlands. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced on June 24 that the consortium of the Korea Atomic Energy [...]