SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Enerbility Co., a heavy industry affiliate of Doosan Group, said Tuesday it had joined hands with a group of local subcontractors to strengthen its competitiveness in the production of casks, containers used for the transportation and storage of spent nuclear fuel. A day ago, the company signed a [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steelmaker SeAH Besteel Corp. said Monday it will deliver three dry casks used to store spent nuclear fuel to a U.S. nuclear logistics company. The delivery comes some six months after SeAH Besteel signed a deal for 17 casks with Orano TN, which provides total system solutions [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An independent committee proposed on Thursday that legislation is needed to better handle and manage spent nuclear fuel as the issue has been a source of controversy over safety. The body under the industry ministry stressed a new law is necessary to proceed with the matter of building storage [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it is moving to build an additional facility for spent nuclear fuel at one of its nuclear power plants after local residents living around the venue gave consent. The move came after the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held extensive talks with people living [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s push to build additional spent fuel storage facilities in the country is expected to gain traction as local residents living around the venue on Friday drummed up support for the plan. The country has been speeding up a move to construct more facilities to store spent nuclear [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear safety agency said Friday that it has approved the construction of seven additional spent fuel storage structures at the Wolsong nuclear power plant to allow for uninterrupted power generation. The decision comes after the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., (KHNP) said the load at [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co (KHNP) are locked in a stalemate as to which organization is responsible for radioactive waste currently stored at the KAERI’s Daejeon location. With existing laws failing to explicitly define ownership over nuclear waste, both [...]