Korea must start building new permanent storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste as the current temporary storage at nuclear power plants will begin reaching saturation point in 2028, according to scholars and industry experts, Thursday.
Korea s Carbon Free (CF) Alliance is struggling to get global firms to participate as the country s fledgling initiative tries to build up its environmental efforts worldwide so as to reduce global carbon emissions, according to the Seoul-based organization and industry experts, Tuesday.
Korea is set to regain its status as a global nuclear energy powerhouse after winning a series of construction and maintainence deals for nuclear power plants abroad over the past year, according to industry analysts Friday. President Yoon Suk Yeol has pushed to rebuild and nurture the nuclear power industry as the nation s main export item after scrapping the previous Moon Jae-in administration s anti-nuclear policies.
GYEONGJU, South Korea - Hwang Bun-hee, 74, lives in a pink house near the sea surrounded by a riotous vegetable garden and sounds of birds - but she gets upset whenever she looks at her house, just a few minutes' walk from Wolsong nuclear power plant. "When I first came here in 1986, there was just one reactor. Now there.
Hwang Bun-hee, 74, lives in a pink house near the sea surrounded by a riotous vegetable garden and sounds of birds - but she gets upset whenever she looks at her house, just a few minutes walk from