PAVILION | SOUTH KOREA MEET SOUTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR SECTOR AT WNE2021
First power Kori Nuclear Power Plant was the first plant in Korea to commence commercial operations in 1978.
cent of its electricity from renewables - . up from less than 7 per cent in 2020. It has immediate plans to cut the capacity of
coal-fired plants from 35.8GW in 2020 to 29GW in 2034. Over the same period, the government plans a massive expansion in solar and wind power.
Hanul (Ulchin) Shin-Hanul
NUCLEAR SITES Most of South Korea’s nuclear reactors are located at two complexes in the densely populated south-eastern part of the country, near the cities of Gyeongju, Ulsan, and Busan, which are major electricity demand centres and home to heavy manufacturing plant. South Korea also has an interest in small
Shin-Wolsong Wolsong
Shin-Kori Kori
Hanbit (Yonggwang)
modular reactors ( SMRs), which will be developed primarily at Munmu Daewang Science Research Center, Gyeongiu, scheduled to open in 2025. The project is expected to cost over $500 million.
Some seem to think this dramatic increase on dependence on renewable energy is not realistic,
but I have a very different understanding of what is realistic. The climate crisis is ‘the reality’ and it’s only natural that we pursue a drastic transition in the energy mix to prevent the worst crisis from happening.”
Yun Sun-jin, co-chair of the 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission
South Korea is celebrating fuel loading at its 27th nuclear plant - Shin-Hanul 1. A ceremony was held on the site in July attended by President Kim Sung-arm and President Chung Jae-hoon of the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company, as well as officials from affiliated companies. President Moon Jae-in declared last October
that Korea will achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. In May, the government formed a 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission, which published three proposals to achieve that goal. According to the three scenarios, the biggest emissions cut should come from the power sector and one radical scenario calls for Korea to get over 70 per
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NUCLEAR GENERATORS All South Korea’s nuclear power plants are owned and operated by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power. Nuclear generation reached 30% of the country’s total last year. The government plans that from 2030 the contribution of nuclear energy will be around a quarter of the country’s total power generation.
POTENTIAL AND CURRENT NEW REACTOR PROJECTS South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) on 9 July gave conditional approval for the operation of Shin-Hanul 1, more than a year after it was completed. Approval for the 1,400MWe reactor in the coastal county of Uljin, 330 kilometres southeast of Seoul, was granted provided further safety measures were put in place. The reactor has been off-line pending conclusion of a safety review, which began in November 2020. It is regarded as South Korea’s first reactor to achieve technological independence, with equipment such as the reactor coolant pump and man-machine interface system produced domestically for the first time. Commercial operation is due in March 2022. Shin-Hanul 1 forms the design basis for a
similar APR 1400 nuclear reactor design exported to the UAE.
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