South Korea has taken a major step towards the completion of two delayed power plants at the Shun-Hanul nuclear station with the start of production of the main components.
The project to build two indigenous APR-1400 plants at Shin-Hanul, 330km from Seoul in the southeast of the country, will help the country improve its energy security and achieve carbon neutrality, government officials said on Monday (15 May).
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said a ceremony to mark the beginning of production of the main equipment for Shin-Hanul-3 and -4 was held at Doosan Enerbility, a leading South Korean nuclear reactor manufacturer.
“The promise of our government to promptly and efficiently resume the construction of the two reactors has been fulfilled,” trade, industry and energy minister Lee Chang-yang said at the ceremony.
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