South Korea’s Shin-Hanul-2 nuclear power plant has completed seven months of commissioning and officially begun commercial operation, owner Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company (KHNP) said.

In September 2023, following the first loading of nuclear fuel into the reactor core, the indigenous 1,340-MW APR-1400 pressurised water reactor was granted its operating licence. It began supplying its first electricity to the grid in January.

Construction of the plant, on the east coast in North Gyeongsang Province, began in 2013.