South Korea To Begin Phasing Out Nuclear Plants

South Korea is eyeing independence from nuclear energy, to be
implemented gradually over the next six decades, as it seeks to
switch to safer clean energy sources. The country’s Trade,
Industry, and Energy Minister Paik Un-gyu said at a conference in
Seoul today that “There is a need to move away from the energy
scheme of the past, which focused on promoting nuclear power
plants.” So far, as part of this shift away from nuclear power and
into renewables, the government shut down a nuclear power plant
built in the 1970s and temporarily suspended…

South Korea is eyeing independence from nuclear energy, to be
implemented gradually over the next six decades, as it seeks to
switch to safer clean energy sources. The country’s Trade,
Industry, and Energy Minister Paik Un-gyu said at a conference in
Seoul today that “There is a need to move away from the energy
scheme of the past, which focused on promoting nuclear power
plants.” So far, as part of this shift away from nuclear power and
into renewables, the government shut down a nuclear power plant
built in the 1970s and temporarily suspended…