The new reactors will “contribute to the development of cutting-edge technologies such as AI by providing a stable supply of clean and reliable energy”, said Sung Tae-yoon, Yoon’s chief of staff for policy.
The development could also “help the country secure reactor construction bids overseas”, he told reporters.
The approval came eight years after Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company first submitted the permit request. The process was suspended in 2017 amid the then-government’s push to reduce the country’s dependence on nuclear energy.
Thursday’s decision was criticised by the Korean activist group Energy Justice Actions as an “irresponsible move that threatens the safety of the people, in opposition to the global trend towards an energy shift” towards renewable resources.
The two new reactors will be Uljin’s ninth and tenth, the group said, calling such a concentration a “global rarity”.
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