Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Zed]

I've never seen one. Certainly they must have one to power a country with this many people. Where are they?

[skinhead]

I know there's one in Wolsong. There was a crack in one of the reactors in 2000. Bit of a fuss. Knowing the Korean building and engineering industries' penchant for cutting corners, I'd be steering well clear of 'em. Ho yes precious. Well clear.

[dogbert]

Map of Korean Nuclear Power Plants

[Zed]

4 of them. I see. All in the south in remote places. That would explain why I hadn't seen them. How much of the ROK's power is generated there?

[dogbert]

[ryleeys]

My home in the States is 20 minutes (about 20 miles) from a nuclear power plant. The kicker is, it's in the next county. So Calvert County gets all the financial benefits, and St. Mary's Count none... yet SMC is still in the fallout zone.

[Real Reality]

Seoul plans to conduct safety inspection on a 1,000-megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant in Yonggwang, in the south of the country, for about a month from next Monday before restarting it.

The plant, operated by state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co (KHNP), was shut at the end of last year for decontamination work after a radioactive leak. Officials at KHNP confirmed the timetable, adding the company would soon sign a deal with Germany's Oeko Institute, which was picked by Yonggwang residents to conduct the checks.
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/NewsArticle.cfm?NewsID=1388

[Zed]

There's a plant just down the road from where I grew up in Ontario too. I remember my mother talking us out to see some protesters who climbed one of the towers when the plant was under construction. They put up a platform and stayed up there for a couple of weeks if I remember correctely. I was about 10 or 11 years old then.

[captain kirk]

I lived two years across the mountain from the reactors twenty minutes outside of Youngwang (and Youngwang is 70 minutes from Kwangju). Three domes and two under construction then (five years ago). The adult students were often engineers from the plant, and the kids their sons and daughters.
The first plant in Korea is twenty minutes south of Ulsan, was it '82?

[Hollywoodaction]

They also have small nuclear reactors for 'research purposes'.

[Len8]

They had a big to do about the storage of the waste from the plants not so long ago. An island was picked as the site, and many people moved out there hoping to get compensation from the government for when the site was actually going to be used

[just because]

[Zed]

I meant sites rather than reactors.

[sadsac]

I've just done a quick search and currently Korea has 14 functioning plants with two more due to come online in the next year and KEPCO are looking to complete 8 more by 2015. Currently they provide 40% of the nations power. Locations are not provided.

[mysteriousdeltarays]

I hope to build one in my bathroom, the basement being non-existant.