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ATM No 43 2025 JUN 04
Korea’s Presidential Front-Runner Backs Nuclear Power — for Now
- Bloomberg가 대선 발표 전 보도한 이재명 대통령 원전 정책입니다
- South Korea’s presidential front-runner Lee Jae-myung has pledged to keep nuclear power “for the time being,” but plans a long-term shift to renewables if elected June 3 — a stance that could undermine the nation’s atomic energy expansion plans at home and abroad.
- Both Lee and Kim support the development and export of small modular nuclear reactors. Lee is pushing for more profitability in foreign deals, after criticism that Korea’s overseas contracts are underpriced.
- Still, potentially higher power requirements from the AI boom means that nuclear’s current role in the electricity mix likely won’t change too drastically in the short term.
- “One of the hurdles to entering the AI era is power,” said Jaeseung Kim, an analyst at Hyundai Motor Securities. “Whoever wins will have no choice but to accept and use nuclear power for the time being.”
원전 블루오션 부상한 아프리카 노리는 韓…높은 리스크는 과제
- 남아프리카공화국, 케냐, 우간다, 가나 등 아프리카 국가들에서 원자력 발전소 건설 움직임이활발한 가운데 한국전력공사 및 한국수력원자력 등 우리 기업들이 이 시장 진출을 위해 적극나서고 있다.
- 그러나 수익성, 자금 조달 등의 리스크가 다른 국가들보다 높아 이 부분을 어떻게 해결할 지여부는 과제로 꼽혀 신중히 접근해야 한다는 목소리도 나온다.
First concrete poured for tritium removal facility
- Romania's Nuclearelectrica and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power have poured first concrete to mark the official start of construction of the Cernavoda tritium removal facility.
- It will be the first such facility in Europe, and just the third in the world, with Romania hoping that it will help the country become a European centre for the production and export of tritium, which is expected to be used in future fusion reactors. ※