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6 Nuclear reactors now shut down in South Korea

flag-S-KoreaS.Korea nuclear reactor hit by automatic shutdown; six units now off  First Post World, 29 Nov 13, SEOUL (Reuters) – A “safety-related action” automatically shut down one of its 23 nuclear reactors on Thursday, South Korea’s nuclear operator said, bringing the tally of those closed to six and hiking chances of possible power blackouts this winter……. “We are now looking into the cause of the shutdown and it is not yet clear when the reactor will restart,” said a spokesman at operator Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. Operation of the 587-megawatt Kori No. 1 reactor, over 300 km southeast of Seoul, was suspended early on Thursday morning. The reactor, which started operation in 1978, had recently returned from nearly 180 days of scheduled maintenance through October 5, according to KHNP’s website. (www.khnp.co.kr). The unit’s license to operate was extended another 10 years in end-2007, another KHNP spokesman noted……

Six nuclear reactors are now offline, including three shut because of control cables supplied with fake safety certificates, according to the KHNP website. A fourth is awaiting an extension of its license after its 30-year life span expired in November of last year; a fifth is shut for scheduled maintenance through end-December. …..
So far 100 people have been indicted in South Korea’s nuclear safety scandals, while the government has come under pressure to rethink its reliance on nuclear power. To curb electricity demand, the government raised electricity tariffs earlier this month. An international nuclear safety evaluation body, which completed a five-month review of the country’s nuclear reactors, said earlier this month that the safety of the reactors “should be improved significantly,”…….KHNP is fully owned by state-run Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO).  http://www.firstpost.com/world/s-korea-nuclear-reactor-hit-by-automatic-shutdown-six-units-now-off-1256619.html?utm_source=ref_article

November 29, 2013 - Posted by | incidents, South Korea

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