Jhoo Dong-Chan reports that Korea is the sixth-largest nuclear-powered country in power plant capacity among International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member countries. A series of earthquakes struck the Korean southeast but no significant damage has been reported.
According to a report released by the IAEA, Thursday, the capacity of the the Korean nuclear power plants totals 21,733 megawatts, as of end of last year. The U. S.topped the list with 99,185 megawatts, followed by France with 63,130 megawatts and Japan with 40,290 megawatts. Chinese capacity was 26,774 megawatts while Russia marked 25,443 megawatts in nuclear power plants last year.
Of the IAEA member states, Korea has built the second most number of nuclear power plants for the last 30 years after the Czech Republic. The capacity of Korean nuclear power plants was 3,692 megawatts in 1985, but has increased by 489% for the last 30 years to reach 21,733 megawatts last year.
The Czech Republic had a capacity of 391 megawatts in 1985, and reached 3,930 megawatts last year, up by 905%in the same period. Such increases in nuclear power dependency contrasts with those of developed countries in the West. Italy, which had a capacity of 1,273 megawatts in 1985, but has shutdown their nuclear power plants while Germany reduced the capacity by 40% to 10,799 megawatts in the period.
The U.K. capacity of nuclear power plants was also reduced from 10,077 megawatts to 8,918 megawatts, down by 12%, but new plants are in the planning stages. Dutch capacity of nuclear power plants was down by 5% during the same period.
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