South Korean President Announces Increased Funding for Development of Smaller Nuclear Reactors to Power Economy
While North Korea is using nuclear technology to build bombs to kill massive amounts of people, the South Koreans are using nuclear technology to better people’s lives:
![Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang tours the Shin-Hanul 1 nuclear power plant in Uljin, North Gyeongsang, on Wednesday. The nuclear power plant started commercial operation a week ago. [MINISTRY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/12/14/27136a75-582f-44aa-a467-e2f4a18618a5.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Korea is committing 400 billion won ($308 million) a year to the development of small nuclear reactors as it doubles its overall annual spending on nuclear energy to 2 trillion won, according to the president.
Joong Ang Ilbo
“The government will actively support the nuclear energy industry so it can become a major pillar leading our exports and so that Korea can once again be recognized globally as a major nuclear energy power country,” President Yoon Suk-yeol said Wednesday.
You can read more at the link, but this strategy seems to make sense to me because I don’t know how you advocate for electric cars and against fossil fuels and not have nuclear energy as an option power them.
Excellent point.
It all sounds legit…
…but serious people don’t wear masks anymore…
… and they certainly don’t wear hard hats in an office/control room.
At least they found a woman to point up at the wall.
She was probably just pointing at the clock and saying, “As you can see the time, we only have to wait another 5 minutes for the clown shoes to arrive.”
Excellent point.
Setnaffa.
Didn’t you oppose the building of nuclear power plants and call for building of more coal-fired power plants?
Why the change of heart?
Or have you lost it mentally?