ArticlesIn May last year, President Moon was elected after the impeachment of the former president driven by peaceful protests. With 24 reactors in operation, South Korea has the highest density of nuclear power plants among those countries with more than ten reactors. The oldest nuclear power plant (Kori 1) was shut down permanently last June. After the government stopped the construction, it faced backlash from nuclear scientists and the opposite party. General opinion in Korea supports maintaining the share of nuclear energy in the energy mix even though the president who came into power through massive protests says that he wants South Korea to be a nuclear-free country. The electricity mix is currently 40% from coal, 30% from nuclear, 22% from natural gas, and 4% from renewable energy. Environmental awareness has been raised and concerns over nuclear have become bigger. If interest groups in renewable energy movements are growing in the nuclear energy are growing. It is a difficult question both for North as well as South Korea.
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